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

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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.

BIN IT!

No one wants a jigsaw with a bit missing, let alone 3.

It does if you want to make the picture on the puzzle.

My DM slides a post it sized piece of paper under the jigsaw, outlines the missing piece(s) & then glues it firmly to the box lid in the appropriate position, labels it 'Missing Piece' in her nicest copperplate handwriting, & re-donates it to the charity shop, who are happy to re-sell it.

It's a small village so a) everyone knows 'oh yeah, MumCorvus must've had this before me' & b) half the village have now started doing the same thing...

I'd ask the shop though as some have said they would bin?

my dm volunteers in a charity shop, in the children's toys section, so for puzzles she counts the pieces, albeit they are small puzzles

Some of our volunteers do this too. And all the pieces in the games (such fun when it has cards, counters, and other bits & bobs).
We get a lot of them quite regularly so if they are incomplete, as above, there's no point selling them.
We have a lot of people who buy the puzzles, complete them, and re-donate them.

I’m just entering my jigsaw puzzle season, bloody love a weekend jigsaw during the colder months.
But I wouldn’t buy one with pieces missing, as much as I mostly enjoy the process of doing the jigsaw itself there is also joy to be found in the satisfaction of a complete puzzle. I would think the incomplete puzzle would give me the feeling of an itch I couldn’t scratch!

Bin. No one wants that shite.

Bin/recycle - charity shops do not want things they have to pay to dispose of, you can’t sell jigsaws with pieces missing!

I’m sure each charity shop has a different take on this. Some would happily accept a donated puzzle with a piece or two missing, in the knowledge that they have customers happy to buy them if clearly marked.

Some wouldn’t.

the shop I know wouldn’t because they know from experience that no one would buy them and they have plenty of complete sets to fill the valuable selling space which make more money. As others have said, we’d end up binning and then paying for their disposal.

Lots of posts like this, despite the many posters on this thread explaining that they would and in fact do buy puzzles with pieces missing and enjoy doing them.

I reckon the outraged 'bin it' people are mostly non-puzzlers or very occasional puzzlers for whom a jigsaw puzzle is a rare and special event. I can see then that a missing piece would be annoying. I do a puzzle every couple of weeks (like a previous poster said, I'm renting them from the charity shop!) and it's all about the process and the picture. I finish them and dismantle them and send them back. A missing piece does not really spoil my enjoyment.

I do agree with a pp that children's puzzles must be complete though.

A couple of missing pieces are no big deal.

Of course you can. If you'd bothered to read the thread you'd know that.

You don't do jigsaw puzzles do you?

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Bin.

I checked one of mine by putting it together and found one piece missing. Gave it a while and then binned it.

Try reading the thread. Plenty of us are fine with it.

I must be living in some parallel universe but I have honestly never met a person who would pay for a jigsaw puzzle knowing there are pieces missing. It's totally bizarre to me and must be a Mumsnet thing. Just why?!? Wouldn't it drive you mad that you're spending ages looking for a piece that isn't there?!

I love doing jigsaws and would be driven round the bend if a piece was missing.

But I'd also hate to bin it if others might still enjoy it - and it seems lots of people wouldn't mind, so I think Option 2. If it says it on the box then that's fine, I just wouldn't buy that one.

Bin

Option 2

This is the same for ours.
Nobody buys incomplete puzzles and if they do get put out marked up as such, they don't sell. On the odd occasion we've unknowingly sold one which was incomplete, it's been returned.

We are also deluged with so much STUFF. There is just not the space to display faulty goods like jigsaws with missing pieces when we could use that space for perfect items which sell for more money.

Agree - if you are insistent about jigsaws with missing pieces please check with the charity shop. We don’t accept ones with missing pieces - experience shows us that in our shop they don’t sell. This means we have to bin them and pay for them to be taken away

I love this idea! Very Repair Shop and why not? I'd crack out the watercolours/ varnish happily.

Damn thought I'd quoted and I can't even scroll to find the name now I'm editing. The post that suggested making a piece to fit 😁

Maybe the OP can donate the jigsaw to one of the posters on this thread who buy incomplete jigsaws, as I don't think that's common.