Hi y'all, me and my partner will be moving at the end of June and are looking to sell/offload our possessions (furniture, exercise equipment, etc.). What is the best way to do it, is there a subreddit/whatsapp group/discord server for incoming students where we could post? Thank you!
A few weeks back, I (44M) won a car in one of them supermarket giveaways. There are various reasons I don't want to keep it: I spend a significant portion of the year traveling between two continents, I don't have a garage to keep it in when I'm in my home country, and - perhaps most importantly - the car has a manual transmission and I am bad enough driver on an automatic. I could, however, use a couple of thousand Euros extra, so I decided to sell it.
Friends of mine, a married couple I will call Laura (36F) and Patrick (38M), are in the market for a new car, so I turned to them first. The ticket price of the car is 20k EUR, I need to pay taxes on the winnings of some 4k, so I offered it to them for 14k. They save 6k (which means they don't need to take out a partial loan as they were planning), I end up with 10k, everyone wins. Laura and Patrick very happily accepted and we should have all the paperwork done out next week.
I was hanging out with Laura and Patrick last weekend, signing the paperwork. At one point, another friend of theirs - let's call him Jake (34M) - showed up. I don't talk to him, why is long story, one of the reasons is that he is a knowitall asshole who is just incapable of keeping out of other people's business. And sure enough, when Jake found out what was going on, he felt the need to offer his opinion which amounted to accusing me of "taking advantage" of Laura and Patrick and arguing that if I were a real friend, I would just give them the car. Laura (who doesn't like Jake either, but is the sweetest person ever, so does not let it show) politely shut him down and he thankfully left shortly after that. Laura then apologized and told me that she thought what Jake had said was stupid, but that - surprisingly to both of us - some other friends of hers think the same.
And then yesterday I met up with Alex (39M), a mutual friend of mine and Laura's. Laura, him and me worked in the same office for a couple of years and while I left for greener pastures long time ago, they - and some other mutual friends - still work there. Alex told me, with some amusement, that the entire thing with the car has been the subject of much gossip at the office. According to what he told me, some people are basically taking Jake's side and calling why I did "exploitative" and "taking advantage of Laura's situation", since I am charging them money for something that cost me nothing.
So, Reddit, AITA for selling something I got for free?