I appreciate your spirit of sharing. And I commonly ask for items I see that I like that are not set for sale. However, my comment that the gym equipment was not for sale was in response to your post, now edited, that the equipment was for sale. If you intend to sell something and post that you are selling something, well then, why not just sell it?
I don't see anything malicious in a simple statement of fact. But if you want people to ask you to sell items you said you are selling...um, please sell it? Or not.
No matter how you learned of the problem, you would want to let everyone know its fixed, right? What is good publicity is saying "I'm selling it despite the bad publicity." Or even, "Ooops, I've fixed the problem."
In any case, I'll say "Folks...there is great gym equipment at the place. It may or may not be for sale, but its worth asking for".
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