30 Times People Spotted Shady Ads On Facebook Marketplace And Shared Them On This Online Group
There’s nothing wrong with making a dollar or two by selling things you don’t need. After all, we are all trying to live more sustainably by making conscious choices to consume less and reuse more. But some people have surely taken the logic to the very end of extreme.
Welcome to the Facebook group that brings you the best of the worst of the internet in the comfort of your home. Titled “Sad Sales, Stolen Goods, and Sketchy Services,” it serves as a grim collection for “screen caps and photos of depressing or questionable sales, products, auctions, classified ads, or services.”
Anything from questionable mystery boxes and an object titled “nail art” that will make you cringe at the sight of it, to Edward Cullen’s cutout and a cake from a baby shower that the ad swears has never been touched, ends up on there.
Thanks to the group’s 287.6K members, we now have one hell of a list of very cursed Facebook marketplace ads. It makes you wonder if there's anything people wouldn’t sell for a dollar, and the answer is obvious.
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That would be the smart thing to do : rhubarb is much more valuable!
Load More Replies...If I don't get my rhubarb back, I'll be making Apple crumble instead....
I'd just enjoy pretending to be the bandit for weeks on end, starting with a text to his mom
Never give up an apple for rhubarb unless you want to be sour over the experience
Why does it look like the temporary screen protector it came with is still on? Also rhubarb thievery is apparently quite common. I've heard many a tale.
I agree, you want large portions for your meal! (This is, for legal and moral reasons, satire)
Load More Replies...Does dignity mean nothing anymore? Throw that biohazard quietly into the dumpster. Don't associate yourself with the words "lightly shat" ever, if you can help it.
What job did they have?! “Did you read that memo from corporate? I literally s**t myself!”
Well, at least they're honest. And they spelled 'separate' correctly, which is another point in their favor!
I always remember how to spell it because of its shared root with "pare" and "partition."
Load More Replies...I am not discriminating, i don't separate my clothes based on colour!!!! (actually all my clothes are pastel coloured or dark coloured, they get along just fine in the washing machine at 30-40C; I have only a few white shirts that are washed on their own if i have to go to a fancy event)
If you've ever had to sell or buy a miscellaneous item in your life, you probably went straight to Facebook Marketplace. The holy grail of (re)sold goods that come straight from the hands of sellers is also known as a host to a range of scams, including fake products, catfishing and even hacking.
If you compare eBay, Amazon, and Facebook Marketplace, the latter is like the Wild West of online selling. Brogan Woodburn from Red Points reports that “One scammer even stole $800,000 from victims through the platform.”
I’m leery of this, because they’re only telling us what’s on the outside of the treats…
Not completely free, you'll still have to unblock Trev, that's the least you can do after eating their treats. Even if you have no idea who Trev is.
It looks like grandma have a strong character, like mine. My mother was taking her to watch the Swan lake ballet, the usher told kindly "be careful with the old lady in the stairs" and she replied, outraged "I'm not an old lady, young man!". She was 94yo. Now she's 96 and don't dare to tell her that she's old! The others are old, not her, she will never be! I won't take Mahjong grandma to her game, i've got my own "evil" grandma.
My FIL is 90. He says, "I used to think 90 was old." I ask "what do you think now?" Him, "I still think it's old!"
Load More Replies...my grandmother, near the end had dementia- specifically Alzheimer's. In any case, her thing was bingo, and the local city hall ran a bingo day every Tuesday. Now, for those who don't know, it's common for people with Alzheimer's to get a serious case of paranoia... and my grandmother wasn't the kind of person to take s**t from nobody. She got kicked out of the weekly bingo games because she threatened the bingo-caller-person with a baseball bat, because, in her mind, she was colluding to make sure her cards- the cards she hadn't even received yet- were never called. I imagine it'd take a single threat to a taxi driver to end that service.
Load More Replies...I'd take her for free and we can both take a selfie giving the bird to the ass who posted this ad.
she looks like someone I'd get along with so I'd drive her there for free.
I would totally take grandma to her mahjong game, I would be DELIGHTED, lmao. Grandmas are the best
If not, it's still the ugliest candle holder I've ever seen.
Load More Replies...God that has to be the ugliest wine glass in the hirstory of the world!
