Freecle / freecycle and balloons on sticks

mttylad

And if your a Freecycle user on Yahoo groups then your likely stuffed.
Freecycle have just started wholesale kicking them out unless they move to the TFN website and ditch Yahoo groups.

Makes for more members for other groups like Freegle

Mistral001

Some people have suggested to me that I get things on Freecycle, but I am just not comfortable with it. I regularly go to car boot sales and one day a guy who has a regular stall with house clearance item one it, was in a rush to get away and shout to everybody that they could have anything for free. Some people took items but I felt uncomfortable with doing it. It felt like as if I was scavenging at a dump. I would feel the same with Freecycle. There is nothing like a good old bit of peer-to-peer trading.

Solarjunkie

Well, Mistral, would you be happy to take some extra runner beans from your next door neighbour if he had too many?
Freecycle is like that, but gives you more neighbours!

If you still felt uncomfortable, you could donate the perceived value to Oxfam or whatever. Then you could feel you'd "bought" it. Would that work?

Mistral001

Solarjunkie wrote: »

Well, Mistral, would you be happy to take some extra runner beans from your next door neighbour if he had too many?
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Yes I would have no problem with that as would hope to return the favour in some way in the future. It is asking strangers for something for free, which I am uncomfortable with.

Mojisola

Mistral001 wrote: »

Some people have suggested to me that I get things on Freecycle, but I am just not comfortable with it.

It felt like as if I was scavenging at a dump. I would feel the same with Freecycle. There is nothing like a good old bit of peer-to-peer trading.

Don't feel like that! I have been so pleased to find new homes through Freegle for things that would otherwise have been thrown away.

I give to charity shops when stuff is suitable but they don't take everything. Between a couple of charities and a lot of Freeglers, I was able to clear my parents' house completely apart from a couple of black bags of rubbish.

dlusman

Mistral001 wrote: »

. It is asking strangers for something for free, which I am uncomfortable with.

Then dont post "wanted" ads ? Just offer stuff , and respond to other peoples offers

Mojisola

Mistral001 wrote: »

Yes I would have no problem with that as would hope to return the favour in some way in the future.

It is asking strangers for something for free, which I am uncomfortable with.

With Freegle, you don't repay the person who gave you something - you 'pay it on' by offering things you don't want to other people.

shelley_crow

A couple of corkers from my local group, the first one wanrs furniture from the 1920s, 30s and early 40s. My guess is that they'll be lucky...

My sister and I are after furniture from this period, sofa's & arm chairs, mirrors, glass fronted cabinets, rugs, cushions, shelf units, dinning room chairs, occasional tables, lamps etc, nothing more modern than the end of the WW2, we are able to collect,Many thanks for reading

The next one wants everything, not so much as a please or thanks you though.

we need everything from nursery furniture and equipment (baby monitor, cot with mattress etc..) to kitchen appliances to normal household furniture.

helphelphelphelp

I posted an ad for some toys on my local page, saying free to collector. Did get one message saying 'yes please, and can I deliver'. Not even any offer of petrol money, or an explanation as to why they couldn't collect it themselves. Im giving away £20 worth of toys and they cant even be bothered to come and get them. Some people!

Eager_Elephant

On my local site a lady was offering black plastic dustbins which had previously been used for compost bins - I thought they would be ideal for growing potatoes so I messaged her and she said she only had 1 left.


We arranged for me to collect on the Sunday morning, the night before she messaged me at about 8.30pm to check I was still going and to tell me where she would leave the item.


On the morning I was 15mins late as I had got lost, sat nav took me to wrong village. There was no sign of the bin so assumed she had got fed up of waiting.


When I got home I messaged her and later that day got a reply that she had forgotten to put the bin out and had been to work but would do it now - I told her I lived quite a distance away and could not collect until I was in the area again.


Maybe it's just me but she lived down a really quiet country lane with hardly any houses and I just wondered why she didn't put it in the agreed place the night before when she messaged me (it's not like it was a really expensive thing that a thief might want)??