For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

  • waspentalive@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    It’s like the Ikea lamp commercial. A person has a well-used lamp they have had for a long time. They go to Ikea and find a new lamp that is better and nicer. In the next scene, the old lamp is left on the curb. In the rain. alone. abandoned. The Ikea person comes on and asks “Do you feel bad for the old lamp?”

    I only hope we eventually have some of the local communities that were subreddits of yore - like SacramentoBuyNothing - a place to share your old lam so it does not have to sit out in the rain at the curb.

      • waspentalive@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I can only speak for myself - I don’t want to have to package and mail the things I am getting rid of. They don’t have much monetary value, but I feel good someone needed it and is using it.

        There are scams that sellers have to deal with like the scammer that will send a bogus check to pay for the thing and ask for change back. You deposit the check and a small number of weeks later your bank takes back the money because the check was bad. The scammer gets their ‘change’ back and the item they bought. You get left with a possibly negative bank account.

        • SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh I see. I really wish there was a second hand service that did the delivery for you. It would make it much more hassle free for both sides. And it could literally just be one guy with a van driving laps around the city circulating the used stuff.

          • waspentalive@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            That guy with the van would hafta have a pretty big heart, the price of gas has come down but it’s still not ‘cheap’ (Edit later @[email protected] It would be a nice service, you are right there.