July 29, 2024 • 18 mins
On today's P1 Podcast, Sky tells us about how she got scammed this past weekend... and almost did nothing about it
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, you know what happens that unfortunately, these scammers they
prey on sort of the senior citizens. Yeah, yeah, you know,
it's it's a big thing you see on the news
all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
These older people, they're confused, they don't really get technology.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, it gets it gets pretty rough for them. So
not a big shocker that Sky says she might have
been a victim of a scam.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We ain't done yet.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's time for the one podcast yet, completely uncensored and
unacting filtered except for that part the party.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
The show's after show starts now.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, Sky, I mean, if you don't know how to
use the calendar on your phone, this is not a
surprise that you may get, oh really scammed.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, I think I know how to use the calendar.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
When have you ever opened that thing?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I've opened it and looked at it and decided I
don't like you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, it's Scott. I think Sky is the My mom
in Sky and my ninety three year old grandma Judy
are the only three women I know that my mom, oh,
and Emily's mom.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And my wife Deah and.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Still do so. These are all these are all old.
These are all either very.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Old women amazing, or.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Women who are refused the technology.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, technology challenges what my wife is.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They're the only people I know that that you check.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
You're just stubborn ground breakers if you will opposite, Yes, standing,
How are you a ground breaker? Because I'm standing my ground.
I'm not going to be a sheep. All your calendar
and everything crashes, and you're like, I don't know what
happened when my dentist appoints.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why would anything And.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I'll be like three months from now, I got a
clean If.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Everything crashed, the dentist office crash too, and then we
wouldn't know anything.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, but also tell them look at the cat calendar.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So you'd be the person when they prevented cars. You'd
be the person going, I'm never going to ride one
of those. I have my horse.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You'd be that person that it'd be all nice and shape,
and you guys will be all fat in your cars.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Why would you be in shape.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Because I'm riding and walking and.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You guys are just talking about just.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
How amazing I am. Any wow, Okay, Yeah, So had
a little bit of an issue on Friday because we
were selling a table on offer up.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Why you don't need the money.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
So it's a sad story, you guys. It's a sad
story about a girl who was doing a little bit
of a backyard remodel and uh it was supposed to
take you know, a good eight months to build an
ad u and a little backyard deck. Took three years,
uh years and never got the deck.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's unfortunate.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
But what did this lovely lady do about a year ago?
She bought furniture for her new backyard that would be
done any day now, bought a bunch of wayfair stuff
put it together this time.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Why would you before it was finished.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Because we knew we'd have to build all the wayfair
stuff and it would take time. And we're like, well, clearly,
it's only going to take Max a couple months to
build a deck.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So it was very presumptuous.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, your husband doesn't work, it's not going to take
him that long to put together furniture.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And he's handy.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, he's not handy, right, but he needs a motivator
when it comes to certain things like.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Motivation.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, like motivator you motivation?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Like it's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is that his job, like to do stuff around the house.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No, it is, but it's weird because certain projects, like
you can't pull him away from it's all he wants
to spend his time on. But then there's other projects
where you like literally have to write it down and
be like, hey, remember you said you were going to
do this, and putting together this outdoor furniture was wire right,
so it's at a job. It sat in boxes for
(03:51):
a while, and then finally we put together our new
outdoor table. We sold our old one on offer up
to some lovely college kids. They were very thankful, and
so we put this thing together and then it sits
in our backyard and it is an outdoor table from Wayfair.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't understand why you got to get
rid of it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well, so we put it out in our backyard, and
it turns out that an outdoor table from Wayfair can't
actually be outdoors because by the time it sat outdoors
for six months because again the backyard wasn't finished, so
it just literally sat out there for six months, coveredsed
(04:30):
to be well, right, it's a no, it wasn't covered,
but it was a wood table, and all the wood
warped and cracked so bad that literally you couldn't put
a plate or a glass on it because.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It how did you sell it?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, that's the thing. So somebody, well somebody bought a
brand new table which was listed for twelve hundred dollars,
got it on sale for eight hundred dollars, listed it
on offer up completely describing the defects for one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So when you say, somebody, are we still talking about you? Yes,
you've kind of lost me.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Okay, so it's it's it's a literally.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Time do you spend on offer up?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Twelve? Hold on, I gotta go back. Okay, now that
I know what you're talking about, you table table.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I got it on like a sale because sometimes they'll
do like a flashed sale. Okay, nobody ever used it
or sat in it, put together immaculately. My husband goes
a little crazy with the wood glue and the whole thing. Um,
and so put it up for sale for one hundred feet.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Maybe they said do not use wood glue and this
will warp overwork.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No, No, the part that warped didn't have any wood glue.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was the known for overwooking working wood.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Well that that is accurate. So I thought it was
a good deal if you're crafty if maybe you want
to sand it down. I don't know, maybe you want
to put a lacquer on it, a new top. I
felt you're getting a twelve hundred dollars table that was
never but.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's clearly a piece of ship. I love this guy
just because it's our table that was a piece of ship. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, it's going to dissolve in a week.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I want to see a picture of this. Things so bad.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Twelve d she has that's crazy, Yeah, eight hundred, which
is nothing to me anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Did it come with chairs?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, and so they were a thousand dollars a chair.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, the chairs are pristine. But here's here's the
wood table. It's it's you know, it's just it's hard
to see how it's hard to see how weathered.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And I love you that you described it as though.
