To be flabbergasted by CF

[Wickedwoo]

Someone posted a thread the other week about how people are CF's on Facebook free sites. I did comment and say I'd had a clear out and used my DH's account to put stuff on our local free site and people wanted stuff but expected me to drop it off to them.

So one of the things i gave away (and delivered) was a Nestcafe Dolce Gusto coffee machine that we had used maybe 5 times i even gave away the coffee pods we had left with it.

Fast forward to today the lady who had it has messaged my DH on Facebook saying she is disgusted she only had the machine 4 weeks used it everyday and now today it's stopped working and her DH is furious because he did not get his coffee this morning and we should be ashamed of ourselves for giving it away knowing it was going to break, and now they are left with boxes of coffee pods and no machine and now her DH is expecting her to get a replacement TODAY and we should contribute.

DH replied something along the lines of f**k off you crazy woman. It was free and it worked fine otherwise it would not of been given away. We gave it away because it was something we did not use. He has now blocked her.

She has now started messaging off what must be her DS Facebook account calling my DH a coward again she's been blocked.

It genuinely was in perfect working order as she knows because she's used it for the last month.

Some people really do have some nerve. I actually laughed when DH rang and told me because i was so shocked.

I will never give anything away on Facebook again now. I can not believe people can be so vile. I am absolutely dreading bumping into her she sounds completely unhinged

Ive found it best to donate anything for babies/children to the local children's centre or nursery who are always grateful for any donations.

My sister lives on a large council estate and anything left in the hallway with a note is almost always gone within an hour. Wether it goes to someone in need or someone to sell it on I know it does someone some good

I've just noticed on my local freecycle there's a free coffee machine.

I've had no such CF and overall good experiences. Although I have had requests for free items to be delivered.

One woman wanting my moses basket I was giving away free wanted free delivery. When I replied "sorry its collection only"
She replied that she didn't drive and that it wasn't fair I couldn't deliver. Could I meet her half way.
I don't drive either and have 2 DCs. She didn't see that as a problem and assumed I would get the bus halfway to her with a baby in a pram, toddler in tow and a moses basket with stand. Yes because that's feasible.

On my freebie page we encourage members to move on to the next person who doesn't say "I'll have this", "Mine" or "I'll take it". Manners are encouraged and rude people's demands magically disappear (by my admin magic wand)

Excellent admin there.
That used to drive me insane on a page I was on. I'll take it. Mine. Etc. I would rule out anyone posting like that.
Another is the desperate pleas for something and then when posters offer perfectly good stuff, the questions start. And demands for more photos. And so on.
I think if you're stuck for something, and a perfectly good piece of furniture (for example) is offered to you, the fact that it doesn't suit your decor, shouldn't really matter.

Hope psco can help.
It puts people off using which is a shame.
I’ve used these sites and eBay off and on and each time remember why I don’t.
Sold a brand new futon - lady came to view to check colour was acceptable said she’d have it (so had seen size) then turned up in a mini to collect. Needless to say it didn’t fit.
Sold massive new garage door (saved buyer several thousand v new) - listing says need 2 men and big van to remove, one man turns up and scratches our new patio doors as he drops door removing it.
Sold a tv, man kept commenting it was only worth £x it wasn't but if you think that don’t buy it.
Wanted tiny bit of plastering doing (DH had put some speaker cable in) put a few pics on some bloke commenting on our dodgy electrics - it wasn’t electrics.

@wapbapboo the problem with the internet is that it is used by idiots

Yet here you are.....

@HavenDilemma There is always a smart one

I posted this before. But my mum died last year. I was selling her belongings. Listed an almost new printer / scanner, software still in its packaging. Bloke agreed to the £15 I was asking, then turned up and tried knocking me down by a fiver. It was still in the shops for £40-£45. I said no, he pleaded and pleaded. I pointed out he was in a sheltered accommodation property and my mum had died, I was raising funeral money and take it for £15, or not all.

He then pulled about £200 in notes and huffed as he handed over the £15!

Then he asked what else I was selling, I showed him. He liked a table, asked how much. I said £20 and he said, "Can I have it for free?" I said no and repeated why I was selling items.

He pulled a face, then started picking around my mum's belongings and said, "What here can I have for free?" My mate who was helping me clear and clean ended up telling him to sling his hook.

I once gave away a tin of paint. Two weeks later I got a sarcastic text from someone else demanding to know why I hadn't replied to tell then whether or not it was still available. I explained that I had received over 60 responses and so couldn't reasonably be expected to reply to them all. Obviously if you don't get a reply you assume the item isn't available and you move on...surely? Not this person! They replied that they had once had 80 requests but took the time to reply to them all. Well, I said, you obviously have nore time on your hands. They continued to rant at me over three more texts for being ill-mannered! A perfect stranger...who knew nothing about my circumstances...over a single tin of paint . Such people suck the joy out of giving.

Weirdly, though, the day after I gave the paint to a guy who said he wanted to paint his flat, I went out and saw what looked like the same paint splashed all over the neighbourhood . Years later and it is still there on the pavements. Wtf??

I had someone call me a selfish b*tch because i wouldn’t deliver a tv that the listing clearly said collection only. Also we had a dishwasher that we listed as needing two people to lift. Woman started yelling at me because I wouldn’t help her load it into her fiat 500. I had just had spinal surgery..:.

Report her to the site and reply to the next crazed comment that reaches you that you will contact the police for harassment if she doesn't cease and desist immediately.
What's the betting she didn't tell her husband it was free or that the issue is a user issue not a machine issue.
Cockwomble.

