Worth the risk

This is why I give things away to friends and friends of friends. If they ask to borrow something that I'm happy to get rid of, I tell them they can borrow it on the condition that they never bring it back or even mention it to me again.

Why yall so scared all the time. You’re more likely to die on your way to giving the item away than the buyer murdering you.
- It's more the people on kijiji/FB Marketplace are the scummiest most entitled people you've ever met. You'd find a more wholesome group at the cantina on tatooine.
  They don't show up when agreed, they want free delivery, you get to the meet spot or they show up and they only have half the money you agreed upon as a shitty form of haggling.
  I had one lady tried to get us to take a chair we drove to her house back because she changed her mind (she said she was disabled so we delivered it to her, I don't think she was because she was just a piece of shit all around when we got there).
  The only people who I've ever been happy to give stuff to are the ones who seem to be looking for free stuff, so now we just give stuff away. People show up, they're excited, there's no haggling, it's great.
- WERE ALL GONNA FUXKING DIE!!! AHHHHHHH
- For real. My husband has a side business selling stuff on eBay and FB. Hasn’t been murdered in 7 years.
- Yeah but now you gotta add them together. Risk of murder, risk if dying driving there, risk of getting cholera from the cash, risk of a meteorite hitting that carpark where you otherwise wouldn't have been (can you deduct the risk of a meteorite hitting your house where you would have otherwise been?).
- I just meet at the local PD.
  If anyone has an issue with that, then they don't get the item. But really, I'm a tall muscular dude, so I largely do it so they feel safe.
- If you drove specifically for that purpose, dying on the road can be attributed to the blender
- It's almost like the country with the most guns also contains the largest number of utter cowards...
My in laws do this to me, but without asking.
The second I got a house with a garage it got filled with hand me down furniture that I didn't ask nor know they were dropping off. We don't use any of it, and we can't sell it since it belonged to someone in the family and is now on loan to us forever.
- Yea that’s a big no. Just tell them you are cleaning out the garage and ask them directly if they want to keep the furniture otherwise you are giving it away
- I mean this in the nicest way possible, you may want to set some boundaries.
- Straight to the dump

I'm not leaving my home for $9. Y'all that hard up?

When she says do it, you do it..it's not the 9$, it's the weeks of torment afterwards and having the blender still in the house to remind her
- If I ever get married I hope it isn't to someone that let's the existence of a blender impact them in any way shape or form. And if it does, they at least have the emotional maturity to be able to handle that themselves, because it is so stupidly trivial.
  Inb4 you don't understand you need to care for your wife. There a difference between caring for the emotional and physical needs of your partner, and enabling whatever childish dependency that is.
- This gives big "are the straights okay" vibes
- Wife bad! Hahahhahahahaha
- I'd just throw the blender in the bin, and get $9 cash out somewhere, and say I sold it.
I’m afraid this price is all wrong. That looks like a Vitamix.
- NGL if someone was selling a Vitamix for $9 I'd show up
- My first thought too. That guy won't get robbed because whoever pays $9 for it is already kinda robbing him anyway lmao
Yeah I would've sold it from my door
Not if that Subaru right behind him is his car. That car just depreciated in value more than $9 on the drive over.

Buying used at last somewhat lowers the amount of garbage out there, especially quality products that last.

That's a $300- $400 blender.

Was gonna say, $9 Vitamix listing would be sus
- Yeah.. who's murdering who here?
I was gonna say that looks like a classic 5200 series. I have that blender and don’t remember spending that much on it. Not that it’s not worth it (it totally is), but it’s still like the entry-level full-size vitamix.
Turns out it was $399 when I bought it, and got a 20% coupon through work, so $340.
That was for Christmas 2020. That same model now retails for $499. Dayum.
Who the fuck is paying hundreds for a blender? You can get one for $20 and it will last a lifetime
$9 is reasonable price for 2nd hand
- I thought that before I was gifted a Vitamix by a rich relative fifteen years ago. The difference is in the motor. If you try to make nut butter or nut milk in a regular blender it will seem more like a "stirring machine" than a blender. Blending things like kale doesn't really work in a regular one either, you end up with a bunch of strings tangled around the blade and in your drink. A high powered blender is closer to a juicer that doesn't extract the pulp, it blends it so fine that it doesn't need to be removed.
  You can throw a bunch of whole veggies and a scoop of Better Than Bullion in a Vitamix, let it blend for 3 minutes and you've got hot soup- that's how they sell the motor running hot as a feature. It does make it impossible to use it to make mayonnaise, since it will melt very quickly instead of emulsifying. But it blends frozen things fast enough that you can still do a cold smoothie. It's just a different tool. Like someone mentioned above, you could probably use it to dispose of a body, one pitcher full at a time.
- There is often a big difference when you're willing to spend more and do the research to ensure it's not just a cheap product dressed up in an expensive price for a wide variety of things. I'm not familiar with that particular brand but it is very possible that that second hand blender is still significantly better than a brand new $20 blender.
  Another commenter mentioned the motor, but also the way it is put together can drastically affect how easy it is to clean or repair if some small part wears down or breaks, which is also less likely to happen because the materials are both more robust and there's more of it used.

"Can you also pay shipping to Alaska?"

Meet up with strangers at a police station. Especially if you are the one bringing cash. Bad actors will refuse to meet at a police station.

Ya, but you might end up getting shot by the police instead.
"SIR!!! What is that box in my hands?!?! Drop it now!!!"
"It's a blender! It will break if I drop it."
"Johnson, I heard explode if he drops it"
Bam bam bam.
Job well done. Time for my "administrative leave" while the union sort this all out.
- That's funny and I chuckled, but for real the police station down the street has designated parking spaces specifically for these types of transactions.