Some of the more popular scams on Facebook marketplace include a MacBook Air made of air. “It’s when the seller then made up excuses as to why they couldn’t meet (remember, Facebook Marketplace is for local dealings, so this is a red flag). The seller offered to ship it with tracking, and the buyer then sent the money.”
“Can you guess what happened next? Nothing was shipped. The seller went missing, and the buyer never got the item,” Brogan explains.
“…the f**k?!” (Just had to finish it for you.)
Load More Replies...I can provide this service where you send me your favourite clothes and I will ensure a thorough application of cat hairs to it. For extra, you can choose the hair colour.
I had several like this one...Now it's more "oh this dress in gorgeous!" then i touch the fabric and "No, not this one".
Load More Replies...Mine too and they'll even put their fur back on it as soon as I remove it. All free of charge.
Load More Replies...Minus the obvious "property of gov, don't touch" label, it would be a good way to get rid of the toxic waste produced by your meth lab.
The one on the right has the "show business" fake 555 phone number like a movie prop, but the one on the left...
Yeah I'm pretty sure it would say "property of the US Govt" and not just "army"
Load More Replies...OK. And may I ask who—-No! Sorry, I mean what—-you are presently “storing” in them?
It's like claiming that your granite worktops are 40 million years old just because the rock has been on the earth that long.
40 million years old!!?? Owls 🦉 were not existing 40 million years ago!!
The amber itself is that old, but the carving is recent.
Load More Replies...T-rex's where so clever at carving figurines with their tiny claws.
Counterfakes is another big problem on the marketplace. “Since creating or even forging a profile is so easy on Facebook, scammers can sell counterfeit goods with almost no restriction.” According to Brogan, “Tiffany alone reported taking down 2000 fake Marketplace ads in 2017. And in the first six months of 2017, Facebook removed more than 200,000 posts that were flagged as counterfeit.”
Sometimes it’s not the scams themselves that enrage the buyers, but rather the items delusional sellers are trying to make money off of. This collection of ads is a good example of the bad side that happens on this widely popular reselling platform.
And create a totally fictional story behind this picture!
Load More Replies...This legit looks like someone I went to high school with, business mullet and all.
Speaking as a Wisconsin resident, this legitimately looks like about 25% of our male population.
Load More Replies...You don't recognize the "two in the pink and one in the stink" pose?
Load More Replies...You mean like pressing elevator buttons and stuff, right? That’s what you mean, right? Please tell me that’s what you mean. Please!
What else would you use a fake hand for? … wait…. no… NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Technically, this is a home made evaporative cooler but "redneck AC" is also acceptable.
A real one isn't that expensive. https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/categories/appliances/heating-cooling-and-air-quality/air-conditioners-and-portable-fans/air-conditioners/portable-air-conditioners.html
It's not that bad, as far as DIY goes. But they put the decimal in the wrong place: should be $12.34. Now that's reasonable.
It's hideous. Don't try to sell it -- instead, sell tickets to the event when you set it on fire.
I'd chip in another thirty for her to bring to the other woman's house, and set it on fire in *her* yard.
Load More Replies...How about the price of some lighter fluid and a Zippo? I wouldn’t advise roasting marshmallows over the flames from this, however. Never know what kind of STDs you could catch from eating them.
How do you think someone would feel, finally getting released from the special hell that is prison, and your stupid ass wife shows you this?
I really don't want to know if the nails are from the same person or from different persons. Either way this is gross.
"I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. But if you spew and she bolts, it was never meant to be..."
Load More Replies...I see now that was just a lot of pent up frustration
Load More Replies...Seriously why you gotta do Kermit like that? Perfect abs and a teeny weeny.
Load More Replies...I mean, if you just can’t resist the urge to add it, why couldn’t you have been more…well…complimentary…to an icon like Kermit? Why insult the poor amphibian? It ain’t easy bein’ green, ffs!
Can you imagine trying to untangle these when they get balled up in the wash
Imagine getting your feet all the way to the bottom without any 'detours'...
Load More Replies...You just rip the toenail and create amazing nail art😅😅
Load More Replies...That's not fabric - it's a series of large holes loosely connected with thread!
Actually it's a series of unfortunate events that happened on this poor pair of pants
Load More Replies...I don't think they're that easy to make, so regular. Somewhat impressed!
Load More Replies...Is this what happens when you try to hot glue Big League Chew to make some pants?
