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Great idea, I've done this in the past with unwanted car parts that were just sat around in the garage- gives youa nice warm fuzzy feeling!

I after a cheap set of oilies/ sailing suit if anyone has a some knocking around (probably medium maybe large)

Cheers

TDOD
 
bikerbill said:
A few weeks ago I offered Landrover Discovery wheels in good condition with good tyres on Gumtree. This guy took them from me on the Saturday, did not even offer me something, not that I was looking for money. However, I just happened to be at a car boot sale the next day and guess what? The same guy had them for sale at £200. I told him I wanted them back, because he told me he wanted them for his Landrover. I caused a bit of a commotion when my friend and myself took them from him.
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Lakesailor said:
Many ebayers use Freecycle as their wholesaler.
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Say no more.....
 
Thedreamoneday said:
Great idea, I've done this in the past with unwanted car parts that were just sat around in the garage- gives youa nice warm fuzzy feeling!

I after a cheap set of oilies/ sailing suit if anyone has a some knocking around (probably medium maybe large)

Cheers

TDOD
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Have had to throw the jacket but have some Imhoff trousers you can have for the cost of an RNLI donation. I'm 5'10 and they fit me. No guarantees for their continued ability to repel water long term it will do the job now. PM if interested.
 
I gave away a pretty decent Japanese 2str o/board, with a fuel can, spares, workshop manual to someone to get them out of an expensive hole.

The garage is looking remarkably empty at this time. Of course one can never have too many Avon oars, I suppose....

Rather than just offer things away to kleptos and bizzy trader types, I usually prefer to be able to assist a specific need at the time.As it were.

Well done Dan tho. That wee boat must be getting there eh?
 
Blueboatman said:
I gave away a pretty decent Japanese 2str o/board, with a fuel can, spares, workshop manual to someone to get them out of an expensive hole.

The garage is looking remarkably empty at this time. Of course one can never have too many Avon oars, I suppose....

Rather than just offer things away to kleptos and bizzy trader types, I usually prefer to be able to assist a specific need at the time.As it were.

Well done Dan tho. That wee boat must be getting there eh?
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I am actually in the market for some Avon oars. Bit hard to post..... London, North Kent pickup?
 
bikerbill said:
A few weeks ago I offered Landrover Discovery wheels in good condition with good tyres on Gumtree. This guy took them from me on the Saturday, did not even offer me something, not that I was looking for money. However, I just happened to be at a car boot sale the next day and guess what? The same guy had them for sale at £200. I told him I wanted them back, because he told me he wanted them for his Landrover. I caused a bit of a commotion when my friend and myself took them from him.
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There is a fine line.
One person's junk is another's saleable item.
I think it would be fair enough to make a living by collecting low value things that people could not be bothered to sell on Ebay or whatever, then selling them.
In the real world, you have to scrounge a lot of goods and successfully sell it on to make a living.
Just because he was asking £200 does not mean he would get that.
Then you've got the cost of a car boot stall, time, fuel etc.
I'm a bit perplexed by why you gave them away if you have time to go to boot sales.

Would it have been very different if you'd sold them on eBay for 99p and found them at a boot sale?
I understand being miffed by his dishonesty, but if you just wanted shot of them for space reasons, what would you have said if he'd said he was going to sell them in the first place?
 
Surely the point is that BikerBill wanted to see his wheels used by someone with a personal need for them, on such a vehicle as he'd owned himself...and out of kindness, he gave them to this chap for nothing. Reasonable to guess that Bill might have offered them at a boot-sale himself...but was happy to donate free, to anyone genuinely needy.

I like this matey give-away concept very much, but I'll want to feel sure the thing I give will be used by the recipient, not sold.
 
I've used Marinaskip a few times (both ways) and it is an admirable resource, which of course is open to abuse (if you see it as that ). I guess you could avoid supplying the car-booters with free stock by not advertising anything. Just wait for someone to post a request for something you have in your shed.That does require that a lot of generous folk keep looking in on the noticeboard regularly, just in case. And would be no use to anyone facing an acute outbreak of "Are we going to be able to get the car in that garage before the bad weather?"
 
PS
Down in Fife recently and saw, at Crail and Anstruther, 2 examples of the Minstrel 23 - what a nice boat!! Anyone got one just cluttering up their shed?
 
There is an organisation called Freecycle-just google it-we have a branch in Inverness.
Idea is that anything you dont want you advertise for free and give away.Similarly you can advertise your wants.
Great place to get Mountain Bikes for kids etc as well as surplus domestic and DIY needs-timber;carpets;radiators;car bits etc.
 
dancrane said:
Surely the point is that BikerBill wanted to see his wheels used by someone with a personal need for them, on such a vehicle as he'd owned himself...and out of kindness, he gave them to this chap for nothing. Reasonable to guess that Bill might have offered them at a boot-sale himself...but was happy to donate free, to anyone genuinely needy.

I like this matey give-away concept very much, but I'll want to feel sure the thing I give will be used by the recipient, not sold.
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Supposing he'd fitted them to his own vehicle then sold the vehicle, would that have been OK?
A gift is either given or it isn't.
 
I think you and your mate have a damn cheek, the wheels no longer belonged to you, you had no claim over them, you gave them away, it's up to him, the new owner, to do what he wants with them.
 
I can see where you're coming from...I guess the point is that people are often very happy to donate a 'missing part' which somebody genuinely needs to complete their own set-up...

...but if they knew it was not to use it but to flog it, the donator would prefer to have kept it himself - because the other man's "need" was just a bit of economic opportunism...

...BUT, if I thought a bloke couldn't sell his car/boat/whatever, because of some little bit I owned, but had no use for, that's different - because his need isn't hawking opportunism.

I don't think that's too much of a fine line.

The chap I'm going to send my inspection hatch to, described his need for it aboard his boat, and I'm content that I'll be doing him a favour with something I didn't need myself. But if he'd asked me for £8 so he could go and buy one himself, he wouldn't have had such a willing response! ;)
 
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