I never learn- waiting on a facebook collection -again

soolin

I had another 'free' item yesterday, a  box of lets say glass/ tea sets etc.. I got someone interested straight away (the profile was for a female)  and arranged that i would leave this out well wrapped against the elements so buyer could collect after the school run. My advert was clear, I put the weight with lots of photos.

As I was busy I put the box out at just after 8am and sent my address as agreed, which was lucky as at 8.15am a man knocked on the door asking for the bags of clothes he was sent to collect. My OH said there are no clothes- collection was for this box- and man insisted he was there to collect clothes, so my OH called me. Then there was a rather silly conversation with the man insisting he wanted the clothes and me insisting there were no clothes- and my OH eventually getting bored and telling the man he took the box or didn't , as that's all there was, and again closed the door.

I messaged the lady saying item was collected but there was some confusion - and she just said that's OK, she was happy with the items received and said she would be happy to take more if I ever got any.

It all rather confused me, but I assume a reseller doing car boots who usually did clothes - but has decided to branch out and hadn't told the person collecting? At least that's another box gone from storage. 

mirko

soolin said:

I had another 'free' item yesterday, a  box of lets say glass/ tea sets etc.. I got someone interested straight away (the profile was for a female)  and arranged that i would leave this out well wrapped against the elements so buyer could collect after the school run. My advert was clear, I put the weight with lots of photos.

As I was busy I put the box out at just after 8am and sent my address as agreed, which was lucky as at 8.15am a man knocked on the door asking for the bags of clothes he was sent to collect. My OH said there are no clothes- collection was for this box- and man insisted he was there to collect clothes, so my OH called me. Then there was a rather silly conversation with the man insisting he wanted the clothes and me insisting there were no clothes- and my OH eventually getting bored and telling the man he took the box or didn't , as that's all there was, and again closed the door.

I messaged the lady saying item was collected but there was some confusion - and she just said that's OK, she was happy with the items received and said she would be happy to take more if I ever got any.

It all rather confused me, but I assume a reseller doing car boots who usually did clothes - but has decided to branch out and hadn't told the person collecting? At least that's another box gone from storage. 

I've recycled lots on freegle/Facebook Marketplace and often it's a woman who contacts me and they send their (presumably) husband to collect the item(s).

I think there's a decent number of people who will collect anything for free that they think they can shift at car boots.  

I tend to leave stuff outside as people are so often no-shows, I don't really want anyone knocking on my door as it drives my dog mad and I wfh.

maximise

not sure if already mentioned, you could try the olio app,
it's not guaranteed but usually get more reliable community sharing and systems in place to reward reliable users

KxMx

If I absolutely can't leave the item outside, I insist on collecting within a 1 hour window. 

saajan_12

I given and receive some bits on Olio mainly, generally find okay ish (60%) reliability on normal small items which someone could (just about) take regardless of transport. 
Where there's logistics eg needing a larger than average vehicle and hence more logistics to plan, then it gets much worse (20%).