Some people are simply takers. When you’re a taker, it manifests in every aspect of your personality. You don’t just expect something for nothing; you expect everything for nothing. And it really is “nothing”: They will never put in any of their own money or their own time or their own effort. It’s all on someone else. To a taker, a person giving an item away for free is “desperate” to get rid of it and can therefore be taken advantage of. A $5 price tag on something might as well be $1,000. It indicates that something will be expected of THEM, so they move on.