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AIBU?

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to think this is a bloody cheeky post on freecyle

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rosieposey78 · 15/10/2013 21:00

Someone has posted saying they need clothes in a certain size and that they must be trendy and you need to deliver them. Or words to that effect.
Aibu to think that this is rude

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AlexaChelsea · 15/10/2013 22:43

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sunflowered · 15/10/2013 22:48

My favourite a while back was 'wanted: corner sofa as have a new baby'. Wasn't quite sure of their logic there - was tempted to suggest a moses basket instead.

IWishYouWould · 15/10/2013 22:57

A lot of people miss the point of freecycle and are rude too. Overall I thinkna lot of us avoid it now because of this. My instinct is to be generous / economical with a description then dump a pile of hideous clothes on their doorstep. (may involve too much effort, but the looks would be priceless! )

WhenYouSeeaCrocodile · 15/10/2013 22:57

I have had Wanted "newest iPad or IPhone for kids to do homework"

last week there was a message saying wanted "prem boys clothes, he is *lb and tiny as he was born at 24weeks, just born last night and have no clothes"

Tonight there was the same name from the one asking for prem clothes Wanted "just had a baby a few days ago. I never knew I was pregnant so have no clothes for my little lady"

Buttercup4 · 15/10/2013 22:57

At Alexa that is SO cheeky!

tillyo · 15/10/2013 22:58

Some are very cheeky. Have seen 1 tonight "looking for children's clothes but must have tag on still and be able to deliver to me"

gnushoes · 15/10/2013 22:58

I've given up on Freecycle now for all of the above reasons...
the nicest was the lady who brought us a bag of macaroons when she took away our dining room table.

WhenYouSeeaCrocodile · 15/10/2013 22:59

argh posted to soon.

Supposed to add "clothes suitable fro, 3months as she is a big lady"

I have plenty of baby girl clothes but don't want to give to her as she seems to be lying.

soontobeburns · 15/10/2013 23:05

Its the same on our freebies Facebook page

The moderator keeps saying "Dont ask for specifics eg leather sofas, if you need a sofa that bad any will do." Yet you still kepp getting people asking for brown leather sofas or flat screen 50 inch tvs.

2tired2bewitty · 15/10/2013 23:07

We've had two posts recently explaining that the poster's daughter is off to uni and therefore needs a pair of owl bookends

Twattyzombiebollocks · 15/10/2013 23:10

We seem to have quite strict mods on our freecycle, as we don't have requests like that, although we do have the "ill have it/ when can you drop it off" replies to most things I offer.
I've had some bloody fantastic stuff off there though, notably a solid pine 6ft long dining table, 6 dining chairs, lattice radiator cover, a fully working dishwasher almost new, a pushchair, a kids size pool table/football table, and a digital baby monitor.
I've also free cycled a load of stuff myself and my posts always have "not for resale, polite requests only, for collection from xxxxxx" although I will deliver stuff if its obvious someone has no transport and is making a huge effort to collect it.

IorekByrnisonsArmour · 15/10/2013 23:26

On our Freecycle tonight

Wanted: Anything old...

Thinking of offering DP

ChilliDoritos · 15/10/2013 23:33

It's the Facebook local freebie pages that do my head in. I've never seen such rude, entitled, greedy grabby-ness in my whole life. I gave away a massive bag of DD's clothes on our local one and specified in my ad that I wanted someone to have them that would get use from them and not sell them on. A woman contacted me and asked for them for her daughter and said that they don't have much spare cash for clothes etc, so I let her have the and lo and behold within a few hours she was selling them individually on a local Facebook selling page.

It's not that I wanted to sell them; I'd have listed them myself if I wanted the money for them. It's the fact that she obtained them in a deceptive way and then blatantly listed them on a sales site, knowing full well that I live in the area and would probably see them. There were so many lovely clothes in the bag; someone's DD could have got loads of use from them.

ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/10/2013 23:41

I have to say, ours is mostly 'OK'.

But yes, you do get some rude bastards too. The 'I'll have it' responses get deleted, quickly, because otherwise I'd have to respond 'No you fucking wont'.

Met lots of lovely people last time around though :)

Travelledtheworld · 15/10/2013 23:44

I live in a very Green town and I have given away many things on Freecycle and always to interesting people who have been grateful.

