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[–] [email protected] 49 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Or, better yet, just give the stuff you don't need to the people interested in getting it, and participate in mutual exchange.

Crush capitalism!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 16 hours ago (5 children)
  • Posts item for free
  • Gets message “how much does this cost?”
  • ”Its free”
  • ”Can you deliver it to me? (Insert some excuse here)”
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

That's when you make them pay the shipping + a bit of extra charge for your time since they did asked for price before.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Even if you intend to give it away for free, still price it. Once it's free it will attract a lot of... shady characters. In my experience at least. Even asking a very cheap price will almost eliminate all the weirdos and odd requests. It's like they only search for stuff that's free. When it came to my kid's old toys I ended giving it away for free when they came to pick it up with cash in hand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Off Topic: But its the same reason why there are adoption fees on pets. Otherwise there are weirdos trying to hurt kittens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Yep! This has worked really well for me! If I list things as free, I tend to get people with tons of questions and excuses, and lots of flakes or scammers. If I post things with a pretty low price, people are usually much more pleasant to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Even better to donate to a toy library, to make sure it isn't going to someone who is just going to flip it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Free table - sits out for days

Put an 100 dollar sign on the table - stolen in 5 minutes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago

This is actually a tactic Antoine-Augustin Parmentier used to popularize potatoes in France. He couldn't get people to accept potatoes, so he placed armed guards to protect the plants, and withdrew them at a certain point in the day so that people could steal them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago

put item on sidewalk with sign that says "free!"

Item sits there for months

Remove sign that says free, and replace with one that says "$100 OBO"

Item is gone by morning

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

"Unfortunately, no. I currently don't have resources to deliver stuff, but I'll be happy to see you at my place!"

But yeah, classic on your end :D