to re-advertise these items on Freecycle?

[Marzipanface]

I have put some baby items on a freecycle site. I had someone contact me and ask for photos which I provided. 'That's fine, I will have them' was the response. Since then ignoring my responses regarding collection. Then his wife contacted me regarding same advert. Same deal. Once I gave address details, complete silence. I contacted them again and they assured me they wanted the items and arranged collection...no show twice. Same women has contacted me again about a different advert. Again, once item has been offered and address details passed over, no further contact.

It's starting to really annoy me as I know there are plenty of people who want this stuff and I want it out of my house!

Is this normal for freecycle? I'm quite new at it.

Would it be wrong to readvertise at this point?

"Reoffered due to time wasters" is what would appear on the listing round here ::hardcore::

YANBU

... but be prepared for a bullshit sob story about how they were busy taking their beloved pregnant three-legged donkey to the acupuncturist.

I would give them a few days, and then if no reply, go to the next person who asked for the stuff. Of course you should re advertised too if no one else asked for it at the first advert.

it's freecycle unfortunately.

i've generally been lucky with collectors...only one like this but since then i offer with the proviso that if i don't hear back from them in 24 hours then i'll move on to the next

bleeders are quick enough with the "i will have it" and then you get silence

Definitely re offer due to "repeated timewasters" ...and if you have any moderators in your group then maybe flag them up

Actully re reading, you have stayed in twice, so I'd name and shame...put a bit in the offer email.

Mr&Mrs Grabby-Timewasters need not re apply, since I waited in twice for you to collect.......hugs and buns Mrs MFace.

Yes its normal for freecycle.
Some people have set up automatic responses to Freecycle offers and will ask for everything first then pick and choose if they are gifted the items. Because of this you will often see the more experienced Freecycler put in a note to say that they will not respond immediately to give everyone a chance and then after a day or so will sift through the replies. By doing this you can see if any of the old favourites turn up and can deal with them as you wish.

I dont expect sob stories but I wouldnt gift to an 'I'll have it' response. A simple please at least is expected.

I dont ever give out my address to the person I offer the items to. I offer then wait for a response , I then offer a time frame for collection and then on a response to that will give my address/phone number. That way im not giving out my details to folk who have no intention of turning up.

A word of caution too about pick ups. Remember not everyone is who they say they are so make sure you are safe when they call to pick up. If its a small item ,arrange to leave it outside the door just before they are due. If its something they have to come into your house to collect make sure you have other people with you.And if its in your back garden put all bikes ,toys and garden tools away.

The vast majority of folk are lovely and honest,law abiding people in my experience but its always better to be safe as it only takes one shyster casing your property to relieve you of your hard-earned thing(also in my experience unfortunately).

Report them to your local moderators, ours has a "three strikes and you're out" policy.

Ok. It's been two weeks since inital contact. If they messaged me and said they can't collect at the moment, I would understand. It's more the fact they are BOTH reading my messages and not responding.

Normal. I always say "if I don't hear from you by Weds (or whenever) I'll assume you are no longer interested" and then re-offer. But once you've had three of these in a row on the same thing that time really mounts up. I have also had people wailing at me that their phone ran out of credit etc etc. I'm sick of it now, I really ought to de-register.

I also screen responses (I keep a list of previous timewasters and I search on responders names to see if they have offered much stuff themselves previously). Still get a lot of time wasting.

Just one word of warning - check your spam filter. I re-offered something a while ago due to non-response, luckily the second person was also a non-responder, i checked my spam filter for some reason and found the first person's reply in there, so I had to politely get back to them and apologise, they turned up promptly to collect.

NO!!!!

ITs not normal for FC!!!

not over and over and over again saying you want stuff and over and over again not turning up!

No not normal.

Report them to the moderators, i think they are deliberalty doing this.

ignore them and post again.

however if other people responded to the post then you cna just email them privatly and says its still free would you like

When this happened to me, I sent a message saying I needed collection by a few days time, and if I didn't hear I would reoffer.

I too now do what was mentioned above - no address or phone number when I first contact them to offer the item to them.