It was like she said, you can't.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Even she gave care.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It just looks here it is. Here's the listing thirteen
hundred dollars. Actually, here's here's a listing of what it
should look like. Fine, looks chairs that you get to
keep with.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Let me see the full table again.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Because she's moving so fast, I can chill out. I
haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Anything yet can you see where the wood is like
split and how discolored it is, Like I'm telling you
it was a No.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's definitely a cheap It's definitely a cheap piece.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Like you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Definitely got taken for a ride. I would have immediately
called Wayfair. I don't understand why you didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Well, we had an issue with another Wayfair thing that
was very difficult to return, and the fact that it
sat in our backyard for probably six to eight months.
I knew I didn't have a leg to stand on
who you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Remember the time, Remember the time I was with Ashley's
Furniture and they completely screwed me for months and months
and months and turns out, and I kept calling and
calling and calling, and then I eventually showed up to
the store because I was so mad, and they gave
me like a gift card and then a free giant clock,
and then all to find out that my wife, the
one that ruined the table.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Wouldn't have admitted that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Mean this was like eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Okay, But my point is, no, I should have I
should have tapped. I know, I know, but.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I don't understand why you guys don't do this well.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
We also had an issue because once we got the chairs,
we realized that any bigger people in our lives wouldn't
be able. They were very small, like chairs, very narrow.
He could fit in it, but it wouldn't be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But he would.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We stood up with the chair, go with him.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Like that's kind of how it like looked like we
know not.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The neighbors are all neighbors.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Here is more.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I'm stuck again.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Okay, So we knew we had to sell it, sell
it at a super discount it like really, we just
kind of wanted it gone. But if you want to negotiate,
if you want to give us like eighty bucks whatever,
even though you know we're taking a map loss, but whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
This is the kind of thing my wife would have done.
And we're moving in like six months, we need an
outdoor table and she would have fixed it up.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No human wants this table, like, I mean, somebody does. Well.
So we got three offers on it, and I reached
out to all three of them being like, hey, here
are some up close pictures. I just want to let
you know exactly what it looks like, and that all
three of them said no, thank you. So then we
got the fourth person, why.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Did you post you shouldn't have posted the legit picture
as the first picture.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I didn't that was it, She's saying she sent them
up close.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
No, but on the on the offer up though, you
have like the legit photo.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Has like all the photos of what it actually looked like,
and then the last photo was the listing. But I
put in the description exactly what happened and how it
was warm, cracked and all that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Right, You're not trying to scam anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Situation, right, Yeah, I'm super apri.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Would put in the regular stuff perfect and just say
and just say slightly used and then and then and then.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But I would definitely make it seem better than it was.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hey, this is really warped. You'd go, is it you think?
Said without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So the fourth person, thank you the very warped Eddie.
The fourth person finally reaches out and I say, great,
when would you like to come look at it? Because
I'm like, clearly I'm scaring these people off. All the
details are in the district.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're basically telling them you, Hey, I would buy this.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Why are you telling them that terrible sales that.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
My husband kept telling me yes, that's what my husband kept.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Hey we're really interested, are you sure? Because this is
a piece of somebody say hey, why are you selling this? Then?
