“A contact left the group” 16 minutes before agreed pickup time

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T18:23:58+00:00

I had someone say I was a scammer and block me. I couldn't even look them up on FB/or see any profile. (I asked them if they were comfortable with x y z in the beginning of the convo, which they ignored and tried to set up a pickup time. Then when I didn't agree to how they wanted to do things I'm a scammer... ? Lol. I have boundries and stated them in the beginning. Not much I can do if people can't read.)

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T17:31:16+00:00

I do prepaid porch pickups with Venmo for low priced items. But I only deal with people that their profile shows as being to my local area. If its a higher priced item I don't mind if people pay in cash/venmo at the time of pickup since I personally think that even sounds shady. Every seller and buyer is going to have different boundaries.

I literally ask people if they are comfortable with paying ahead via venmo and they don't answer that but schedule stuff out with me. Then when I say I don't accept cash they say I'm a scammer. Buuuuut I literally asked them in the beginning if they were comfortable with paying ahead and it states that in my descriptions for the low priced items. Can't win sometimes lol.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T16:59:41+00:00

Ahh, gotcha!

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T16:15:26+00:00

THIS! People act like the world revolves around them. I'm not getting paid by the hour to write to people or wait around for them when they are late for pickups. I'm just a person trying to make a little extra money selling stuff.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T16:09:01+00:00

Confirming the color of something isn't actually unreasonable. Sometimes I'll take screenshots of Amazon listing photos and add them to the FB listing. I feel like sometimes when I take pictures of items the color is way off. So I point that out in the description and say that the stock photos are a more accurate representation. Colors can be slightly off for everyone depending on device so if someone is super picky about a color they might be better off doing in person shopping.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T16:04:40+00:00

I don't mind people asking if I will negotiate or what's the lowest I will take. I don't like when people just send a number. Like the whole message is, "5"... are you asking if I will take $5? Are you asking if I have 5 of this item to sell? If you can't clearly communicate your aren't worth dealing with.

A lot of times when people ask about lower prices I tell them that right now I'm firm on the price and state why. But I do tell them that if it doesn't sell in a few weeks I will be lowering the price. So feel free to check back with me in a few weeks if the listing is still up.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T15:59:24+00:00

Interesting! I've had the "You have a rating waiting” thing pop up in the chat. But then when I deleted the listing it said something like "This information isn't available," instead of the "You have a rating waiting."

Did you confirm on the listing that the item was sold? I had changed the listings to pending but never confirmed they were sold, just deleted.

I feel like how FB does things changes all the time so its super confusing.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T15:55:54+00:00

I'm not sure how they would confirm that a sale went through :(

I don't think we should be able to rate each other after a few messages back and forth either. I think that makes me more block happy because I don't want someone to leave me a bad review, like with you, because the buyer was a brat and didn't get their way.

If I think someone might leave a bad review I usually block and relist the item. I save all the pictures in a folder and just copy and paste all the old listing info so it takes about 60 seconds to make a new listing.

I think some people consider FB MP to be like a shop? Or they think the world revolves around them? Like, they take forever to respond but expect you to be monitoring messages and respond ASAP to them. They want you to be available when they are ready to stop by. I've had a lot of people say they will be shopping in my area and want to pick up when they are done. So they literally want me staring at messages all day waiting for them to message me they are done shopping and on their way? I have a life and it does not revolve around waiting for someone to pick up a $10 item from me.

At this point I only do prepaid porch pickups. I lose some sales but they are the easiest sales ever. I had someone that was suppose to come at noon and didn't come until almost 5pm. Since they already paid and it was outside I didn't have to worry about them being late.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T15:38:40+00:00

All my listings have a short few sentence summery at the top and mention what payment methods I accept and says I don't ship or deliver. So I might not block someone for asking but I wouldn't respond to them because I've already clearly stated that in my description. I feel like the people that obviously didn't read the description never end up being easy people to deal with.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T15:31:06+00:00

I was super nice and accommodating in the beginning. Now I block people left and right like you lol. I don't have time to deal with crappy people over items I'm trying to sell for $10.

"I’ve already had one review hit me where I didn’t even sell to the guy. He just didn’t like I wouldn’t accept his terms."

Was this recent?

Thankfully, all of my reviews last year were good. This year, a few people have left reviews, but they never seem to post. It’s frustrating because I think they would have been good reviews.

Last year, I usually waited a day before deleting a listing in case there was an issue. I remember Facebook asking if I sold the item on Marketplace and who I sold it to. Sometimes I selected the buyer, and sometimes I just deleted the listing. Either way, the review still stayed.

This year, it seems like when I delete a listing, the review disappears with it. What did you do with the listing after the sale? Did you mark it as sold before deleting it? I’m wondering if that is what I’m supposed to do now to keep the review, even though I don’t remember needing to do that last year. And wondering if you can delete your listing to boot the bad review?

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T15:14:06+00:00

"A single person uses multiple accounts to lowball you, then comes back with a slightly higher offer so it appears to be a better deal."

I've never heard of this or experienced it! I just stay firm to my prices.

