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blazey · 14-01-2009, 04:50

Free stuff is one of the few highlights of someones death. People leave some pretty valuable stuff behind and not everyone's family has the time to find everything a good home. Some might just give away expensive books or paintings so that other people could appreciate them for example, so why not the same with laptops? And before anyone whinges about my first sentence, you only have to look at disputes over wills to see exactly what I mean. All of a sudden the death becomes highly irrelevant once there is property to be fought over.

Household appliances and electrics are the thing that people generally already have so when someone dies, its easier to just give it away on freecycle if you aren't bothered about the money. And some people don't really care about making profit.

I think ASKING for expensive items is somewhat cheeky but as someone said, if you don't ask then you don't get. Simple as that really. We shouldn't be so cynical about listed expensive things though, there are many reasons why a person might decide to just give away something of value.

14-01-2009, 04:50	#89
blazey God Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denton/Oswaldtwistle Posts: 3,638 Blog Entries: 15 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 994	Re: Freecycle Free stuff is one of the few highlights of someones death. People leave some pretty valuable stuff behind and not everyone's family has the time to find everything a good home. Some might just give away expensive books or paintings so that other people could appreciate them for example, so why not the same with laptops? And before anyone whinges about my first sentence, you only have to look at disputes over wills to see exactly what I mean. All of a sudden the death becomes highly irrelevant once there is property to be fought over. Household appliances and electrics are the thing that people generally already have so when someone dies, its easier to just give it away on freecycle if you aren't bothered about the money. And some people don't really care about making profit. I think ASKING for expensive items is somewhat cheeky but as someone said, if you don't ask then you don't get. Simple as that really. We shouldn't be so cynical about listed expensive things though, there are many reasons why a person might decide to just give away something of value.