We're having some work done to our house so we're upgrading some of the furniture.
When we moved into our home a few years ago we were gifted a lovely sofa from my sister, who in turn had been gifted the sofa previously. It's in a lovely condition and was barely used in either home, you'd probably think it was no more than a year old when in fact, it's about 8. It would've cost 2k new. Now we're upgrading, we needed to get rid of the sofa as it won't fit. Sister doesn't want it back and isn't too fussed on what we do in order to get rid of it.
I popped it on Facebook marketplace for free (charities we've contacted can't collect it in time before the building work commences). We had a total of 6 time wasters book in to collect it and not show. One CF tried to get us to deliver and made it clear they were going to sell on for a profit.
In the end, I thought sod it, I've tried to be nice and pass the gift on but it's not worked. We decided to put it on for £250 and we've got someone coming to view it today and also a reliable acquaintance who has said they'd like it. It's mad how people are serious now that there's money involved.
My AIBU is this: I was prepared to give it away previously, but now I've got two people very willing to give me money for it (I would give any profit to my sister, I wouldn't feel right keeping it). Should I not just give it away now? Everyone I've spoken to has said take money for it?!