North and West Suffolk Freecycle works well for me but I never bother
to wait *in for people, I leave whatever I am Freecycling in the
greenhouse so they can pick it up when they want

The trouble with this is malicious posters.

We had one when I ran the West Norfolk group - somebody posted a "I'm
moving in with my girlfriend, giving away most household things" - the
poster was probably a disgruntled ex-partner.

Whoever it was diligently answered enquiries and directed them to the
address. Unusually, all the emails from the hoaxer were articulate
(normally you can sniff out hoaxers by the retarded and unrealistic
postings).

Some people had traveled many miles, some of them were genuinely
struggling oldsters.

Similar scams of saying "I wont be there, but take it away with you"
have been used during neighbour disputes on other groups.