What do you think of these Freecycle Wanted Posts?

Ken68

hollydays wrote: »

Question re using freecycle-If you post an item for sale,where do you look to find if you have any responses?Stupid question but i realy dont know.Ps i do have a yahoo email

You should get an email from anyone interested either direct or via the group. In the daily digest you should see your post offering the item.

Ken68

I had one lady say "it's my turn this week", and she had a list of about 20 addresses from where to collect, radius of 20 miles.
Presumed it was a community got together or may a charity shop. Maybe even a boot sale group.

ccastley

To the person who asked about items for sale...as far as I'm aware you can't sell items on Freecycle, hence the 'changing the world one gift at a time'...

Selling is what Ebay, etc is for!

hollydays

Ken68 wrote: »

You should get an email from anyone interested either direct or via the group. In the daily digest you should see your post offering the item.

Would I have to log into my yahoo email?or would it be indicated on the page?

hollydays

ccastley wrote: »

To the person who asked about items for sale...as far as I'm aware you can't sell items on Freecycle, hence the 'changing the world one gift at a time'...

Selling is what Ebay, etc is for!

oops sorry-slip of the tongue-of course i meant giving it away.

Ken68

hollydays wrote: »

Would I have to log into my yahoo email?or would it be indicated on the page?

Yes Holly...your email account with Yahoo. There are a lot of settings in your Freecycle Group page, where you can amongst other things, enable individual e mail offerings/ wanted or daily digest or neither, just look at it on the Web. Sometimes you can also subscribe to the Cafe section, just chit chat.

Fourcandles_3

My friend listed a tumble drier and was offered a tenner for it but they responded using a non freecycle email address.

I frequently have requests from the same people using several different email addresses.

This week we have had three requests for DS lites!


Can I deliver to the next town about 40miles away as sob sob sob story. No. I don't drive, it is a valuable item, pay a mate a tenner or something. Even a courier would only have charged £15.

Rant over

ccastley

Sorry Hollydays...(*puts soapbox away...*)

A lot of people try and flog stuff on ours!

HugoSP

One group I subscribe to did have a post from the moderator about not selling items after one person complained that he was offered a toaster for £5

It even quoted the e mail from the idiot who was trying to sell it.

We then got another post from someone complaining that people should be allowed to sell stuff on Freecycle!

Ice_2

on our's it states that if someone asks you for money to report them or if someone offer's you money to report them...an if you suspect them to be an ebayer repoat them...it's not like its wrote on there heads...but I haven't been on mine long also I haven't taken or offered anything yet...I have alot of stuff from when my mum died ...but I feel I can actually get rid of it now...was wondering of a charity shop...as one item is a wall unit/drinks cabinet...the other is a table and 4 chair's but I just don't have the room for them so they are gonna have to go...also a bath chair cost £130 and never been used...I wonder if I could give that to social services or somewhere...anyway off down town tomorrow so will ask afew charity shops first if not freecycle and see who wants them...they was one for a laptop on mine...if anyone got a new laptop for xmas can I have your old one...no p's and q's nothing cheeky devils...:D