That'll pay for the fuel there...

Imagine being afraid of meeting strangers.

Most of my second hand sales, I have them come to my home address and pick up. If I am not home I'll leave the stuff on the porch and let them pay once they have picked up.

I do OfferUp and Craigslist all the time. I have yet to meet anyone other than pleasant, helpful people. Knock on wood I guess.
I mean, it's facebook marketplace...
Well america is a great example of why not to trust strangers.

Had a guy threaten my life after meeting on OfferUp. I’m done w it. Over a bike I was giving away that someone else got to before him btw. If I use any of those marketplaces again it won’t be free just to keep the psychos minimized. I just give to goodwill now

Set the meetup location to be in front of a police station. If they’re not comfortable meeting there then you know that they’re not people you’d want to meet.

I'm in this meme.

But more often I've been sent to buy something down hidden screams lane.

Maybe it's because I've only ever bought stuff on FB marketplace instead of selling most of my stuff there, but I've never really had much of a problem with it. Everyone's super accommodating, and super nice every time. Especially when their stuff is free, I've gotten like 3-4 CRT monitors from there, a sick huge bean bag with the memory foam, an old IKEA tv stand from like the 90's or early 2000's. I dunno. If you're really that nervous, just meet up in a public location, and make sure you're packing heat, it's not too bad.

This is possibly the most American post ever lol

I never understood why people sell things like that. Why not give them to people in need. It might be $9, but to someone who needs it, could be life changing. Maybe they will make a delicious milkshake, who knows.

Donating shit online marketplaces is just plain shit. You get either people flipping it for profit, or some assholes asking to deliver the item to other side of the continent for free. Either donate to some red cross pawnshop or similar, or sell for lowish price to get rid of it quickly - price that makes no sense for someone to try flip it
Obviously if you know someone who needs it, the sure go ahead and just give it to them
- I've too have tried giving stuff away for free and I always the worst experience, unappreciative people who want to manipulate any way they can, or no show etc.
  But when I post it for a low price it completely removes that group and suddenly I get nice people who have wanting this thing for so long but struggled to afford it and they will go out of their way to meet up. Usually I just giving it to them free after they've been so easy to work with and their mind gets blown. They show initiative, they work hard for what they want and get rewarded for it. This is the way.

Buyer-"Hay kid i got the good stuff, come closer"

Seller-"Umm your the guy selling the blender right?"

Seller-"Blender?"

Your characters are so confused in this scene.

I mean, usually the main reason I sell things like this is to make sure it goes to someone that needs it, rather than a landfill or our clutter cabinet. The $9 is sort of just a small benefit, and used to make sure someone actually sort of wants it, as opposed to taking free stuff for hoarding.

I felt the same way about my stuff until I had a garage sale and realized that most people were buying just to resell it at the flea market for a higher price.
- I wouldn't get to worked up about it. Unless you're ready to spend your time running a flea market stall, then your goals are basically still met, but someone who values their time differently is going to capture some of the value you're not inclined to work for, and it will eventually go to someone who is willing to pay for the privilege of shopping in person. Even if it does eventually end up in a landfill, it had a few more bites at the "usefulness" apple first.

Hold up, is that a shorty Vitamix canister? Easily worth 10

Bro, that's a 600 dollar Vitamix

Please tell me that's not the real price for what is essentially a few small blades in a cup attached to an electric motor
- It's, like, a really good motor...
- It's an infernal machine. My wife bought it secondhand for pennies and is making smoothies for kids with it. But damn at full throttle it sounds like a jet engine. Whenever it stands on the kitchen counter I carefully tiptoe around it scared it will suck me in and pulverize me into fine tomato paste.
- Oh you'd better not ask about mine, then :x ~~Mine retails for about $3k new.~~
  Bought it barely used for a really good price.

Y'all got any more of those $9 Vitamix?

In Germany it's normal that people come to your home and pick it up 🤷

But can be sketchy when you trying to buy sth yourself :D

That's normal in the US too. The only time I've met someone elsewhere was at a cafe, so we could set up the thing I was purchasing on a table and power it on to test.
- Ah ok, I thought you were too afraid to let strangers come to your apartment or sth :D

Yeah the deadly risk of... being in public?

I sell shit like this regularly for the past decade, 0 issues

How have you convinced people to buy your shit? Do you market it as rare shaped shits or rare animal shits?
- The real connoisseurs prefer to know where the ingredients were sourced from, and the doneness should be rare-medium at best.
- Very rare

POV: Your wife is selling it to get rid of evidence. /s

Woem who use Tinder be like "First time?"

I remember a time when being a coward wasn't considered an admirable trait.

I would say this is a case of Xenophobia, an irrational fear of strangers.
Xenophobia
People with xenophobia experience significant, sudden anxiety and distress when they are around strangers. They often go out of their way to avoid seeing, interacting with, or even thinking about strangers. This type of avoidance can negatively affect major aspects of day-to-day life. For example, someone with xenophobia may find it hard to function normally at work or in social situations.[3]
Dude in the picture is waiting.
I wouldn't do this, not because I'd be so worried about my life (because I'd pick a meet spot where any number of random people are that haven't stabbed me so far), but because once the price gets that low it's just not worth the time and effort to go through all the steps involved with setting up and executing a private sale. I'll just stick it in the box of things I'll donate so they hopefully are useful for a bit longer rather than end up in a landfill and someone needing to buy a new one instead.
- I'd rather just give it away than sell for $9. If no one I know wants it, it will to the goodwill

You should throw it away. Not recycle it, not even a landfill, just open your car window on yoir way home and let society deal with the waste you produced

Burn it so the smoke can go up into the sky and make stars
- Yeah, let's get a nice smokey aroma going in here!