My Facebook Marketplace Horror Stories 

I wanted to go pick up some bluetooth headphones that a guy was selling for $75 (retails for $120). I was negotiating the price with him but then in the morning he messaged me saying that he was craving a Wendy's Baconator burger and that if I brought him one, he would give me the headphones for the price of the burger. I thought it was maybe a prank, so I brought my sister-in-law with me just in case. Got him the burger, he was stoked, and he gave me the headphones 🤷🏾‍♀ People are strange.

"I am very dedicated to picking up these chairs" 😂 this is hilarious thank you for sharing all these stories omg

My best Facebook story is we moved into an older stone house that had a huge kitchen that was in rough shape. It only had one small section of cabinets and all the lowers were water damaged. We priced cabinets at builders stores, an Amish cabinet shop etc and it seemed like it would cost a fortune to get more than we had. We got the room all fixed up, new plumbing, electric and appliances but still no cabinets. I took a coffee break while working, looked at marketplace and five minutes before a man had listed an entire huge pile of cabinets he removed from a house. They were dark and ugly but solid oak and Amish made for $400. We raced over and picked them up and there were 17 cabinets, a whole trailer full. I painted them out and we installed them. 7 years later my husband still brags how I saved the budget and the whole home remodel with my amazing find. I wish I could show you the before and after!

I was in the market for 2 twin beds for what seemed like forever and when I found a pair I loved on Marketplace I was so thrilled. Only issue was the guy was selling them with mattresses which I didn’t need. I reached out and told him I would love to buy the beds (could even come today to scoop them) but would he consider selling them without the mattresses (I would pay full price, he just keeps the mattresses.) His literal first correspondence to me was, “ I DON’T HAVE TO SELL YOU ANYTHING!” And then he BLOCKED me! I was like... WTF just happened? 😅😂 People are so weird. LMAO.

“We just have to move the organ” is such a great inside joke Me and my friends say “it’s just like getting the mail” everytime our hiker friends recommends a trail cuz it’s always so much longer and harder

A story of proving there are good people! I was buying something for $35 dollars, and left the money under the mat. I had a newborn at the time so I was extra spacy and frazzled. Instead of leaving $20, $10, and $5 bills, I left a $20, a $10, and a $50. She contacted me right away and I was able to turn around and get the money right away and gave it to me for $33 because I didn't have another five, but did have a few random singles in my car. So grateful that she was honest and kind.

I had a HUGE supply of really good yard, needles, crochet hooks and even books of patterns that came from a squatter that had taken over my daughter's house. She just left all this stuff. I wanted to just find a good home for it, FREE! I had SO many rude people contact me! They would ask me all of these insane demands, like wanting a detailed list of every item (it was five HUGE boxes full). Calling me names because I wouldn't drop it off and others just not showing up. I couldn't believe people were behaving like this for FREE items! Thankfully a woman from a local nursing home got hold of me and she took all of it for their knitting/crochet club.

Not a strange one but I saw my DREAM vintage wood kitchen for £100 on fb marketplace and roped in my fella, father in law and friend to go and dismantle it and then make about 3 trips there and back with everyone’s car full of dirty kitchen pieces! Then roped in my dad to make it fit my kitchen, and now I have the most beautiful charmed/practical magic kitchen

Oh Facebook marketplace is insane. I once sold early 1800s shutters and doors, great price, this woman said she wanted to come to look but for half price. I told her I had multiple people who wanted them full price that day, but she could come look as I was having a yard sale. She got there first but offered me again half. I said “no, this is already a fair price and another guy just called and is minutes out.” She grabbed the shutters and tried to load them and said “You don’t know if they’ll be here and I’ve got cash now, you’ll take my price.” I told her no and please leave. She put them back and blasted off. 😂 lady please

The tiny table is a cigarette box. My grandmother had one exactly like that...WITH the music. My mother inherited it. I believe my sister has it now. If she ever doesn't want it I DO! So yeah, you have a lovely cigarette box/table.

One time I bought a rug on Marketplace, and I showed up the house and the lady says "wait in the driveway and I'll open up the garage" and the garage door opened to reveal her full on pumping breast milk. I'm all for a mother doin her thang, but it does quality as my weirdest Marketplace interaction.

