Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian Common Show podcast.
Speaker 2: We want to talk about Facebook Marketplace stories, all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff you can buy on there. We used to
Speaker 2: do a feature in the early years of the show,
Speaker 2: what was the price is right? Wasn't it from weird
Speaker 2: and wonderful stuff? It was actually we should we should
Speaker 2: do around tomorrow. Do you remember the one where you
Speaker 2: could buy a crematorium. Yes, an actual shipping, a very
Speaker 2: rudimentary one actually by like I said, the math stuff
Speaker 2: you can buy. Uh, let's do that tomorrow. The Facebook
Speaker 2: Marketplace price is right. But right now we're looking for
Speaker 2: your stories about Facebook Marketplace. Jack has a great one
Speaker 2: for over Christmas.
Speaker 3: Because I've been busy on there selling stuff since we
Speaker 3: moved here. I've noticed and putting up.
Speaker 4: How can you see what your friends are selling? What
Speaker 4: have you seen? Patsy?
Speaker 3: Oh, there's furniture, old old armchairs, and I love about that.
Speaker 3: She's been watching a gold merchandise.
Speaker 4: There is. It wouldn't surprise me by the way.
Speaker 2: You know, when you were talking about regifting and he
Speaker 2: was saying, how you regifted something that was sent to.
Speaker 4: You with us?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was Sue the boss's Christmas present to you,
Speaker 4: she emailed me.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah, she one day night I meant
Speaker 2: to have a private word in they go and say
Speaker 2: something that private word is now public word.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she went. Did he do right? She said? Did
Speaker 4: he mean that on purpose? But I got that for you, and.
Speaker 3: I thought I was sent by a company.
Speaker 4: See the boss pay for he regifted it. He's actually
Speaker 4: choking with his cheapness.
Speaker 3: I can't run into her today.
Speaker 2: So I know you're listening. Come into the studio at
Speaker 2: ten past. Stake her reconciliation. Otherwise you two can be
Speaker 2: in a public park and my money, my money is
Speaker 2: on sue the boss and take you down ten times
Speaker 2: out of ten. That's the way that fight goes. We
Speaker 2: see alive by the pack of cats she's got.
Speaker 4: Where were we?
Speaker 3: We're selling stuff on market pace past, he said, it's
Speaker 3: all tap.
Speaker 6: I was selling a quite good quality Weber barbecue ten
Speaker 6: years old but still working well.
Speaker 3: I thought it was.
Speaker 6: The guy came over and he was such a people
Speaker 6: pleaser that he tried to give me the money before
Speaker 6: even seeing the barbecue, saying I'm sure it's fine. I'm
Speaker 6: sure it's fine. Here's the money, and I resonated with him.
Speaker 6: Because I feel like that kind of people pleaser if
Speaker 6: I was going to someone's place to buy something. So
Speaker 6: we got two people pleasers come together, and I'm saying, no, no, no, please,
Speaker 6: come come through seat. I'll turn it on you. You
Speaker 6: can see that it's working. I'll give you the gas
Speaker 6: bottle that comes with He said, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: It's fine.
Speaker 6: If it's fine, I'm sure it's fine. I go to
Speaker 6: click it on click click click. It doesn't light click
Speaker 6: click click. He's watching me. I'm down on my hands
Speaker 6: and he's click. I'm looking at the wires. He said,
Speaker 6: I'm sure it's fine.
Speaker 2: Still want to Still walks away with a barbecue that
Speaker 2: clear doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, well, you want to know that it works.
Speaker 6: He goes, I can smell the gas, so if anything
Speaker 6: I first comes to worse, I can light it with a.
Speaker 4: Mat Oh my, sure work out. Well.
Speaker 3: So he took it.
Speaker 6: I didn't get it working. He took it, and I
Speaker 6: asked him. His name was Marley, lovely guy. I said, Marley,
Speaker 6: if it works, can you let me know because I
Speaker 6: want to know. But I haven't heard from him in
Speaker 6: the week.
Speaker 4: Probably Human Fireball the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Last It's got a very sound one here. He's emailed
Speaker 2: in with this quite the story of this poor old.
