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.
Why yall so scared all the time. You’re more likely to die on your way to giving the item away than the buyer murdering you.
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.
Interesting, cause I stopped giving things away for free or at least I don’t write it into the offer, cause in Germany it happend quite a lot that people didn’t show up, when I wanted to just give it away. I don’t know why, maybe if it’s free it’s not that important I guess? So I started to offer things for a few bucks but still I want some money (at least I write that I want money). When someone arrives and wants to pick something up I just tell them to just take it. That way I get rid of so much more stuff and the people collecting stuff are always so happy as well.
I’m in the US, and this has been my technique too. I’ve found that listing things for free gets me people with a million questions and complications, but if I list something at a cheap price, the whole process is usually much smoother.
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.
I’ve had similar experiences. You ask for a price and then you get hagglers and lowballers tickling you with messages all day, asking a million questions, and then they vanish or ask for some totally unreasonable price when you were just hoping to offload something quickly for a lot less than what it would be worth brand new.
I once bought a bike from Target for about $100. It was a piece of shit, but at least it functioned. I rode it basically into the ground (broke the pedal right off off it) and I doubt I was going to be able to sell it for much considering the thing was $100 new, so I just offered it for free on Craigslist, mentioned it was not in good condition, and that I would hold it for whoever wanted it as long as they were on their way to get it. A lady responded within about 2 minutes, said she was one town over and driving to my place, and when she got there she offered to trade me a bottle of wine for it since she felt bad for just taking it for free (I didn’t ask for anything, but I accepted the trade). Genuinely the least stressful and most rewarding thing I’ve ever given away.
The best one I’ve ever given away was a couch listed as free to anyone who could get it out of the building. It was a third floor walkup, and the couch had like 3/4" clearance down the hallway.
This couple showed up ready to help and very excited about the couch. It was like 30C that day, we took the legs and removable parts off, and got to work the four of us, but it still took us an hour to get the thing down the stairs because it had to be lifted above the railing and carefully rotated each flight.
We were all sweaty so we shared some beer with them after they got it on their truck, and they were just super excited to be getting this good condition and very nice couch. They were some of the nicest people I’ve ever met.
Pivot! PIVOT!
Sorry, I had to.
they show up and they only have half the money you agreed upon as a shitty form of haggling.
Someone did that to me and I was so mad I was going to just leave. Surprise, they had the extra money the whole time! Actual garbage people who do that. I’d rather throw the thing away than get hustled like that.
I would still leave, fuck that.
If it was a 9$ blender I’d smash it to pieces in front of them before leaving.
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.
This is possibly the most American post ever lol
Bro, that’s a 600 dollar Vitamix
Please tell me that’s not the real price for what is essentially a few small blades in a cup attached to an electric motor
It’s, like, a really good motor…
Well.
They say it is.
It’s an infernal machine. My wife bought it secondhand for pennies and is making smoothies for kids with it. But damn at full throttle it sounds like a jet engine. Whenever it stands on the kitchen counter I carefully tiptoe around it scared it will suck me in and pulverize me into fine tomato paste.
Oh you’d better not ask about mine, then :x
Mine retails for about $3k new.Bought it barely used for a really good price.
Imagine being afraid of meeting strangers.
Most of my second hand sales, I have them come to my home address and pick up. If I am not home I’ll leave the stuff on the porch and let them pay once they have picked up.
Yeah the deadly risk of… being in public?
Had a guy threaten my life after meeting on OfferUp. I’m done w it. Over a bike I was giving away that someone else got to before him btw. If I use any of those marketplaces again it won’t be free just to keep the psychos minimized. I just give to goodwill now
POV: Your wife is selling it to get rid of evidence. /s
I sell shit like this regularly for the past decade, 0 issues
How have you convinced people to buy your shit? Do you market it as rare shaped shits or rare animal shits?
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The real connoisseurs prefer to know where the ingredients were sourced from, and the doneness should be rare-medium at best.
Very rare
wait for them to under-buy you. “it’s for my wife’s birthday, she’s terminally ill with cancer and aids and she’s a veteran of all 9 of the wars we’re in! Can’t you give it to me for less?!”
“Can you also pay shipping to Alaska?”
That has to be followed up with another over the top sob story about their kid with some other disease.
Meet up with strangers at a police station. Especially if you are the one bringing cash. Bad actors will refuse to meet at a police station.