Years ago we had a car which failed its MOT and wasn't worth repairing and I was going to scrap it. A colleague of Lady Gawain said she would buy it for £30 for her son. We made it absolutley clear that it was not roadworthy and as far as we were concerned it was only fit for scrap. Later said colleague complained to LG that she had had an AA inspection and that the engineer had said she would be justified in suing us. I don't know what they had told him but clearly she was a CF First Class. We did not give her the money back and she did not sue.

I advertised my blinds from my conservatory. Totally free, but needed to collect.

First person to comment was really polite and said that she could collect that afternoon - all good.

5 minutes later, someone else responded with 'I need those blinds, can you drop them off in an hour?' I told her politely that they had been taken.

Shortly after I got a really snotty response from someone claiming to be her Mother telling me that her daughter asked first and could have them delivered within an hour. I replied politely and explained she didn't ask first and I wasn't delivering - they had been taken. She ranted about her daughter being a single parent and had no car blah blah.

I explained politely again that they were free to the first person who asked politely and could collect.

She then called me a tight bitch.

I stopped being polite at that point and responsed with 'f**k off you unhinged, entitled arsehole'. Then I blocked her.

The lovely lady who came to collect the blinds bought me some flowers.

I tried to sell a dvd played for £5 to try weed out the cfs.
A man was willing to collect and pay the £5. He wanted it for his daughter when she stayed over. Dh was away for work so made me offer to deliver it as it was close to work instead of strangers coming to our house.
So arranged a time to deliver and no one answered the door. I waited 5 minutes then left.
Later that evening I got a message to say he had fallen asleep and I needed to fetch it back as his daughter would be there soon. I said no as it wasn't convenient.
Apparently I ruined his daughters visitation and I was a selfish cow. He wanted me to go back and drop off the player for free to compensate for his wasted time
He got told where to go and got blocked.
Cheeky fucker

Wow - there are some really cheeky arses around

He pulled a face, then started picking around my mum's belongings and said, "What here can I have for free?" My mate who was helping me clear and clean ended up telling him to sling his hook

Well done that mate
I did the same to a couple of really offensive charity shop "collectors", so was interested to hear later that they'd been sacked for stealing donations to sell for themselves

Ironically, when clearing two family houses, I've done some really nice deals for genuine and friendly callers, even putting things aside and helping where I can ... but I don't engage with CFs beyond the first rude text, call or comment and IME they're better blocked/ignored

@Puzzledandpissedoff thank you. I was in such a fog of shock and grief that I wasn't actually my usual feisty self. My mate did me proud though.

I once sold a bike on Facebook, listed for £80. They asked if I'd take £75 which i was fine with. When they arrived, they gave me £80 and asked for £5 change!

I'm not very good at face-to-face issues so off i went to get it!

I had to call the (non emergency) police after an insane person took my sofa (i sold it for a v small amount on FB) and he then demanded the feet for it (there were none, he saw this before he took it) and when I pointed this out, he lost it and was threatening to rip it up and dump it outside my house. Wouldn't stop sending me message after message after message. I felt actually quite anxious and unnerved especially as he obviously knew my address.

I told him (after being advised to by a very lovely police lady) this has all been logged with the police and that him dumping it, it would be illegal fly tipping and I have been told to call 999 if he appears near my house with it.

That did the trick, I still worry a little bit he'll turn up. Put me right off selling things via FB.

There was a family near me when I lived in the UK that asked for everything, and I mean everything, on Freecycle. Never offered anything. I once went through their posts and made a list of what they had asked for, clothes for all of them, bikes, carpets/rugs, Christmas decorations, garden tools, furniture, kitchen appliances, food (yes they even asked if anyone had food that they could “take of someone’s hands”), bedding, wedding dress, suit, shoes, bags, toys, it went on and on. And they were very aggressive with it. I listed a bike saddle that I had. I didn’t like the saddle that cane with a bike I’d bought so I got a nicer saddle and listed the original one. He was round my house like a shot and when I handed over the saddle he got aggressive that it wasn’t a whole bicycle. He had read the post so quickly he misread it that I was giving away a new bike. Funny that everyone else who responded knew that it was just a saddle. He knew my address as he had collected from me before and recognized my user ID.

Woman on FB freebies site “desperate” for newborn car seat as she had nothing.
I offered our green Cybex Aton, she declined as she was having a girl.

I had an acquaintance who would comment on everything on the free sites, then message friends and family with a link so they could comment too. This meant that well I Over half the asks were from her.

She'd also get free adult nappies and sell them on to fetishists but that's a whole other thread. Needless to say little surprises me these days.

I once listed an item for free and later found out that the guy just takes what he can for free then sells it on. This I why I rarely list anything for free now so as not to attract similar people. Instead I just sell things for a low amount thus hopefully putting off all CFs. My thinking is that those types wouldn’t want to pay anything at all in the first place.

Wow, she obviously has crazy flakes for breakfast. What a cheeky twunt

A friend of mine sold something quite weighty and was going to post from one end of the country to the other. She had to travel for business and realised she was going to the town where the buyer lived. She said the look on the buyer's face when she knocked on their door with the item was priceless

I don't know if som of the cheeky fuckery is a culture thing. I've sold items before during house moves and people have turned up litrally offering to buy the doors of the hinges.
Same people had actually bought a £1000 fridge for £150 as I couldn't fit it in the new house....had to remove the doors off it to get it out which we did for them and gave instructions how to put them back on etc. A few weeks later got a txt "when are you coming to put the doors back on fridge?" Alrighty then.