This is why I give things away to friends and friends of friends. If they ask to borrow something that I’m happy to get rid of, I tell them they can borrow it on the condition that they never bring it back or even mention it to me again.

Why yall so scared all the time. You’re more likely to die on your way to giving the item away than the buyer murdering you.

It’s more the people on kijiji/FB Marketplace are the scummiest most entitled people you’ve ever met. You’d find a more wholesome group at the cantina on tatooine.

They don’t show up when agreed, they want free delivery, you get to the meet spot or they show up and they only have half the money you agreed upon as a shitty form of haggling.

I had one lady tried to get us to take a chair we drove to her house back because she changed her mind (she said she was disabled so we delivered it to her, I don’t think she was because she was just a piece of shit all around when we got there).

The only people who I’ve ever been happy to give stuff to are the ones who seem to be looking for free stuff, so now we just give stuff away. People show up, they’re excited, there’s no haggling, it’s great.

It’s not just the buyers. I’ve pretty well given up on buying tools on marketplace or Craigslist and am now just sticking to auctions and estate sales.

I recently tried to buy a joiner, asked the guy if it was still available and what a good time it was to swing by. I didn’t haggle, just told him I’d head over and pick it up. When I got there he told me someone had already purchased it and then he tried to sell me a sander.

It’s always people trying to screw people over, or people thinking they’re going to get 90% of the retail value for used equipment.