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It sounds like a good idea until ............
You have to deliver the 80 kg. boxed lounge suite up the narrow stair well to the tiny 3rd floor appartment in ther cream brick units next to the railway line ( My sister in law used to live there 
) or the business sends the wrong colour item and its all your fault ( you should have checked you know and you should know the difference between desert sand and beige. ).
I,m getting a headache just thinking about it 
@*tippy*toes* wrote:
Someone asked if he'd go to Adelaide to bring some of her remaining furniture (we're in NSW). Yes, he was happy to go. She offered him $100. He said $1,000, she insisted on $100. She paid $1,500 for a removalist.
o_O People are strange.
And (selectively) stingy - $100 wouldn't have even covered the expenses. 
Stuff like that can be successful in some cases (eg low risk areas, like Uber Eats), but I think for large and expensive items, there'd be issues of insurance / liability to consider, plus some outlets won't let anyone but the purchaser collect items, which could be arranged I suppose but would be a PITA sometimes.
I can't understand anyone thinking the service should be provided to them for free, though. I certainly paid a fair amount to the guys I ended up getting to pick up my new desk when I bought it (not that they asked for, or were expecting it, since they were family members doing me a favour, but fair's fair and it was still less than the insane delivery fee I was quoted).
Wow, people seriously don't think much beyond the obvious I guess? (By which I mean I agree that $5 is cheap, when you're talking about someone who is essentially acting as an independent, freelance contractor, and expenses would include more than just petrol).
Even the delivery charges from some of the restaurants that deliver to me are usually more than that, and they're also profiting from the food I buy (most of them have minimum spends for delivery, and can charge up to $15).
