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To wonder if this is the most greedy Freecycle post ever

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Coconuthusk · 12/03/2018 11:31

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!).

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BothersomeCrow · 14/03/2018 11:01

My local Freecycle (now Freegle) is very boring because the moderators are tough. One offer has to be made before you can ask for anything, which does lead to a lot of tat offered but in a city a lot gets taken. And as the tip is 45 min drive away so 2 hours round trip, I have driven the odd bit of furniture to a new home in preference.

Ours has the official policy that it's about avoiding landfill so taking stuff to sell on is fine but please don't lie about it. Half our kitchen came from Freecycling as if you have a van, and can come that day, you can collect pretty much anything round here.

I find Gumtree tends to have fewest time wasters. Local FB is the worst - you'd think a site where everyone knows your real name would be better.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 14/03/2018 11:13

Wanted: I am needing a phone what I am able to download latest apps or even an iPod , this is for decoy work , if you can genuinely help I will explain in great detail thank you.

WTF is decoy work?

DagenhamRoundhouse · 14/03/2018 11:42

People really push their luck on Freecycle. I am in North Oxon and I saw a post recently:
**
WANTED: tools (Perivale HA0)
Looking for tools if anyone has some going spare! In particular hammers, screwdrivers and spanners. Thanks…if you have any these will be very welcomed by the children at my nursery.
**
I jokingly sent a message to ask how old the children were as they might be too young for such tools and got a very prickly reply back ordering me not to message them unless I had tools to give away! (And Perivale is about 70 miles down the M40 and also it's a UB postcode, not HA). Still puzzling over this one.

Beeziekn33ze · 14/03/2018 11:45

I've seen 'desperate for a silver fridge'. Not that desperate then!

SansaryaAgain · 14/03/2018 12:04

I had a special Facebook selling group experience over the weekend. I put DS's Babyzen Yoyo on my local group and within minutes, a very nice woman messaged me to say she'd take it and asked when she could collect.

In between posting the ad and replying to that message, a hun had commented "Int 4 friend'z" and then got most annoyed when I said it was taken, as it should've been hers. She then proceeded to ask "so are you going to follow the rules of the group and sell it to me then?"

At which point I blocked her. I did rather regret that I blocked before telling her that the stroller was mine not hers, and that I preferred to sell it to someone who wasn't a rude entitled bint!

WineIsTheAnswer · 14/03/2018 13:11

We have had a lady on a local FB selling site asking for a car for months. Every time it's for her son who has just passed, so he needs a good reliable car with low tax insurance. Must have full MOT. Every time she gets people selling of their old bangers and every time she responds with "no, not good enough for Son as not new enough/Nice enough/mot long enough and I don't want to pay for it anyway"

She hasn't seemed to learn that these people are selling "not good enough cars" so she's hardly likely to be offered a better one for free. Also she's so rude to the sellers.

People have tried explaining that the scrap man would give people money for cars so who would give her one for free. She argues for a while then deletes only to ask again a few days later.

fleshmarketclose · 14/03/2018 13:27

Today's want here is an electric soup maker,must be one with blending facility, in excellent condition and preferably black but will consider silver. Tempted to send a link to John Lewis telling them they can get exactly what they require for 80 quid!

Lunde · 14/03/2018 15:52

I jokingly sent a message to ask how old the children were as they might be too young for such tools and got a very prickly reply back ordering me not to message them unless I had tools to give away! (And Perivale is about 70 miles down the M40 and also it's a UB postcode, not HA). Still puzzling over this one.

My kids did woodwork at their Scandi nursery from age 3 with proper hammers and screwdrivers.

Keeshy · 14/03/2018 16:03

I love Freecycle only for the cheeky fucker.

Once a woman came round to pick up the base of a divan bed on her bike. She was completely bemused and really quite pissed off when I had no solution to how she was going to get the two halves of a fucking double bed from my house to hers (about three miles away).

Eventually she went home and came back the next day in a van she'd hired. She suggested we went halves on the van rental. When I told her that absolutely wasn't going to happen in a million years, she reported me to the moderators

Badweekjustgotworse · 15/03/2018 00:42

I’ve jait remembered years ago when we redid our bathroom and the new sink didn’t fit so we put it on freecycle as it came as a set with the bath and loo so couldn’t be returned.

I had a chap message me to ask if I could deliver it and I said no I was too busy with work and kids but he could come and collect (it had been advertised as collect only anyway)

So the day arrives and he came to collect. But when he got here he looked at the sink and asked me again if I’d deliver, would I drop him and the sink home. no, I’d told him twice already I couldn’t deliver. Well the cheeky fucker said he’d got the bus and didn’t drive and now he was here I may as well drop him home becaus he couldn’t get the sink home on the bus... Ffs. I told him he could take it or leave it, so he took the pedestal bit and left the sink top and went off to the bus stop, told me he’s be back the next day.... never turned up.

