March 24, 2025 • 5 mins
Jason found out he has a new ick after his boyfriend Mike tries to negotiate for a Facebook Market Place item.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They tell them.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, they talk better than these are the radio blogs
on the Fred Show.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It's like writing in our diaries, except we say him aloud.
We call him blogs. Jason, you got one?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I do? I take it away, Thank you, dear blog.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
So I think I was the most cringed out I
could ever be by my boyfriend recently, Mike. So he's
a big Facebook market place person, right, Like, we're always
finding hidden gems and going and picking them up, you know,
and all this crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, anyway, so when are they hidden gems? Are they
really hidden gems?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's hit or miss really with him, Usually the ones
that he sends me on ends up being the duds.
But then you know, the ones that he finds and
goes himself, they're usually you know, the good stuff. But anyway,
so he went to go pick up a tool for something,
and so we go and he ends up that he
wants to buy it, and he starts, I don't know,
(01:00):
trying to lower the price, like now we're haggling, Now
we're negotiating, and my skin started crawling, like I'm very
much not that person. Like if you tell if I know,
like going that you're asking X amount of dollars for
this item.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's what I'm preparing to do.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Like like if you're selling something for fifty dollars right
and I'm showing up to buy you know, your wig
for fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Dollars because I need a wig.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be like I got forty in
this envelope right here, like I'm here, like I should
just take it right, Like you should be good with that,
Like no, like you listened it for fifty dollars, Like
who am I to tell you what your goods are worth?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What you know?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Don't well, Vinyl, it's a negotiation.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't think anybody on Facebook marketplace puts their best price.
And the other thing is unless you said I will
pay you fifty dollars when I arrive. Yeah, I feel
like you keep it open ended because you got to
look at it because pictures don't always do a justice.
So you might show up and you might be like, ah,
this isn't or there's just ratch on here I didn't
see before, or he just doesn't look as good or whatever,
(02:04):
and then you I think that I think you can
negotiate once you get there, unless you've agreed to a
price already yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The guy was not having it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
He was very much like I got, well, you didn't
mention anything about the price like in our messages, right,
like mind you. I was messaging this guy, so now
he thinks that like I'm up to something funky, right,
because he didn't respond to Mike in the right amount
of time, so Mike blocked him. But Mike still wanted
the item. So then I had to message this guy
and be like hi, with like your item please. So
(02:33):
he very much was like not having it like he was.
He was like whatever, and they ended up like he
ended up coming down. But I wanted to run out
of the building like my fight or flight, Like I
was like out the door, like smoke on my heels,
like out the door. It was so cringe to me.
I just can't do it, and I can't do it.
My dad's the same way. Like if you ever need
someone to like barter over a vehicle price, like take
Jim Brown, like he will he stands on business. He
(02:56):
will come in. He will get you a deal, right
or as much as he can. Like I'm just not
that person, Like okay, that's what it is, signed all right, cool,
Like I don't know it's so cringed.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Man, I hear you because it is kind of a
form of confrontation in some ways, But I mean it's
that's what negotiation is. I mean, the worst the worst
case is the person tells you know, and then you
can decide whether you want to still buy it or not.
But again, I don't think that unless you said when
I get there, i'll pay you this, then I don't
necessarily think that you you can't at least try and negotiate.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean it's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I don't feel like a garage sales are on marketplace
or eBay. I don't think people put their very best price.
I think they put like a price and they'd sell
to you for less if you in some cases.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
But don't you like kind of handle that before you
get there. I don't want to negotiating in the parking
lot of best buyer wherever they're standing right the gas station,
like I want to do this negotiation part which I
hate negotiating too, so I understand, but I'd rather do
a via messages like let's let's settle on the price here.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know that would if I had to do it,
that would work best for me, Like I want to
show up you face to face and know what I'm paying, Like,
we're not doing this standoff.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I guess you could try it, but again, like you
got to see the item. Yeah, yeah, you can point
stuff out like I guess I would expect someone to
do that. I would if I was selling something on
Facebook Marketplace, I would expect them to negotiate with me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, I would. I would definitely do it in person.
Oh yeah, I'm the spot.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh yeah, and I'm the worst because I'm like, I
only brought forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Take a leave, bro, that's all I got.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
You know, I's a atm across the trend.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Take the money out and you hold it in your hands.
He's like, I'm here, Like, I'll take it. I'm standing here.
Let me crace up your hands, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
He's like, oh, there's other people that are looking at it,
and I'm like, you're lying, like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Lying. I think there's a way to do it, though,
because I don't think you do it that way. I
don't know if I would, because that just says to
the person that I was coming here to screw you. Yeah,
exactly makes sense. So I don't know that you necessarily
do that. Because if I show up and I say, well,
I only have forty and I and the price at fifty, well,
that means that I decided, without even looking at it,
that I was going to pay less. I think what
(05:06):
you do is you show up and you look at
the item and you go, hey, you know what I'm not.
I don't know. Would you take forty for this because
you know whatever? Or maybe maybe the price is fair.
Maybe the price is actually fair, But I don't know,
it's worth trying. Because again, if you were selling I
don't know whatever, If you were selling something, would you
put just the would you put the actual price up there?
(05:28):
Would you go plus ten or plus twenty just to
see if you could get it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I would probably go higher for sure, because you want
to shoot for the stars. You can always come down.
You can't go up, right, I guess I don't know,
but that's.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Just not for me.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Like he'll be like when he sends me to go
get something, he'll be like, oh, it's thirty five, but
ask if he'll take thirty. And then I'll be like, oh, yeah,
they took thirty. But I don't even ask. I just
I just take five dollars on of my.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He was like kid.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I just oh yeah. So Jason co
They tell them.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Yeah, they talk better than these are the radio blogs
on the Fred Show.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
It's like writing in our diaries, except we say him aloud.
