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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, they talk better than they These are the radio
blogs on the Fred Show. All right, it's like riding
in our diaries, exceptly saying him aloud. We called him
blogs rufio take it away, thank.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You, dear blog.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
So, as you know, Ashley knows how to ride a
bike now on two wheels, but the bike he has
is he's he's outgrowing the bike he has. So I
have been scouring Facebook marketplace for a bike, a used bike,
because I want to get him a new bike for
his birthday at the end of summer, like a bigger bike,
but I want to get I was looking for one
of the same size for now, like a cheaper bike
(00:36):
so he can learn, so he knows how to ride it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
When he gets the same size bike on the phone.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
He's gonna fall off it and scuff it up and whatever. Right,
exactly do it with a bike if somebody else that
threw Yeah, And Facebook marketplace is a wild place in general.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Like I messaged so many people like they had bikes
twenty dollars, thirty dollars whatever I was messed.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I never got a respond It's I never got a response.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
From anybody because I don't know if they think I'm
a fake person or not, but like it's it's a
wild place. And I was talking to Jason Brown, who
who buys and sells stuff on Facebook marketplace, and he
says that they're their inboxes is just flooded with like
like fake people profiles or whatever. So it's hard to
decipher if that's a real person or that. But I
finally got into Cockta in contact with somebody, and uh
(01:22):
it was this woman and I was like, hey, I'm
interested buying the bike and she's like, yeah, sure, you're
still available, yes, and you could pick it up whatever
by noon.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Here's the address.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm like, okay, cool, And so on Friday I went
there and the bike was as a certain price. I
was like, it's a little high, so I went with
X amount of dollars Like I didn't. I didn't go
with the amount that she was asking for.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So are you want to bargain? Yeah? Right right right? Yes,
is negotiable? Yes, thank you price?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
There is a set.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Price on the post, right, yes, right?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I didn't I never said I was.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was agreed to purchase that bike, then, way I did?
I said, is the bike available? She said yes, and
look at it in person. That's reasonable, Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, you're buying a used product that you've never seen
in person. You got to go and look at it
and decide if you think it's worth the price. And
the worst case is you just leave without it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You negotiate prior to showing up in person.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yes, you know, maybe there's like a maybe there's like
a you get there and there's a wheel missing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, they took the rightly. The point if you show
up and you don't like it, then.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Don't tue it because pictures don't do products justice.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You agree on the price beforehand, assuming that everything in
the right condition. I agree to this price. If you
get there it's not in that condition.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's that's on the seller to be like, are you
gonna are you going to purchase it at this price?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I disagree.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think every used item is negotiable, especially with the Internet.
I need to see it in Plus.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I did my research on this bike. They don't sell
in the source anymore, but at the time they did
so the source. This lady's asking for the same price
that and it's worth brand new.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And I was like, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So I get there right I get there, the lady's like,
my son is gonna bring it down. I was like, okay, cool,
I'm thinking adult son. This kid was like thirteen years old.
It was his bike, and it's just like it's just
me the bike and this thirteen year old.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh my god. And I was like, oh, hey, was
this your bike?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
He's like yeah, And I was like, I was like,
I'm gonna be honest with you. This bike is not
worth what you're asking for. Like I showed him, like
it's worth brand new, it's worth the same amount you're
asking for, and it's it's used, it's in good condition,
but it's not new. And I was just like, hey,
it's like, is this your bike? He's just like yeah.
(03:50):
It's like is this money going to you? He's just
like yes, I'm It's just like okay, so it's your bike.
So I said, I will give you half for what
you're asking for. You just I did, and he said okay.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
He said deal.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Because he wasn't ever expecting to get the price they
put up exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Thank you. The terrible salesman man is negotiating with a child.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I was like, is this you? It's like, is this
money going to you. And he's just like, yep, I'm
gonna it's it's whatever. But I'm just saying like I
didn't want to bring.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
His Like I'm I'm like, go get your mom. I
got to negotiate with you. Yeah, you want to scam
the key.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
He was trying to scam me, asking for a price
bike on a used bike.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I love, so, I said.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I showed him the website, like they used to sell
this bike at Walmart. I was like, here it is,
it's worth this is the price they sold it for. Brandon,
You're asking for the same amount for a used bike.