Clearly this person was a contestant in a ferret legging contest!!! Ferret legging contest you ask...Google it. You won’t be disappointed
😂MG, S😄😅😂🤣 un-bear-ably high-larious as I know what it is 😻🤣😹🤣🤪
Load More Replies...If you want to go out in these, you'd better have notice at least 2 weeks before, just so you have time to put them on.
Didn't want to put it for sale, but I don't have a home anymore :-D
Load More Replies...Wife replaces it with a sign that reads, “Husband and Cat Missing. Reward For Cat”.
Do you really wanna know or keep on living a happy life? Thougjt so.
Load More Replies...That... seems wise with any secondhand purchase.
Load More Replies...Oh man, when the first Twilight movie opened at my local cinema they had a little stall of merchandise, and one of the things you could buy was this very cardboard cutout. And they made all the poor humiliated employees wear body glitter. It was hilarious.
Poor actor (no pun intended) in fact. Uh, poor actor as well.
Load More Replies...This is like in those maths problems "If you have 125 Shrek DVDs at home and there is a sale at Wallmart, 10 Shrek DVDs for 15$ and you have 35$, and your mom buys you 24 more shrek DVDs, how many Shrek DVDs do you still need in order to have 200?"
I only can solve it after re-writing it with mangoes not dvds.
Load More Replies...$200 for a bookshelf that's bowing under the weight of some VHS tapes seems a bit steep!
If the shelves are sagging with the weight of DVD's, then either a)the bookshelf is crap or b)it's not DVD's in those boxes.
There were only 4 Shrek movies ever made. Why would you have so many duplicates?
Just because it's been doused in mouthwash doesn't make it mint.
I don’t think they know what “mint condition” means, and why are they selling a 10 dollar bill for 15 dollars? Just, what the heck is going on here?!
If it had just shown the box, my guess would be garage sale leftovers. Showing that face, I'd like to change my guess. I'm going to say this box contains two kidneys that this fellow sliced out of somebody who was unfortunate enough to be walking down a dark alley, and to this gentleman's extreme chagrin, the victim had chronic kidney disease making the organs unsellable on the black market.
Absolultely. Could've made it out of cardboard if they didn't plan on eating it anyway.
Load More Replies...it's covered in fondant and marshmallows, so I wouldn't really call that cake.
Load More Replies...That's why they're selling it - gender reveal was a girl! ;oP
Load More Replies..."Went to a place in small town Texas to pick up a gift for a friend. I spotted these toward the back of the store. Priced at $85.00.
These are Minions from The Hills Have Eyes movie franchise. ...but I kinda like them, too.
I’d buy them and hide them in my windows and around my yard to scare people!
With my awkwardness i would wave at them, thinking that they are real "wow minions!hellow minions!". One of my neighbors put a beagle cardbord at her window and i was waving at it, "Mimi! Junky!" because she have 2 real ones. Dammit! I told this witch that this was not cool!lol
Load More Replies...At first, I thought it looked like there had been a fire inside it. So I enlarged the picture. No evidence of fire, but they are correct. “It have [LITERAL] trash in it”! Not just old stuff or papers or something like that—-actual garbage!
At first I thought it was a well worn fart spot until I saw "electric".
Looks like sitting too long left an impression of what the chair 'saw'..
Load More Replies...If the black stain in the middle is not a hole it's not a lot of work. I purchased a "brand used" big Marc Jacobs leather bag for 10euros, 20 euros of good shoemakers product for jackets and bags(it don't bleed on other things) and i have a brand new bag. The leather and the inside was perfectly fine but it was a red bag and the color has faded. I just cleaned it and recolored it, same time for a shoe shine, and the bag has a second life.
Load More Replies...I have so many questions. I want to know, but also don’t want to know. I mean, it’s like what they say in real estate, “It’s all about Location. Location. Location”. Oh yeah, and ass electrocution.
Why not just give a three year old a couple tubes of paint? Much cheaper (they'll work for Cheerios).
Nah, a three year old will do too good a job. I want the really s**t 'art'.
Load More Replies...This may be a Rorschach thing, but does anyone else see some worm boy being hanged on the seat?
Yea, with "lah-ti-dah" urinals... At my wedding, just covering the church floor with straw and letting it go whenever the need struck us was good enough for us! We are simple folk...
