1000 piece jigsaw puzzle with 3 pieces missing. Bin or charity shop?

[Viot]

Option 1: Bin it

Option 2: write on the box: "3 pieces missing" (with little crosses to show where in the picture) and donate back to the charity shop I bought it from so they can sell it again for another couple of pounds.

I suppose I ought to bin it, but on the other hand I've just had a perfectly nice time putting it together and I'm not miffed that it wasn't complete. That's just a risk when you buy second hand jigsaw puzzles. And if I write on it, people will know the deal.

Because someone may still enjoy doing it with 1 piece missing.

@Viot option 2!

Because doing it is the fun 999 pieces does not spoil a 1000 piece puzzle. I'm not planning on framing it

I’m so intrigued by all the different personalities on this thread!!! I’d think as long as you marked it (great idea by the way!), it’s all good. Missing pieces drive me demented!!!

Nope. They just sell it with '1 pieces mussing' sticker on the box.

We won't take stuff with missing pieces, just gets binned. As a pp said, we have to pay for waste collection, please don't cost the charity more money disposing of your broken items.

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DM volunteers in a charity shop, and loves puzzles.
Any donated ones (and they get a lot) she takes home to check first.
If there’s a piece missing, it gets binned.
Complete ones get taped up carefully and marked as checked and complete, and they sell very well.
The charity has to pay for waste collection and they get so much junk it’s tragic.
She often takes home a bin bag of junk to put in her home bin to avoid the charges, as do other volunteers.
It’s broken. Ditch it.

All you 'bin it's people. Why make landfill when others would still get enjoyment out if it?

Why would anyone but a jigsaw with 3 pieces missing? You're just passing on rubbish to someone else to bin

Contact the manufacturer and see if they offer replacement pieces. If yes, get them, add them, return puzzle to charity shop.
If no, bin. I work in a charity shop and there's no point selling incomplete toys/games as they can't be used properly - although if it's just a missing counter, or a rope/lead pipe from clued we'd sell it.

This question was asked earlier & answered. But to sum it up for you... because it's about the process ( fun of doing it) not the finished product. I'm not going to frame it, so it doesn't need to be perfect.

But the process of solving a 1000 pieces jigsaw puzzle is made infinitely more unpleasant and frustrating if there are pieces missing!

You're wrong. Plenty of puzzlers would buy them with pieces missing. There might be plenty of puzzles, but it's not always easy to find a picture you like. Many of us would buy a puzzle we like the picture of with pieces missing over one we're not keen on the picture if. I'm not framing it. It doesn't need to be perfect.

I wouldn't buy a puzzle with pieces missing but it might be worth asking the charity shop if they think it might sell.

You choose not to, even though plenty of us would buy it, thankfully not all charity shops are the same.

I've already answered you once re that on this thread & a pp too. It would be helpful if you read other people's posts.

It’s so irritating. I bought a 30-piece puzzle the other day for DD - 2 pieces missing. Try explaining that to a 3yo Then an alphabet puzzle pair set - 6 letters and therefore 12 pieces missing of 52. Both times the charity shop said they couldn’t check to see they were all there - and yet the 1000 piece puzzle I bought myself had a label on it saying ‘complete’ so someone obviously felt they could check 1000 pieces but not 52 or even 30!

who donates these, anyway?! Tempting to put out a PSA!

Plenty of us would buy a puzzle with pieces missing. I prefer it if it says it has a piece missing, but it doesn't really matter. I buy them if I like the picture, process is the point, not perfection. If I wanted a perfect picture I'd buy a painting or a print.

a puzzle doesn't have to have all the pieces for it to be perfectly useable!

Not for many of us it isn't. It's putting pieces together to make a picture, not solving a murder case. We re not 'solving' anything. (A little with wasgij)

The rage I would get from those 3 pieces 😅

Easy enough to check the little kids ones and mark them as 'pieces missing'.

when I complete the 1000 piece ones I put them in a zip lock bag inside the box & put a small sticker on the outside to say it's completely, so it's probably not the charity shop actually checking it's complete. Unless they have a puzzle enthusiast in the team!'

I buy them all the time from CS - if it had a sticker on saying 3 pieces missing and I liked the image I’d still buy it

I sometimes complete a jigsaw, look at it for 10 seconds then take it apart again. A missing piece is really not an issue to me. I've even put one in my loft that I know has three missing pieces because it was a nice one go solve otherwise.

I would if it was the best picture and I knew in advance and it was cheaper

If there were two exactly the same bar the missing piece no but to me the picture and number of pieces is the most important thing