I was like, I will give you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I have half. That's what I brought with me. I
brought half in cash. It was like, here is a
problem with this.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I was like, I was like, here it is take
her to leave it and he said it wasn't bully
standing over this.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I was like, yo, bro, you're gonna take that. He
could have said no, yes exactly. He could have said no.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The child was his.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
This was he's the one. He doesn't have Facebook, so
he his mom posted it for him.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Sir, what sir? A thirteen year old kid learned.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I don't have problem you didn't give him an unfair price,
did not. It wasn't like he wanted fifty and you
gave him five and took it. You you research what
it should cost, and you negotiated with him, and he
could have countered and and if he didn't, he should have.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I was gonna do to learn. I was gonna do
the same thing, lady. If she would have came down,
I would have done the same thing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
My dad he did, and would have done the same
thing with me. When I had stuff I wanted to
sell back in the day, he'd be like, you sell it,
you figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's yours, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And I gave him that money and I put that
bike in the car and got out of the real quick.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The difference is when I was a kid, I was
fleecing adults because like when I remember I had a
go cart and my dad and I got a real car,
and my dad's like, sell the go card.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm like, do you want the money? He's like, no,
it's yours.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And so I remember I put it in the newspaper
at the time, and I just made up a price
and a dude calls the house. This is like in
the nineties way back in the day and he goes,
I want to see this go cart for my kid.
And there was no price agreed on, nothing. He wanted
to see it the same way that you did. Not
say I will buy this bike at this price. You said,
can I come to see the bike? Yes. So this
(06:24):
dude rolls up and I said it's I think. I
said it's one thousand dollars, and he was like okay,
and he gave me a thousand dollars in cash and
he took the go cart and left and I walked
inside and my dad's like, how much did you sell
it for? I said one thousand dollars. He said I
paid seven hundred and fifty fourth tone. This is amazing.
I'm so proud of you. I've never been prouder. Yeah,
you did nothing wrong. Oh thank you. Worst case scenario
(06:45):
is that kid says I don't want to sell it
to you, and you say I don't want it and
you leave, right.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's it. Mm hmm, there's no problem with it. I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I wasn't pressuring him at all. I said this is
what I got. I have half.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I was like, you're not.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was like, I honestly said you're not going to
get it for the price you're asking for.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Oh my god, because he says you got brand new.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
It's I used to work in high in consignment, Like
if something is used, it immediately loses value.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, But yeah, so you would never spe typically if.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You had said, though, I will pay this number, and
then you show up, you still have a right to
be like, this isn't what I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Leaving you can always walk away, right because you.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Who knows which is a real You know, you don't
ever know what you're looking at, so you see the
product up close. But if I put something online for
sale and I put it's twenty dollars and you show
up in my house with ten ars, you you have
hey with the idea you're gonna scam me.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I know, negotiation, but you have the right to say no.
You have the right to say I'm not selling it
to you for this Roman probably mentally, though that's true,
was probably more mature than he yes, I'm wrong, right.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I need to go to I don't know, probably the
money I said, this is what you got, This is
what I got? Oh Mark, It's like, you know, I'll
pro at this price.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
He wanted a new price. You were not going to
pay a new price for a used item. Thank you,
you made him an offer that he accepted.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Now, if the lesson learned is don't just take the
cash in hand, or take the cash in hand, I
don't know what the lesson is, but everyone seemed happy. Yeah,
the mom didn't call you up later and go you
screwed my kid?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Nope, not at all. I love it. I love it.
I diacted my Facebook and everything. This girl don't even
try to this man cookies.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
This man is wild?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Just don't okay. So he shows up with it. She
shows up with the cookies and he said I want
to pay half, and then the girls guy says no, yeah,
it don't works that way.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And then that's it. You got a cookies. The price,
the price is never the price negotiable. This I'm tipping.
We should never talk about it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You know what's crazy is I think that there's From
what I understand, almost anything is negotiable, and most people
just don't negotiate. Like, from what I understand, you you
can negotiate a hotel room price if you want.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They may or may not do it. But you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean, I think most of us are probably paying
too much for everything. Everything is negotiable.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Please right.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I can't believe you're on board with this, friend, I
know I have no problem with this.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I love every part of it. Thank you, thank you.