Speaker 4: Las Hi Christian.
Speaker 2: I bought an iPad from marketplace and pretty sure was
Speaker 2: stolen as the seller didn't.
Speaker 4: Provide a code to my market That is dodgy ass, Christian.
Speaker 2: It was my first Apple product, so I had no
Speaker 2: idea how that works. So now I just have a
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty dollars paperweight in my drawer. Police
Speaker 2: couldn't do anything about it. Apple didn't want to try
Speaker 2: and take it back and find the owner. Have all
Speaker 2: the interactions with this seller and information I passed on
Speaker 2: to police, if you'd like to go through it, no,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: Lars. Last, for some reason gets quite into the story.
Speaker 2: I was a bit sick and tired the night I
Speaker 2: picked it up, and I just want you to know
Speaker 2: that wouldn't be taken in normally like this Last.
Speaker 7: That was.
Speaker 2: One thing we say on the show is that listener
Speaker 2: Last is not an easy mark and probably one of
Speaker 2: Melbourne's toughest guys to do.
Speaker 4: The sharpest man in the world. Last. All right, then
Speaker 4: we got Candy on the line. Good morning, Hi, how
Speaker 4: are you. I'm good. What is your marketplace story?
Speaker 7: I sold a large glass table with smacking chairs on
Speaker 7: Marketplace and the people that wrapped up I go from
Speaker 7: the measurements and everything like that in an event so
Speaker 7: they could make sure that they could get it right.
Speaker 7: They wrapped up in a tiny hat bag. Engineer.
Speaker 4: Yeah, car, And I'm like, I gave you it's a wardrobe.
Speaker 4: And this lady going to go. I'll get in ill.
Speaker 4: It's not good. It's not good. It's not going. It's
Speaker 4: not going it. I then had to put the back
Speaker 4: of my car follow her to her house.
Speaker 6: I've already that couch that you mentioned a moment ago
Speaker 6: that I was saying, yeah, chair, I had to put
Speaker 6: it on the lady's roof because she came in a
Speaker 6: small park Lord. She couldn't even fold down the seats
Speaker 6: at the back. She had baby seats in there.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 6: I was like, this is not going to fit. So
Speaker 6: we had these rudimentary straps that we were trying to
Speaker 6: put on it. And she said, I'm on the I'm
Speaker 6: in the next suburb, so I won't got in any
Speaker 6: major highways.
Speaker 4: All right, candies, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: She called, it's got to Belinda, Good morning, Belinda, good morning.
Speaker 8: So I actually met my husband a marketplace.
Speaker 2: This is incredible, So he did you buy it?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 8: I wanted to buy a round, four seat table for
Speaker 8: me and my three kids, and I saw the ad
Speaker 8: for fifty dollars with delivery, accepted it. Next thing I know,
Speaker 8: he dropped it off, and over a week or two
Speaker 8: we just messaged back and forth. And then one day
Speaker 8: I went to the local ourselves with some girlfriends, just
Speaker 8: in karaoke, and he walked in the door. Even though
Speaker 8: it's never been to that, the four and the rest
Speaker 8: is history.
Speaker 4: To a few. All right, midnight stalker.
Speaker 8: The best thing about it all was my birthday was
Speaker 8: six weeks later, and for my birthday present, he put
Speaker 8: my fifty dollars back in the card.
Speaker 4: Oh, such a lovely story.
Speaker 8: We now have a four seeded table for a family
Speaker 8: of seven.
Speaker 4: Oh, this is a lovely story. To tell me this.
Speaker 4: Then so he drops the table off. And then who
Speaker 4: sort oft was was there? Was there that instant connection?
Speaker 4: Did you feel some sort of chemistry?
Speaker 2: There no defining from the table slammed or.
Speaker 4: The kind of you getting married?
Speaker 2: And there's three more spots around the table everyone's got.
Speaker 4: A story like, yeah, there was just something about nothing.
Speaker 8: That there was no instant attraction, but there definitely was.
Speaker 8: Uh once he was at the RSL.