We bought a painting on Facebook marketplace from a couple living in our neighborhood. They were so sweet that I told my boyfriend afterward I wish they were our friends. Fast forward a couple of months, my boyfriends cousin hosted a party. Shockingly the couple was there! It took us the whole evening to figure out why we recognized each other haha, but ever since then we hang out regularly!🥰

This video was so so fun!! I love both buying and selling on marketplace and I have a sweet story to share. My best marketplace story is that I met someone who is now one of my closest friends after buying from her! In January I bought a crib for my baby who was due in May. When she gave me her address it turned out that she only lived 2 blocks away. When I showed up at her place, she looked like she was a similar age to me, and her baby was also due in May. She also had a dog, and I wanted to reach out to her to see if she wanted to go for a walk or something because I just had a feeling like, maybe we have more in common. We ended up crossing paths with her and her partner a few times over the next few months because we live so close, and we even commented like "oh, eventually we'll see each other and have babies!" I ended up chickening out of contacting her, but a few weeks after I had my baby I messaged her something like "hey, I know you were due in May, too, I hope it went okay and you're all doing well". She messaged back asking if I wanted to go for a walk together with our babies. We went for coffee and found out that we both have so much in common, in particular we're both elementary school teachers working in the same district, we even have friends, students and families in common. We also both had traumatic birth experiences and being able to talk to each and grow through it with each other has been really special. We now hang out every week and our sons, who are only 2 weeks apart in age, are growing up together ❤️

7:10 the little scrunched up paper hiding behind the cushion is so relateable

Omg FB Marketplace! Our worst story was where I sold a glider and told the buyer it was on the front porch (and the listing photos showed it on the front porch). Guy picks it up and leaves the cash as agreed, but also takes the glider and matching chairs and tables from the back deck! Had to threaten to call the cops. Also had a guy come pick up something and pay with a huge bag of loose coins, another time someone picked up a refrigerator and backed into our mailbox on the way out, kept on driving.

I literally couldn’t concentrate on what you were saying while kitty was rolling around looking adorable then you pet her and I instantly relaxed. Every single cat on this planet has me wrapped around its tiny paw.

The musical table is so sweet, I would tell everyone visiting me to open so they'll get a surprise. lol

Let Us Descend, which I see in your book of the month box, has what I’d call an “iconic” first line: “The first weapon I ever held was my mother’s hand.”

My only facebook marketplace purchase was awesome. I bought an art deco dresser with bakelite handles for 100 bucks. The guy DELIVERED it to my apartment, which was on the 6th floor in a downtown apartment with nightmare parking. I was worried he'd be some sort of axe murderer being willing to deliver this dresser, but he was my age, handsome, friendly, and a really nice guy. He would be the kind of guy you'd strike up a conversation with at a coffee shop. I have never bought anything else, I got all of the good luck the first time I did facebook marketplace. I am not going to get that lucky again.

THE ‘I AM VERY DEDICATED TO THESE CHAIRS’ HAD ME CRY LAUGHING HELP FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE IS INSANE

I often give stuff away for free on marketplace because my apartment is small and for furniture I have to operate a one-in-one-out system like a nightclub lol. It’s wild how demanding people are even when you’re literally giving them something for nothing. However it is a lot easier than hauling it to the thrift or wherever

I once sold a little footstool for 4 euros. The guy showed up on time and wanted to negotiate the price to 2 euros. I declined because 4 euros was already a very good price. He said okay, gave me the money and basically ran off. Later I discovered that he didn't give me euros but similiar foreign money which was basically worth 20 cents... at least I could gift my dad the money because he's a coin collector.

And the morale of the story, not all costs are monetary 😂

the eternal question of whether i want the item more than i don't want the interaction

I wish I could provide a photo of my very large desk in my small SUV. It defied the laws of physics, but I love this desk.

"We only need to move the organ" meaning this is going to be harder than we think it will be is definitely inside joke worthy. My family has a similar one about how many lanes there are on a certain motorway to mean being stubborn (my mum refused to admit she was wrong)