It's not right. I love every party time. I think.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, here's the thing, though, is I actually think you
were fair for once. I don't think you actually stole
from the king. I know I got twenty dollars, that's
all I got. You don't know you gave him a
fair price.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And he could have said no, yes, I love it,
great job, wheel.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Thank you. I very rarely say beware about how he
lives his life. Great job. Yeah, i'd your kid, no problem,
that's a that's a learn lesson.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes he did, and it was and it was a
fair one, hm, because somebody else could have pulled up
and tried to give him a quarter of the price
he made.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Take it. At least you gave him.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Why was he trying to He was trying to charge
you full price for a used item because he knew
that he was going to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Thank you what. I love it, Great job,
Yeah, they talk better than they These are the radio
blogs on the Fred Show. All right, it's like riding
in our diaries, exceptly saying him aloud. We called him
blogs rufio take it away, thank.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You, dear blog.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
So, as you know, Ashley knows how to ride a
bike now on two wheels, but the bike he has
is he's he's outgrowing the bike he has. So I
have been scouring Facebook marketplace for a bike, a used bike,
because I want to get him a new bike for
his birthday at the end of summer, like a bigger bike,
but I want to get I was looking for one
of the same size for now, like a cheaper bike
(00:36):
so he can learn, so he knows how to ride it.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
When he gets the same size bike on the phone.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
He's gonna fall off it and scuff it up and whatever. Right,
exactly do it with a bike if somebody else that
threw Yeah, And Facebook marketplace is a wild place in general.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Like I messaged so many people like they had bikes
twenty dollars, thirty dollars whatever I was messed.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I never got a respond It's I never got a response.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
From anybody because I don't know if they think I'm
a fake person or not, but like it's it's a
wild place. And I was talking to Jason Brown, who
who buys and sells stuff on Facebook marketplace, and he
says that they're their inboxes is just flooded with like
like fake people profiles or whatever. So it's hard to
decipher if that's a real person or that. But I
finally got into Cockta in contact with somebody, and uh
(01:22):
it was this woman and I was like, hey, I'm
interested buying the bike and she's like, yeah, sure, you're
still available, yes, and you could pick it up whatever
by noon.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Here's the address.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I'm like, okay, cool, And so on Friday I went
there and the bike was as a certain price. I
was like, it's a little high, so I went with
X amount of dollars Like I didn't. I didn't go
with the amount that she was asking for.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So are you want to bargain? Yeah? Right right right? Yes,
is negotiable? Yes, thank you price?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
There is a set.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Price on the post, right, yes, right?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
I didn't I never said I was.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was agreed to purchase that bike, then, way I did?
I said, is the bike available? She said yes, and
look at it in person. That's reasonable, Yes it is.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, you're buying a used product that you've never seen
in person. You got to go and look at it
and decide if you think it's worth the price. And
the worst case is you just leave without it.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You negotiate prior to showing up in person.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yes, you know, maybe there's like a maybe there's like
a you get there and there's a wheel missing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, they took the rightly. The point if you show
up and you don't like it, then.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Don't tue it because pictures don't do products justice.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You agree on the price beforehand, assuming that everything in
the right condition. I agree to this price. If you
get there it's not in that condition.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's that's on the seller to be like, are you
gonna are you going to purchase it at this price?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
I disagree.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I think every used item is negotiable, especially with the Internet.
I need to see it in Plus.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I did my research on this bike. They don't sell
in the source anymore, but at the time they did
so the source. This lady's asking for the same price
that and it's worth brand new.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And I was like, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
So I get there right I get there, the lady's like,
my son is gonna bring it down. I was like, okay, cool,
I'm thinking adult son. This kid was like thirteen years old.
It was his bike, and it's just like it's just
me the bike and this thirteen year old.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh my god. And I was like, oh, hey, was
this your bike?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
He's like yeah, And I was like, I was like,
I'm gonna be honest with you. This bike is not
worth what you're asking for. Like I showed him, like
it's worth brand new, it's worth the same amount you're
asking for, and it's it's used, it's in good condition,
but it's not new. And I was just like, hey,
it's like, is this your bike? He's just like yeah.
(03:50):
It's like is this money going to you? He's just
like yes, I'm It's just like okay, so it's your bike.
So I said, I will give you half for what
you're asking for. You just I did, and he said okay.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
He said deal.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Because he wasn't ever expecting to get the price they
put up exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Thank you. The terrible salesman man is negotiating with a child.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I was like, is this you? It's like, is this
money going to you. And he's just like, yep, I'm
gonna it's it's whatever. But I'm just saying like I
didn't want to bring.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
His Like I'm I'm like, go get your mom. I
got to negotiate with you. Yeah, you want to scam
the key.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
He was trying to scam me, asking for a price
bike on a used bike.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I love, so, I said.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I showed him the website, like they used to sell
this bike at Walmart. I was like, here it is,
it's worth this is the price they sold it for. Brandon,
You're asking for the same amount for a used bike.
