{"id":2254,"date":"2025-05-08T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2254"},"modified":"2025-05-14T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:59:00","slug":"old-pc-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/08\/old-pc-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Old PC for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cleaned up my old PC and posted it on Facebook marketplace for sale, it did not take long till the spammers were hitting me up. &#8220;I&#8217;ll send you $600 and you send me $100 back, keep the extra for your time&#8230;&#8221;  Blah blah blah&#8230;  Good god.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had a couple lowball offers and then a guy approached me and wanted to trade an Xbox S series, and an Oculus pro.  Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That might be a fun trade, I think I will do it!  I loaded up the PC and took it down to him, got a nice 1 gen old Xbox (I think), it has been a long time since I played Xbox for sure!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going to have some fun with this, and the Oculus pro &#8211; some crazy virtual 3D, that will be fun too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways the PC is gone, and I was glad to mark it as sold!  Facebook marketplace is good, but so many trash conversations come out of it&#8230; &#8220;I will trade you my grandmother, and an old 1972 Ford pinto&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure buddy, sure&#8230;  Advertisement, deleted!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cleaned up my old PC and posted it on Facebook marketplace for sale, it did not take long till the spammers were hitting me up. &#8220;I&#8217;ll send you $600 and you send me $100 back, keep the extra for your time&#8230;&#8221; Blah blah blah&#8230; Good god. No. Had a couple lowball offers and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2254\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}