So effectively did someone else out of a perfectly good sink because he was a cheeky twat and a lazy bastard too.

Biddie191 · 15/03/2018 11:03

I'd be so tempted to reply that I have exactly what they need, then give the collection address as the local Argos / BHS (but without the store name - so 45 High Street).

ginghamstarfish · 17/03/2018 10:02

I don't use these sites but wonder why anyone would ever read 'wanted' posts/ads? Given the number of grabby illiterates as seen in this thread I think everyone should give their stuff to charity - even in my small town there are charity shops that collect furniture and appliances, in fact they collect anything, and at least you know some good is coming of it and the items will be sold at an affordable price or donated to those in ACTUAL need.

SoupDragon · 17/03/2018 10:11

even in my small town there are charity shops that collect furniture and appliances

Will they collect old mobile phone chargers? Cassette tapes? Lengths of drainpipe? Old stereo units for refurbishment?

I’ve responded to several wanted posts for items like that.

SoupDragon · 17/03/2018 10:12

I think very few charity shops will collect furniture that doesn’t have the fire safety swing tag. Iirc the BHF don’t.

Beetlejizz · 17/03/2018 10:25

I tend to take the view that illiteracy and genuine need are not incompatible...

Skippetydoodah · 17/03/2018 10:40

We once had someone on our local Facebook page ask for a conservatory. He then went on to say that because he was DISABLED (used to put this in capitals on all his posts) whoever was giving him the conservatory would also have to construct it for him for free. He also used to ask for people to fix his car / do odd jobs for free because he's DISABLED, and regularly used to offer derisory amounts for things for sale (so someone would list something for £100 and he'd offer a tenner and make a point of saying he was DISABLED so couldn't afford to pay full price). I'm sure if he had worded it to ask nicely if anyone would help him out he'd have got a different response but he was just so rude and grabby everyone used to ignore him in the end.

I recently listed something locally and got a response saying 'I'll take it you can drop it off to Xxx'. I ignored her for a few hours and then she kept chasing me asking when I was dropping it off to her, I told her someone else had agreed to pick it up instead and she was furious saying that she'd messaged me first and that I should have dropped it off as she doesn't have a car. Again, if she'd said nicely "I'd like it please but I don't have a car, any chance you could drop it off to Xxx If you're in the area" I'd have done it, it's just the bloody cheek of some people!

MrsHathaway · 17/03/2018 12:14

Freecycle is great for stuff that's too crap for charity shop but too good for the tip.

Old VCRs, cardboard boxes for moving house, a hanging rail.

aquashiv · 17/03/2018 12:51

I have given a flat screen away one person came and looked and thought it wasnt flat enough. There are some right bat shits out there.

Rachel0Greep · 17/03/2018 13:15

Yes indeed, am on a local Facebook recycling page and the very specific demands of some people are unbelievable.

And the 'I'll take it' as though they are doing someone a favour when in fact they are getting free stuff in really good condition...some of them must never have heard of the simple words 'please' and 'thank you'.

sueelleker · 17/03/2018 16:51

I've just got 2 leather sofas from Freecycle. We don't have transport, so I hired a 'man with a van. Cost about £60.00, but a lot cheaper than buying new!

SistersOfPercy · 17/03/2018 17:03

Because I'm clearly stupid and don't learn I posted a perfectly good table on our local selling group, free to collector. Ad went like this...

^Large glass table.
CHAIRS NOT INCLUDED
Collection only POSTCODE / AREA^

First reply...
We're POSTCODE plz

The clue is in the advert and I assume she meant 'where' but I answered her..

AREA

She replies....

Other AREA?

I'm taking it the tip tomorrow. Cannot deal with the stupid.

Atthebottomofthesea · 17/03/2018 18:31

I often respond to wanted posts, often it is something that I don't really use but never done anything with.

I too have recently given away things that are good but not really suitable for a charity shop, other things have just gone because I want others to just have some 'new' things.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 17/03/2018 18:44

Just been reminded about the piano sagas. We rehomed a piano from DW's work for DD. When a better one came up, we put it on Freecycle. First response: "I come in 10 minutes will it go in Saxo?". Second response: "Is it a Bechstein?"
Third response got it. Immediately after it was marked Taken, we got a very abusive message about someone's daughter needing it for her Grade 1.
Freecycling the second one was much the same, with added demands for delivery. One of them had the brass neck to require tuning as well.

LoisEinhorn · 17/03/2018 18:53

We offered our old car on Freecycle. People actually wanted to know the colour.
The people that had it were so so grateful. They didnt ask the colour

Badweekjustgotworse · 19/03/2018 18:20

One of them had the brass neck to require tuning as well.

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