I'm convinced that many of the "free pallet" ads on CL are just the junk no one wants, sometimes cobbled together to resemble a pallet... got lucky and answered an ad from a pool supply place, got several real nice heavy duty pallets. Of course I would like the 4 way ones, but free is free.. I think the coyotes must get ours somehow, we used to have 20-30 nice ones (used them for sidewalk when we were building house. Made it easier to cross the yard to the driveway in the mud) and they have slowly disappeared over the years... Its probably been 20 years since we brought any home.
.. carry on.