My Free Pot Giveaway Experience

I have been absent for some time here.... you know how life gets in the way sometimes, right? OK.... am I forgiven? Great :)

I have spent a great deal of time in my basement... (crawl space in a split level....) As some of you may know, these perfectly usable storage areas in split levels suffer from one major flaw... they become black holes where you just keep adding things... like bankers boxes full of papers you 'need' to keep (read: kids doodles, drawings, paintings, report cards and paid utility bills), clothes that don't fit, decorations for every holiday you celebrate, winter clothes, summer clothes, sporting goods, that old tube TV that you thought you'd keep just in case this new fangled flat screen technology wasn't built to last like they did in the good 'ole days, a couch, a wagon, building materials from a renovation that never quite got finished, touch up paint, a couch, a VERY big spider with fangs and other assorted sundry items... OKAY. Enough, right? You get the idea.
Amidst all of this stuff I discovered an old pot.
I loved this pot. At one point in my life this was my 'go to' pot. It was perfect for boiling water for pasta, making homemade soup and it has held many a mean pot of chili.
Alas, a few years back I bought a new set and this fabulous pot got shuffled into my crawl space only to reappear during my recent purge.
I decided to give it away using kijiji free ads. Seemed simple enough. Post photo with description and wait for people to line up begging for this amazing piece of kitchen cookware.

The ad read something like this:
Single Pot With Lid Seeking New Home
(description)
I will do my best to boil water, heat up sauces and fit neatly into your cupboard.
Pick up only.

Well, it was only moments before my inbox dinged with a potential new owner. He asks if he can immediately come over and claim this pot as his very own. I did get a few other replies, but I tell them the pot has been claimed, but good luck on their quests to find more free cookware.
I gave a perfect stranger my address and basked in the glow of having done a good deed.
So I waited, and waited and waited and waited..... as midnight drew closer, I decided that some major disaster has befallen this nice man and go to sleep praying that he is okay, but deciding that he must have been in a car accident on the way over and is either dead or comatose.
So the next morning I send off an email to a lady who had responded second... I tell her that the pot is still here, you are welcome to have it.... unless of course you've found another... and she quickly replies back saying 'I REALLY need this pot. Thank you so much! I can come and pick it up after work today. Thanks so much, again, I REALLY need this pot. Have a great day!'
So feeling thoroughly pleased I sit back, basking again in the glow of having done a good deed.... thinking everything happens for a reason... the first to respond to the ad surely did not NEED this pot, otherwise he would not have been stricken down on his way over. Yes, this lady NEEDS my pot... she DESERVES to have my pot and she will be oh so happy when she gets it home only to find that it is indeed a fabulous piece of kitchenware, fit for duty!
So I continue on my day of cleaning only to discover that I had more junk (I mean fabulous stuff) to get rid of. I get out my camera and take a photo of my daughters old bike and realize that the original picture of the pot was dark and dingy, taken in my basement, so while my camera is out I quickly snap another shot of the pot.... why, you ask? Well here's the deal.... I have a little web store, where I pride myself on taking great photos.... I think they are great, I realize that my opinion is simply that, but nevertheless I wanted to show this nice lady who needed my pot so badly a better photo so she could see what she was getting, y'know... just in case she checked the ad again before she came over and decided it didn't look so great in the dingy low light basement photo...  ok, so I'm a little neurotic... I wanted her to see the pot shiny and bright in the light of day!!! (and hey, I was listing another item on kijiji so it didn't seem like such a big deal to simply swap the photo to a better one while I was already logged on!)

This is the better quality picture (still not my best work, but much better than the original!)

This turned out to be a terrible choice on my part because moments later I received a very terse email reading 'I thought you were giving me the pot. Why did you repost it? Have a great day!' I reply, 'I am holding the pot for you, I thought you would like to see a better photo of it :)' Another ding in my inbox. 'Well why did you repost it? Seems like you are trying to give my pot to someone else. Have a great day!' Again, I reply (but with more detail regarding my perfectionism with photos and my embarrassment at posting such a lousy photo to begin with) 'I am saving the pot for you, and only you. It is going to be your pot. I am not trying to give it away to anybody else. Looking forward to you coming over to get your new pot.' Ding! Inbox again... 'Well it seems like you are trying to give it to someone else so I don't want your pot. Have a great day!' I was crestfallen. Sad. Tears welled up in my eyes for the rejection my perfectly good pot was receiving from this woman.... but confused because she kept telling me to have a great day.... did she think my day could still be great when she had crushed my dreams of giving this lonely pot a new home? Then I was suddenly angry! Like a mama bear protecting her cub I furiously smashed down on the mouse.... I replied: 'Well I don't want you having it anyways!' I resisted the urge to tell her to have a great day.