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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
Ok, here's a new take on a bad manners post...
I have some things I am giving away listed on a free site at the moment.
I am getting messages like "Hi send full address I want collect" and "would like". Those are the entire messages. No please, no thank you, no name...
Do they really think I am giving things to people who can't even bother to be polite? 
Slightly better is "Plz send your address so can pick up tonight". How about asking if you can have it, please, and asking when it would suit me to have it collected?
I swear some of these people think they are doing me the favour |
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over a year ago
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You should have listed that you were looking for them to beg for it. If it's listed as free to collect I think asking for your address is enough. In sure there would have been a thank you at collection. |
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"You should have listed that you were looking for them to beg for it. If it's listed as free to collect I think asking for your address is enough. In sure there would have been a thank you at collection. "
She isn't asking for begging, just a polite message. |
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"You should have listed that you were looking for them to beg for it. If it's listed as free to collect I think asking for your address is enough. In sure there would have been a thank you at collection.
She isn't asking for begging, just a polite message."
I'm sure there would be a thank you at collection.
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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"You should have listed that you were looking for them to beg for it. If it's listed as free to collect I think asking for your address is enough. In sure there would have been a thank you at collection. "
PMSL. No begging required but a please would be nice rather than a curt instruction to send my address and await their arrival!
I could take the items to the tip. That would be just as easy for me (easier actually as I could do it when it suited me, rather than exchanging 'phone calls to arrange a time that suits us both), but I'm offering them to others who may find them useful. Because I am giving it away means I am entitled to less politeness than if I were selling it, does it?
Several people have been interested in the items. They've been offered to the ones who asked nicely.
If you want something, it seems like common sense to be polite when asking. |
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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"You should have listed that you were looking for them to beg for it. If it's listed as free to collect I think asking for your address is enough. In sure there would have been a thank you at collection.
She isn't asking for begging, just a polite message.
I'm sure there would be a thank you at collection.
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When asking for something a please is generally considered polite. An "I want" or "give me" attitude isn't all that appealing.
A thank you tends to come afterwards.
Usually both are used in an exchange of this type, unless I am just old fashioned.
Anyway, even if I am old-fashioned, it's the similarly old fashioned polite people who have been offered the items and they seem quite pleased. |
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"You should have listed that you were looking for them to beg for it. If it's listed as free to collect I think asking for your address is enough. In sure there would have been a thank you at collection.
She isn't asking for begging, just a polite message.
I'm sure there would be a thank you at collection.
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Are you? What makes you so sure? |
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"Ok, here's a new take on a bad manners post...
I have some things I am giving away listed on a free site at the moment.
I am getting messages like "Hi send full address I want collect" and "would like". Those are the entire messages. No please, no thank you, no name...
Do they really think I am giving things to people who can't even bother to be polite?
Some people are totally selfish. If someone sent me those type of messages ,I would refuse to give them any of the goods . A polite introduction and a comment on the generiousity of giving the goods away free costs nothing .
Slightly better is "Plz send your address so can pick up tonight". How about asking if you can have it, please, and asking when it would suit me to have it collected?
I swear some of these people think they are doing me the favour "
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By (user no longer on site)
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People are mostly polite round here. I get proper mails when I have stuff to offer.
The 'wanted' mails make me laugh. Asking for new games consoles or bikes etc. One person did a 'want ad' for a specific type and colour of toilet seat!! What the f...??!  |
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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"People are mostly polite round here. I get proper mails when I have stuff to offer.
The 'wanted' mails make me laugh. Asking for new games consoles or bikes etc. One person did a 'want ad' for a specific type and colour of toilet seat!! What the f...??! "
When I was living in Hampshire I ended up leaving freecycle because the digest, every day, was a list of people wanting breadmakers, iphones, expensive coffee machines, dishwashers... And if I did offer anything it was rare to receive a polite message asking for it.
One of the best wanted ads I saw was a woman asking for an iphone for her child. It had to be the latest model though, and the highest spec "otherwise he'll get bullied at school"!
And once one asked for something stupid, others thought they'd chance their arm too. I was waiting for the day there were 15 requests for a yacht, if anyone had one laying about that they weren't using.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"People are mostly polite round here. I get proper mails when I have stuff to offer.
