boot sale items - were free

Hintza

The words disappointed, surprised and annoyed seem to crop up in this thread quite a lot. Why?

Everything jhas some intrinsic value and all those folk are doing is realising that value that is how the world works.

Most of you buy your potatoes from the supermarket, but could quite easily buy them from the farm cheaper and if ypou were willing to dig them yourselves cheaper still or if you planted them yourself you could get them for virtually nothing. But you chose to buy in the supermarket without feeling disappointed, surprised and annoyed.

I'm confused.

Awec

I can't see a problem in it at all. Fair play to them.

jenniewb

boots sell many of them in the end anyway (free-with-purchase-gifts are often being sold at my local for anything up to £8 each) personally I don't buy them if they were free- its just a thing I have! But no one is forcing me to buy them so I don't have a problem with it.

seadee

Hintza wrote: »

The words disappointed, surprised and annoyed seem to crop up in this thread quite a lot. Why?

Everything jhas some intrinsic value and all those folk are doing is realising that value that is how the world works.

Most of you buy your potatoes from the supermarket, but could quite easily buy them from the farm cheaper and if ypou were willing to dig them yourselves cheaper still or if you planted them yourself you could get them for virtually nothing. But you chose to buy in the supermarket without feeling disappointed, surprised and annoyed.


I'm confused.

Not sure I understand the potato analogy.
If I got something free with the newspaper I buy then that is a bonus.
I don't see the need to try and sell it to anyone. If I don't want it I will happily give it away.
Some people think it is an opportunity to make a bob or two and I am disappointed in that aspect of human nature.
All down to supply and demand I suppose.

As an aside as I would have to drive to a farm to buy potatoes I suspect the total cost of a couple of spuds would be greater than the cost to me of walking to my local fruit & veg shop (not a supermarket)

kprigg

I have no problem with it. If there is something I want or need & I see someone selling it, then I buy it. If it happens to be a free copy they had then thats my problem for not seeing it when it was given away in the first place. If someone buys an item that clearly has the originating shops name & price on it then surely they cant complain after buying?
Last week I bought a book from ebay that was free in a magazine last year. I paid 99p for it plus postage & am pleased. They are not giving the book away anymore & are charging alot more for it brand new.

chja

seadee wrote: »

Not sure I understand the potato analogy.
If I got something free with the newspaper I buy then that is a bonus.
I don't see the need to try and sell it to anyone. If I don't want it I will happily give it away.
Some people think it is an opportunity to make a bob or two and I am disappointed in that aspect of human nature.
All down to supply and demand I suppose.

As an aside as I would have to drive to a farm to buy potatoes I suspect the total cost of a couple of spuds would be greater than the cost to me of walking to my local fruit & veg shop (not a supermarket)

Ever since the end of the barter system, that has been the basis of our economy.

I have something that I don't need (whether I grew it, made it, bought it or was given it is irrelevant), but I do need money to buy things that I do need.

You have money and want the good(s) that I have, but don't need.

Goods and money are exchanged and both parties have what they want.

I fail to see what is disappointing about that.

seadee

I am given something for free that I don't need.

I give it away to someone who wants it.

Both parties happy, no money changes hands.

whether I grew it, made it, bought it or was given it is irrelevant

I disagree, if I had grown it or made it then I would expect to sell it or barter it (a system which is currently increasing in the present economic climate) but a freebie falls into a different category - for me. Obviously not for everyone.