Freecle / freecycle and balloons on sticks

dizziblonde

I've got stuff in the loft I could use getting rid of - that I just cannot face dealing with the usual indiscriminate grabbers about... so it's staying up there mouldering. I bet I could predict to within 99% accuracy who I'd get emails from if I offered it too.

chickywiggle

eileenfromplaistow wrote: »

I have just offered a frame tent on freegle. I stressed how bulky and heavy the bags were, and still I got 2 women who said "I don't drive but am on your bus route"! In the end I waited, and gave it to someone who already had a frame tent, but needed something bigger.
Freegle is my last resort - too much hassle from greedy/rude people.

oh noo I'da offered it the bus route people then watched them try and get it home. :rotfl::rotfl:

pulliptears

How do you 'desperately' need a breadmaker?

WANTED: Desperately need a bread maker
Have a friend who I know really wants a bread maker but I can't afford a
new one. Hoping someone has a spare that I could use as a present. Happy
to collect.

AND she wants to give it as a gift!!!

markmas

pulliptears wrote: »

How do you 'desperately' need a breadmaker?

Call me suspicious, but may be they have a 'desperate' need to clear all the boxes of free Wright's bread mixes they have accumulated?? Floor to ceiling stacked boxes of bread mix could be a health hazard.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-2121535/Ultra-money-savers-wreck-charity-bake-plans-free-bread-offer-goes-viral.html

24skins

Had what i assume was a trader/eBayer this week, she applies for everything I offer with sob stories & this time she was the only person that replied for my item. Turned up in a BMW with a personalised number plate - I'm a single parent with a disabled child; hope she was embarrassed, but doubt it.

sallyrsm

someone on mine has just asked for an electric cooker as their ex has left them without one after a (sic) brake-up, a sofa bed for their kids to have sleepovers, garden toys (not specific - mentioned they'd have anything from a pool to a (sic) tramplean, and a DVD player.

Splashy

sallyrsm wrote: »

someone on mine has just asked for an electric cooker as their ex has left them without one after a (sic) brake-up, a sofa bed for their kids to have sleepovers, garden toys (not specific - mentioned they'd have anything from a pool to a (sic) tramplean, and a DVD player.

Didn't we just take a sleeping bag and sleep on the floor when we stopped over anywhere?

The youth of today don't know they're born :rotfl:

tiny_courageous

Is it freecycle etiquette that mods get first dibs on stuff? I've just signed up to a new group in my local area and was awaiting my first offer to appear after moderation, which it still hasn't. However, did get a response saying "I'll have it". Not that bothered who it goes to, as long as it goes, so replied and it turns out the person who responded is a mod. Like I say, I don't mind who it was but I'd have thought that in the interests of fairness they should at least approve posts, and give everyone equal opportunity.

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24skins wrote: »

Had what i assume was a trader/eBayer this week, she applies for everything I offer with sob stories & this time she was the only person that replied for my item. Turned up in a BMW with a personalised number plate - I'm a single parent with a disabled child; hope she was embarrassed, but doubt it.

I know what you are saying, but.

My hubby drives a BMW, it cost £400, it has a private plate, it was on the car when he bought it, so please don't hold that against people.

We also have 6 kids, 2 of them are special needs, could she have disabled kids at home?


We gave up on freecycle about a year go.

24skins

ilikethesimpsons wrote: »

I know what you are saying, but.

My hubby drives a BMW, it cost £400, it has a private plate, it was on the car when he bought it, so please don't hold that against people.

We also have 6 kids, 2 of them are special needs, could she have disabled kids at home?


We gave up on freecycle about a year go.

It was an estate & looked new, I assume if her kids were disabled she'd have put that in one of the seven sob story rambles she's sent me since I started Freecycling. The plate had her name on it so it's unlikely that it came with the car.

I'm still raging about it & wish I'd just chucked them - I've suspected she was a trader since day one, she always replies within seconds; she's taking stuff & selling it on for sure.

I joined Freecycle as I have environmental concerns & it gets my goat that people who are willing to lie for their own financial gain are abusing the system - they're fraudsters pure & simple (and more than likely evading tax by passing the goods off as their own used items).