Some of those stories were wild lol. I haven’t had too many strange encountered via marketplace, but the one I did have just made me 🤨. They were a couple that refurbished pieces. They had a lovely set that wasn’t an original set. A Queen Ann style table (quite a large one) and a suit of chairs of a different style but lovely and made of solid oak. The table has a pine top so clearly not original to the piece. They had given the entire table a pickled finish. All fine because I was intending to use the table as my work surface in my office/studio and I wanted something lovely but not precious. The price was phenomenal. I think it was like $300 for the table and all the chairs (6 ) and we whittled that down to like $280. Anyhow, the one caveat they had was that we had to promise to never paint it. Henh? Lol. When we met up with them at a point half way between them and us (it was an hours drive for us) they basically vetted us there in the parking lot. It took a good half hour of talking to convince them that we so appreciated the work they had done that we would never in a million years think of painting it. I mean ….. what the what what now? Did they really believe they could hold people to such a promise? You sell it to me, I can hack it into a million pieces and use it for kindling if I want to. How bizarre. Anyhow, it has layers of paint on it now because we are a family of artists and it gets used for a million projects. One day I will strip it and refinish it because it really is a lovely piece, but also it’s just a pine top. It’s not like it’s antique mahogany or some such. People are funny …..

"I am very dedicated to picking up the chairs" is a frankly hilarious sentence I love it so much

The speed with which I clicked on this notification. Yes please!

The mirror story is crazy too bc asking for a phone number on facebook is such a red flag that its a scam, if someone was asking for all the money in advance and wouldn’t give me the address unless I texted them I would’ve just been like well scam ig 😂😂 so glad you got your mirror its so beautiful!!

“I feel like I’m not gonna get the mirror. I feel like she might not like that” IM ACTUALLY CRYINNGGG THESE STORIES ARE SO FUNNY

I had one recently where a woman was trying to buy a bunch of my jewelry, basically 40+ pairs of earrings, for $10. And then come to find out she lived nearly 2 hours away from me and we weren’t driving all that there and back, so I said I could mail but $10 is too low because it would probably cost around that much just to ship them. She literally became unhinged on me and was talking about how unfair I was, that I just must not want to sell to her for some reason, etc. it ended up with her “apologizing” and me offering for her to pick out around 10 pairs of earrings and I would ship them out to her for $15. We went through all of that for her to start ignoring my messages. At that point I blocked her because the fact that I was still willing to sell anything to her even after all of that, just for her to ghost me in the end, made me so very angry. I wasted so much time on trying to be polite to a very clearly unhinged person. That’s not even all of it, because she was initially talking about me going over to her house and drinking with her and trying on clothes, etc. like WHAT. 💀💀

I don't mind buying off Marketplace but selling is a nightmare

The one FB marketplace exchange I’ll never forget is when I reached out to a seller about a table she was selling and we agreed I would pick it up in the morning. I had her address and drove there the next day. I was by myself, so I stayed in the car in front of her house messaging her several times telling her I was there. I stayed for a little bit and still hadn’t heard back from her. I then messaged her saying I would be back later (giving her the benefit of the doubt). I get a message after I leave telling me she sold it to someone else who offered her more money 🙃 so instead of reaching out to me to tell me that before I left my house she let me waste my time and gas…I was a little heated after that one hahah.

Omggg yes!!!! I’m here for this bc it’s so relatable. I sold a refrigerator and this guy started stalking me. He would message me saying he was outside my house (I never gave my address) and at all hours of the night he would message me saying he’s watching me. I would block him and he would pop up under a new name. It’s scary.

I found this AMAZING media center it was gorgeous. Huge solid maple wood. They were only asking $200 - from the pictures it was well worth it for fine furniture. We coordinated and mwt up at a sketchy self storage. It was awkward because she had brought her brother who was very intimidating. Looking back I can see it was for her own protection but at the time I felt like I was going to be kidnapped. They were fine and nothing bad happened. When she opened the storage unit it was clear that I wasnt going to buy because there had been a rain leak and everything in the unit was super moldy. I mean SUPER moldy. 😬 I was disappointed but glad that I hadnt spent money on a moving rental truck.

Fb Marketplace was a blessing when I had to furnish a whole house on my own! I actually only had lovely interactions with the people I was purchasing from, it felt like they were all cheering me on 😊 Everyone actually helped with moving the furniture (including a sweet old man) and a family even held on to a couch for me while they were moving (I had to wait a week before my dad could help me go get it)! I definitely also saw some dodgy stuff, but I would only engage if there were multiple pictures in the listing and the communication was clear from the beginning.

That Mirror Lady...sounded so sketchy, and she may not know, people do the etransfer scams on the daily. I know a few people who got ripped off from those scams of send the money before you get item and then never hear from that "supposed" seller again. Never send money to anyone until you are physically holding your item!

