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For people who use Carousell often, meeting strange characters while buying or selling things on the platform is an everyday occurrence.

Normally, the default response is to ignore such people, whether they are lowballers who offer two tubs of curry sauce in exchange for your six-month old DSLR, or people who ghost you faster than a Tinder match after indicating interest in your item.

After all, there are normally very few repercussions for being impolite while adopting an online persona.

However, one man in Singapore had a unique way of handling a rude Carouseller: by forcing an old-fashioned face-to-face meeting.

He then shared an account of what happened on Twitter and Instagram.

Seller didn't like offer to trade

The man wrote that he first encountered the seller on Carousell, selling a pair of Yeezy sneakers for S$270.

He started a chat by offering to trade the sneakers for a pair of his own.

Unfortunately, the seller was less than enthusiastic about the offer, and responded with a string of expletives.

While others may have chalked this bizarre overreaction up to bad luck, the man decided to arrange a time and place for the two to meet, by posing as another buyer — presumably using a different account.

At the agreed location, the man approached the seller and immediately confronted him about their previous interaction, questioning him about the insults he previously uttered.

A subsequent video showed the seller appearing to shield himself using the bag he was holding, and apologising repeatedly to the man while pleading with him not to film the interaction.

In a subsequent Tweet, the man said that the seller offered to give him all his money, in order to settle the situation amicably, though his wallet contained just S$5.

He also said that he is "not always like this", and claimed that those who know him would acknowledge that he is normally a peace-loving person.

According to him, this incident was a warning to those people who may hide behind anonymity to be rude to others online.

"Moral of the story: don't bark if you're not ready to show some teeth," he said.

The man has since removed his posts on Twitter, as well as Instagram.

Top image via Twitter.