Load More Replies...Having to deal with the soggy removal of the bale the day after the wedding is a grim thought
if you let it ferment it will produce potassium nitrate that is a good fertilizer or you can use it to make gunpownder XD
Load More Replies...Hauling it out on your wedding day. What have you got in mind for the ladies?
Sit on top of course, what did you expect? Don't make such a fuss! /s
Load More Replies...you know there will be some drunk SOB trying to take a dump in that thing.
it's not their fault they didn't slap a toilet on top.
Load More Replies...Wow. I REALLY don`t want to know what he is planning to do with the hay afterwards....
Thisnis an extremely eco-friendly way of disposing of urine. The hay is stored for a while for the urine to break down, and then ploughed or dug into the soil. The hay stalks provide structure to poor soils and the bio-available nitrogen fertilises it. When urine is flushed down a toilet, the nitrogen compounds end up in waterways, where they cause algal blooms which deoxygenate the water and kill wildlife.
Load More Replies...Please tell me they’re not planning on donating it to a farm after the reception’s over. Please tell me they aren’t. Please.
Well, it is real. It doesn't look like a figment of somebody's imagination.
If you put it on your thumb you may end up becoming an amazing plant whisperer
If it's white sapphire or white topaz (doubtful, but you never know), the stone alone would be worth $10.
Load More Replies...It's the McDonald's playground jail. Trapping kids since the 1960s
Ahhhh Officer Big Mac'c head, I remember being jailed for stealing my mom's fries.
Out of my price range but I would buy that in a heartbeat if I had $1,500 laying around collecting dust
Look, just because your arm is broken doesn't mean it can never be used again. Cutting it off is just plain overreacting.
Now don't do anything drastic. Just put your arm in a bucket of salt water
Uhm, may I ask the specific nature of your "playroom" before I shell out money for something that's not serial killer related?
“Bill have you started that murder spree yet?” “Not yet. Looking for a mask to wear.” “Say no more”
Sounds like a deal. Theres all kinds of uses for something like that.
Does it come with the rest of the Christmas decorations or would that be extra?
Sure. All the best people have them in their homes. Ya never know when it’ll come in handy, nudge-nudge, wink-wink.
I have watched enough criminal minds episodes to know that there are people who want to buy that
Some of these "items" are so suspect I'm not sure if the seller or potential buyer is worse. Who is actually buying this junk?
Might be some good stuff made of coconut oil and cocoa oil etc, but looks weird...
Yes, it looks nice when you pour it into an attractive container and let it set up.
Load More Replies...Something tells me you might put a little bit more love in it than strictly neccessary.
No different, and anyone offended whatever combination of genders involved needs to lighten up
Load More Replies...Perhaps never listening and leaving everything until the last minute may be of significance...
I think that two people are free in a divorce and I wouldn't waste money on a cake to celebrate
If you still bought something after someone said the words "crotch crickets" we can't help you.
Nope, those are bed bugs....if you didn't know and bought it, then you and the bugs deserve each other
Being unaware that something exists is nothing to be ashamed about and neither do they deserve anything bad for it.
Load More Replies...Good rule of thumb, friends: If you find ANY kind of bug in something you're thinking of buying, DON'T BUY IT! Doesn't matter what kind of insect it is. Doesn't matter if you can identify it. :)
Lol, youth!She will learn. I once saw a pretty wood and straw chair, in perfect condition, on the streets near garbage. "oh what a find! i'll take it home". I repainted it and it looked very good, and my cat started to scratch himself... "Ok, maybe it was not the idea of the year", Flea treatment for the cat and the house costed much more than a brand new chair lol. I learned.
I'm guessing because it's of very questionable origin. Looks like something stolen right out of a store.
Load More Replies...Well, if you don’t like the advertising, you can always cover it with the kind of stuff renters use to temporarily cover ugly s**t in their kitchens.
I know my dad really looks forward to his loose cheese slices under socks every year.
The finish is far too uniform to be actual corrosion. It's a faux verdigris patina paintjob. I have a plant stand that looks like it came from the same factory.
Load More Replies...This would be great to refurbish but he would have to come down on the price significantly
That's what I thougt, too high price considering the amount of work needed.
Load More Replies...True story: a theatrical scenery painter was hired to make the fibreglass "roof" on an airport Cajun seafood kiosk restaurant look like rusty old tin. He did too good a job and the health department got complaints about it. This was told to me by another scenic painter who taught a class I was taking.
