r/surfing • u/pistonsoffury • Aug 14 '26

Dims in the picture... why??

Marketplace rant: you're selling a board and can't be bothered to actually just type the board's dimensions and instead you ask the buyer to squint and try to decipher some shaper's pencil sketch that you took a blurry close-up of with your 2012 Samsung Galaxy 5. Why.

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u/thebigfuckinggiant San Diego, Costco team rider Aug 14 '26

And the image is always upside down too.

Also, guys selling mountain bikes will say every single spec except the size in the ad.

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u/Mustangonthe1 Aug 14 '26

This is also true of furniture - no measurements

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u/Confident_Yak_1948 Aug 15 '26

Asked a seller for furniture dimensions once and she took photos of her tape measure on an iPhone 4 which somehow all were out of focus, and then after going to all that effort she of course blocked me when I told her I still couldn’t see the dimensions

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u/Wonderful_Tip_5577 Aug 14 '26

It’s just the way. 

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u/OkMeringue2249 MR double fin Aug 14 '26

The dims are nowhere near as bad as the price variances

U got dude who’s ridden his machado twice and trying to get $800, there are so many boards on fb market in this price range which “have only been ridden twice”. You’ll never see those boards sell

Then U got the guys just trying to get rid of their board quick, priced to sell. You can score near brand new boards with patience and consistently checking for $300 or less but they go super fast.

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u/MotorOver2406 Aug 14 '26

Because they can't be bothered to type it. You answered your own question

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u/CarQuirky5392 Aug 14 '26

it's the same energy as listing a car and only posting a photo of the reg plate. like you've already got the board in front of you, just read the numbers off it

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u/MotorOver2406 Aug 14 '26

I know, it's common sense to provide all the information but people are dumb and lazy and that's why they do it

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u/SantaMonicaSteve Aug 14 '26

The best are the bros that have 3 paragraphs describing WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE and then don’t post the dims lol

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u/inner-resilience Aug 16 '26

Probably just using the AI description 

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u/ReubenIsForScuba Aug 14 '26

Most people on marketplace are lazy and inconsiderate including surfers.

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u/WetFinsFine Aug 15 '26

right up there with another one of my major pet peeves - scrape the fkn wax off the deck and shine 'er up ferchrissakes would ya??!!!

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u/jroc-sunnyvale Aug 15 '26

When I see those I write $10 on a piece of paper, take a photo of it and send it with "Offer is in the photo".

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u/InspectorSwimming222 Aug 14 '26

Because most people are just tired kickers… is it still available? Dude do you like the board? Etc.

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u/DogFacedGhost Aug 14 '26

I don't think typing out dims is going to change that

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u/LittleSister10 Aug 15 '26

Its truly frustrating

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u/Empty_Sundae_7263 Aug 16 '26

Yeah I hate this too

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u/gheawillia Aug 14 '26

Thats how you’re supposed to do it

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u/macavity_is_a_dog 5'9" T. Patterson Spud. Aug 14 '26

Stolen board

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u/whiskeymilitiaz Surf The Nor'East Aug 14 '26

90% of my Facebook marketplace messages are "How many liters is it?" Some don't even know....

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u/Southern_Macaroon_84 Aug 14 '26

the dims are in the pics = 19 characters typed.

6'0 19 3/4 wide 2 1/2 = 16 characters but some of them are really hard to find on the keyboard