Victor Bigham 🇺🇸@Ravious101
Have you had any issues with selling online like this women did?
I ATTEMPTED to gave away a FREE couch and a FREE recliner on Facebook Marketplace. It broke me. Almost. FREE. Not $20 “or best offer.” FREE. Like, I will pay YOU in gratitude and nice furniture if you take this from my mom’s apartment. And let me be clear about the setup here: these were in good shape, simply downsizing so I thought giving them to someone that needed them would be the right thing to do.
Tough to get? No. Sitting in my mom’s first-floor apartment, with a door that leads DIRECTLY to the parking lot. No stairs. No elevators. No hallway maze. Back your car up, walk 15 feet, done.
This was, and I cannot stress this enough, the easiest pickup in the history of FREE furniture.
Apparently not. 80+ messages later, here’s what I learned about humanity:
🛋️ “Can you deliver?” Oh sure, no problem. Should I come in and set it up for you too? Fluff the pillows, angle it just right toward the TV? While I’m there, want me to whip you up a quick dinner? Got a laundry basket that needs knocking out? I’ll vacuum on my way out. It’s FREE FURNITURE, not a moving company with a side of home services.
📷 “I don’t have a vehicle.” Neither does the couch. That’s kind of the whole issue here. “What’s the weight, height, and fabric composition?” It’s a couch, Karen, not a job application. It’s the “great shape” free couch and recliner fifteen feet from the parking lot. Come look at it yourself.
📷 And my personal favorite: “Is this still available?” … “Line for the sofa” … read receipts on, never heard from again. Ghosted. By strangers. Over free furniture. On the first floor. By the parking lot. Here’s the thing. I didn’t have weeks to deal with this. I needed them gone in a few days.
So I called every donation center in town, and every single one had pickup wait times of WEEKS. Not an option.
So I did what any reasonable person does with a great-condition, easy-access, first-floor-by-the-parking-lot, completely free couch and recliner:
I paid a junk removal company $250 to 🛋️r, or demanding things they have no right to demand, or showing up angry with zero follow-through… you’re looking at the free couch people.
They’re real. They’re out there. Lots of them. These are the people that craft narratives, opinions and review local businesses.
Take social media less than seriously, because most of the time, these are the people demanding attention.
Anyway. My mom got a nice sectional. The couch and recliner are in a landfill. (Maybe in the junk guys living room! They were that nice!) And I’ve never felt more educated about the human condition for the price of $250.