One nice woman offered to cook me a meal in return for the items I gave her for her little boy.

But I have also learned to identify the people who want stuff to sell on at car boot sales etc

Bogeyface · 15/10/2013 23:44

I know someone who moderates a FC group. Loads of people were sick of the "I will have it, call me on 07xxxx, with when you can deliver" crew so they copied a poster who said "Only those who can give the magic word will be considered."

It was hilarious, they got email after email asking us what the magic word was, as the rude thickos clearly thought it was some sort of secret password for an exclusive Freecycle plus! They got loads of abuse about it, especially when they told them that they already knew it :o

Re;Leather sofas. We had one once on our local group that wanted 2 matching brown leather sofas, a particular coffee table and dining table with chairs from Ikea....delivered, natch.

ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/10/2013 23:45

One weird thing I find though, and it happens a lot, is that someone posts an 'offer' of something (even quite unusual things) and then very soon after there is a request for the same item. At first I thought it was an amusing co-incidence, now I am sure it's done on purpose... but why would you? Why not just reply to the ad?

ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 15/10/2013 23:47

bogey They clearly don't live within shouting distance of my house or they'd know what the Magic bloody was!

Bogeyface · 15/10/2013 23:51

I do hate the "when can you deliver" ones, but I will always offer to deliver if I will be around in the car and they dont expect it.

And YY to spotting the carbooters, you only make that mistake once I think.

I had a lovely one 2 years ago, just after I had DD. I had been gifted one of those baby in-utero listening devices (not a doppler, I think they are by Angelcare or somthing) on FC and when I had finished with it I re-offered as I said I would do when I was gifted it. I said in my post that I was re-gifting.

I gave it to a lovely chap and his wife who said they would re-gift it too, she was in early pg at the time but really wanted it. Months and months later got an email asking when I would be in as they wanted to re-gift but would I mind doing it for them as they had had twins and didnt have the time! They returned it and I regifted and I have seen it on there again since. That was really nice :) We still smile and say hello when I see the twins couple in town!

But then again, that was Freegle, I am not sure the ebayers/carbooters/arseholes have cottoned on to that yet!

Bogeyface · 15/10/2013 23:56

Oh and cars etc. I have seen a car on our local freecycle that was running, taxed but was due its MOT so would need work. And......a caravan! Road legal, v v old but basically usable. I got my piano off freecycle, but then anyone who has tried to sell one will tell you that you almost literally cant give them away as I discovered when I had to advertise is several times to get shot of it after I discovered that 3 years of lessons still didnt make me sound better than Eric Morcambe in the Andrew Preview sketch!

CatAmongThePigeons · 15/10/2013 23:56

I've seen the post the OP mentioned practically word for word on my local Fb site. She also asks for things as 'jumperoo wanted, must be new, cheap and delivered'.

BillyBanter · 16/10/2013 00:19

Mogz you have missed the point. It's to recycle things instead of binning them. There is no obligation to be hard up.

HarrietSchulenberg · 16/10/2013 00:45

I've had some fantastic things from Freegle/Freecycle (rocking chair and an enormous, Narnia-style wardrobe being my favourites) and also rehomed lots of stuff. I've met some very lovely people along the way, especially the lady who collected my old nursery wardrobe for use by her latest foster child and stopped for a chat and a coffee.

Love the cheeky ones - I've lost count of how many "Wanted: Horsebox" type posts that have been on ours. Every week there's some grabby bastard after a huge TV (must be flatscreen) or iphone 5 with some convoluted tale of woe attached. I'm sorely tempted to tell them I've got the very thing and make them drive over to collect, then not be in. Or send them to "No. 5, High Street" which would be the local electrical shop.

Mellowandfruitful · 16/10/2013 00:53

Alexa - that kitchen request is hilarious!

As it's a choice to give things away via Freecycle, I choose not to give things to rude or impolite people.

HorryIsUpduffed · 16/10/2013 08:24

Chipping we get that too (OFFERED: Dragon Butter followed shortly by WANTED: Dragon butter) but ours is moderated and they come through in clumps, so they don't see each other's before they post.

Freecycle is great for many things but manners are often lacking.

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