Do you all get these types of posts on your community pages?

These entitled assholes are the worst. Please please let no one be desperate enough to help this bitch out.

It reminds me of couples on House Hunters looking for the perfect grand house  ( new construction 3,000 sq. ft., 5 bedrooms, hardwood floors throughout houses, granite, finished basement) and only paying $100,000 for it!

We just got a post on our NextDoor message board praising a local sports grille for opening up and defying our governors orders. They have so many "likes", because we are in a big time Trump county.

I see mostly those types of 'demands' regarding services like home repair, yard work, electrical, plumbing, and the like.

But I also see it for special occasion cakes -- elaborate, fancy cakes that the poster needs tomorrow and then adds they "can't afford to pay much." Yeah, right.

I saw a post from a guy who had a broken down appliance and was asking quite a bit for it - I can't recall what it was. A string of people laughingly responded he should pay the fee at the dump to get rid of his junk. There was not one serious taker but this guy persisted. It really was pretty funny reading the comments.

You mean on like NextDoor? No! They would get roasted

I read somewhere that someone had a business (printing, I think) and their motto was "Fast, cheap, and accurate! Choose any two."

In our area, I see lots of asks for cheap yard clean up. No one gets too nasty about it. They generally offer the name of a company or father and son duo they have used.

That is actually how my parents got rid of a huge maple tree that fell. Someone driving by saw it and asked if they cut it up could they have the wood. Granted it is in more of a rural area where people have wood heaters or sell firewood to people.

I'm not on any community Facebook pages but I am on Nextdoor. I've not seen too many posts asking for cheap stuff fast. I can only see my neighborhood and surrounding ones.

There was a woman on Nextdoor who said she recently moved to the area and needed everything. I mean everything (bed and sheets to go with it, dresser, sofa, tv, tv stand, clothes, shoes, food, dishes, silverware......). Everything had to be free and delivered to her second floor apartment. The community rallied and quickly set her up with everything she needed. Two weeks later posted that she was moving and couldn't take anything with her. She was just going to leave everything behind. It was really strange.

I see them constantly they want the best at something for the lowest price and oh can you do it tomorrow by 2 kind of thing constantly LOL.

Yes, that's exactly the difference. These posts are for jobs that a tree service would charge $$$. They are trying to spin it like they are offering a great deal by letting someone take the wood for FREE! Around here, a tree service charges extra to haul the wood away, because it's more work. So getting someone to take your tree down AND haul away the wood all for free is hilarious.     

I have a reversed scenario story.

I'm rarely on Next Door, but I pop in once in awhile if I have something to give away or want to check on an event. I happened to check in the day after Thanksgiving to such a sad post. Several people in the area truly take the neighborly intent to heart and use the board like a back fence or a form of emotional support, as if we all actually know each other. This is certainly understandable, especially this year.

One disabled man who lives alone had previously wished everyone a happy Thanksgiving and mentioned something about being alone for the holiday. Someone quickly responded that they would happily bring him a complete Thanksgiving meal and would DM him to make arrangements. Good feelings all around.

The day after Thanksgiving, he posted that after setting a time and getting his address, the person no-showed and deleted all of their messages! It broke my heart. He said he hadn't asked anyone to bring him anything--why would they get his hopes up like that?

He explained that he was not now asking for anything and was not angry, but was reminding people to consider their intentions before making offers they can't fulfill. Ugh. Of course, many good neighbors had replied and were going to take him some leftovers immediately. I hope he received some good food and fellowship.

One of my personal faves on the Sell groups - 'NEED IT GONE!' - erm, your potential buyers will decide that, thank you.

Same in our neighborhood.  When someone asks for cheap yard work, the teen girls and boys usually are the ones who respond.  We have had better luck with the neighbor girl doing our mowing and yardwork (when we were on vacation for a month) than a landscaper that charged us a lot more.