EWOT Goggles - 10/16

This week, my roomate and I bought a used futon on craigslist for $50, a good deal I think. But before that, we were looking at used futons that were being sold for nothing. That's right, they were completely free. So I thought what the point of just giving something away that you spent good money on for free was. If it were me, I'd want to try and earn back what I thought it was worth at that time. Maybe these people thought their futons were so shitty that they would just try and get rid of them by any means necessary. But even so, I'd still want to try and make back some money. Maybe it has to do with the value of happiness: if the person received >$100 of happiness for a futon they bought for $100, maybe they were just so overjoyed with what they got out of it that they were content giving it away for nothing. I don't know. But I do know that I get the message that the futon is a piece of shit if it's being given away for free. So I really don't understand why these people don't charge anything for the futons.