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[–] [email protected] 164 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Even if I want to get rid of something for nothing, I'll put it up for a fiver.

The number of fucking idiots that come out of the woodwork rises exponentially when you list it for free, proper unreasonable or a ludicrous false sense of entitlement.

I'll wait until someone wants it, offers to pay, and tell them to keep it and put it in a charity box on their way home or some shit. Saves a lot of hassle.

[–] egrets 74 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I used to do this, too, until local charities started complaining about all the lamps being posted into their donation boxes.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] whostosay 11 points 5 days ago

It was all in the post in front of you.

[–] lemmyman 3 points 5 days ago

Ah the ol Lemmy-roo

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago

I just put stuff at the end of the driveway with a $20 sign on it.

Someone will come 'steal' it in under an hour.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah for a week my sister had so many people grilling her about the condition of or asking her to deliver the couch she offered free. She relisted at 20 bucks, someone "talked her down" to a fiver and grabbed it that day

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

I gave a load of my stuff away for free just before emigrating about four years ago, and you wouldn't believe how much palaver people will go through to organise picking up a couch. I'd be making time come hell or high water if I wanted something like that for free.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

I just donate things to thrift stores. I can't be bothered to sell anything. I did enough customer service jobs when I was younger to know that I have zero patience for customers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You misunderstand.

Keep the payment, take the goods.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

What color is it