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  • tankgirl1
    tankgirl1 Posts: 4,252 Forumite
    Poppycat wrote: »
    A few things I dislike about freecycle is the way its laid out, I hate yahoo groups. Also despite changing my email several times to avoid this fault I still keep getting messages from them saying emails have been bounced and I have to reactive the account well it may of happened the first email addy but definitely not the latest one.

    Oh and the amount of mails one gets particularly at weekend, and some people post silly requests for large expensive items, as If that gonna happen.


    I believe its in the pipeline for freecycle to move away from yahoo groups and onto their own websites. :T
    I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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  • aardvaak
    aardvaak Posts: 5,834 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I have just seen the following on my local freecycle:-

    Please can anyone help?
    Some friends of mine are moving into their first flat in 2 weeks time
    and they need the following:-
    A washing machine that works!
    A sofa,(either 2 2 seaters or 1 3 seater!)
    A double bed with clean mattress! (if they dont get one they are
    apparently going to both sleep in a single bed!!)
    Any modern living room or bedroom furniture. (they arent being fussy
    but they are young 20ish year olds and they want a nice modern first
    home!)
    They are moving in in about 2 weeks and their flat is in xxxxxx so
    if anybody has anything to help them then please email me and we will
    arrange to pick it up somehow!
    Thanks

    Why can't people just save up for things like the rest of us or is this just the culture of todays people - must have now!
  • judderman62
    judderman62 Posts: 5,134 Forumite
    aardvaak wrote: »
    I have just seen the following on my local freecycle:-

    Please can anyone help?
    Some friends of mine are moving into their first flat in 2 weeks time
    and they need the following:-
    A washing machine that works!
    A sofa,(either 2 2 seaters or 1 3 seater!)
    A double bed with clean mattress! (if they dont get one they are
    apparently going to both sleep in a single bed!!)
    Any modern living room or bedroom furniture. (they arent being fussy
    but they are young 20ish year olds and they want a nice modern first
    home!)
    They are moving in in about 2 weeks and their flat is in xxxxxx so
    if anybody has anything to help them then please email me and we will
    arrange to pick it up somehow!
    Thanks

    Why can't people just save up for things like the rest of us or is this just the culture of todays people - must have now!

    and don't they have family and frineds that give them a few items ? :confused: My father gave me a kettle, some bits n pieces of crockery and cutlery and so forth.

    I got by with basic/cheap stuff in the early days - for approx 12-18 months my clothes were stored on a clothes rail type thing on castors £12.50 from Ikea.

    As you say is it a culture of must have now ? Unable to dleay gratification ?
    Hate and I do mean Hate my apple Mac Computer - wish I'd never bought the thing
    Do little and often
    Please stop using the word "of" when you actually mean "have" - it's damned annoying :mad:
  • We were just driving past this morning, and happened upon a freecycle-connected-sale-thing (behold my descriptive powers :D). Like a jumble sale, except everything was just free to take away. Mum and Nan picked a few things up. It can't have been well advertised though, or we'd have known about it - and it was pretty empty.
  • Tetsuko
    Tetsuko Posts: 528 Forumite
    aardvaak wrote: »
    I have just seen the following on my local freecycle:-

    Please can anyone help?
    Some friends of mine are moving into their first flat in 2 weeks time
    and they need the following:-
    A washing machine that works!
    A sofa,(either 2 2 seaters or 1 3 seater!)
    A double bed with clean mattress! (if they dont get one they are
    apparently going to both sleep in a single bed!!)
    Any modern living room or bedroom furniture. (they arent being fussy
    but they are young 20ish year olds and they want a nice modern first
    home!)
    They are moving in in about 2 weeks and their flat is in xxxxxx so
    if anybody has anything to help them then please email me and we will
    arrange to pick it up somehow!
    Thanks

    Why can't people just save up for things like the rest of us or is this just the culture of todays people - must have now!

    I think they are being really sensible. If they really had a 'must have now' attitude they would probably have been really daft and got into debt buying the latest, newest things for their home after they used their savings on their housing costs. Instead it appears that they are being sensible in trying to save money by getting things second-hand.
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  • aardvaak wrote: »
    I have just seen the following on my local freecycle:-

    Please can anyone help?
    Some friends of mine are moving into their first flat in 2 weeks time
    and they need the following:-
    A washing machine that works!
    A sofa,(either 2 2 seaters or 1 3 seater!)
    A double bed with clean mattress! (if they dont get one they are
    apparently going to both sleep in a single bed!!)
    Any modern living room or bedroom furniture. (they arent being fussy
    but they are young 20ish year olds and they want a nice modern first
    home!)
    They are moving in in about 2 weeks and their flat is in xxxxxx so
    if anybody has anything to help them then please email me and we will
    arrange to pick it up somehow!
    Thanks

    Why can't people just save up for things like the rest of us or is this just the culture of todays people - must have now!