I was like, I will give you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I have half. That's what I brought with me. I
brought half in cash. It was like, here is a
problem with this.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I was like, I was like, here it is take
her to leave it and he said it wasn't bully
standing over this.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
I was like, yo, bro, you're gonna take that. He
could have said no, yes exactly. He could have said no.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The child was his.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
This was he's the one. He doesn't have Facebook, so
he his mom posted it for him.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Sir, what sir? A thirteen year old kid learned.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I don't have problem you didn't give him an unfair price,
did not. It wasn't like he wanted fifty and you
gave him five and took it. You you research what
it should cost, and you negotiated with him, and he
could have countered and and if he didn't, he should have.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I was gonna do to learn. I was gonna do
the same thing, lady. If she would have came down,
I would have done the same thing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
My dad he did, and would have done the same
thing with me. When I had stuff I wanted to
sell back in the day, he'd be like, you sell it,
you figure it out.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's yours, you know.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And I gave him that money and I put that
bike in the car and got out of the real quick.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
The difference is when I was a kid, I was
fleecing adults because like when I remember I had a
go cart and my dad and I got a real car,
and my dad's like, sell the go card.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm like, do you want the money? He's like, no,
it's yours.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And so I remember I put it in the newspaper
at the time, and I just made up a price
and a dude calls the house. This is like in
the nineties way back in the day and he goes,
I want to see this go cart for my kid.
And there was no price agreed on, nothing. He wanted
to see it the same way that you did. Not
say I will buy this bike at this price. You said,
can I come to see the bike? Yes. So this
(06:24):
dude rolls up and I said it's I think. I
said it's one thousand dollars, and he was like okay,
and he gave me a thousand dollars in cash and
he took the go cart and left and I walked
inside and my dad's like, how much did you sell
it for? I said one thousand dollars. He said I
paid seven hundred and fifty fourth tone. This is amazing.
I'm so proud of you. I've never been prouder. Yeah,
you did nothing wrong. Oh thank you. Worst case scenario
(06:45):
is that kid says I don't want to sell it
to you, and you say I don't want it and
you leave, right.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
That's it. Mm hmm, there's no problem with it. I wasn't.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I wasn't pressuring him at all. I said this is
what I got. I have half.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
I was like, you're not.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I was like, I honestly said you're not going to
get it for the price you're asking for.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Oh my god, because he says you got brand new.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That is true.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
It's I used to work in high in consignment, Like
if something is used, it immediately loses value.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Right, But yeah, so you would never spe typically if.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You had said, though, I will pay this number, and
then you show up, you still have a right to
be like, this isn't what I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Leaving you can always walk away, right because you.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Who knows which is a real You know, you don't
ever know what you're looking at, so you see the
product up close. But if I put something online for
sale and I put it's twenty dollars and you show
up in my house with ten ars, you you have
hey with the idea you're gonna scam me.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I know, negotiation, but you have the right to say no.
You have the right to say I'm not selling it
to you for this Roman probably mentally, though that's true,
was probably more mature than he yes, I'm wrong, right.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
I need to go to I don't know, probably the
money I said, this is what you got, This is
what I got? Oh Mark, It's like, you know, I'll
pro at this price.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
He wanted a new price. You were not going to
pay a new price for a used item. Thank you,
you made him an offer that he accepted.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Now, if the lesson learned is don't just take the
cash in hand, or take the cash in hand, I
don't know what the lesson is, but everyone seemed happy. Yeah,
the mom didn't call you up later and go you
screwed my kid?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Nope, not at all. I love it. I love it.
I diacted my Facebook and everything. This girl don't even
try to this man cookies.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
This man is wild?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Just don't okay. So he shows up with it. She
shows up with the cookies and he said I want
to pay half, and then the girls guy says no, yeah,
it don't works that way.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
And then that's it. You got a cookies. The price,
the price is never the price negotiable. This I'm tipping.
We should never talk about it.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
You know what's crazy is I think that there's From
what I understand, almost anything is negotiable, and most people
just don't negotiate. Like, from what I understand, you you
can negotiate a hotel room price if you want.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
They may or may not do it. But you.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean, I think most of us are probably paying
too much for everything. Everything is negotiable.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Please right.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I can't believe you're on board with this, friend, I
know I have no problem with this.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I love every part of it. Thank you, thank you.
It's not right. I love every party time. I think.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, here's the thing, though, is I actually think you
were fair for once. I don't think you actually stole
from the king. I know I got twenty dollars, that's
all I got. You don't know you gave him a
fair price.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
And he could have said no, yes, I love it,
great job, wheel.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Thank you. I very rarely say beware about how he
lives his life. Great job. Yeah, i'd your kid, no problem,
that's a that's a learn lesson.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yes he did, and it was and it was a
fair one, hm, because somebody else could have pulled up
and tried to give him a quarter of the price
he made.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Take it. At least you gave him.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Why was he trying to He was trying to charge
you full price for a used item because he knew
that he was going to negotiate.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Thank you what. I love it, Great job,
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