'I got 104 messages': Guy gets bombarded by Karens after posting a free barbecue on Marketplace, one tries to steal it out of his garage

If there's one takeaway from this guy's experience, it's never give something away for free. Sure, you might be doing it out of the kindness of your heart and goodwill for mankind (plus a healthy dose of not being bothered moving it yourself), but all the word "free" does is dredge up the worst sorts of people. If you post something for free on an online marketplace, you're just going to be bombarded with entitled people looking to take advantage of your goodwill. Getting that single item that you've posted won't be enough for them, and it's incredibly likely that you'll be asked to deliver it or even pay them to take it off your hands.

While it's regrettable that these entitled individuals ruin it for the rest of us, it is almost a necessity to safeguard your listing to deter these opportunists. One method is to post the item with a small nominal fee, then when the right appreciative person comes to pick up the item you can refuse to take their money and send them happily on their way, resulting in a wholesome win-win for everyone. It's probably also not a good idea to give random strangers on the internet access to your location until you have properly vetted them…

Read on for this Reddit user's nightmare experience of trying to give something away something for free to unappreciative and entitled people.

Next, see this entitled dude who took over a woman's armrest before becoming the armrest himself.

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Posted by Brad Dickson