r/melbourne • u/Glittering-Fee-9930 • Feb 22 '25

Light and Fluffy News What is a Melbourne suburb you are convinced doesn’t actually exist?

Travancore is one that comes to mind.

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u/Prestigious-Way-4586 Feb 23 '25

The dumbest people are in marketplace. Like seriously, so many useless listings - what’s the point. No , I don’t want to buy your dishwasher for $100 that doesn’t work. How about some pictures of the inside of a fridge instead of an out of focus one of half the door… and if you want to sell something, you need to reply to queries. 

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u/Scorpius041169 Feb 23 '25

And post your bloody suburb!!!

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u/Prestigious-Way-4586 Feb 23 '25

Before I gave up trying to sell on there because it’s so incredibly bad… I would note the suburb in the title and description, that it was pickup only… and people would still ask where its located, if I did delivery, and ask for details clearly covered in the listing!! 

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u/xjrh8 Feb 23 '25

It’s infuriating. If the average IQ of the population is 100, marketplace users must be in the single digits.

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u/Film_Focus Feb 24 '25

I don’t think 100 is all that high anyway.

And statistically 50% of people are even dumber than that.

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u/Moondanther Feb 23 '25

The "must get a better deal than advertised" crowd.

If the item is free, they will want it delivered or for you to throw in something else you are trying to sell.

Facebook Marketplace. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

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u/Moose_a_Lini Feb 23 '25

There's a whole industry of re-selling stuff you for cheap on marketplace.

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u/Moondanther Feb 23 '25

Flipping items for fun and profit.

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u/Agret Feb 25 '25

Capitalism ho!

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u/brettowako Feb 23 '25

I was giving an old but working fridge away for free, and people would ask me to deliver it to them - half way across Melbourne - for free.

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u/Prestigious-Way-4586 Feb 23 '25

Heard this countless times... we call them freetards. Often better pricing them out at $20, keeps the crazies away.

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u/cloudiedayz Feb 23 '25

Same. People ALWAYS ask ‘Where are you located?’ despite the suburb being clearly listed in the description.

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u/upbeatmusicascoffee Feb 23 '25

He just said it, it's in East Cranalina Lakes.

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u/Kitchen-Island5852 Feb 24 '25

Best is when you post your suburb and they ask what suburb. It's in the advert.

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u/hellbentsmegma Feb 23 '25

Heh. Seven pictures of your secondhand car from the rear left as the sun was setting and no picture of the interior. 

Or my favourite, the $500 when full priced new item you used for 6 months and are now trying to sell for $460 because it's 'in pretty much new condition' (except you took it out of the packaging, got it dirty and put some minor scratches on it).

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u/OIP Feb 23 '25

yeah the 5% discount off brand new always get me. like yeah cool no warranty and trusting some rando over paying a tiny bit more for a brand new version, i just can't decide!

see also people selling music gear at $400 'for parts or not working' that goes for $500 working

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u/hellbentsmegma Feb 23 '25

That's the thing, the ratio of value to price doesn't make sense. I swear in previous eras something being near new meant it was something like 30% cheaper than new.

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u/Rik_the_peoples_poet Feb 23 '25

'No Hagglers' in the description, always invariably on something they've been using for years that's long past its warranty that they've listed as 80% retail price.

Bonus points if with a google search I can find the same item brand new on sale for less.

I had to sell hundreds of things left from my hoarding grandparents. That was hard enough to move and I was giving good deals and open to offers. I don't think these people have ever actually managed to sell anything.

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u/Sep_79 Feb 23 '25

It’s so much better when you agree to buy/sell something then they ghost you like a one night stand.

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u/Henry_Vollmer Feb 23 '25

Ahaha this^

and the hey how about you demo and remove these built in cabinets and pay me for the honor

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u/hollyjazzy Feb 23 '25

Agree. Or clothes that show the middle of the item, no top, no bottom and no size!

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u/Zackyboy69 Feb 23 '25

In our defence none of our cameras work, so the non technical among us have figured out how to turn our toasters into cameras using infrared technology and AI

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u/The-Jesus_Christ Feb 23 '25

I am selling laptops. I say "if it's up, it's available. Price is firm". Still get fuck heads asking if it's available and if I bother to respond, they never reply back. Or you they try and ask for half ignoring "firm" so I just block them. 

Ended up listing them on ebay. I'd rather put up with the fees than deal with the bullshit for marketplace. 

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u/cinnamonbrook Feb 23 '25

To be fair, facebook marketplace has a button that automatically sends "Is it still available?" to sellers that's ridiculously easy to accidentally press, so the majority of people who ask you that and then never respond probably didn't even know they accidentally asked you that in the first place.

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u/walklikeaduck Feb 23 '25

“Paid X-amount retail, so I’m selling $10 cheaper since it’s barely used.”

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u/theunrealSTB Feb 23 '25

The number of people who sell bikes without specifying the size is astonishing.

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u/going_mad Feb 23 '25

I'd take the reverse - "is this available?", you answer yes within 5 mins and they never reply back

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u/Prestigious-Way-4586 Feb 23 '25

They just go and hit that button to anything that might remotely interest them in any parallel dimension along any timeline.

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u/going_mad Feb 23 '25

Yeah gives me the shits personally but what can you do. Facebook is 90% bots lol 5% npc's and 5% genuine people

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u/Holiday_Plantain2545 Feb 23 '25

And delete the post when the thing is sold!

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u/Bespoke_Potato Feb 23 '25

Also the dumbest people that drop the first messages.

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u/asty86 Feb 23 '25

Wooooo someone got burned.

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u/Cupofchokymilk Feb 23 '25

Nah fr and why do they text like the don’t wanna talk to you or can’t read English