freecycle

durham_girl

My freecycle has changed to Freegle. Everything's exactly the same though apart from the name!

jumblejack

Freecycle have had a bit of a reshuffle this last 2 weeks with a lot of local groups having to come out and rename for legal reasons. A lot are now going under the umbrella name of "Freegle" Our local group has and a lot of our neighbouring groups have.

Phyzelda

Cinders2001 wrote: »

Oo oo oo Where abouts are you?
Horse manure Wonderful stuff....i'm in Somerset.

Unfortunately I'm afriad i'm in Oxfordshire

Elsinor

I read the Guardian article...such a shame that Americans(I am generalising of course) still think they are the only ones allowed to have a say in running things!It would appear that the Big Man is now only interested in profiteering from and gagging freecycle groups in the UK(and who knows where else).

Freecycle is a fantastic tool -if abused at times-to save stuff from landfill,and a great by product of this is helping others less fortunate who otherwise would be without.

A great many groups are now flying under the freegle banner,all but 1 of the groups I am a member of have changed over,without me having to do anything ) and the other group I suspect will be changing over soon.

gitw

i love my freecycle too - have given away many things to new homes.

last night was the best though - collected a 'print' for my wall off a fellow freecycler, got it home and realised that it was actually an original signed painting and having just googled it the artists work sells for anything between £400 and £1500. question is do i let the person i got it off know what they have done (they found it in the street theirselves) ?? or keep mum about it???

BeenieCat

Lol gitw! :eek:

Personally i'd say nowt, but the Moral Police will be along shortly to tell me i'm going to hell

bebee_2

I have also offered and recieved from Freecyle Fab Site. My local Group Has also Changed as is now Trafford Freegle ( just for those in my area that don't know) Manchester Group changed quite a while ago and is Greencycle.

squeaky

KxMx wrote: »

Ipswich/Suffolk South East pulled out of Freecycle.... no idea why, the new group is run as IpswichRecycle and a member of freegle.... a tad annoyed it happened with no warning and we were transferred automatically to the new group.

The three Admin messages that they sent you didn't give you a clue?

KxMx

squeaky wrote: »

The three Admin messages that they sent you didn't give you a clue?

As I get the daily digest- those messages were enclosed in the email with the new group name.

KxMx

I've noticed a real drop in Daily Digest emails since my group pulled out of Freecycle- down from 4/5/6 a day to 1-2.
Not sure why as it's still the same great system!