Can I just have it for free?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
So the fourth person reaches out, I don't do that
because my husband had said exactly what you said. You're
scaring everybody off. And then as soon as I arrange
for them to come out and look at it, that's
when my husband's like, well did you tell them? And
I'm like, well, no, you told me it would scare
them off. He goes, whoa, They're gonna come fucking look
at it and not be happy. Whatever. So they come
out Friday night to look at it, and she's taken
(11:09):
aback and she says to a man like, do you
think this will work? And they're touching it and she's
talking about like rehydrating the wood, adding Okay, I don't
think She says that, I don't think, so, I don't
think that's how you do it. Okay, Great. They decide
(11:30):
that they're gonna take it, and so they take the
table because it's in our backyard, and they're walking out
to their car, and as they're walking out to their car,
I'm walking out with them, and I'm carrying two chairs
and I can only handle two chairs at once. I'm
very weak. I'm very weak.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So I'm caring make them do it all themselves. I
wouldn't even bother.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, I wouldn't help at all.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So I'm carrying two chairs.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
If they're paying me, they're they're carrying everything.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And then they're like taking forever to try and load
this in their car, like we'll fit. So then I
bring two more chairs, two more chairs. Eventually I bring
all eight chairs out for them. I left him inside
with the dogs to try and.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Like keep the crazy. He's like he was the opposite
I would be. I would be the one carrying the chairs.
My wife would be with the dog. I would Haley
carrying the chairs, especially around people we don't.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Know, healing with strangers with money, and yeah, carrying the
chair inside.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, you know me eating the burrito, right, are you
going to rub his feet after he's done with the.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't want to put him out, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
And I was having a salad, so I figured my
salad would say, so I just told him, have you finished.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Watched the dog burrito?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
In the middle of the day, it was dinner and
actually opposite. I feel like, you don't want to let
a salad sit with dressing on it. You could dressing
was you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know it's gonna take it's gonna take a couple
of minutes to take the chairs out. Not they're not
gonna be out there so long the burrito freezes.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Okay, it was my call. I told him, we know you, Jill,
I'm gonna go do it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I sure put up a fight.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
No he didn't, No, he didn't. I started moving the chairs.
As I'm doing them, I'm having the thought that you
guys are having Why didn't I tap in the hobby?
Why why aren't they?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Probably and he's probably like judging how you're doing it,
and so so.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I move all the chairs. I'm kind of pissed about
moving the chairs whatever, So I know, I know, I
just started doing it like whatever. So okay, great time
to wrap this thing up, like I'm going to leave
everything out front. You guys load up, and I'm going
to go back to my salad inside and so okay,
And that's when the guy looks at me and says,
do you take venmo? And in the world of offer up,
(13:55):
it's pretty much it's cash, like, you show up with cash.
At least in my experience, you show up with cash,
and if you're not going to show up with cash,
you clear it before you get there. You go, oh,
do you have Venmo or Zell? Are you okay with that?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah? I'm not familiar with any of that. I guess
you do run a risk because what if you said, no,
I don't have Venmo?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Right, and then what is he gonna do? Make my
table in his car?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I wouldn't have a problem with it. I mean Venmo
is basically cash, so yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So when he says is Venmo cool? Yeah, that's fine.
So I pull up a little QR code thing, you know,
he scans it. Okay, great, and then I go back
inside to my salad.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Will you wait to get the money? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
And as I'm inside waiting for my salad, I have
my phone right there because it's taken them a while
to load up. They're still gonna be out there for
like another ten minutes, but.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You don't leave the product until you get paid.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
So I'm sitting there Eddie watching the phone, going Okay,
I'm gonna like any second now, it's gonna ding and
show me my Venmo.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Alert Venmo goes through right away, right, So I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Waiting for it and it's not coming. It's not coming,
and they're still off front, they're still front. It's not coming.
And my husband goes, well, should we go out there?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He didn't say that, should you go out there?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I know what he meant by he means, He means me,
he's probably done by now, how.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Full he is.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And then you have to clean up his platform.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And luckily it was just a rapper.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
She takes a napkin, licks it, and then.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It's only when he has a spot that he doesn't
real life, and so it's not coming through. And I
know in my mind, like you should go out there
and say something, but I'm like, you know me, I'm
also very non confrontational, and so I feel like if
I go out and say something, it's like accusing them
of not paying me.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right, Well, you just say I haven't got the Venmo yet,
did you send it? Right, It's not that bad of
a thing to say you're selling something. It's a too
pronged process. Somebody's gonna pay you for it, guy, And.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So I'm so scared as me and the hobby are
talking about what's in him? Should I go out there?