What a great idea for a video. Who can’t relate to these stories? 😅

I find this video so interesting! I've not really bought anything on Facebook yet. We sold my piano when marketplace was brand new. We needed it gone quickly and my mum had got it for super cheap so she stuck it on for a penny. A very similar one to the one you have. The guy gave a penny that was blown up in the war and saved his life. We still have the penny 😊

Stories like these are the reason why I'm afraid to shop on Facebook marketplace.

I've only used Facebook Marketplace once but it really is the Wild West. I decided to get rid of some exercise equipment. My bench had basically turned into a coffee table and it was bothering me. Time to clear out. So I listed them for free. Obviously lots of interest but people were so aggressive! I had already agreed with one person but left it open in case he didn't show. People were trying to guilt me into giving it to them instead. Like, "I'm a single mom trying to get in shape, I really think you need to give it to me instead." Yeesh! Just kept having to say if this person doesn't show, I'll let you know. So cleaned everything, brought it down from my apartment to the lobby and waited, and waited...lol. He ended up sending a friend who had to pick up his mother from the airport first and finally got there after I had been sitting in the lobby for about an hour. Like I'm doing more than half the work, and cleaning everything to boot, you could at least get there somewhat on time. Definitely one of the craziest evenings of my life but all the same, I got the stuff out of my house, and this person can continue their fitness journey.

The chairs lady defintely started trusting you with her address after your use of "fickle" and "garner"

I can’t believe the sellers in that organ story. That is so manipulative and also if your bf hadn’t come with you what would’ve happened??

love that your horrorstories are so mundane, and I mean that in the best way possible. I was worried a bit when I saw the title 😅

All that comes to mind story wise is I had nicely aged old red bricks to give away and lots of people wanted them. The person who I agreed to come to get them arrived and got an impressive bloody nose while loading them in his vehicle. He was embarrassed. I offered him a kitchen towel to use to stop it and to keep. He got the bricks all loaded, thanked me and handed me a very nice bottle of wine in gratitude. It was a decent bottle.

I bought my stove for $200. In the picture it was nice and clean in a nice clean house. My son picked it up for me, so he just paid for it, no questions asked. It took 2 cans of oven cleaner. One for the inside and one for the outside. The large eye heats on high no matter what the setting. That's my only purchase off Facebook marketplace.

I do love that mirror though...😅

Honestly, I probably wouldn't have bought the mirror out of principle after that attitude, even though the mirror is pretty. You are probably correct that most people wouldn't bother reporting or suing over a mirror if you are even taken seriously by the police. Most would probably just cut their losses begrudgingly and I think some small-time scammers rely on that, so I would have been unsure as well.

Oh gosh Facebook Marketplace literally saved me earlier this year when I moved across the country to an expensive city. I took a job there for the future earning potential, not necessarily paying well this first year lol so I gotta scrounge around a bit for this short time. I’ve actually ended up getting furniture that I genuinely love and didn’t break the bank for my first apartment! If you can handle the weirdness it’s usually worth it 😂

I’m sorry but I’m not native speaker of English. When you said “left the organ” I thought you were talking about bodily organs lol 😭😭😭😭😭😭 my heart dropped 🤣🤣

That little music box table was used to keep sewing supplies. The table would be next to a chair and people would keep their embroidery yarn, buttons and needles and stuff in there. My greatgrandma had one of these and I loved it as a child because it felt like a treasure box.

Once I went to pick up a $50 loveseat with a friend. When we showed up, the girl was sobbing. She had to be moved out of her old apartment into her new apartment that night, but her boyfriend broke up with her. She needed help moving. We ended up moving all of her furniture out of one second story apartment to another second story apartment. We got the loveseat for free… not really a fair trade. She lucked out by having the two most mushy hearted pushovers coming to her house that day.

People are sooo odd, though, a lot of times! LOL! Their communication styles/skills are really bizarre, and you have to wonder if they realize how strange or weird it comes off and how tough it can be to have a straightforward conversation or conclusion with them.

I love the fact that all of these items have a story and memories attached. It makes them kinda special.

I feel like I need to start this all off by prefacing that I really love and enjoy your channel. I know you live in ns somewhere but it never occurred to me that you live in the same area as me until a few weeks ago when I saw you at the pharmacy. Unfortunately, so excited to see you standing there that I'm pretty sure I just stared at you, did not say anything. Sorry about that, I should have said how much I enjoy your videos and appreciate you making them.

