freecycle rant

tabskitten

I think most people ignore the wanted ads anyway- you are either giving something away or you are not.......
Personally think the wanted ads should not be allowed....

OrkneyStar

Have recently left our local freegle (was freecycle)- did give a few things away and got a couple of things, but was just fed up with it!

pulliptears

12 or 13ft trampoline wanted. Quite whats wrong with a 9, 10 or 11 foot one I dont know!

madeupname1

I've offered quite a bit of stuff on Freecycle and pretty much everyone has been lovely and thankful. I also had a 'job lot' offer which I was quite happy to give to a car booter because frankly I couldn't be bothered to sell them myself. A chap came along with his mum and they were lovely too. To be honest, I am grateful that people are helping me to declutter my home.

I have never been successfuly in responding to an offer ad. However, my most irritating experience was of my own making. I once gave away a sky digital receiver box which I hadn't used for a year and 6 months later found I needed it to access a foreign language channel that I had discovered. I posted a wanted ad and got one response. I thought brilliant - this is Freecycle at its best. Except it turned out that the respondent didn't know what I was talking about and wasn't offering a digital receiver box at all. It was a broadband modem, but didn't find that out until I had driven for 15 minutes to pick it up. I didn't have the heart to tell her ...

wolvesinwales

Not good experience with trying to give stuff away here, three items all claimed but had to chase the people to come and collect and none turned up.
I offered to deliver one item as I was in the area and I was met with a hand reaching out the door and taking the item off me and a mumbled thanks then the door slammed.:cool:
Im afraid to say I am more inclined to take stuff to the tip these days.:o

cally6008

that is a total bug bearer of mine - people always saying "pick up soon else its off to the tip"

whole point of the group is to keep stuff OUT of the tips, i'm sure folk forget about the umpteen CHARITY SHOPS that exist and are crying out for donations

if the person can be bothered to take sumit to the tip, surely they can do a detour and take it to local charity shop (or at least make enquiries at charity shops to see if any will pick items up)

SallyForth_2

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Not necessarily true. I've given away things on Freecycle which were worth hundreds and which I could have sold on ebay but I didn't have any particular need of the money and thought it would be a nice gesture to give it away to someone who really needed it.



Hey, if I'm giving away an item that would fetch me £400 on ebay then I am being generous and I certainly expect the common courtesy of a 'please' and 'thank you'.



Depends on what I'm giving away. Not too long ago I gave away a big trunk of crafting materials and tools probably worth around the £200 mark and ultimately I selected someone who was on the lookout for crafting materials for a day centre for disabled children. I would much prefer they had it than an individual who was just looking to make a few quid at a carboot for themselves.

But you are predetermining, based upon the value of the items you are choosing to give away, the level of gratitude you are expecting, based upon the level of generosity you believe you are demonstrating. I am not saying the people who you give these things to, shouldn't say thanks, but ultimately you are in effect getting rid of stuff which you don't want, and don't want to sell (for whatever reason, which is irrelevent to the recipient really)

lincroft1710

Cally - often items offered on Freegle are not suitable for charity shops, eg many electrical items.

Ms-Pacman

I've recently offered a lazyboy recliner on freegle. It went quickly after 1 timewaster, but some of the emails I received asking for it were awful.

I didn't need to know why people wanted it just if they could collect it but some decided to give me their life story as to why they deserved it!
One said he wanted it for his wife who recently had breast cancer, was suffering with various things (far too long list to type here) and as he had lost his job couldn't afford to buy her a new chair. I had given it to someone else by then, but it really bugged me getting an email like that.

iansl2000

I had to tell soemone about this, just offered a desk on dartford freegle and had the following exchange

Srounger:Hi, do you ever come to Dartford please as I don't drive and really like this. Regards, Paul

Me. Do you mean, do I offer delivery?

Scrounger:Yes please. X

Me:No

Scrounger:Ok not to worry. X


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