Free Cycle - interesting experience

Efour said:
Part used hair products, those are some grim people and you are weird for advertising it lol
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I once sold a used electric toothbrush on Ebay. Got £50 for it too. I hadn't considered that someone might pay for it, but Mrs Cheesyboy insisted it would sell. She was right.

And 2/3rds of a bottle of perfume for £25 (though that's somewhat sealed I suppose)
 
When I redid my house my Mum went to the bother of putting the old kitchen on there.
Two people turned up with a trailer and took it all away, saved carting it to the tip.
Same with other old bits, curtains etc.
The website seemed horrible to use at the time, used Yahoo Groups or something. Has it been modernised now? Might be useful to get rid of more junk I have.
 
Not freecycle as such but my mrs sells a lot of the kids old clothes on facebook sites to help other parents and put some money in the kid's moneybox. All very good quality and branded clothing, worn just a handful of times. Always in great condition.

You wouldn't believe the drama and self entitlement she has to deal with on these sites. You'll advertise a T Shirt for £1 and you'll get woman asking her to deliver it 10+ miles away. Quite often they will collect from our house and only have a £20 note for a low value item expecting us to let them have it for nothing. One guy did this and had the hump with my mrs, said he would come back but she sold it in the mean time. His mrs was really abusive.

Really not pleasant when you are trying to do people a favour.
 
Efour said:
Not really, it goes against the entire spirit of the reason why it exists.

Nothing wrong with a bit of house robbery then Selling the contents at cash convertors :D

We had this topic Before and again ill say, My sister used it to get a few odds and ends when they moved into their new house and were skint.

She got some IKEA furniture, not even assembled and some hideous futon bed sofa thing, if i recall.

None of them were weirdows, just normal 30s somethings with a bit of an eco vibe.

I Think its brilliant tbh. Shame such a simple concept is exploited by pikieys and stigmatised by weirdows
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Why are you writing weirdows?!?! It's weirdos.
 
Used it once, heard of the horror stories, I was getting rid of an old washing machine.

Had pictures, the whole lot. Only I stated it was next to X bin on X street round the corner from me, it was gone that morning. Did not want to speak to anyone on there.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Good luck to em I say - nothing wrong with a bit of enterprise.

Every business profits "out of other people" in one way or another.
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exactly. up cycling furniture with a little effort can make a bit of money.

if it was only going to be skipped/burned anyway..
 
Phonesis said:
Didn't expect much in the way of responses....

Boy was I wrong. 20-30 emails within an hour. WTF?
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Traders. They'll descend on your wares like a pack of vultures. Even seen them opening the doors/boot of a car and rifling thru the stuff at a boot sale before the guy had even gotten out the car.

soundb0y said:
Better off just leaving it on the street with a sign saying "£20 - enquire within" on top. Whatever it is will be gone within the hour.
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Don't put "free, help yourself!" it'll never go. I heard of story of a guy who owned a shop selling TV's he used to get an empty TV box and fill it full of his rubbish, seal it up leave it outside with a sign saying "for collection in the morning by X customer". It always disappeared overnight.
 
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Weirdow
Weirdow: a woman who, after becoming widowed begins to act out in strange and peculiar ways that are unexpected, peculiar and unexplained.
She seemed so normal before her husband passed away, but shortly after that time, the widow living in the house next door started displaying weird behaviors as she slowly evolved into the weirdow that she is today.

yep thats me :P

Spelling has never been my strongest point and when i have no spell checker, **** just gets messy.
 
It used to be good but I think it's mostly used now by people collecting stuff for eBay or their carboot 'business'. Plus I'm sure the moderators take anything worth having for themselves before the posts are even approved.
 
Probably nothing more sinister than the old dear/fella hiring 'a man with a van' to pick it up for them. Whether or not they have the table is another matter. Perhaps a phone call to check would be in order.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Traders. They'll descend on your wares like a pack of vultures. Even seen them opening the doors/boot of a car and rifling thru the stuff at a boot sale before the guy had even gotten out the car.



Don't put "free, help yourself!" it'll never go. I heard of story of a guy who owned a shop selling TV's he used to get an empty TV box and fill it full of his rubbish, seal it up leave it outside with a sign saying "for collection in the morning by X customer". It always disappeared overnight.
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We did this at work once (head office was in Hunslet) we had a load of old IT equipment to get rid of, lots of umming and ahhing on what to do with it.

They put it the yard overnight to get it out of the office and the whole lot gone in the morning.

Broken mice, knackared keyboards, dead motherboards, proper junk that really should have been skipped when defected but never was.
 
Malevolence said:
Probably nothing more sinister than the old dear/fella hiring 'a man with a van' to pick it up for them. Whether or not they have the table is another matter. Perhaps a phone call to check would be in order.
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Haha well I'm not fussed tbh. Table is no longer my concern, they can do what they want with it and hopefully no third party got involved!
 
I did actually get a call from someone saying their son in law was on the way so think it was above board.

Note: Apologies for double post!
 
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