A Calgary couple was attacked in their home on Saturday afternoon when a Facebook Marketplace transaction turned into an attempted robbery.

Jason Nguyen had arranged for two men to come to his home to look at a laptop that he had posted for sale online. Having sold items on Marketplace before, he said it seemed perfectly normal that a buyer would want to test the device before buying it.

He had the device set up so the buyers could test it, but instead they looked it over and asked a few questions, then asked Nguyen to box it up for them.

“At that point, I did feel a little bit uneasy, because it doesn’t make any sense,” Nguyen said. “A lot of my buyers, if I were to sell something that is expensive, they want to test it.”

In video footage from a camera in Nguyen’s living room, both me

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