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Frobester Feb 2013 12:58pm, 14 Feb 2013 21,880 posts	Quote Pin Frobester Maybe they fear that warm fuzzy feeling...?
heebiejeebie Feb 2013 1:03pm, 14 Feb 2013 3,145 posts	Quote Pin heebiejeebie Another teacher using my room and allowing students to rake through my desk drawers and help themselves to stuff. I know it's only a couple of quid's worth of pens but, dammit, they were MY pens!
sarabop Feb 2013 6:22pm, 14 Feb 2013 1,616 posts	Quote Pin sarabop I'm giving free furniture away and twice the person coming to collect hasn't turned up and has waited for me to contact them about it. If I'd have charged I suspect it may have been a different story.
Caterpillar Feb 2013 9:19pm, 14 Feb 2013 7,462 posts	Quote Pin Caterpillar sarabop - I am with you. I have a little freezer to give away and the person who wanted it couldn't actually be bothered to meet me where I was happy to deliver it to. Wanted it delivered to his door. Well he can effing sod off.
Duchess Feb 2013 9:24pm, 14 Feb 2013 2,753 posts	Quote Pin Duchess I can't find the reference now but there was a charity working in medical care in Africa that discovered it was best to charge for medicines and treatment. Something given for free is perceived as being valueless, whereas even a nominal charge proves its worth.
Jason1969 Feb 2013 9:31pm, 14 Feb 2013 11,365 posts	Quote Pin Jason1969 Someone left some furniture on their front garden with a sign saying "Free" and nobody took it. They put a sign on saying "£50" and it went. This is probably an urban myth.
Caterpillar Feb 2013 9:31pm, 14 Feb 2013 7,464 posts	Quote Pin Caterpillar The nominal cost would be getting his arse over to Guildford on the bus. He was just a useless lazy git. I expect sarabop feels the same.
Velociraptor Feb 2013 9:33pm, 14 Feb 2013 24,116 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor I know that people tend to value medical advice more when they're handing over money for it. That's probably why for most of 'em I come lower in the pecking order than the osteopath and the Traditional Chinese Steroid practitioner and the fortune teller and the bloke behind the bar in the pub
Duchess Feb 2013 9:35pm, 14 Feb 2013 2,755 posts	Quote Pin Duchess Is Google the exception to that rule, V'rap?
Velociraptor Feb 2013 9:37pm, 14 Feb 2013 24,118 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor They all come in and say, "I know I shouldn't look on the internet, but ..." or "I know there's a lot of rubbish on the internet." It probably depends on whether they bought their own computer or are using one for free at the library