about 6 weeks ago the new neighbour kindly gave us a 3 seater leather sofa... we went to look at it in their house a few days before we collected it, and as it looked great then gave our other sofa away... admittedly our old sofa was old, but it was still in a good useable condition.
Anyway, our old sofa was taken and later that day DH brought the 'new' sofa home... only for us to find it was all ripped open underneath and the wood had been broken in all sorts of ways!! And the leather had been very badly scuffed in the few days since we'd been to look at it. Anyway we had no sofa, so DH patched up the inside, adding wood in etc and spent about 4 hrs getting it fixed enough to be used...
2 weeks ago my great aunt offered us a pair of almost new 2 seater sofa's for free, and we accepted as we knew the other one wouldn't last us!! We put the sofa off our neighbours on freecycle to see if anyone needed a sofa for 6mths worth of use or so, listing ALL the faults and how DH had fixed it for temporary use... a guy came and looked at it and said he'd be happy to take it as he had nothing else.
We got our sofa's from my aunt this monday, the man from freecycle was supposed to collect anytime between monday and today, heard nothing all week and had emailed him on saturday and monday, and he had our home number to be able to phone us... emailed again this morning and he's just replied saying he's not wanting it now as he was given another- yeah thanks for letting me know.
That man was the only person who asked for it on freecycle so i doubt it's worth offering it on there again... and i want it out of the house before xmas, its currently on its side in my dining room.... I want DH to cut it up and take it to the tip on monday... he thinks the neighbours will be offended...
AIBU in thinking that they obviously knew it was broken so wont be bothered... them giving it to us was most likely their way of saving hacking it up themselves???