freecycle- reuse dont bin

frugalpam

16011996 wrote: »

wooooooohooooooooo thanks pam, i've done it. happy person now. gotta go to get sorted for dd birthday party, but i'll be back.

love to you all.

160

Oh good! The 'ignore' feature is wonderful.... made use of that a time or two recently :rotfl:

Pam

bones61

Please, would anybody be able to offer me a Laptop Computer no longer required by you, as I desparately need one for some study Im doing, but cant afford even a secondhand one.
Any offer would be very much appreciated.
Many thanks for your consideration.

6th request since January, boy is she behind with her course work. shame that she cant use her desk top that seems to be in use frequently.
51 wanted posts, no received posts?

judderman62

bones61 wrote: »

6th request since January, boy is she behind with her course work. shame that she cant use her desk top that seems to be in use frequently.
51 wanted posts, no received posts?

:eek: :eek: :eek: and the mods have taken no action

quoia

Remember ................... ???

WANTED HOTTUB
hi, I know i've got no chance of getting one but does anyone have a
working hot tub that they no longer want in their garden or know
somone getting rid of one as my wife would love to have one.
thanks xxxx

well just saw a post today .... (as if these are surplus to requirements)

WANTED - DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME
hi does anyone have a digital photo frame that they don't need/use as i would like to have one to display my daughters photos on it and have loads of them. I hope someone can help. I can collect from anywhere. thanks xxxx

so looked back ...... and it's the same guy with a few more wants in between.....

WANTED - ANY NINTENDO WII THINGS
hi i've just got a WII and was wondering if anyone has any games or accessories that they don't want. I can collect from anywhere. thanks xxxx

WANTED WEP200 bluetooth headset
hi does anyone have a wep200/300 bluetooth headset that they don't need/use or any other. can collect anywhere. thanks xxxx

WANTED - MOTOROLA RAZR V3
Hi Does anyone have a v3 which they no longer need, i would be so grateful if yo do. Many Thanks

bones61

if you don't ask, you don't get ...... if you do ask, you might get.
on the other hand you might just astonish people with your cheek.

I had seen a wanted for a digital camera and today saw the received. It can happen. no idea what spec camera they got but they did say many thanks and that they were very grateful, so good on 'em.
also seen a wanted for battery cover for phone, it made me laugh because I dropped my phone the other week. cover went one way, battery went the other.:mad:
So there was I, in the middle of tesco car park in the rain groping under cars to get the bits back:o . didn't need to post a wanted though.
:rotfl: :rotfl:

welshdeedee

In our current climate of "I need" "I want" etc, I have a cunning plan. I will e-mail Camelot and say I really need to win the lottery, say next Saturday. What are my cheeky chances?

judderman62

or, as contained in a message the mod of one of my groups sent out not too long ago, you might get a name/reputation and people will give you a wide berth.

Quoia's friend certainly seems to like the idea of getting the lastest technology.... doesn't like the idea of paying for it though ? Wii, Razr, bluetooth :rolleyes:

bones61 wrote: »

if you don't ask, you don't get ...... if you do ask, you might get.
on the other hand you might just astonish people with your cheek.

I had seen a wanted for a digital camera and today saw the received. It can happen. no idea what spec camera they got but they did say many thanks and that they were very grateful, so good on 'em.
also seen a wanted for battery cover for phone, it made me laugh because I dropped my phone the other week. cover went one way, battery went the other.:mad:
So there was I, in the middle of tesco car park in the rain groping under cars to get the bits back:o . didn't need to post a wanted though.
:rotfl: :rotfl:

quoia

bones61 wrote: »

if you don't ask, you don't get ...... if you do ask, you might get.
on the other hand you might just astonish people with your cheek.

I had seen a wanted for a digital camera and today saw the received. It can happen. no idea what spec camera they got but they did say many thanks and that they were very grateful, so good on 'em.
...................

