freecycle

[zaax]

stuff for free.

I'm managing to get rid of alot of 'Junk' this way.

-- zaax

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Its been around for ages, you been lurking in another newsgroup?

ps car boot sales if you want to get rid of you're junk or do it from home..ebay

-- Sir Benjamin Midllethwaite

[Bob Eager]

It's not bad. Unfortunately my local one (Canterbury) is full of freeloaders advertising for things like Apple Macs and powerful PCs; wants outnumber real adverts considerably.

[Stuart]

That shouldn't happen .The one I'm in limits wants to 3 small items a month and you must offer something before wanting something . A few people are a bit unrealistic in their "wants" tho'

Stuart

[Adrian C]

Filter the messages into OFFERED, WANTED and TAKEN folders. That might sort out the wheat/wealth from the chaff/chavs.

Such a great concept that I'm just waiting for the Daily Mail to write a downer article on a kid/old lady/favourite pet killed by the freecycled washing machine, and JP to outlaw it all :-(

Each year I take great pleasure in attending a large amateur radio boot sale rally in Stockwood Park outside Luton (Next in May 14th 2006 - see ). At the end of previous years, a council supplied skip was filled with things the car booters couldn't sell, and a skip diving organised mob (including me) picked our spoils from it.

This year, Mr Prescott and co. has clamped down on the activity.

"NOTE DUE TO NEW HAZARDOUS WASTE REGULATIONS THERE WILL NOT BE A SKIP THIS YEAR - ALL YOUR UNSOLD AND SCRAP ITEMS MUST BE TAKEN OFF THE SITE."

Bugger....

[Guy King]

The message from Adrian C contains these words:

Like the one who posted "Wanted" for a mobile phone, preferrably slide-type with camera.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You must have lots of free time waiting in for the timewasters to arrive...

[Bob Eager]

The moderator only really clamps down on people attempting to charge.

It did get better for a bit, after someone posted a spoof want ad for 'The Moon on a Stick'....

[Mary Fisher]

Sadly the Leeds one was full of people wanting stuff free.

I have a huge amount of good things (not junk) for which I have no further need but I was barred because I offended someone by suggesting that the stated ethos of Freecycle was "changing the world one GIFT at a time", not getting free stuff.

There IS a difference.

Now it all has to go to land fill. I can't be bothered with e-bay.

Some will go to the charity shop but others would be seen as unusable and yet ... the first thing I gave away to a grateful recipient was a huge carrier bag full of used wine bottle corks. He had an excellent use for them, charity shops wouldn't.

So because of one sensitive complainant and an over-enthusiastic moderator lots of people will miss out.

Ah well ... it was nice while it lasted and I made a lot of like-minded friends.

Mary

[Harry Bloomfield]

Mary Fisher was thinking very hard :

Can you not just re-register under a different name?

[Mary Fisher]

I thought about that but it's Yahoo and my isp addie will be the same. The moderator will probably recognise it. I thought about asking one or more of the friends I've made to do proxy offers but it's dishonest, I should involve them.

Mary

[usenet]

My experience so far in the Ipswich Freecyle group has been wholly positive, the people who have collected stuff have been universally grateful and haven't wasted any of my time.

[Andrew Gabriel]

It will all still be left behind, just not in one large container...

[Andrew Gabriel]

I would be interested if it didn't require joining a yahoo group.

[mogga]

Someone asked for a db8 on the Manchester group - but only to point out that being greedy was bad. I don't think they got offered one. ;-)

[someone here]

So look for other freecycle groups near you.

I live in Telford, Shropshire so we have a Freecycle forum. There are five other groups covering a twenty mile radius. Make an offer, someone may be prepared to travel.

Dave

[usenet]

If you read and send mail with a simple, text only, mail reader then I don't see any issue. I can't really see any difference between Yahoo mailing list and others that I belong to.

If you're really paranoid about the information that Yahoo keeps then use a dedicated 'throw-away' E-Mail address for subscribing to Yahoo groups.

[Owain]

You need to diversify into australian hat-making :-)

"Crafty" things like that, primary schools might have been grateful for at one time, now though they're probably bound by so many regulations and fear of litigation or a tabloid newspaper story about "Little Wayne Drunk After School Cork Sniffing Session"

Owain

[Rob Morley]

I doubt it - not really any harm in trying, is there?

[Rob Morley]

What's the problem with that?