Blah blah blah blah blah. That is when they drive away.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay, well you deserve this, then this is your fault.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I wouldn't pay you.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So then you pick up your phone and you call them.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
So I'm checking. I'm checking nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. And
then probably about twenty minutes after they last.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Twenty minutes, I'm like, don't you send the media scammed text?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I would send right way in case they were like
like in the air, I don't know, I just yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Something right away.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, I can to communicate with them through offer up,
So I send a message through offer up saying hey,
haven't got your Venmo yet. And as soon as I
send that message through offer up, a warning pops up
on offer up saying be aware of any scams besides
using cash. Like they're basically telling you on offer up
(16:43):
if your message has the word zell in it or Venmo,
they're going to alert you and warn you ahead of time.
And so I'm like, I totally got fucking scammed. So
I send her the message.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You try and sell this piece of shit?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, I send her the message saying hey, haven't got
your Venmo yet you know, I still waiting on it.
And then I get the pop up saying warning, Warning,
and then I wait ten minutes, go by twenty minutes,
and then I finally tell the boo like, we got scammed.
That sucks, like learnin, Like I shouldn't have walked away
until the Venmo went through, but no, and.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The burrito is a you could eat it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Any handheld device didn't carry that.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Just wait out there.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh he wouldn't have walked and ate and talked. No,
he would have had to go out there and leave it,
and then I'd hear how it was cold and whenever.
So I I accept that we've been scammed. He accepts
we've been scammed. And then probably two hours later, I
get a message back from this woman being like, oh
my god, I'm so sorry we forgot to do the thing.
(17:47):
And that sends me the hundred bucks wow, like like
what wow?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
He forgot me so.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But felt like an idiot for that time because I
know it was fully on met them walk away with
the product with that paint.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's like walking out of a store and not just
walking out with your goods. Yeah, yeah, you gotta pay first,
right right?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
But I don't stand outside for I wanted to trust
in them, and then you out of your mind, and
then I felt like I got stamped.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
You never trust anybody, but they came through.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
They did.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
A wise man named stone Cold. Steve Austin used to say,
d t A right, don't trust anybody.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Wow, how you feel about that? You and Stone Cold
Well, you know what happens that unfortunately, these scammers they
prey on sort of the senior citizens. Yeah, yeah, you know,
it's it's a big thing you see on the news
all the time.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
These older people, they're confused, they don't really get technology.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah, it gets it gets pretty rough for them. So
not a big shocker that Sky says she might have
been a victim of a scam.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We ain't done yet.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
It's time for the one podcast yet, completely uncensored and
unacting filtered except for that part the party.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
The show's after show starts now.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Yes, Sky, I mean, if you don't know how to
use the calendar on your phone, this is not a
surprise that you may get, oh really scammed.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, I think I know how to use the calendar.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
When have you ever opened that thing?
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I've opened it and looked at it and decided I
don't like you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, it's Scott. I think Sky is the My mom
in Sky and my ninety three year old grandma Judy
are the only three women I know that my mom, oh,
and Emily's mom.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And my wife Deah and.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Still do so. These are all these are all old.
These are all either very.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Old women amazing, or.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Women who are refused the technology.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, technology challenges what my wife is.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
They're the only people I know that that you check.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
You're just stubborn ground breakers if you will opposite, Yes, standing,
How are you a ground breaker? Because I'm standing my ground.
I'm not going to be a sheep. All your calendar
and everything crashes, and you're like, I don't know what
happened when my dentist appoints.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why would anything And.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I'll be like three months from now, I got a
clean If.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Everything crashed, the dentist office crash too, and then we
wouldn't know anything.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, but also tell them look at the cat calendar.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So you'd be the person when they prevented cars. You'd
be the person going, I'm never going to ride one
of those. I have my horse.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
You'd be that person that it'd be all nice and shape,
and you guys will be all fat in your cars.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Why would you be in shape.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Because I'm riding and walking and.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
You guys are just talking about just.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
How amazing I am. Any wow, Okay, Yeah, So had
a little bit of an issue on Friday because we
were selling a table on offer up.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Why you don't need the money.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
So it's a sad story, you guys. It's a sad
story about a girl who was doing a little bit
of a backyard remodel and uh it was supposed to
take you know, a good eight months to build an
ad u and a little backyard deck. Took three years,
uh years and never got the deck.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
It's unfortunate.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
But what did this lovely lady do about a year ago?
