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Dave H (MI)

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Yesterday I bought a toolbox that I found on FB. Picked it up and the guy wanted to sell me all the tools in it also. Some nice stuff so I bought it. He was a little twitchy, but in conversation I could tell from his answers to questions that he knew a lot about the tools. I then went over to the local pawn shop where he was in arrears and blacklisted, paid off his loan and picked up the remainder of his tools...his idea. Today I had a question for him, checked Messenger, and he has vanished. The only thing on Messenger is messages that I sent him. All of his messages are gone. The original ad had been marked sold and it is now also deleted. How did he delete all his contact with me? Literally it looks like I was talking to myself.
 
Some people are just strange. The pawn shop is very careful about taking in stolen stuff. You shouldn't be concerned about your purchase. If you were buying the tools out of the back of a pick at your local Wall mart, maybe a little problem. Stan
 
not good,pawn shop , arrears, blacklisted,... sorry, i would be turning around and getting gone, and not with the stuff either!
 
If any of the tools were marked with initials or the box had an ID that didn't match his, they were more than likely stolen. I would probably make a modest effort to assess pawn shop records for an address. It depends to a degree if there is a chance to get them returned to their real owner. But one must decide. Jim
 
I know you can archive conversations on messenger but I don't know if that makes them disappear.
 
it's to late now, but that is why you should take screen shots of conversions that might disappear. A lot of people lose their head of FB and later delete what they said, but somebody already took a screen shot and it will live forever.
 
You can delete any message you send on FB. You can delete just one comment or your entire half of a conversation.
 
How many other people do you know create a Facebook page, sell something, then take themselves down from facebook?? Anybody in thier right mind and flying right, wouldn't be doing that. RED FLAG alone on that, right there.
 
Apparently theres people who dont understand how Facebook works, but he simply deleted his account, or Facebook did. When that happened, all of his infpo was lost or removed. The account never eally closes, and can be restarted any time, assuming Facebook didnt cancel it. Suspcious, yes, but doesnt mean the seller stole the tools. Could be he opens and closes his account as needed to sell or buy items.
 
Not sure what the question is?? It is simple to delete your messages and identity from FB. Then you can go back in and make a new one and do whatever again.
 
If you mark something as sold the listing will remain and the messages in messenger remain. If the seller deletes the listing the messages in messenger will also disappear or be deleted.
When I have sold items I delete the listing so no one keeps asking stupid questions about it. I wouldn't be worried about it.
 
Hi Jim, I can tell you I am pretty sure he did not steal the tools. I asked him a lot of questions and he knew all the answers. I even made a couple wrong statements and he corrected me. The tools had his name on them, as verified by the pawn shop. They loaned him money and had a lot of details. So no, I am not worried about that. I just never saw anyone do that before. I keep all my old messenger conversations when I buy something. Never saw one disappear before.
 
Good grief! He is unemployed and needed money. He pawned his tools...a loan secured by and asset...in the hopes of getting on his feet and retrieving them. Life took another downturn and he could not do it, so they marked him in arrears. This particular pawn shop has a blacklist of people who do not pick up their items. Not sure why because they sell them. Nothing about it is necessarily a bad sign...but he is a strange acting guy, that much I can agree with.
 

I think it is stupidity to mark a FB ad or craigslist ad as sold but leave it in the system.
Why not just delete the ad?
It ain't that difficult to do, less than editing the ad.
 
Do more business on marketplace and you will see this all the time, nothing to worry about, listing gone & messages gone too. If using messenger, he probably deletes the conversation, just so he doesn't have to pass over it every time he opens the app, maybe also to prevent a mistake of messaging the wrong person. Lets say he has 10 items for sale currently, and 3 people each inquiring about all of them, that's 30 separate conversations. You bought 1 listed item, he doesn't want you on his list anymore.

A lot of people who sell stuff delete everything after it's sold. Maybe he doesn't want to deal with a nagging buyer, buyers remorse, answer 20 questions about a certain item, or have people asking "what else ya got" etc. I've done this same exact thing several times.
 
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