I had bought a beautiful Table and Chair Set at a Thrift Store which, according to my Dad, was made of Walnut. It had Ladderback Chairs, and cane bottom seats in very good shape. the Table had zero scratches. It was only $250.00. It was appraised at $1500.00. I was going to sell it to my brother at cost but he didn't evidently want it. So I decided to sell it. I tried Newspaper ads. No bites. I found out about Craigslist, and sold it to a young couple for $750.00. I actually spent too much for worthless newspapers ads. I was very glad that the couple who bought it loved it, and it would have a good home. I decided that selling furniture was not my forte. It would have looked fantastic in your home. Still have the photos.

I have no FB marketplace story but I find it so nice to see that apparently you also bond with things emotionally as I do. I always say that as soon as I would forget the story of a piece of furniture or decoration in my house, I could also throw it away. If visitors ask me to show them my house, I feel I have to stop myself because every single piece has a story that I love to share but I don't want to bother them. When I clean e.g. a sideboard I think about it's story, how I got it, who gave it, the situation when I bought it, and it makes even the cleaning nicer. ;-)

This is such a great and fun video idea!

A chap arranged to come and collect some games my husband had listed. Was very pushy with demanding money off but we weren’t willing to go any lower. He accepted, arranged a collection time with us but then didn’t show up or answer our messages. TWO DAYS later we get a message saying he’s outside our house but there’s no answer. We weren’t home and messaged him back to say you didn’t show up when you’d arranged and you can’t just turn up at peoples homes without notice when you like. He sent a shitty message back about us wasting his time and he’d come all this way for nothing blah blah blah. I was so freaked out we drove all the way home like a bat out of hell just to get rid of him. He then had the nerve to give us the cash for what he originally wanted to pay, not what we’d agreed on! I stood firm and insisted the agreed price. He was not happy. Thankfully we moved not long after but have not sold on marketplace since 😱

I love the musical table so much! It’s lovely. I used to allow pick ups on a local selling site I use but ohhh it was so much more stress that it was worth. Some people were great but others were so hard to pin down to a time and day, so I wouldn’t give out my address until they committed! Because some people would just turn up unexpectedly or make you wait around all day! I’m too anxious for that. Plus I’ve had some people get weirdly aggressive and I’d really prefer they don’t know where I live 😅

My sister-in-law got a piano off of facebook marketplace for free, and she was so excited about it! They went to pick it up and the older gentleman that was getting rid of the piano said that he had noticed it was super dusty, so he had used a hose a SPRaYED THE PIANO OFF! My SIL tried to salvage it, but the piano was basically ruined. She ended up revamping it by gutting it and creating a pretty external housing for her electric keyboard, so now it looks like a piano but she can easily turn the volume down.

Love the surprise cat feature when we moved to the floor, great stuff

Awww kitty!

the musical table is so cute i loved that

Crazy mirror lady: Its an IMMEDIATE NO if someone asks for my phone number! I would have not gotten the beautiful mirror. Congratulations on your brave trusting heart & great score😊😊😊😊

Just what i needed ❤ would also love to see a video on tips for using fb market xx

The address paranoid people are the worst! I’ve had countless people do this to me. Even when I’m on my way they will give out some vague location like “ I’m on 8th street.” Am I expected to wander around 8th st like a weirdo hoping the item is outside? What are these people thinking? Just meet at a nearby park if its that traumatic to you!

i was selling 2 pairs of leggings on marketplace last year. the lady who ended up buying them (after sending 4 messages within 5 mins asking if they were available) conveniently lived like 3 minutes up the road from me (small town newfoundland slay) so i said i could drop them off to her. she then started asking me if i could take her bag of clothing donations (???) because i "might find something i like".... then she asked if i could drive her to the mall..... then she asked if i had any purses that i could sell to her..... then when i wouldn't take her bag of clothing donations she asked could i bring them to a drop off spot for donations..... :) once i dropped off the leggings and had my money i blocked her LOL this was a complete stranger to me and she was giving the worst stranger danger vibes

Re: Piano. Excellent story ! Something to keep in mind as you redesign your room. I grew up in Boston, and MANY of the "3 Deckers" have what are called either parlor or piano windows. They were high enough, so an upright piano would fit under them, were normally stained glass, and let light into the room. Not sure if your design for piano is an exterior wall, but I thought I would mention it. Also, since many people "got rid" of these design elements, you might find an original/antique one !? I have family in Nova Scotia and have seen historic homes with either stained glass or just panes of glass in different colors. The church my father was raised in has gorgeous arched windows with the panes of colored glass. It's very beautiful, though simpler than stained glass. It is St. Margaret's in Grand Mira, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Stunning view over the river, as well.