The 'wanted' mails make me laugh. Asking for new games consoles or bikes etc. One person did a 'want ad' for a specific type and colour of toilet seat!! What the f...??!
When I was living in Hampshire I ended up leaving freecycle because the digest, every day, was a list of people wanting breadmakers, iphones, expensive coffee machines, dishwashers... And if I did offer anything it was rare to receive a polite message asking for it.
One of the best wanted ads I saw was a woman asking for an iphone for her child. It had to be the latest model though, and the highest spec "otherwise he'll get bullied at school"!
And once one asked for something stupid, others thought they'd chance their arm too. I was waiting for the day there were 15 requests for a yacht, if anyone had one laying about that they weren't using. "
We had one guy that asked for the entire contents of a house over the space of about a week. I think people must have complained because I've never seen mail from him since. Or maybe he furnished his house for free and didn't need anything else.  |
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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
Oh yes... and the wanted ads that specified brands and models. Rarely did you see "wanted - vacuum cleaner", it was usually "wanted - Dyson whatever, preferably in (specified colour)".
If you need a vacuum cleaner enough that you are effectively begging for a free one someone else doesn't need, are you really going to care if it's a Dyson? And if you don't need it badly enough that you can wait in the hope of being offered a Dyson, then you don't need it very badly.
People astound me sometimes.
What with the ethos of freecycle being to save stuff from going to landfill, do people really believe that others think "Oh, that brand new games console is in the way and I haven't used it, I'll take it to the tip"? or "I really don't like the aesthetics of my brand new coffee maker, I'll put it in the bin?" |
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"Oh yes... and the wanted ads that specified brands and models. Rarely did you see "wanted - vacuum cleaner", it was usually "wanted - Dyson whatever, preferably in (specified colour)".
If you need a vacuum cleaner enough that you are effectively begging for a free one someone else doesn't need, are you really going to care if it's a Dyson? And if you don't need it badly enough that you can wait in the hope of being offered a Dyson, then you don't need it very badly.
People astound me sometimes.
What with the ethos of freecycle being to save stuff from going to landfill, do people really believe that others think "Oh, that brand new games console is in the way and I haven't used it, I'll take it to the tip"? or "I really don't like the aesthetics of my brand new coffee maker, I'll put it in the bin?""
It reminds me of this place sometimes.... |
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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"Oh yes... and the wanted ads that specified brands and models. Rarely did you see "wanted - vacuum cleaner", it was usually "wanted - Dyson whatever, preferably in (specified colour)".
If you need a vacuum cleaner enough that you are effectively begging for a free one someone else doesn't need, are you really going to care if it's a Dyson? And if you don't need it badly enough that you can wait in the hope of being offered a Dyson, then you don't need it very badly.
People astound me sometimes.
What with the ethos of freecycle being to save stuff from going to landfill, do people really believe that others think "Oh, that brand new games console is in the way and I haven't used it, I'll take it to the tip"? or "I really don't like the aesthetics of my brand new coffee maker, I'll put it in the bin?"
It reminds me of this place sometimes.... "
Careful, this is supposed to be a new take on bad manners posts! |
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technically they are doing you a favour in relieving you of your unwanted item but i get your drift.
on a very generous note, perhaps english isnt their first language so the polite thing is over looked although thats not generally my experience.
I like it when you get people who try to bid the person down (not on free listings obvs) then get pissy when i come along offering full price and get the item  |
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Funny story.. Asian type speaking person phones me asking about the free sofa that was advertised..
I said yeah ok when do you want it ??
I will give you only 20 pounds for it - and no more..
Its for Free I said - ok £15 and not a penny more he replied..
I sternly said - Its Free !!!
He promptly replied ok £20 and I collect in half an hour..
I was pretty pissed off by this point and didn't think he would turn up..
He did and he actually paid..
So I Gave half the money to charity and bought a bloody stiff drink with the rest lol..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm having the same with a set of all my former stripper/modelling heels I'm selling.
"want to wank in them"
That's good for you but preferably buy them first |
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