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The library on 9th started a swap shelf and now I ask before buying anything
Watched a lady trade a whole box of gardening books for a crockpot manual at the free shelf last Tuesday, and it got me thinking we give advice way better when nobody's trying to sell anything, so how do you all get people to actually ask for help instead of just guessing?
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the_vera6d ago
Wait though, that gardening books for a crockpot manual trade kinda proves the opposite of what you're saying. Nobody gave advice there, they just swapped stuff with no talking at all. The free shelf works because there's zero pressure, sure, but it's not really about asking for help, it's about taking a thing and leaving a thing. The harder part is the actual asking, and I've seen swap shelves where people still don't talk, they just grab and go. Getting folks to say "hey I don't know how to do this" takes something more than a no-sell table, it takes somebody standing there being open first.
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