I love this video so much! I buy and sell on marketplace all the time, and thank goodness I’ve had good experiences. But sometimes I read sellers postings, and I think, “Who hurt you?” 😂😂😂

I love FB marketplace for furnishing my house. I just got an amazing rug for 20 bucks and its full wool! Amazing! And the lady had a love bird on her shoulder when I picked up! Best pickup ever. I also bring my long suffering husband along with me to many of these pickups because I need his muscle. He puts up with a lot.

I got a blue velvet chaise from a lady on FB marketplace. It had very little give to it like from the frame and curved wooden backrest, my chaise is more a lounge to the side style. Plus, it didn't help that I drive an Echo hatchback so it was a MIRACLE it fit, one end was up against my front windshield, literally touching the glass and I could barely close the trunk. It's not that crazy alone but the lady selling it was telling me the history of it and how it was basically an heirloom from her grandma and they'd just spent like $1000 reupholstering it but were moving out of NS and it wasn't going to fit in their new place! like??? I was shocked bc it was so beautiful I would have MADE it fit somewhere in there. xD

Great idea for a video! Loving your house fix series!! You are doing fantastic! I find it so annoying when people ghost you to pick up something after all the back and forth leading uo to it. If you change your mind just send 1 more message, how is that so hard!!?? I find comfort knowing that others have odd experiences and I am not the only one struggling, hahaha!

This video and the stories in the comments are making my night!😂😂 People are so…people-y.

The organ rug is so funny. I’m imagining you yanking the rug out while they’re lifting up the organ like wow that’s a scene.

I've only sold a few things through FB Marketplace. One was a really expensive industrial sewing machine that (used) was going for around $950, but we REALLY needed it out of the house so we could replace a window, so I listed it for $300 with the stipulation that they move it, and it had to go down stairs & out a door. This guy shows up and he's like 6'9" tall. My upstairs was made for short people. He fit in the rooms but had to duck through the doorways and avoid light fixtures. He didn't bring a truck. So he left us with $100 in the sewing machine drawer and a promise that he'd be back in 3 days with a friend and a truck, which he did.

Facebook marketplace and similar places are ruthless! The amount of times Ive been selling something and even agreed on price and time for pickup, given my address and phone number, only to be ghosted?! I trust no one there anymore 😂

I went to pick up two tall wooden stools from some rich estate. The front house was not the house that answered the door. The guy eventually came out of some summer house in the back garden and he asked me to follow him. I thought I was gonna get locked up in there somewhere, but I wanted the stools, so I followed. Crazy looking back. But I am alive and have two very useful items that I use when I need to reach something on the top of my tall Ikea wardrobe 😄

I have a marketplace tale to tell in which I was unfortunately the organ lady. I was helping my mom sell a desk. Giant corner desk in a 1940’s house with tiny doors. I told the person coming to buy it that he would need to help me move it. It turns out (my mom did not tell me this) that it needed to be partially disassembled to even get out of the room. I believe we had to remove the top of the desk from the body before it could fit out the door and in order to reach the screws holding in the top we had to fully remove the drawer slides. It was a real can o’ worms and I felt really bad. He was pretty nice considering how silly the whole situation was.

I check Facebook marketplace everyday! I’m addicted 🤣 I’m guilty of not measuring things properly before I buy but I once had a lady come to pick up a desk and it did not fit in her car AT ALL! I actually ended up dismantling the whole thing for her, I didn’t mind but she was so embarrassed 🙈

Stories like these make the furniture even more special! I found a great deal on a big couch and went with my boyfriend to pick it up. The seller was nice and there to help but he did not mention the couch was on the third story of this narrow house and it barely fit through the doors. We called my boyfriend's family and they came to help us get it down the stairs. It was so heavy it took 4 people to move. We still have that couch years later! I love secondhand shopping for the deals and environmental impact, but also for the unique stories!

My piano teacher used to say that it's better for pianos if they are against an interior wall. Just a note as you think about future placement. :)

I don't have a Facebook account (and I'm pretty sure you need one to use Marketplace?) so I'm always super interested in hearing the tales of people who buy stuff from there. I'm gonna come back to this video later and read people's comments so I can hear even more stories!