Speaker 2: So it's one was at the RSL you saw him
Speaker 2: in a different light or something. Yeah, and so what
Speaker 2: were the messages you said? Do you like a beg
Speaker 2: of all beg and that table is great? Or did
Speaker 2: he stand one going hey, hey, you getting on with
Speaker 2: that table? How about a few more kids around him?
Speaker 8: He did send that, he said, I hope the table's
Speaker 8: well lucky. I dropped it off because someone smashed into
Speaker 8: my car and into his van. So a week later
Speaker 8: he accidentally messaged me, oh.
Speaker 4: This guy, this guy Lars would never fall it for this.
Speaker 8: And then I messaged back and I said, hey, how's
Speaker 8: your band? Because I need a treadmill that needs to
Speaker 8: be delivered. Are you able to do it if I
Speaker 8: pay you? And he goes, I'll do it for free,
Speaker 8: no worries. So he delivered a treadmill to me. To
Speaker 8: be honest, I have never used the treadmill.
Speaker 3: And was there any sparks at the treadmill drop off?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 8: We spoke about the state of origin and yes, he
Speaker 8: spoke to me the whole.
Speaker 4: Time he was at the game Romantic.
Speaker 8: I look five years later together and you know, at
Speaker 8: the table.
Speaker 2: But then that is a lovely story. We send you price.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for giving us a call. It's
Speaker 2: a really really nice story.
Speaker 8: Awesome, have a great one, guys.
Speaker 2: Christian Connell's show podcast Amanda, Hi guys, I love your show.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Amanda.
Speaker 1: I was on Marketplace looking for a bookcase for my
Speaker 1: grandkid's playroom. So organized. I found one sort it'd be
Speaker 1: perfect organized. My husband and his work ran in a
Speaker 1: trolley to go around and pick it up. And he
Speaker 1: gets to the door and the late lady hands him
Speaker 1: the bookcase. It was a little bookcase that fitted Beatrice
Speaker 1: pot of books.
Speaker 4: In it, more like books.
Speaker 1: He was showing barras he d me up and was
Speaker 1: love and love.
Speaker 7: You.
Speaker 4: Basically he could have fed that on the car seat.
Speaker 1: The passenger said, yeah, oh she had it in a
Speaker 1: plastic bag.
Speaker 4: That's hilarious, Amanda, thank you. What's called no?
Speaker 8: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Well? Remember that fan for the cigarettes.
Speaker 9: Steve, good morning, Good morning gang, Happy Thursday.
Speaker 5: My first ever attempt at Marketplace.
Speaker 9: We were renovating a pool a couple of years ago
Speaker 9: and replacing it. And there were all these old brick
Speaker 9: papers all around the pool, and there were over a
Speaker 9: thousand of them, and this guy was going to charge
Speaker 9: me in absolute fortune to take them out. And they
Speaker 9: take him away, and my son said, I whack them
Speaker 9: on marketplace.
Speaker 5: People will buy.
Speaker 9: Anything and literally put them on there for free. And
Speaker 9: you had to pull them up yourself and take him
Speaker 9: away yourself. They lasted fifteen minutes, and this poor couple
Speaker 9: came around with an old toyter camera and removed over
Speaker 9: the next two days, over a thousand bricks from around
Speaker 9: my pool. And I felt so guilty I had to
Speaker 9: watch it. I had to give him a hand.
Speaker 3: I felt terrible about watching the window.
Speaker 9: Understating having a cold bee while he's bussing his absolute.
Speaker 4: Guts breaking work.
Speaker 5: You know what made a hundred bucks though.
Speaker 2: They gave you, they paid you one hundred bucks. So
Speaker 2: they get two days out a thousand bricks.
Speaker 9: I said that, I said that were free, and he goes, no, no, no,
Speaker 9: I can't do this for free, and he goes hundred
Speaker 9: back again, No, no, mate, just.
Speaker 5: Keep his cash. That's sorry, you're doing your favor.
Speaker 9: He would have had to spend five hundred dollars on
Speaker 9: a new set of suspension for the back of.
Speaker 4: His Carl Camry. Oh, Steve, that's a great story well told.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Steve, have a great day.
Speaker 5: Danks, guys, have a great day.
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