She bought furniture for her new backyard that would be
done any day now, bought a bunch of wayfair stuff
put it together this time.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Why would you before it was finished.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Because we knew we'd have to build all the wayfair
stuff and it would take time. And we're like, well, clearly,
it's only going to take Max a couple months to
build a deck.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
So it was very presumptuous.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, your husband doesn't work, it's not going to take
him that long to put together furniture.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And he's handy.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, he's not handy, right, but he needs a motivator
when it comes to certain things like.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Motivation.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, like motivator you motivation?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Like it's weird.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Is that his job, like to do stuff around the house.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No, it is, but it's weird because certain projects, like
you can't pull him away from it's all he wants
to spend his time on. But then there's other projects
where you like literally have to write it down and
be like, hey, remember you said you were going to
do this, and putting together this outdoor furniture was wire right,
so it's at a job. It sat in boxes for
(03:51):
a while, and then finally we put together our new
outdoor table. We sold our old one on offer up
to some lovely college kids. They were very thankful, and
so we put this thing together and then it sits
in our backyard and it is an outdoor table from Wayfair.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, I don't understand why you got to get
rid of it.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Well, so we put it out in our backyard, and
it turns out that an outdoor table from Wayfair can't
actually be outdoors because by the time it sat outdoors
for six months because again the backyard wasn't finished, so
it just literally sat out there for six months, coveredsed
(04:30):
to be well, right, it's a no, it wasn't covered,
but it was a wood table, and all the wood
warped and cracked so bad that literally you couldn't put
a plate or a glass on it because.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It how did you sell it?
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, that's the thing. So somebody, well somebody bought a
brand new table which was listed for twelve hundred dollars,
got it on sale for eight hundred dollars, listed it
on offer up completely describing the defects for one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So when you say, somebody, are we still talking about you? Yes,
you've kind of lost me.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
Okay, so it's it's it's a literally.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Time do you spend on offer up?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Twelve? Hold on, I gotta go back. Okay, now that
I know what you're talking about, you table table.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
I got it on like a sale because sometimes they'll
do like a flashed sale. Okay, nobody ever used it
or sat in it, put together immaculately. My husband goes
a little crazy with the wood glue and the whole thing. Um,
and so put it up for sale for one hundred feet.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Maybe they said do not use wood glue and this
will warp overwork.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
No, No, the part that warped didn't have any wood glue.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It was the known for overwooking working wood.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Well that that is accurate. So I thought it was
a good deal if you're crafty if maybe you want
to sand it down. I don't know, maybe you want
to put a lacquer on it, a new top. I
felt you're getting a twelve hundred dollars table that was
never but.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's clearly a piece of ship. I love this guy
just because it's our table that was a piece of ship. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, it's going to dissolve in a week.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I want to see a picture of this. Things so bad.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Twelve d she has that's crazy, Yeah, eight hundred, which
is nothing to me anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Did it come with chairs?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, and so they were a thousand dollars a chair.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yeah, yeah, the chairs are pristine. But here's here's the
wood table. It's it's you know, it's just it's hard
to see how it's hard to see how weathered.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
And I love you that you described it as though.
It was like she said, you can't.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Even she gave care.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
It just looks here it is. Here's the listing thirteen
hundred dollars. Actually, here's here's a listing of what it
should look like. Fine, looks chairs that you get to
keep with.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Let me see the full table again.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Because she's moving so fast, I can chill out. I
haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Anything yet can you see where the wood is like
split and how discolored it is, Like I'm telling you
it was a No.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's definitely a cheap It's definitely a cheap piece.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
Like you.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Definitely got taken for a ride. I would have immediately
called Wayfair. I don't understand why you didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Well, we had an issue with another Wayfair thing that
was very difficult to return, and the fact that it
sat in our backyard for probably six to eight months.
I knew I didn't have a leg to stand on
who you.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Remember the time, Remember the time I was with Ashley's
Furniture and they completely screwed me for months and months
and months and turns out, and I kept calling and
calling and calling, and then I eventually showed up to
the store because I was so mad, and they gave
me like a gift card and then a free giant clock,
and then all to find out that my wife, the
one that ruined the table.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Wouldn't have admitted that.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Mean this was like eight years ago.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Okay, But my point is, no, I should have I
should have tapped. I know, I know, but.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I don't understand why you guys don't do this well.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
We also had an issue because once we got the chairs,
we realized that any bigger people in our lives wouldn't
be able. They were very small, like chairs, very narrow.
