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Clothing collection - what WAS this?

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Booshtooshloose · 30/04/2026 20:32

i was giving away lots of baby and toddler clothes on a local Facebook group. Lots of interest, and I was messaging with one particular lady to arrange collection of some of them. We agreed 6pm. I got a message just before 6pm to say they were just setting off and would be there in 15 mins. I replied that was all good. About 10 mins later I got another message to say “would you mind leaving them somewhere discreet out the front and I will come and collect them later?” I assumed there must have been some kind of hold up and said of course and put them out the front.

5ish minutes later there the doorbell rings. I open the door and it’s a delivery driver with a parcel for us. The bags of clothes have already gone. Lady messages to say she’s picked them up and thanks me.

I was so bemused, because she’d arrived at the time arranged but for some reason clearly really wanted to avoid us actually meeting.

What was that about? An anxiety thing?

I was wondering if it was because she was actually planning to flog it all on Vinted or something (which is supposed to be against the rules of the group I was advertising on). But how would us meeting give me any sense of that?

Genuinely curious to know what others think was going on here. I suppose I could ask her, but that would seem odd somehow….

It’s a shame because I always enjoy the brief interactions that come with these kind of exchanges!

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NFLsHomeGirl · 30/04/2026 20:39

I genuinely think folk are embarrassed to pick something free up. I've had this a few times

Mangledrake · 30/04/2026 20:44

Some sort of social anxiety or she was just a bit anti-social I suppose. If you live somewhere particularly imposing (to get) she may have seen your house and got cold feet.

Or she's a bit paranoid and worried about falling for a scam and being abducted or some such.

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