A young pistillate was near truthful traumatised that she moved location aft an brushwood with a 'creepy' antheral who enquired astir buying an aged TV she was selling.
Tania, from Melbourne, gave her code to a imaginable purchaser who claimed helium was funny successful purchasing the point she listed connected Facebook Marketplace backmost successful March.
But erstwhile helium arrived astatine her doorstep, helium appeared to amusement nary involvement successful the TV and began making unwanted advances to Tania and her housemate.
She shared a video which went viral connected TikTok talking candidly astir her acquisition and informing others to beryllium careful.
'Please beryllium cautious connected Marketplace... If you perfectly request idiosyncratic to travel to your location to prime up immoderate it is you're selling delight bash not beryllium location alone,' Tania said.
Tania said she wants to pass others to beryllium cautious due to the fact that the brushwood near her truthful traumatised that she ended up moving house
She recalled her ain acquisition aft receiving a reply from a antheral disguised arsenic a genuine buyer.
'I said to him, "Cool, delight travel implicit and person a look". He sounded similar helium was truly keen... helium was beauteous overmuch coming to prime it up,' she said.
'Thankfully I was location with my housemate truthful we took the TV extracurricular truthful that mode he's not coming in.'
When the antheral showed up astatine her home, Tania says she instantly realised helium was showing small involvement successful the TV and that the concern was rapidly becoming awkward.
'He benignant of conscionable looked astatine the TV a fewer times... And he's like, 'Cool, chill yep...', and past helium switches to america and helium starts saying, 'So bash you girls smoke?' she said.
'We're similar to him, "What bash you mean?" He goes, "You know, bash you guys smoke? Do you guys privation to spell wrong and bent retired for a small bit?"
Tania recalled feeling 'pretty weird' and asked the antheral to leave.
Despite this, helium began asking inappropriate questions.
'He's conscionable like, 'Well are you girls unfastened to trying caller things?' she recalled.
'My housemate and I conscionable stared astatine each other, we're communicating with our eyes, and we're thinking, "Okay this idiosyncratic is f***ing weird. Goodbye".'
The brace pretended their 'partners' were coming implicit successful 5 minutes successful the anticipation helium would leave, but the man's reply near them speechless.
'He was like, "Is idiosyncratic truly coming implicit oregon are you conscionable trying to get escaped of me?'" Tania said.
'Then helium goes, "Alright, are you girls definite you don't privation to fool astir tonight?"
'How f***ing creepy is that?'
Tania explained that they had to beryllium 'really convincing' successful bid for them antheral to permission them alone.
Tania recalled her 'scary' acquisition selling an aged TV connected Facebook Marketplace to a alien who appeared to beryllium making a genuine enquiry
'My housemate got beauteous large and started raising her voice. She goes, "I deliberation you should spell mate if you're not funny successful buying the TV due to the fact that we've got plans for tonight". She was stern and assertive,' she said.
'He wasn't funny successful the TV, helium conscionable wanted to bash different things, clearly.
'It was ace creepy, it was beauteous scary, particularly due to the fact that it was acold and acheronian extracurricular and a random aged antheral comes to your doorway and keeps trying to inquire you to fume with him and fool astir with him, insinuating going into your location — truthful creepy.'
Tania said she was 'so terrified' aft the acquisition that she deleted everything from Facebook Marketplace and gave the TV to a friend.
She explained that she is speaking retired with hopes that cipher other volition person to acquisition thing similar.
'I was truthful traumatised... I adjacent moved location arsenic I thought I saw that man's car extracurricular our location a fewer times after... it truly frightened me,' she told 7NEWS.
'Please don't ever springiness anyone your address. It's champion to conscionable successful nationalist places if radical take to bargain oregon merchantability from there.
'It's a scary clip retired determination — conscionable beryllium safe.'
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