Ya, but you might end up getting shot by the police instead.
“SIR!!! What is that box in my hands?!?! Drop it now!!!”
“It’s a blender! It will break if I drop it.”
“Johnson, I heard explode if he drops it”
Bam bam bam.
Job well done. Time for my “administrative leave” while the union sort this all out.
That’s funny and I chuckled, but for real the police station down the street has designated parking spaces specifically for these types of transactions.
Unless it’s a specifically designed for it, I probably won’t go to a police station with a box.
That’ll pay for the fuel there…
I remember a time when being a coward wasn’t considered an admirable trait.
Dude in the picture is waiting.
I wouldn’t do this, not because I’d be so worried about my life (because I’d pick a meet spot where any number of random people are that haven’t stabbed me so far), but because once the price gets that low it’s just not worth the time and effort to go through all the steps involved with setting up and executing a private sale. I’ll just stick it in the box of things I’ll donate so they hopefully are useful for a bit longer rather than end up in a landfill and someone needing to buy a new one instead.
Woem who use Tinder be like “First time?”
I’m not leaving my home for $9. Y’all that hard up?
When she says do it, you do it…it’s not the 9$, it’s the weeks of torment afterwards and having the blender still in the house to remind her
If I ever get married I hope it isn’t to someone that let’s the existence of a blender impact them in any way shape or form. And if it does, they at least have the emotional maturity to be able to handle that themselves, because it is so stupidly trivial.
Inb4 you don’t understand you need to care for your wife. There a difference between caring for the emotional and physical needs of your partner, and enabling whatever childish dependency that is.
My ex wife would make me do things like this all the time. It happens once in a while in every relationship I’m sure, but if it’s routine it’s not worth it. I used to say I had a boss and work and a boss at home but my boss at work was much more reasonable. I realized how much bullshit I was putting up with under the guise of “happy wife, happy life”.
This gives big “are the straights okay” vibes
Wife bad! Hahahhahahahaha
Our relationship is always perfect! Hahahhahahahaha
Dude, if your SO is mad at you for weeks because you didn’t sell a $9 blender, your relationship is incredibly unhealthy.
Or you’re both mature adults and can crack fun at each other over an obviously dumb thing like a $9 blender…
That’s not what was being discussed.
I’d just throw the blender in the bin, and get $9 cash out somewhere, and say I sold it.
Not if that Subaru right behind him is his car. That car just depreciated in value more than $9 on the drive over.
I’m afraid this price is all wrong. That looks like a Vitamix.
NGL if someone was selling a Vitamix for $9 I’d show up
Yeah I would’ve sold it from my door
That’s a $300- $400 blender.
Was gonna say, $9 Vitamix listing would be sus
Yeah… who’s murdering who here?
I was gonna say that looks like a classic 5200 series. I have that blender and don’t remember spending that much on it. Not that it’s not worth it (it totally is), but it’s still like the entry-level full-size vitamix.
Turns out it was $399 when I bought it, and got a 20% coupon through work, so $340.
That was for Christmas 2020. That same model now retails for $499. Dayum.
Who the fuck is paying hundreds for a blender? You can get one for $20 and it will last a lifetime
$9 is reasonable price for 2nd hand
I thought that before I was gifted a Vitamix by a rich relative fifteen years ago. The difference is in the motor. If you try to make nut butter or nut milk in a regular blender it will seem more like a “stirring machine” than a blender. Blending things like kale doesn’t really work in a regular one either, you end up with a bunch of strings tangled around the blade and in your drink. A high powered blender is closer to a juicer that doesn’t extract the pulp, it blends it so fine that it doesn’t need to be removed.
You can throw a bunch of whole veggies and a scoop of Better Than Bullion in a Vitamix, let it blend for 3 minutes and you’ve got hot soup- that’s how they sell the motor running hot as a feature. It does make it impossible to use it to make mayonnaise, since it will melt very quickly instead of emulsifying. But it blends frozen things fast enough that you can still do a cold smoothie. It’s just a different tool. Like someone mentioned above, you could probably use it to dispose of a body, one pitcher full at a time.
Right. The blades dont even have to be sharp on those vitamix they are so powerful. In fact brand new, they come not sharp. I got a refurbished vitamix for 200 bucks and I love it.
