We all knew this bulletin was coming. Probably one of the most controversial topics in the whole freebie community! I’ve seen a lot of people annoyed by free obo characters. 

At first I honestly didn’t see the issue since there was a chance of getting the character for free right? I even put up a couple of my own designs free obo (only one of them got an offer the others were gifted away for free) 

However I soon learned the real reason behind free obo posts (or atleast what most of them seemed to be) 

It’s usually just to promote a character that’s up for offer. Most people don’t even have the intention to give the character away for free and just seem to wait for offers. 

At first I didn’t mind free obo IF the person giving away/selling the character was actually willing to give it away if it didn’t get any offers. I only had a problem with free OBO posts that only accepted offers and didn’t even want to give them away for free. 

But now I just think the whole concept of free obo characters should belong under the sales and offers tags instaid of the freebie ones. Since we all know that about 90% of the time a free OBO character is not gifted but actually sold/traded. 

Another problem with free OBO is the selling/trading of freebies. Now what I mean is people are putting of characters they got for free as free OBO, which to me is the same as putting them up for offers. Which btw... is not an okay thing to do. (Unless the person gifting you the character says it is) 

Summary of my opinion: Free OBO =/= free

This however is purely my opinion. The last part though (about putting freebies free OBO) is definitly not okay in general though