The easiest way to give away free stuff is to let someone "steal" it. - Lemmy.World

My dad hoarded dozens of wood pallets in the garage. I wanted to get rid of them, so for months I put classifieds “free wood pallets, come and get them” but I only got messages from assholes that wanted that I delivered them for free on the other part of the city. Finally I got a message from someone that seemed to be interested. I gave my phone number, he called me immediately “I’m coming right now, where is your location”. I said that right now I can’t, but the wood is in [city], what about tomorrow? He agrees, he says call me tomorrow and tell me the address and I come immediately The day after, I call and nobody answers. Meanwhile I am at the garage so I waste one hour taking out all the pallets in the garden. I have to go, so I tell my dad to call the number to tell the address. The day after I am back and I see a mess in the garden. Many pallets were taken but some of them were left, not in a neat stack, but all threw away. I am calling the number of the pallets guy to get pissed at the mess (and of course he’s still not answering my call), when my dad sees me from the window and comes to tell me: the guy never answered the phone (so he never got the address) but during the night someone trespassed and stole the free stuff! I’m baffled that the secret to easily getting rid of stuff is making people think that they’re committing a crime.