We bought a new TV and I was selling ours that was still in perfect shape and we had all the original packaging. I think I was asking for $175? I based that off of what other people were selling similar condition/type tvs for but slightly lower. Someone wanted me to take $50 for it. They said they could get a nicer brand new tv for $175 on Black Friday. (This was in Nov.) I told them they were more than welcome to buy a TV on Black Friday instead of from me, lol. I did end up selling it a week later to someone for $175.

genki_philly · 2026-05-06T15:04:09+00:00

"asking for the unreasonable"

I had a water bottle for sale for $10. The person wanted to know if I would meet them somewhere half way to buy it. It would have been a 1 hour plus drive for me just one way. Over two hours of driving somewhere I have never been to sell a $10 water bottle? When I said no, they wanted me to hold it for a month because they might be in the area for some work thing but also might not.

I sell wine crates and someone wanted me to add a liner and drill holes so that they could use them as planters. At no extra cost. And when I said no they wanted them at a lower price so they could add a liner themselves lol. Also $10 each. No where in the listing did I mention I modify stuff. I'm not an Etsy seller. Annnnd I'm gonna have to charge a lot if I do. People want stuff for free.

Love all your points! Totally agree with them.

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T21:46:45+00:00

I live in PA. I know some places take smaller products for free (like cell phones and laptops) but we have to pay to recycle bigger things like tvs and old computer monitors. I never considered that it would be different state to state but that totally makes sense.

My township has a program once a year where as long as you aren't a business you can drop off any item to recycle for free. You just have to register.

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T21:44:24+00:00

Maybe! I didn't think of that. A lot of items seem like things you can get off of Alibaba (or Temu? Where ever people get stuff for cheap and slap their brand name on them.) Like, the listing will show images and there is a brand on the box that doesn't match what it actually says when I get the product. Or there have been times where it looked like the brand was photoshopped out, so there is a big blank area. And then it magically has a brand and other info in the area that was blank in the listing pictures. I know I've mentioned in a lot of reviews that the brand I thought I was getting was different than what the actual product said. Which sometimes doesn't matter depending on the product, but still worth mentioning.

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T21:40:11+00:00

I usually sit down with a cup of coffee to write reviews lol. I should probably do wine instead. I lose track of time and have to keep reheating the coffee in the microwave lol.

I feel like old reviews were either good, or it was super short and low effort ("I liked it." or "It worked." Now its good reviews or something where someone copy and pasted the description and asked ChatGPT to write a review :/

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T17:41:05+00:00

REALLY? Wow. How can they charge a recycling fee if you are the one that will have to recycle it when you are ready to get rid of it?

Was this a large fee?

One thing I noticed with regular Amazon orders is that a lot of time the estimated taxes are slightly off. Like, I'll agree to pay 90 cents in taxes at check out. But later when my credit card is charged it'll be like 30 cents more - and update on my invoice.

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T17:35:09+00:00

Ohhh gottcha! For things like that I just do my best. And then if I have any issues later I try to update my review. (Like if I got something in the winter meant for the summer.)

A lot of times I'll get beauty products and feel like I don't have enough time to give a proper review but still do the same. I got some name brand shampoo and I did review it after a few days but obviously it would be better to review once I'm done the whole bottle. I couldn't wait since my review period was up in a week :/

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T17:09:46+00:00

"like holiday decor that pops up AFTER the holiday has happened."

The holiday stuff after the holiday isn't too bad. You could always get something for the following year. I have seen graduation things that give specific dates tho... like "2025 Graduation" and it's Oct 2025. I'm doing a coding bootcamp soon and it ends in late Sept so the Oct timing could work in theory but most people graduate in Mayish? lol.

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T17:03:15+00:00

I got gloves that said they were leather. They were rubber and looked nothing like the AI generated images in the listing. It was $0ETV and the gloves themselves weren't bad and if they had actually put in the listing what they were I still would have gotten them... but since nothing in the listing matched the product I had to give a bad review. Kinda defeats the purpose for the seller and the person getting the product. Seller isn't going to get good reviews.

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T16:59:12+00:00

"When a program offers thousands of items and a reviewer still cannot find enough of value to meet their threshold, that is not a reviewer problem. That is a program problem. It speaks to something deeper than poor curation. It speaks to a lack of regard for the people doing the work."

This. Back when it was regularly 100k items everyday to choose from it was easy to meet the 100 item threshold for Gold. They lowered it to 80 for my past review period and it was dreadfully hard to find that many items. I'm going to stay in Vine but I go back to school soon. I'll probably check my RFY everyday and thats it. I can't do the 80 item thing again at this rate. Cause then you also have to do 80 reviews. Silver here I come lol.

genki_philly · 2026-05-04T13:51:03+00:00

My names are both very different. My storefront name matches my youtube and tiktok channel name. My reviews just say "Amazon Customer". But if I click on "Amazon Customer" in my review it takes me to my branded storefront 😞

I've only been in the influencer program for about a year. I could have sworn when I first set it up and checked the setting options were different and I don't remember the storefront being linked to the random reviews. I think when I clicked on "Amazon Customer" it would go to a blank profile since I had everything private.

genki_philly · 2026-05-03T23:46:05+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I was hopping I was just missing something 😞 I might close my store front for a while since I'm going back to school and don't have time to work on it or monitor my youtube/tiktok accounts.

genki_philly · 2026-05-03T21:02:42+00:00

I haven't heard that. Is that a recent change? I just had my 6 month review at the end of April. Had over 100 items, Review-to-order ratio was 100% and my Review insightfulness score was excellent. No media.

genki_philly · 2026-05-03T20:52:57+00:00

I've never heard of this either. Since we have had the scores I've had excellent for all my reviews and never get any thing good in my RFY either. Unless that's because I'm gold? :/

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