He could fit in it, but it wouldn't be comfortable.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
But he would.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
We stood up with the chair, go with him.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Like that's kind of how it like looked like we
know not.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The neighbors are all neighbors.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Here is more.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I'm stuck again.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Okay, So we knew we had to sell it, sell
it at a super discount it like really, we just
kind of wanted it gone. But if you want to negotiate,
if you want to give us like eighty bucks whatever,
even though you know we're taking a map loss, but whatever.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
This is the kind of thing my wife would have done.
And we're moving in like six months, we need an
outdoor table and she would have fixed it up.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No human wants this table, like, I mean, somebody does. Well.
So we got three offers on it, and I reached
out to all three of them being like, hey, here
are some up close pictures. I just want to let
you know exactly what it looks like, and that all
three of them said no, thank you. So then we
got the fourth person, why.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Did you post you shouldn't have posted the legit picture
as the first picture.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
I didn't that was it, She's saying she sent them
up close.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
No, but on the on the offer up though, you
have like the legit photo.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Has like all the photos of what it actually looked like,
and then the last photo was the listing. But I
put in the description exactly what happened and how it
was warm, cracked and all that.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Right, You're not trying to scam anybody.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Situation, right, Yeah, I'm super apri.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Would put in the regular stuff perfect and just say
and just say slightly used and then and then and then.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
But I would definitely make it seem better than it was.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Hey, this is really warped. You'd go, is it you think?
Said without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
So the fourth person, thank you the very warped Eddie.
The fourth person finally reaches out and I say, great,
when would you like to come look at it? Because
I'm like, clearly I'm scaring these people off. All the
details are in the district.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You're basically telling them you, Hey, I would buy this.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Why are you telling them that terrible sales that.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
My husband kept telling me yes, that's what my husband kept.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Hey we're really interested, are you sure? Because this is
a piece of somebody say hey, why are you selling this? Then?
Can I just have it for free?
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Right?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
So the fourth person reaches out, I don't do that
because my husband had said exactly what you said. You're
scaring everybody off. And then as soon as I arrange
for them to come out and look at it, that's
when my husband's like, well did you tell them? And
I'm like, well, no, you told me it would scare
them off. He goes, whoa, They're gonna come fucking look
at it and not be happy. Whatever. So they come
out Friday night to look at it, and she's taken
(11:09):
aback and she says to a man like, do you
think this will work? And they're touching it and she's
talking about like rehydrating the wood, adding Okay, I don't
think She says that, I don't think, so, I don't
think that's how you do it. Okay, Great. They decide
(11:30):
that they're gonna take it, and so they take the
table because it's in our backyard, and they're walking out
to their car, and as they're walking out to their car,
I'm walking out with them, and I'm carrying two chairs
and I can only handle two chairs at once. I'm
very weak. I'm very weak.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
So I'm caring make them do it all themselves. I
wouldn't even bother.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, I wouldn't help at all.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
So I'm carrying two chairs.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
If they're paying me, they're they're carrying everything.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
And then they're like taking forever to try and load
this in their car, like we'll fit. So then I
bring two more chairs, two more chairs. Eventually I bring
all eight chairs out for them. I left him inside
with the dogs to try and.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Like keep the crazy. He's like he was the opposite
I would be. I would be the one carrying the chairs.
My wife would be with the dog. I would Haley
carrying the chairs, especially around people we don't.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Know, healing with strangers with money, and yeah, carrying the
chair inside.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Well, you know me eating the burrito, right, are you
going to rub his feet after he's done with the.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't want to put him out, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
And I was having a salad, so I figured my
salad would say, so I just told him, have you finished.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Watched the dog burrito?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
In the middle of the day, it was dinner and
actually opposite. I feel like, you don't want to let
a salad sit with dressing on it. You could dressing
was you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know it's gonna take it's gonna take a couple
of minutes to take the chairs out. Not they're not
gonna be out there so long the burrito freezes.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Okay, it was my call. I told him, we know you, Jill,
I'm gonna go do it.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
I sure put up a fight.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
No he didn't, No, he didn't. I started moving the chairs.
As I'm doing them, I'm having the thought that you
guys are having Why didn't I tap in the hobby?
