To be offended that no one wants my sofa

Have you tried eBay? The charity furniture shop near me didn’t even reply to my email offering the donation so I put it on eBay and had so many messages about it and lots of bids. Someone collected it within an hour of winning the auction.

In my area of Dorset, there used to be a free collection for large items like sofas. Now they only collect for free if the items are in a good enough condition to be passed on to furniture reuse groups

"We offer free collections for good quality donations and a paid for disposal service as an alternative. "

"In the vast majority of cases it is £36 for the first item, and £8 for every item thereafter, but there are some items that may cost more, such as pianos, range cookers or large American style fridge/freezers. It can also vary dependent on where you live, as our disposal costs are different based on your postcode. There are also some items charged at a lower rate."

Try Sofalistic as they organise delivery. I used Freecycle for mine and found a buyer with a van.

How can your wrinkly leather sofa be outing?! 😂

We replaced our sofas just before Christmas last year. We were getting rid of a Black leather 4-2-1 suite which was absolutely immaculate but just wanted to change the style. When I purchased the new one I made the sale contingent on them removing the old one from the house. The sales man tried to convince me to sell it or give it away but as I said to him if it’s that easy you’ll have no problem getting rid of it yourself

i wouldnt want to use some random strangers used sofa so wouldn’t be surprise if someone had no interest in mine. Ahd they’re not worth easily transported. The 4 seater was over 2.5m in length

I think the venn diagram of people who can't afford a new sofa + have means to transport a secondhand one is very small.

I.e. most people want a brand new sofa (I wouldn't consider second hand), but if you can't afford a new one you probably don't have access to a van or means to pay for removal either.

Plus I think you wildly overestimate how many people would accept a fairly old, somewhat wrinkly sofa.

This.

I’ve bought a lot recently on Gumtree ( one of my kids has a new flat ) and it’s awash with leather sofas for free or £10/ 20. Whereas the more modern ones (like Ikea / next ) can be taken apart and transported in a car.

That was my first thought

@Chocolatemoosecups we need a pic. Instead of a diagram 😂

seriously though it’s probably just down to the fact that the average person cannot pick up a sofa or chairs I only have a car I wouldn’t be able to do it to hire a van would be maybe 40 £50 a day so it’s not really a free sofa

If you want to get rid of it you will have to pay the council. I think it’s £30 for two or four items is how I got rid of my fridge freezers.

In 1983 when we were first married we bought a second hand 3 piece suite through the newspapers (before days of internet, everyone bought second hand stuff through newspaper ads) for about £30. As newly weds living in the only house that we could afford which was definitely a doer-upper, we just needed something to sit on. In fact just about everything was bought second hand through friends & newspaper.

How times have moved on. I had a new kitchen installed recently and tried to give away a fridge that was 9 months old, in good clean new condition, but had been replaced by a new fridge/freezer. I thought a newly partnered/married couple might be grateful for it. However I couldn't give the blinking thing away!

I was advised that people would assume that something was probably wrong with it if it was being given away. So, in the end, I sold it on Gumtree for £15 - it was sold the same day that the ad went on.

I was amazed.

Nowt so queer as folk. 😂

Homeless charities collect them for free. Places such as Emmaus

Have you tried any other chazzers?
At least they take it away for free 😆

Get the council to pick it up. Do you have difficulty letting go of things generally?

Show us a picture then

As PP have said, the pool of people who need a sofa at any given time is quite small, plus they also need to live reasonably close to you. Add to that the transport hassle, and the fact that there are always new sofas on sale, with finance arrangements and that will be delivered to your door.

I also think there is sometimes a bit of delusion on the part of people getting rid of sofas. They often look way worse to outsiders than they do to the owner. Plus of course you normally need to pay for bulky waste to be removed but here the expectation is that someone will take it off your hands at no cost to you.

SHOW US THE SOFA! SHOW US THE SOFA!

Unless you're a "man with a van" or you live with one then you've got no means of getting the sofa home. That'll be the issue.

I had the exact same situation. Couldn't give away locally and charity shops didn't want it. I stuck it on e-bay for £1. Someone offered me £100 and came to collect it the next day. Maybe worth a try?

Post a pic op ! And let people see it !
your probs blind to how bad it looks

It’s the transport - no-one has a van and every time I try to use anyvan to get furniture delivered, the fee is always in the £87-£95 range…which makes it insanely expensive.

Or your sofa is actually terrible - PHOTO!

Some quite affluent friends of ours once offered us a fairly long corner sofa for free. It was still in decent condition and only about 5 years old and had probably cost about £2,000 new.

The corner part and main sofa were detachable but annoyingly about 6 inches too long to fit in my car when I went to collect it. I had to refuse it but then my friend's husband borrowed a van from work and delivered it.

As everyone says, it sounds great in theory but it's in the "can't be arsed" category if you have to arrange a van etc.

Well transport may be an issue but even if you pay, say, £50 -£100 to someone, that’s still a pretty cheap sofa!

Am I the only one that needs to see the sofa? 🫠😂

So true about the transport issue

I think it's definitely a logistical thing. Not many people have the means to collect one.