freecycle- reuse dont bin

essexgal

Oooh - someone on my local board's getting fed up of the silly requests:

I don't know, I hate to be churlish about these things. Mostly I just
have a giggle at all the people wanting laptops and speedboats, but
there is a recent post that does rather take the biscuit. I do think
that asking for most of the contents of the average person's house,
including specifying the colour of the furniture required, is not
really in the spirit of Freecycle. I realise there might be a really
good reason for needing this many things, and if this was explained
maybe I would feel a bit more sympathetic, but as it stands if I had
any of those items to give away I might think twice.

I know I will not be alone in this. I wonder if there should be a
little more guidance when you sign up about the kind of requests that
are deemed reasonable?

**Turns fan on then steps back to see what hits it....**

and another:

On the other hand if you do not like people's 'wanteds' you do not have to
read them. I noted the one asking for a lot and deleted it after about the
second item as I could not be bothered to read any more. However instead of asking for all the items in one post each one could have been asked for in a separate post. Then you would have complained about too many postings.
This is another subject getting an airing at the moment

And as for reasons, I get fed up with the 'be sorry for me I am an
unemployed single mother with six children to look after'. Those sort of posts get
deleted as well with no sympathy. (And currently I am unemployed although no
longer a single mother in that my son has been grown up and self sufficient for
some time) We are on freecycle to exchange goods that we no longer
need/want. I get amused at people being desparate and apparantly unable to exist
without a range of items that I do not have and will not have eg: 3 piece suite,
TV and so on. Their posts also get deleted.

We each have our own priorities. We have to accept that what is important
for one person is not important for another. What is reasonable to one person
seems unreasonable to another. If I have something that someone wants/needs
and I no longer need then I will pass it on. It will not be passed on
because I am sorry for that person. I would not want to be so patronising. It is
passed on because I will not throw out something that could be used again,
could be of use to someone else. I have been doing that all my life having
been brought up with the WWII 'make do and mend' and freecycle is just an
extension of this.

One point that does annoy me though is people who do not sign their posts.
But again each to their own.

looks like my local freecyclenetcafe's going to be interesting this week..:D

essexgal

16011996

angelatgraceland wrote: »

There are two options: You can complain to the mod/group owner or you can complain directly to freecycle.org.
I think its [EMAIL="info@freecycle.org"]info@freecycle.org[/EMAIL]-I will check it out for you! I go by the rules and I expect others to do the same. That is what they are there for-to set standards.

Yes-just checked-it is indeed [EMAIL="info@freecycle.org"]info@freecycle.org[/EMAIL]
If you contact them, state you are in UK and the group you belong to.There is a piece in our "mod manual" which actualy specifies this rule but I wonder how many mods have read it.

thanks for this after getting no response from mods here i have emailed the info@ to see if i get a response, will keep you posted

wendyl1967

dobbiesloan wrote: »

Not where I live. I am a member of a few local groups, some list member and mod names some don't.

On most yahoo groups (I am a member of several and moderate Freecycle) you can click on members down the left hand side then it shows two tabs, members and moderators. I have just checked you can do that on my other groups but I can't check freecycle as I am a mod so I can of course see members! It may be worth checking that.

wendyl1967

16011996 wrote: »

thanks for this after getting no response from mods here i have emailed the info@ to see if i get a response, will keep you posted

Preston Freecycle has not heard from you so I assume you mean Blackpool?

16011996

i do mean blackpool, i've not posted much on preston, so not too concerned about that.

jo_b_2

Only carefully colour co-ordinated items needed here:

I am looking for a few things for the house, if anyone could help me
please. Cream or neutral sofa bed or futon, cream rug, garden tools,
black wall light fitting. Thank you

wendyl1967

Someone on here thinks mods get first choice of things When an offered then taken appears almost immediately. This could explain some of them.

This morning I logged on to moderate emails. No-one had been on since about 9 last night so I had about 20 waiting. I went through approving and rejecting. I approved an offered for a rocking horse sent last night and about 3 emails down was a taken for the rocking horse. She said thanks for all the replies but she has decided to offer it to a nursery that replied! Not sure how they could as the message had not even gone out. I checked the archives and it was not a repeat message. She must be anticipating loads of replies when it does go out! I am the only mod to log on since yesterday so we had not taken it. The only thing I can assume is that.

a. she never had it to offer in the first place.
b. Perhaps a friend called and took it

We do get some like that now and again!

Also you may reply immediately to an offered and get told sorry it has gone then feel disgruntled and assume a mod has got it. I offer lots of things (never reply to offereds) and if the request is not polite or reasonable I reply immediately that it has gone. I delete them. All the reasonable requests I then keep and wait a few hours then decide who to offer it to then all the people at work get a fair chance. I am also more likely to give it to someone who can collect within the next day or so.

16011996

wendy, the rocking horse on appeared on the blackpool one, therefore, i think it went out quicker on there and ended up taken, maybe thats part of the problem, people posting on two boards.

welshdeedee

.....and you can't blame people using two boards if they are really keen to get rid of their items.

wendyl1967

16011996 wrote: »

wendy, the rocking horse on appeared on the blackpool one, therefore, i think it went out quicker on there and ended up taken, maybe thats part of the problem, people posting on two boards.

Thanks. I never thought of that. :doh: Lots of groups don't allow cross posting but we do not bother about that on our group. So that is my excuse for not thinking of that one!!