We call him blogs. Jason, you got one?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I do? I take it away, Thank you, dear blog.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
So I think I was the most cringed out I
could ever be by my boyfriend recently, Mike. So he's
a big Facebook market place person, right, Like, we're always
finding hidden gems and going and picking them up, you know,
and all this crazy stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, anyway, so when are they hidden gems? Are they
really hidden gems?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
You know?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's hit or miss really with him, Usually the ones
that he sends me on ends up being the duds.
But then you know, the ones that he finds and
goes himself, they're usually you know, the good stuff. But anyway,
so he went to go pick up a tool for something,
and so we go and he ends up that he
wants to buy it, and he starts, I don't know,
(01:00):
trying to lower the price, like now we're haggling, Now
we're negotiating, and my skin started crawling, like I'm very
much not that person. Like if you tell if I know,
like going that you're asking X amount of dollars for
this item.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
That's what I'm preparing to do.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Like like if you're selling something for fifty dollars right
and I'm showing up to buy you know, your wig
for fifty.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Dollars because I need a wig.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yeah, I'm not gonna be like I got forty in
this envelope right here, like I'm here, like I should
just take it right, Like you should be good with that,
Like no, like you listened it for fifty dollars, Like
who am I to tell you what your goods are worth?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
What you know?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Don't well, Vinyl, it's a negotiation.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I don't think anybody on Facebook marketplace puts their best price.
And the other thing is unless you said I will
pay you fifty dollars when I arrive. Yeah, I feel
like you keep it open ended because you got to
look at it because pictures don't always do a justice.
So you might show up and you might be like, ah,
this isn't or there's just ratch on here I didn't
see before, or he just doesn't look as good or whatever,
(02:04):
and then you I think that I think you can
negotiate once you get there, unless you've agreed to a
price already yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
The guy was not having it.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
He was very much like I got, well, you didn't
mention anything about the price like in our messages, right,
like mind you. I was messaging this guy, so now
he thinks that like I'm up to something funky, right,
because he didn't respond to Mike in the right amount
of time, so Mike blocked him. But Mike still wanted
the item. So then I had to message this guy
and be like hi, with like your item please. So
(02:33):
he very much was like not having it like he was.
He was like whatever, and they ended up like he
ended up coming down. But I wanted to run out
of the building like my fight or flight, Like I
was like out the door, like smoke on my heels,
like out the door. It was so cringe to me.
I just can't do it, and I can't do it.
My dad's the same way. Like if you ever need
someone to like barter over a vehicle price, like take
Jim Brown, like he will he stands on business. He
(02:56):
will come in. He will get you a deal, right
or as much as he can. Like I'm just not
that person, Like okay, that's what it is, signed all right, cool,
Like I don't know it's so cringed.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Man, I hear you because it is kind of a
form of confrontation in some ways, But I mean it's
that's what negotiation is. I mean, the worst the worst
case is the person tells you know, and then you
can decide whether you want to still buy it or not.
But again, I don't think that unless you said when
I get there, i'll pay you this, then I don't
necessarily think that you you can't at least try and negotiate.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
I mean it's I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I don't feel like a garage sales are on marketplace
or eBay. I don't think people put their very best price.
I think they put like a price and they'd sell
to you for less if you in some cases.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
But don't you like kind of handle that before you
get there. I don't want to negotiating in the parking
lot of best buyer wherever they're standing right the gas station,
like I want to do this negotiation part which I
hate negotiating too, so I understand, but I'd rather do
a via messages like let's let's settle on the price here.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know that would if I had to do it,
that would work best for me, Like I want to
show up you face to face and know what I'm paying, Like,
we're not doing this standoff.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
I guess you could try it, but again, like you
got to see the item. Yeah, yeah, you can point
stuff out like I guess I would expect someone to
do that. I would if I was selling something on
Facebook Marketplace, I would expect them to negotiate with me.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Yeah, I would. I would definitely do it in person.
Oh yeah, I'm the spot.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh yeah, and I'm the worst because I'm like, I
only brought forty dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Take a leave, bro, that's all I got.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
You know, I's a atm across the trend.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Take the money out and you hold it in your hands.
He's like, I'm here, Like, I'll take it. I'm standing here.
Let me crace up your hands, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
He's like, oh, there's other people that are looking at it,
and I'm like, you're lying, like.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Lying. I think there's a way to do it, though,
because I don't think you do it that way. I
don't know if I would, because that just says to
the person that I was coming here to screw you. Yeah,
exactly makes sense. So I don't know that you necessarily
do that. Because if I show up and I say, well,
I only have forty and I and the price at fifty, well,
that means that I decided, without even looking at it,
that I was going to pay less. I think what
(05:06):
you do is you show up and you look at
the item and you go, hey, you know what I'm not.
I don't know. Would you take forty for this because
you know whatever? Or maybe maybe the price is fair.
Maybe the price is actually fair, But I don't know,
it's worth trying. Because again, if you were selling I
don't know whatever, If you were selling something, would you
put just the would you put the actual price up there?
(05:28):
Would you go plus ten or plus twenty just to
see if you could get it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I would probably go higher for sure, because you want
to shoot for the stars. You can always come down.
You can't go up, right, I guess I don't know,
but that's.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Just not for me.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Like he'll be like when he sends me to go
get something, he'll be like, oh, it's thirty five, but
ask if he'll take thirty. And then I'll be like, oh, yeah,
they took thirty. But I don't even ask. I just
I just take five dollars on of my.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He was like kid.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I just oh yeah. So Jason co
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