Freecle / freecycle and balloons on sticks

richardvc

cyberbob wrote: »

No thats the reason I left our freecycle too many people taking the !!!!. Anything I have now gets sold, charity shop or dump

Me too !! Greedy, tight fisted chancers used to show up at the door taking advantage of other people's generosity.

lindseykim13

My expereince today has really put me off, i could have got a few bob for it aswell and saved myself some grief but then again the people that did take it were very nice and made a little girl happy.

I think i might just ebay stuff for 99p BIN with pick up only at least it is first come first served with the BIN button and i won't get people fighting over it!

longtermlurker_2

I do really lke freecycle and have got rid of loads of stuff and received some great things too. The wanted ads are getting annoying though. At the moment about 50% are wanteds.:eek:

One recently (posted on a wednesday) said We are going camping at the weekend and everything is booked but we need some camping stuff, tent, beds, sleeping bags, cooking gear etc.

Nothing like planning in advance:rotfl:

hermum

I've just posted an item on mine, a shed, reminded people as I always do that I only respond to polite requests, no please and your message gets dumped. So far I've had 4 responses, 3 with no manners.
Am I expecting too much of people? I don't want to hear about their bad lives & why they deserve a free shed more than anyone else or to have grovelling messages. All I would like is, a simple please.

SallyForth_2

hermum wrote: »

I've just posted an item on mine, a shed, reminded people as I always do that I only respond to polite requests, no please and your message gets dumped. So far I've had 4 responses, 3 with no manners.
Am I expecting too much of people? I don't want to hear about their bad lives & why they deserve a free shed more than anyone else or to have grovelling messages. All I would like is, a simple please.

I am with you on this one, the trouble is though some peope won't consider a request unless a plausible explanation of why they should have the item is given. On our Freegle, one woman actually insists in her blurb that requesters explain what they want things for.

Lyndach

I'm getting fed up with freecycle too! I offered a old Computer screen 1 person gave me their address and said deliver it to them! and a second said they will take it and the tower as well and please reply quickly their kids are excited and waiting for a new computer!, I wasn't even advertising the tower!

laurenjs88

I cant get over all this our freecycle isnt too bad, people ask for normal things really but there is one bloody women who does my head in! wants so much and gives the whole I'm a single mum on benefits with 3 "kidz", I cant get a job because I am an illiterate numpty who thinks the world owes me for spawing 3 little ASBO children & in return for my plasma TV and gold jewellery I will offer you a bunk bed with no top bunk, no ladder, no headboard & no slats!

And breathe...

emerald_starcat

This is absolutely brilliant, just found it on the Wanted ads on my local freecycle:

wanted to get me to a funeral
ok this is an odd but desperate request,i need to find anything and i mean anything that i can find to car boot, sell in any way in the next week to enable me to get half way across the country to my hubbys dads funeral and buy flowers, and get a suit to wear, im not asking for something for nothing im asking for things i can recycle to help myself, thankyou thankyou thankyou to anyone who can help

cally6008

that would have been deleted on our Freeshare groups

cally6008

Can the lady (sorry I forgot your name) who collected
lettuce plants and took the big green pot please return it
as I need it to plant other stuff.

why give something away when you know you're going to need it 4 days later ?