to think that my local freecycle has way to much stupid rules and the moderators need to get a effin life!!

[lilysmummy2007]

OMG!!! I am finally clearing the spare room, and getting rid of a great solid pine double bed, its free, its me doing my bit to save the planet, why all the stupid rules!! My original offered post said 'I am taking it taking it outside now, please save it from landfill' not that it was already outside in the rain or snow or tornado!!

I was hoping that someone would contact me as soon as i posted it, as this is usually the case and i specified that it must be collected tonight. I would have happily held on to it indoors for a few hours or even till tommorow if i had had a response and an offer to collect.

I just got a message from a moderator saying Your message has been rejected as you cannot put offered posts on the list about items being left outside for anyone to pick up.

I have had to put it out as i have nowhere to store and it is now difinitely going to landfill and i have send a message back to the moderator letting them know that their rules are sometime shit and has now added a double bed and matress to a landfill site!

yes i am being a bit unreasonable but FFS that rejection of my offer was just not nessesary!

YABVU because you can't expect possibly dozens of people to come round to your house on the off chance that the bed is still available. It's unfair and a waste of everyone's time and petrol.

Why not modify your post - you don't have to say that it's outside even if it is. Just tell the first person who replies that the bed is theirs and is outside waiting for them to collect it.

You are the one who has decided to put a perfectly good bed into landfill - you can't blame freecycle moderators.

Blimey if you are not going to put it back onto freecycle..why not put it on Gumtree instead and get a few quid for it.

Or howabout seeing if you have a charity shop nearby that sells furniture?

Don't put it in the landfill.

you're lucky, I had to pay to get rid of my mattresses

lilysmummy2007,please don't toss into landfill. Someone could use that bed. Freecycle requests messages be posted exactly as they say, it took me several submissions before I got it correct. Just re post it on freecycle, and do it exactly as the guideline instructs. You are allowed to resubmit your offers on freecycle. Good luck.

tryharder, I didnt put my address , so no one was going just turn up. I was waitin to do exactly what you said but I did provide a phone number in case i wasnt at the pc, so who called first would have been given the address. I did put it on gumtree as well as the local forum, but the good news is a nieghbour picked it up late last night for his son, so alls well that ends well and i feel so glad it a perfectly good bed didnt go to waste

Do you know whats really annoying? Its people who send rude emails to moderators! You do know these moderators are volunteers dont you, and they are trying to help keep things out of landfill etc. If they happen to have read your post incorrectly and rejected it incorrectly, surely a nice email to explain it would be more suitable?

Can you imagine what it is like to be a moderator and get rude emails from anyone who has a little problem with something done?

YANBU. My local group is as bad - a real stickler runs it and obviously loves the petty power it gives him. I got pulled up the other day because I dared to put on the subject heading 're-offered' rather than 'offered'...

I've just cleared the house of clutter before going on the market, and although freecycle was admittedly very useful to get rid of things, the rudeness of some of the people who responded made me just not want to bother any more. Can I ring them back this evening? Can I drop the stuff off 7 miles away? CAn I have five things off your list but could you hold them for me for five days because I'm about to go on holiday? And anyone who doesn't say please, or at least pls, gets automatically rejected.

i think there are a lot of wankers on freecycle/freegle and the moderators are simply a reaction to that.

YABVU - I mean you had somewhere to store it until yesterday in your spare room, why didn't you post it yet. And also expecting someone to stop by with big enough transport just in case its still there.

i am with you on this.
I tried to put some bits on freecycle a while ago. I had never used the site before and was asked to justify why I wanted to use the site - ummm because i have stuff i don't need anymore that someone else might fine useful????
I didn't bother in the end it seemed far too complicated for it's own good

I used it once. Put something on and got an email asking me to deliver it. I had stated I couldn't (It was a large cotbed and baby's dresser in really good nic)and they emailed me back called me a snobby bitch who didn't understand how expensive it would be to get a van to pick it up. NEVER AGAIN

Our local freecycle is full of wanteds for totally unrealistic things like laptops and washing machines. Who sees a request for a washing machine and thinks - of course, I have a spare, working washing machine that I just never thought of giving away?

I am with you on this. Have tried various times to even contact local Freecycle group and its like joining a secret society - getting a google email address and then waiting for some moderator to get in touch and after a month they still hadn't. Have given up now and will scour charity shops instead.

Sal321 - there are frequently washing machines going on our local freecycle.

With regard to the OP - I think the moderator was being a bit OTT, it must have been fairly obvious that the OP hadn't put her address in the message.........so therefore blatantly obvious that not jsut "anyone" could pick up - as they wouldn't know where it was.

Don't see that saying "it's outside right now" is any different from saying , it's been stored in the attic/garage/tip at the bottom of the garden

And I agree there ARE some very ott moderators. I'm on 3 local groups. And have had an identical post rejected on one of them, while being allowed through o nthe other two

Toccatanfudge - we do also have offers of washing machines - but I think that when people replace their washing machines they tend to get rid of the old one pronto as they take up lots of space, they don't just store them until someone posts a "wanted" on freecycle. Lots of freecycles have limits on "wanted"s and say that you can't ask for white goods, but ours doesn't seem to have any limits.

If you still need to get rid of the bed try the local Salvation Army, they often run furniture projects and will come and collect