Why is it so hard to give away free stuff?

We have bought a new dresser (on Craigslist) for my little girl. Her old dresser was falling apart and the drawers were fairly hard to pull out and push back in again.

Well, since I wouldn't use it for clothing any more, I thought that maybe somebody wanted it for his/her shop or garage, just to store stuff. It has ten drawers. So I posted it on Craigslist under "free stuff". (You can go and see the ad under Sat, May 30th on Richmond Craisglist, if you are quick. I intend to pull it soon.)

Wehell...

I used to belong to our local Freecycle.org group here in Rmnd. But I eventually gave it up, because I just had bad experiences with annoying people. However well I thought I described the item, there always were people not showing up or showing up but not taking the item, because it was not what they had imagined it to be. I was hoping that Craigslist would be better, mostly because you can post pics. So I took a pic and added a description, more or less warning people that the thing was falling apart. However, the pic somehow made the dresser look GOOD! It looked seriously good and my mailbox was overflowing with mails from people who were clamoring for it.
Since I am an honest soul, I explained in my emails once again that the dresser was falling apart and that it probably would be ok as a storage unit in a workshop, but not for clothing. And every one of the interested parties withdrew. Every one of them. Do those folks not read the initial post, or what?
We ended up putting it in our garage. My dh now stores nails etc in it.