    And THAT is what freecycle is for.

    Doubt this would be being discussed if they only wanted a bed. But why not ask for the rest? If someone has something they want rid of, that they can make use of, then everybody is happy. If they get a bed and a settee and nothing else, then they should also be happy.

    The worst that can happen is that no-one has anything they are willing to give away.

    They are not "begging", just asking politely. Why on earth not?

    I'm currently sorting out my old junk into worth-something-on-eBay, rubbish, recycleable, and usable "freecyclable" stuff and will be glad to be rid of a lot of the freecycleable stuff that is just clutter to me. I don't see any point in throwing it away to deny someone else it, just because I never got given it and had to buy it
  • Morty_007
    Morty_007 Posts: 1,496 Forumite
    Whilst I kind of agree wih you in principle, I think the issues are

    A) "shopping lists": most groups have rules about not posting shopping lists and particularly not high value shopping lists.

    and B) Being so specific about things! E.g: (they arent being fussy
    but they are young 20ish year olds and they want a nice modern first
    home!)

    I seem to recall a saying that goes somewhere along the lines of "beggars can't be choosers" and if you're getting something for free then as long as it fits the remit eg: 2 seater settee, should you really specify any more than that? Although I must confess, the 2 seater settee I received from an offer which turned up liking like "something from a crime scene" (not my words, a fellow freecyclers who requested photos to see how bad it REALLY was!) has made me picky and I WON'T be placing a wanted ad for one now!

    I think it's fine to specify working or clean but asking for a specific style or for something to be in "Excellent condition only" or "not the cheap tat" (both descriptions I have seen recently in wanted ads) is a bit much.
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  • Morty_007
    Morty_007 Posts: 1,496 Forumite
    Thinking about it the 3rd issue for me and others is manners. You might not mind great wish lists being posted if they were accompanied by please and thank you but all too often the wanted ad goes something like this:
    WANTED: large, expensive item. Colour needed: sky blue-pink with yellow dots on. preferably boxed and no more than 3 months old. I can pick up Tuesday only or you can deliver between 6 and 6.10 on thursday evening, ring me on ********
    Good Enough Club member number 27(2) AND I got me a stalkee!
    Closet debt free wannabe -[STRIKE] Last personal loan payment - July 2010[/STRIKE]:T, credit card balance about £3000 (and dropping FAST), [STRIKE]Last car payment September 2010 (August 2010 aparently!!)[/STRIKE]
    And a mortgage in a pear tree :D
  • Morty_007 wrote: »

    I seem to recall a saying that goes somewhere along the lines of "beggars can't be choosers" and if you're getting something for free then as long as it fits the remit eg: 2 seater settee, should you really specify any more than that?

    That's true enough. After all, if someone later offers you a better settee, then relist the old one on freecycle for someone else
    Morty_007 wrote: »
    Although I must confess, the 2 seater settee I received from an offer which turned up liking like "something from a crime scene" (not my words, a fellow freecyclers who requested photos to see how bad it REALLY was!) has made me picky and I WON'T be placing a wanted ad for one now!

    I think it's fine to specify working or clean but asking for a specific style or for something to be in "Excellent condition only" or "not the cheap tat" (both descriptions I have seen recently in wanted ads) is a bit much.

    Again, about right. Although TBH, the posting under discussion really only read to me as a request for any modern styled furniture that anyone has. Which is, as said not "over fussy"...maybe just a little fussy but the positive side of this is, it saves people going to the time and bother of offering them their granny's old rocking chair if it is not wanted.

    If we were setting "borders" for what is and isn't allowable in requests, I'd say that particular post got it about right as a marker for the border. Anything more specific/fussy/high-value (I know from skip-ratting how some people's idea of high value is totally different to another's, some things dumped in ships are to me "high value" - such as a top-of-the-range nearly-new electronic keyboard that a friend of mine found and now enjoys using) would probably be over-the-mark.
  • Morty_007
    Morty_007 Posts: 1,496 Forumite
    As I said, I kind of agree with you in principle. It's definately one of the better ones I have seen!





    Grumble Grumble, Moan, Moan...My FC has been really quiet today for a weekend. The owner is away and the mod is out today. :(
    Good Enough Club member number 27(2) AND I got me a stalkee!
    Closet debt free wannabe -[STRIKE] Last personal loan payment - July 2010[/STRIKE]:T, credit card balance about £3000 (and dropping FAST), [STRIKE]Last car payment September 2010 (August 2010 aparently!!)[/STRIKE]
    And a mortgage in a pear tree :D
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