Originally Posted by
dave2010
Too late now, but perhaps if you'd advertised the sofa for £40 or offers, buyer removes, you'd have had a deal. We have found in the past that trying to offload stuff doesn't always work, but if you put a price on something punters feel that whatever it is "must be worth something".
I had an exercise bike - obtained on Freecycle. A year or two later tried to offer it on Freecycle again - no takers - even with a few reminders. We advertised it on - I think Gumtree - for around £40, and the phone didn't stop ringing with potential buyers for days. Went within hours.
Another option - though it depends on where you live - is to just stick it out in the road, and hope someone will steal it.
We did offer someone a microwave oven though - one of the workmen who was working for us at the time - and we put it outside the front door, and some while later it had gone. As it happened we did have another spare one we were also trying to lose, so we gave the workman that instead - we didn't really expect to have the first one we put outside our door stolen - but it went very quickly!
Some good points - if you offer something for free people will assume it must be crap. If you leave it outside with a sign saying "Free to good home", you'll never be rid of it. If the sign said "£40 ono", it'll disappear overnight.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that charity shop workers see donations as a nice little perk, and the best gear never makes it to the shop.
Three piece suites are a tricky one - hard to lug around and transport, and take up a lot of expensive floorspace, so I sort of see where they're coming from.
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