You could get it sandblasted and repainted, but the price is way too high.
You should snap that up for that price! Heck, you could pay to ship it to the UK and still make a tidy profit!
This may be illegal regardless that they are married. I understand her being angry but there are other ways. Take him to court and get as much alimony as you can then sue the person he's cheating with. It's been done and the woman won.
So this person sells their partners goods as long as the partner is gone? F**k
I think it's illegal to sell, and possibly to give his stuff away, but setting fire to the things is probably okay.
Load More Replies...The 90s called. They want their Beanie Babies back.
Some are really expensive though. I saw an article about one that sold for 5000...
probably the princess diana beanie baby. i actually have it and it goes for that much. the zodiac collection is also worth a good amount. i havent sold any of mine yet bc ive noticed the price for the special ones keeps going up so im waiting until i need that kind of money lol.
Load More Replies...I don't think they are as dirty as they first appear to be. Judging by the look of the chair this is a "bonded leather" set. Bonded leather is the waste leather from manufacturing suede that's ground up into a powder and then glued to a vinyl substrate. The chair is showing where this 'leather veneer' is wearing off of the vinyl layer. If it was decent quality to begin with it might be worth cleaning for the sake of keeping it out of the landfill.
Load More Replies...They're not asking for any money and they're pretty up front in their ad
I work for a charity and this is the sort of thing people bring in and try to dump on us....
Unappealing for sure, but tobacco smoke repels many insects, so perhaps not infested!
Load More Replies...Especially since they couldn’t start it but it’s somehow at a gas station.
Load More Replies...Well as long as the owner gave them "verbal power" over the phone, I'm sure it's all fine
No, dummy. They didn’t try to “replace the ignition cylinder lock”. They hotwired it. And we know that wasn’t the owner you talked to. You’re trying to sell a car that a friend of yours stole and hid on your property. Call the police and report it—-report all of it, including your “misunderstanding (if that’s actually the case)—-and hope beyond hope they don’t see your ad, where you’re trying to fence stolen goods. FFS.
translation: my husband didn't fall for my attempt to dupe him into doing a stupid project for me.
F**k that. Go right ahead with your project, and pay someone to do whatever you needed your asshole husband to help you with. Hit him in the wallet like that, and I guaran-damn-tee he will gladly help you with all projects in the future.
Lightly roach shat, to be precise. These aren’t plastic drawers. They’re spacious roach condos.
Load More Replies...Each drawer now holds the head of the idiots who went to meet the seller in the woods behind the Walmart....
Wild plastic drawers are almost extinct! Such a same to see them getting sold by poachers!
Why are people like this, it’s not like the baby itself is blue or pink, it’s just a stereotype. Babies. Don’t. Give. A. Crap. About. The. Colour. Of. Their. Clothes.
I was in a fabric store one day and a grandmother was buying quilting fabric for an expected baby boy. When the clerk suggested colours that would work for both sexes, she said "Oh no, the baby's father refuses to have anything unisex." It was all about ego.
Load More Replies...It's the pink bottle brush that seems the most ridiculous pink item in there.
In the victorian area, it was pink for boys blue for girls. Shows how stupidit is to assigning gender to colors.
Why sell them at all? Did you know that pink was considered the more masculine color and blue the more feminine, up until the 1930s - 1940s? That’s only 80-90 years ago.
Still a great movie though. Along with Kiki´s Delivery Service and The Cat Returns. Those are my favourites? What about yours?
Spirited Away, Totoro, and Howl's Moving Castle
Load More Replies...Wow. So someone has never noticed that FBI warning, that’s been on every rented or purchased movie, all the way back to the Betamax days?
somebody needs to start a museum of tackiness & include all these items as display
There used to be a fantastic site called "regretsy" that was a play on Etsy. They were sued and the site was taken down but there are still a few books around of the atrocities. I'd highly recommend you look it up.
Load More Replies...Facebook really needs to crack down on all the scams and bullshit sites.
somebody needs to start a museum of tackiness & include all these items as display
There used to be a fantastic site called "regretsy" that was a play on Etsy. They were sued and the site was taken down but there are still a few books around of the atrocities. I'd highly recommend you look it up.
Load More Replies...Facebook really needs to crack down on all the scams and bullshit sites.