Love your piano and the colouring/aging on it!! I had a flatmate who rescued an upright piano from a school he was p/t working in (clearing it for bulldozing). He lugged it up this big hill by himself and then asked for help getting it into the front door. At that point I swore I'd never have or move a piano again and had to hear this thing being played out of tune for a couple of weeks before it was tuned up via youtube videos I believe... Bloody heavy things, but you are right, the people wanting rid of them are almost paying us to take them. As an adult buying for the house, I've bought a lounge lightshade and a vintage vehicle of off marketplace :)

During Covid I was selling a library table. I listed the dimensions in the listing and a lady was interested. I put it outside my garage to do a no contact pickup because Covid. She shows up in a tiny tiny car, realizes the table won’t fit then starts screaming at me through the windows that it wouldn’t fit then drove off. Realized she had put the drawer on her car and had to come back to return the drawer. It was awful!!!!

I am all about this!!! I love browsing Facebook marketplace frequently like it's a challenge to find and obtain things I need and want

I once bought a dining room sideboard from someone; rolled up to their house and it ended up being a massive $1M+ mansion. Had to go through their front foyer area to get it and the whole experience made me feel like a lowly peasant. Feeling was compounded when my friend helped me load it into my 20-year old car. Was an excellent sideboard though.

When backing up a trailer, always put your hand on the BOTTOM of the steering wheel. Makes it 100% easier.

Well, now I want a music box table. I didn't know that was a thing. I don't even like music, tbh. But now I *need* it.

When you said "this table has a secret" I went "oh, Arielle didn't know it was a music box!" I have one of those that I got from my mother who picked it up in Italy when she was 17 (so the 70s). Extremely similar, right down to the spinny legs. Mine plays The Godfather theme. And I've done the same thing where it almost never gets played, lol

Always a good day when you post a video ❤

The short bench on vintage couch is normal. Many good replica’s have bigger benches, but they are modern. People didn’t lounge on them unless it was a chaise explicitly designed for that. Formal furniture was formal. I have an early 1940’s? Salmon colored flex steel couch. And it has a short bench as well. You can’t sit too far back. I can lay down on it though.

3:10 i freaked out when i saw a psalm for the wild built on the chair. Its like my favorite book right now

I bought our solid oak coffee table and matching sidetable for 600 SEK on FB Marketplace. That's a steal and there was nothing wrong with the tables, they just needed a bit of waxing. The catch though was that my parter was going away on a trip the day I was supposed to get the tables and we're car free and couldn't rent a car either. Enter the cargo bike pool we're part of, and to top it all off it was the very first time I tried a cargo bike, I thought it had e-assist but noooo, it was totally pedal powered which is unusual. I rode across town, wrangled them into the bike with some help (the seller probably pitied me) and rode home again (in a heatwave). Then I got the sidetable up four stairs (no elevator) and the big table into the basement until my partner got home a couple of days later. After that I wiped out on the sofa for the rest of the day.

I didn't think I needed this content but I was hooked from the first story, better than half hour on Netflix.

I've been lucky but know alot of people have had some issues buying on the market place. I recently got a fountain that would have cost me almost 2000 if bought new. I got it for 250. I also feel so happy to have gotten this fountain as it was bought from an old couple who were the second owners. They had a beautiful old turdor house and a beautiful backyard. They had 6 fountains. Now I'm really enjoying having this fountain and plan to re stain and care for it the best I can to hopefully one day when I'm older to give it to someone else.

You call it ruthless, I call it feral 😂 I moved house 3 days ago and found a locker style TV unit I wanted on marketplace. I had saved it weeks ago and I messaged the seller to ask if it was still available, because I was surprised that someone hadn't snapped it up already. She said yes it was available, and I said I might be able to pick up that evening if I could look up the address. Cue the seller asking when I would arrive, telling me she had another buyer interested, and ignoring multiple messages where I directly asked for the address, until I told her I didn't know when I would arrive because I didn't know where I was going?? Finally she gave me the address, and it turns out she lives on the weirdest road I've ever been on with multiple strange diverging roads in different directions. I literally had to follow a spiral road to find the house, and got lost finding the road in the first place so I was a little late. I picked up the cabinet in the end and when I got it home I found it was so grimy inside and out, it hadn't been wiped down at all. It was still a bargain but wow, marketplace really tests my patience both as a buyer and a seller 😆

You are a great storyteller

You just have to move the organ!