To wonder if this is the most greedy Freecycle post ever

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I went on to offer an item today. Saw the following post (minus the text speak/spelling errors):

Wanted: TV (so far so good)
Must be in excellent condition (OK). I only want a decent make eg Samsung (Hmmm). Must have 4 sockets (not sure what this means) and be 42" minimum although bigger would be better (isn't it always). I want black but would accept silver (very generous I'm sure). Send pictures and your telephone number for consideration and I will contact you if I will take it. I need it by the weekend so if I can't have it by then don't email me (wow!). I can collect but would prefer delivery (as if anyone would even respond to this!).

Completely agree re Freecycle. Got fed up w the 'I'll have it' & 'ring me' messages, no shows & 'tyre kickers'

Just came on to recommend Freely Wheely, people on there have so far managed to string whole polite sentences together & collect items when they say they will.

Even got given a Jar of Home-made Jam as a thank you recenctly.

I would never give anything to freecycle. I bet it all ends up for sale and they pocket the cash.

Wow. Taking the Mickey much? I think I'll ask for a new sports car for free

Ps. I put a cooker up for free and then it was shortly listed up for sale by the taker

I have four F& M hampers - staring at one now across the room, used to keep papers and magazines in. Three were from my mother, empty, because she didn't want the hampers after she had removed the food ( default Xmas present from my brother to her) and one very large one that we have in the hall for all the odds and sodds - a thank you business gift to my husband that was full and very much appreciated, nom nom. My daughter did have one in in her large but storage deficient university room - maybe she unknowingly started a trend ?

I've just checked out our local age - somebody wants a 48" flat screen, and somebody else s doing a car boot but 'doesn't have much bits' and is looking for anything saleable. Hmmmm.

If I offer anything, or am thinking of making a reply to a wanted, I won't consider those who are incapable of using words like please and thank you, or who have not read the offer properly.

Somebody on mine is forever replying to freecycle posts about how she's a poor pensioner so needs whatever is offered, then someone looked at her Facebook and she has a daily countdown to her annual month long holiday in Bali.

Probably a post just winding everyone up.

I saw a F&M hamper in one of the interiors magazines and liked it, it is an unusual shape. So I looked on eBay for one to buy (haven't managed it yet) 'cos I'm not a CF!

I came off Freecycle years ago due to the requests making my blood boil. Quite a few for laptops or leather sofas in very good condition and a particular colour. We used it successfully though but it's the requests that are a killer.

Just checked out local freecycle, AIBU to be slightly disappointed it’s all very civil?

Yes, we also have a lady who snaps up Freecycle items (esp baby items ‘for her baby daughter’) only to sell on local FB sites. Disappointing and defeating the ethos of Freecycling. I know she’s allowed to do it but just because you can do it doesn’t make it ok.

IlPorcupinoNilSodomyEst that is hilarious about the car boot sale.

I can ignore the CFs, but it's the time wasters which drive me mad. The idiot who failed to turn up three times for my never-used bed couldn't even be original: first he "forgot", then his mate "let him down with the van" and finally (quelle surprise) "his grandma died"

Even after that he kept texting me, insisting he could now come on x date, that it was really urgent, and getting very abusive when I didn't reply

What really worried me is that of course he'd got my address by that time - and from his attitude I'd much rather he hadn't

I thought Freecycle was supposed to be for getting rid of stuff without wasting time and money disposing of it, and someone else collects it for free, so you both benefit. How does it benefit me to deliver something to someone instead of just taking it to the tip?

And that's why I don't do any official freecycle business! Like everybody else I sometimes have something nice I don't have any use for any longer. Then I ask friends and neighbours if they would like it. If nobody is interested, I take that item to the local recycle-center.

We donated a telly via Freecycle once, not a Samsung but a perfectly good one.
The bloke asked us to deliver it as he didn’t drive, when we got there, the front door was open, he shouted “I’m in ‘ere.”
DH took it in, bloke sat on the sofa asked him to UNPLUG the perfectly good smaller telly he was watching and put the new one in its place, then said “Can you plug the Sky box in before you go?”
He was really rude.
OH walked out with the telly, took it to a charity shop, that takes electronics.
Bloke wasn’t disabled as he chased after DH swearing at him.

We don’t bother with Freecycle any more.

On my local page people are constantly asking if anybody is "gifting" any home accessories I'm sorry pretty home accessories are not a necessary. Or asking if anybody has a x y or z but wants pictures not in a will it physically fit in my room sort of way more of a treating it as a catalogue sort of way
. Maybe I'm wrong to think if your desperate you say thank you and are genuinely grateful for what somebody gives you.

I've seen similar and worse! Last year i saw someone ask for the entire contents of your usual garden come the summer- chairs, table, swing, pool, lawn mower etc... and they weren't the only ones!

I don't mind dropping items off occasionally, especially if it isn't particularly out of my way, we have one that asks for everything, arranged collection once and then she just dropped in 'could you possibly deliver?' - I was polite, but I was at work and it was the school holidays.

I am quite a bad omen though, the number of car crashes, illnesses, deaths, serious hospital admissions etc that has happened to people just as they are about to collect from me is unreal. I do give the benefit of the doubt though, just in case that one time it is genuine.

Send them a shiny pic of one to their exact specifications then deliver them the photo? 😂

I've never needed to, but I believe the local fire service are happy to take scrap cars for training purposes.

This is all such a shame - I have given away loads on freecycle and never had anyone not turn up, always polite and grateful. I also got furniture from there when I first moved in with my 3 month old and had nothing in the house at all - I’d like to think I was also polite and grateful. I guess the bigger area you live in the more people there are, and more chance there will be cheeky ones among them!

On the sales page I'm on somebody asked for a free van or car with full mot yesterday.

Obviously someone who believes in being "entitled"!