Why why aren't they?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Probably and he's probably like judging how you're doing it,
and so so.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
I move all the chairs. I'm kind of pissed about
moving the chairs whatever, So I know, I know, I
just started doing it like whatever. So okay, great time
to wrap this thing up, like I'm going to leave
everything out front. You guys load up, and I'm going
to go back to my salad inside and so okay,
And that's when the guy looks at me and says,
do you take venmo? And in the world of offer up,
(13:55):
it's pretty much it's cash, like, you show up with cash.
At least in my experience, you show up with cash,
and if you're not going to show up with cash,
you clear it before you get there. You go, oh,
do you have Venmo or Zell? Are you okay with that?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Yeah? I'm not familiar with any of that. I guess
you do run a risk because what if you said, no,
I don't have Venmo?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Right, and then what is he gonna do? Make my
table in his car?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I wouldn't have a problem with it. I mean Venmo
is basically cash, so yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
So when he says is Venmo cool? Yeah, that's fine.
So I pull up a little QR code thing, you know,
he scans it. Okay, great, and then I go back
inside to my salad.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Will you wait to get the money? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
And as I'm inside waiting for my salad, I have
my phone right there because it's taken them a while
to load up. They're still gonna be out there for
like another ten minutes, but.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
You don't leave the product until you get paid.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
So I'm sitting there Eddie watching the phone, going Okay,
I'm gonna like any second now, it's gonna ding and
show me my Venmo.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Alert Venmo goes through right away, right, So I'm.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Waiting for it and it's not coming. It's not coming,
and they're still off front, they're still front. It's not coming.
And my husband goes, well, should we go out there?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
He didn't say that, should you go out there?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
I know what he meant by he means, He means me,
he's probably done by now, how.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Full he is.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
And then you have to clean up his platform.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
And luckily it was just a rapper.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
She takes a napkin, licks it, and then.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It's only when he has a spot that he doesn't
real life, and so it's not coming through. And I
know in my mind, like you should go out there
and say something, but I'm like, you know me, I'm
also very non confrontational, and so I feel like if
I go out and say something, it's like accusing them
of not paying me.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Right, Well, you just say I haven't got the Venmo yet,
did you send it? Right, It's not that bad of
a thing to say you're selling something. It's a too
pronged process. Somebody's gonna pay you for it, guy, And.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So I'm so scared as me and the hobby are
talking about what's in him? Should I go out there?
Blah blah blah blah blah. That is when they drive away.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Okay, well you deserve this, then this is your fault.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I wouldn't pay you.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So then you pick up your phone and you call them.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
So I'm checking. I'm checking nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. And
then probably about twenty minutes after they last.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Twenty minutes, I'm like, don't you send the media scammed text?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I would send right way in case they were like
like in the air, I don't know, I just yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Something right away.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Well, I can to communicate with them through offer up,
So I send a message through offer up saying hey,
haven't got your Venmo yet. And as soon as I
send that message through offer up, a warning pops up
on offer up saying be aware of any scams besides
using cash. Like they're basically telling you on offer up
(16:43):
if your message has the word zell in it or Venmo,
they're going to alert you and warn you ahead of time.
And so I'm like, I totally got fucking scammed. So
I send her the message.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You try and sell this piece of shit?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Yeah, I send her the message saying hey, haven't got
your Venmo yet you know, I still waiting on it.
And then I get the pop up saying warning, Warning,
and then I wait ten minutes, go by twenty minutes,
and then I finally tell the boo like, we got scammed.
That sucks, like learnin, Like I shouldn't have walked away
until the Venmo went through, but no, and.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
The burrito is a you could eat it.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Any handheld device didn't carry that.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Just wait out there.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Oh he wouldn't have walked and ate and talked. No,
he would have had to go out there and leave it,
and then I'd hear how it was cold and whenever.
So I I accept that we've been scammed. He accepts
we've been scammed. And then probably two hours later, I
get a message back from this woman being like, oh
my god, I'm so sorry we forgot to do the thing.
(17:47):
And that sends me the hundred bucks wow, like like
what wow?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
He forgot me so.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
But felt like an idiot for that time because I
know it was fully on met them walk away with
the product with that paint.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
It's like walking out of a store and not just
walking out with your goods. Yeah, yeah, you gotta pay first,
right right?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
But I don't stand outside for I wanted to trust
in them, and then you out of your mind, and
then I felt like I got stamped.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
You never trust anybody, but they came through.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
They did.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
A wise man named stone Cold. Steve Austin used to say,
d t A right, don't trust anybody.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Wow, how you feel about that? You and Stone Cold
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