How much is your potential safety worth?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a frequent seller on Craig’s List and FB there is no way I would ever do a meetup. If you want it, you will come to my house to get it. If you won’t do that, someone else will. Has nothing to do with laziness. I don’t have time to track you down around town.

Creep.

What? This is standard. Are you new?

Actually, standard is a public meetup and has always been. Do you get off on luring women to your house?

I'm a woman. I am never taking an item I am selling anywhere for a "meetup." Glad to bring it outside the house for the purchaser, have helped move items into cars/trucks while doing this, etc. I live on a busy street corner--about 14,000 cars a day pass by here, according to the DOT--so you're as safe at my driveway as you would be in a parking lot. Take it or leave it.

You realize men sell things on Facebook, right? And refuse to bring the item out?

Also a woman who only sells from my house and would never agree to meet elsewhere. You can get a lot from the listing:

- is the area generally an area you feel safe in
- will they except venmo etc or do you have to carry a lot of cash
- is the item something you can bring outside easily? If not, bring someone else along b/c you'll probably need help carrying it out anyway
- has the person sold many other things that you can see
- can you see their profile generally

if you get a weird vibe from them you can always bail. If they try to get you to come into their house just decline. I don't think its inherently more safe to meet in a parking lot - the one exchange I did do in a random parking lot, the person could have easily pulled me into their car if they wanted without anyone really noticing. It was a mom exchanging kids clothes - I just mean when you park next to each other at parking lots, if someone wanted something bad to happen, it likely could there too

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Anonymous wrote:As a frequent seller on Craig’s List and FB there is no way I would ever do a meetup. If you want it, you will come to my house to get it. If you won’t do that, someone else will. Has nothing to do with laziness. I don’t have time to track you down around town.

Creep.

What? This is standard. Are you new?

Actually, standard is a public meetup and has always been. Do you get off on luring women to your house?

I'm a woman. I am never taking an item I am selling anywhere for a "meetup." Glad to bring it outside the house for the purchaser, have helped move items into cars/trucks while doing this, etc. I live on a busy street corner--about 14,000 cars a day pass by here, according to the DOT--so you're as safe at my driveway as you would be in a parking lot. Take it or leave it.

You realize men sell things on Facebook, right? And refuse to bring the item out?

Well then, you ask about porch pickup ahead of time and bring someone with you, or decline the item.

People are serious flakes when buying stuff on any marketplace. No shows, sad stories, run arounds about money, etc. And that’s the seemingly normal people you’ve vetted through a well worded ad and not engaging the jerks responding.

If I’m going to be hugely inconvenienced, I’m doing it from the comfort of my living room.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As a frequent seller on Craig’s List and FB there is no way I would ever do a meetup. If you want it, you will come to my house to get it. If you won’t do that, someone else will. Has nothing to do with laziness. I don’t have time to track you down around town.

Creep.

What? This is standard. Are you new?

Actually, standard is a public meetup and has always been. Do you get off on luring women to your house?

I'm a woman. I am never taking an item I am selling anywhere for a "meetup." Glad to bring it outside the house for the purchaser, have helped move items into cars/trucks while doing this, etc. I live on a busy street corner--about 14,000 cars a day pass by here, according to the DOT--so you're as safe at my driveway as you would be in a parking lot. Take it or leave it.

You realize men sell things on Facebook, right? And refuse to bring the item out?

Well then, you ask about porch pickup ahead of time and bring someone with you, or decline the item.

People are serious flakes when buying stuff on any marketplace. No shows, sad stories, run arounds about money, etc. And that’s the seemingly normal people you’ve vetted through a well worded ad and not engaging the jerks responding.

If I’m going to be hugely inconvenienced, I’m doing it from the comfort of my living room.

100% this. There is no way I'm meeting up anywhere but at my house. I really don't even want to meet you at all. Pay me then I'll set it out on my porch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a frequent seller on Craig’s List and FB there is no way I would ever do a meetup. If you want it, you will come to my house to get it. If you won’t do that, someone else will. Has nothing to do with laziness. I don’t have time to track you down around town.

Especially with the number of times people flake out on showing up

It's mildly annoying when people just bail on the pick up at my house.

But I would be seriously pissed if I drove somewhere for a meet up and the person no-showed

[Anonymous]

It’s worth $.17 to me