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And so it goes on........
Been harrassed by one t*sser by text as to why Iwouldn't accept his "generous" offer of £1800 - he hasn't the balls to pick up the phone when I have rang him 3 times to tell him to go **** himself.
WTF is wrong with people these days?
Pr1cks
The corker is, within ten mins of posting my scumtree advert, I got a scam DHL text asking me to pay the tax on a foreign purchase. As it happened I had an ebay item on way from China.
Called DHL the next day "not us, we're aware scammers are grabbing telephone numbers off auction/sale sites to do this"
I never put my number on Gumtree, and I refuse to give a contact number until people are on their way, as you get feckin halfwits phoning at all hours. I keep it to emails / gumtree messenger only, I find that if a buyer can barely spell their own name then there's a fair chance their full of shit and wasting my time.
I second that.
The reason I stopped putting a telephone or text option on Gumtree was after advertising an all singing all dancing Sony Dolby pro logic old style 32 inch telly a few years back, which cost me about £1500 just prior to plasma's becoming all the rage. I had it on Gumtree for £150 ono and I got a call about 2am from a Jeremy Kyle extra asking questions about it, being the middle of the night I was convinced it was a wind up, hung up and turned the phone off. Five minutes after turning the phone on later that morning your man phoned again asking if he could put £50 down on it and pay it up at £20 a fortnight when he gets "his money" (giro) and would leave a mountain bike and pair of binoculars (essential tower block apparel) as security

I again told him to Foxtrot Oscar, but he was deadly serious and plagued me by illiterate text for about the next week with a variety of "swop offurs". Obviously paying £100 odd in one go would have been catastrophic to the cannabis and pot noodle fund.
I may be terribly judgemental, but if the punter doesn't know to use a capital letter at the start of his own name then I instantly fear the worst, and that's before the conversation (or attempt thereof) has even begun

I took delivery of a new three piece suite yesterday and have the old one on Gumtree at the moment for £100........wish me luck
