You couldn’t give it away....

[cpvh]

A potted history of my experience trying to give a cooker away......

Advertised a cooker for free on FB. I?ve never had so many foxy ch icks vying for my attention!

Unfortunately they are all about as reliable as a dingo babysitter! Cooker still with us.

I have come to the conclusion that there is a generation of young women who get off by winding up men who advertise cookers!

So after all the useless, useless women, I offered it to a (foreign) man an d he arranged to be in to receive it the same day! There!.......

Only it turned out he didn?t have a gas cooker point!

He got back in touch an said a friend would have it and he?s collec ted itYay!

In other news, Billy my BIL dropped a pepper mill on our ceramic hob and br oke it (the expensive hob rather than the £5 pepper mill).

Chris

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You might do better with FreeCycle depending on area. Still get timewasters, but not quite so obvious.

Easy enough to sort out - the timewasters rarely reply to an email.

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My experience of trying to give things away is such that I generally no longer bother.

[tabbypurr]

There's also freegle. One way to filter timewasters is to ask something simple of them. Eg to say what day/time they'd want to collect it.

NT

[Brian-Gaff]

I suspect it was something else in the advert that triggered spambots onto your case, so to speak. As for ceramic hobs. A waste of time. I'm always hearing of how indestructibility is not their strong suit. Brian

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Yes - same with FreeCycle. Some seem to reply saying they want it to everything on offer. But when you ask them when would they like to collect it go rather quiet. So never respond saying 'here's my address you can pick it up any time' ;-)

[Tim+]

Better still, advertise it for a nominal sum (£10-£20 say) on Gumtree or similar. Even if you don?t want/need the money you?re more likely to get genuine interest from folk.

Tim

[Andrew]

I still have the one that the previous owner left behind and that was 27 years ago.

The supports of the hot plate ring I use the most have rusted away, but no-one seems to make electric cookers that slot into a 55cm gap any more.

I would happily take, or pay a nominal sum for a more modern replacement, as a 'temporary' measure before getting the kitchen re-furbed.

[Tim+]

Pretty sure the 55cm cookers are still available (but not necessarily cheaply).

Tim

[Vir Campestris]

I hope that's really an induction hob? Or at least, the new one will be...

Andy