SCAMMERS, LIARS AND OUTRIGHT BASTARDS!

 No, I'm not talking about the other blog members - I'll save that for another post.

I'm referring to the fact that yesterday two different people turned up at my house with cars and trailers to collect furniture that they had 'bought' on Facebook Marketplace. One woman had driven, towing a horse float, from miles away.

I told the first person that she must have been duped unless she had got the address wrong but when another turned up later it was obvious that this is a shyster who is fleecing them for money and providing a bogus address. The second one said that she thought it was a really good deal! I wish that I'd got more details from her but I had dinner cooking on the stove so didn't have time.

I posted the following on Facebook's Neighbourly after dinner:

WARNING SCAM ARTIST 'SELLING' COUCHES
Twice today I've had innocent and duped people turning up to my house to collect couches that they thought they had bought via Marketplace on Facebook. The B*st*** who 'sold' them the non-existent furniture, for some reason used my street address.
Beware!
I think the price asked (and got in one case) was $350 - "A bargain" one woman said. As the bank fraud people say - "If it sounds too good to be true - it isn't".
I've looked up Marketplace on Facebook to put an alert on but there are so many variants I don't know which one is the right one. Hopefully the duped people can do this and get the P***k stopped.

It's so annoying that prick bastards abuse useful sites like Neighbourly and Marketplace. I would never buy from these myself and certainly would never process a payment before seeing or picking up the goods. They don't have the guarantees that Trade Me have.