I don't disagree - I've occasionally asked for things (not with regards to FC) in circumstances where one normally (probably) wouldn't do so. Often I quote the "If you don't ask, you don't get" bit, almost as a sort of disclaimer, even "an apology", which often puts whoever you're asking "at ease", and allows them a "comfortable" way to refuse . I always ask calmly and politely, don't take it personally or think it unreasonable when my request is refused, still thank them for even considering it when I'm turned down. If I'm successful, even if only partially, offer profuse gratitude and thanks.

With regards to the digital camera - I have no issue with this request - it's not as though they asked for 6 or 10 mexapixels etc.
I own a top Canon digital SLR that cost £600+ just over a year ago. Then again I bought a 5mp Vivitar compact with optical & digital zoom for under £30 only a couple of months ago.

Similarly I've seen minature & keyring type digitals on sale for £5 to £10 at loads of places - the pictures from these are excellent providing you don't want huge enlargements, and these are perfect for email attachments (or eBay) because the image has a relatively low file size.

(I could take 1 photo with my Canon on it best picture setting and attach it to an email, but when it arrives in your inbox, you might not be too happy that it is over 12 megabytes in size !!)

My first digital camera was bought secondhand over 10 years ago, cost £60, has a color LCD screen on the back, only does 320x240, only has 16 meg memory (non removable) and when it's full (24 pictures) all you can do is find the nearest PC to download them. Doubt I could sell it on eBay for more then £5 if that.

If I didn't still have a use for it I can see it would be ideal FC material and would be perfect for someone somewhere with a minimal requirement.


As far as LAPTOPS are concerned I again think a wanted request is perfectly OK, provided very high specifications etc. (ie pi$$ taking) are not part of it. (Not sure about most of the reasons WHY - disabled children, illness etc..)
Much of the reason I say this is that I've been looking to get one myself. I've not posted a Laptop Want on FC but have reponded to several offers. I've nearly bought one on a couple of occasions. My justification that laptop wants are OK, is that I've had an avid eBay interest for the last few weeks, whilst trying to find one for myself.

In the last month, without travelling more than 10 miles from home, I could have bought LITERALLY DOZENS of laptops for under £50. All fully working, all suitable for Internet (inc. broadband and even WiFi with suitable card), Word, Excel, Powerpoint, emails etc. Some of them of significantly better spec than the Acer laptop (Win 98), provided by my company, I had 9 years ago that did all these things and loads more (audio, video, business applications and engineering diagnostic functions for network faults).

Many of these laptops were well under the £50. The cheapest running Win95 went for 99p, a couple sold for £2 to £3, several more under £5, some others sold for just £10. I'd say half of those dozens & dozens sold for under £30.

Given the quantities, prices and hassle and cost of eBaying, I could quite see many others just being dumped, and somewhere like FC being the ideal place they should go.

Incidentally my "furthest" local board had 2 laptops offered this very morning. Both were what I would consider (knowing what my 9 year old Acer could do) "very" high spec Pentium 3 machines - obviously they went very quickly.
The TAKEN post for one of them mentioned that he had had over 800 requests for it !

DenBo_4

Welcome back all you funny posters, I was a bit worried this thread wouldnt be funny any more, but :beer: wahey here you are :j :j :j

On the issue of wanted posts, if you go on Bedford freecycle it is mostly wanteds, the occasional offered (snapped up and gone in seconds)and very rarely recieveds (with thanks). The same people tend to offer and everyone else just seems to want, want, want. The trouble is, the offered stuff is gone in a flash (specially the tvs) so what choice is there? :mad:

judderman62

With all respect to the good moderators , who'm I suspect are in the large majority, this does sound like really p**s poor moderation

DenBo wrote: »

Welcome back all you funny posters, I was a bit worried this thread wouldnt be funny any more, but :beer: wahey here you are :j :j :j

On the issue of wanted posts, if you go on Bedford freecycle it is mostly wanteds, the occasional offered (snapped up and gone in seconds)and very rarely recieveds (with thanks). The same people tend to offer and everyone else just seems to want, want, want. The trouble is, the offered stuff is gone in a flash (specially the tvs) so what choice is there? :mad: