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If I say I want to give a large item locally, it's not on to message me repeatedly saying "I'm only 15 miles away!". Yes, and I have given it to someone a few streets away.

Grr.

Well it's not unreasonable if no one else wants it and they can collect. Round where I live 15 miles away would be considered local! It's not something I would angst about.

If they were collecting it I wouldn’t mind how far they were as long as they came and got it, but I wouldn’t deliver it.

Have you told them you've already given it away?

Did they keep messaging even after you had told them it was gone?

15 miles is local. If they are collecting and were the first to contact you and you’ve then gone and given it away to someone else who contacted you later, then i think you have created the situation for them to message you repeatedly.

@Freecuthbert

Have you told them you've already given it away?

Yes, obviously

@PlanDeRaccordement

15 miles is local. If they are collecting and were the first to contact you and you’ve then gone and given it away to someone else who contacted you later, then i think you have created the situation for them to message you repeatedly.

Not around here it isn't (busy south east, lots of towns within a few miles). They were not the first to contact me. I haven't created any situation.

@DysmalRadius

Did they keep messaging even after you had told them it was gone?

Yes.

@ApolloandDaphne

Well it's not unreasonable if no one else wants it and they can collect. Round where I live 15 miles away would be considered local! It's not something I would angst about.

Lots and lots of people wanted it, taker was less than a mile away. I'm not angsting, they were cheeky and rude.

So really it was nothing to do with distance, they were just being pushy?

Yeah the distance is irrelevant to this then. Can you just block them?

It was to do with distance AND they were being pushy BC apparently I should give it to them and am unreasonable to choose someone nearer to me...

Can't find a block facility on freegle or would already have done so. If you can tell me how, would gladly do it. Even now I've asked them not to message me they are still trying to lay on the guilt.

Sorry I have never used Freegle myself!

Yup, no good deed goes unpunished.

Even now I've asked them not to message me they are still trying to lay on the guilt.

Clearly a nutter. Report them to the group admin, they will get banned.

It wouldn't bother me if they lived 15 miles away as long as they collected it when agreed

Report to the moderator.

Probably one of those types who responds to a post 'NO deliveries!' with 'Can you deliver?'

The issue is someone else messaged first. I think it would be really mean to refuse items because they're further away, I've never heard of that, so if you say that then many people would argue back

Not around here it isn't (busy south east, lots of towns within a few miles). They were not the first to contact me. I haven't created any situation.

To me, anywhere within a reasonable driving commute for work = local. 15miles is less than I used to cycle to/from work. So while I understand you have a different definition, you perhaps need to be more clear in future posts that for you “local” means within a “few streets away” which is what? 5-10minute walk?

So, you are giving the item to a person who contacted you before these people? It’s not clear from your posts whether you’ve skipped over these people because of distance and dislike or not?

I'd say firstly manners first, then secondly first come first served, regardless of 1 mile or 10, as long as they were collecting it.