http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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


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zaax

zaax wrote:
http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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


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zaax

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

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Sir Benjamin Midllethwaite

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:30:06 UTC, "zaax"
wrote:

http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

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.

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On 7 Mar 2006 17:19:14 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:30:06 UTC, "zaax"
wrote:

http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

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.

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

Bob Eager wrote:
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.

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
http://www.ddrcbootsale.org). 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....

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Adrian C

The message
from Adrian C contains these words:

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

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

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Skipweasel
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

In article ,
zaax wrote:
http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

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

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:13:22 UTC, Stuart
wrote:

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.

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'

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'....

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"Bob Eager" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:30:06 UTC, "zaax"
wrote:

http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

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.

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

Mary Fisher was thinking very hard :
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

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

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"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher was thinking very hard :
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

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

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

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article ,
zaax wrote:
http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

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

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.

--
Chris Green

In article ,
Adrian C writes:
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....

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

--
Andrew Gabriel

In article ,
"zaax" writes:
http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

--
Andrew Gabriel

In message , zaax
writes
http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

And ?

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geoff

On 7 Mar 2006 19:47:19 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:13:22 UTC, Stuart
wrote:

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.

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'

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'....


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. ;-)


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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t...

"Bob Eager" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:30:06 UTC, "zaax"
wrote:

http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

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.

Sadly the Leeds one was full of people wanting stuff free.
snip
Ah well ... it was nice while it lasted and I made a lot of like-minded
friends.

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

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
"zaax" writes:
http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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

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.

--
Chris Green

In article
Mary Fisher wrote:

"Harry Bloomfield" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher was thinking very hard :
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

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

I thought about that but it's Yahoo and my isp addie will be the same. The
moderator will probably recognise it.

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

In article
Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
"zaax" writes:
http://www.freecycle.org

Get stuff for free.

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


What's the problem with that?

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:29:16 +0000, Mary Fisher wrote:

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

If you read the wikipedia article on freecycle it seems it's not just
particular moderators that are a bit draconian (the I managed not to
use the term "admin-nazi" :-)

Apart from the issues (of politics and/or competence) many folks have with
Yahoo, it seems to me there's nothing inherently wrong in asking for a bit
of dosh for more valuable stuff. Somehow Freecycle(tm) regard this as
anathema (though they themselves are happy to accept dosh from big
business). Seems to me there's a niche for grass-roots organised local
free/cash/whetever[1] trading posts: like Loot etc but without the
treeware and commercial organisation behind it, and unlike eBay in being
local and not handling money transactions. I may have to start one .... :-)


[1] e.g. LETS, barter ...

"Owain" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher wrote:
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.

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"

It did go to a specialist educational group. It represented a LOT of money
and enjoyment :-)

Mary

Owain