• robolemmy@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    This is why I give things away to friends and friends of friends. If they ask to borrow something that I’m happy to get rid of, I tell them they can borrow it on the condition that they never bring it back or even mention it to me again.

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        9 months ago

        It’s more the people on kijiji/FB Marketplace are the scummiest most entitled people you’ve ever met. You’d find a more wholesome group at the cantina on tatooine.

        They don’t show up when agreed, they want free delivery, you get to the meet spot or they show up and they only have half the money you agreed upon as a shitty form of haggling.

        I had one lady tried to get us to take a chair we drove to her house back because she changed her mind (she said she was disabled so we delivered it to her, I don’t think she was because she was just a piece of shit all around when we got there).

        The only people who I’ve ever been happy to give stuff to are the ones who seem to be looking for free stuff, so now we just give stuff away. People show up, they’re excited, there’s no haggling, it’s great.

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      9 months ago

      When she says do it, you do it…it’s not the 9$, it’s the weeks of torment afterwards and having the blender still in the house to remind her

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    9 months ago

    Maybe it’s because I’ve only ever bought stuff on FB marketplace instead of selling most of my stuff there, but I’ve never really had much of a problem with it. Everyone’s super accommodating, and super nice every time. Especially when their stuff is free, I’ve gotten like 3-4 CRT monitors from there, a sick huge bean bag with the memory foam, an old IKEA tv stand from like the 90’s or early 2000’s. I dunno. If you’re really that nervous, just meet up in a public location, and make sure you’re packing heat, it’s not too bad.