AIBU to be getting p**d off with all the 'wanted' emails from freecycle

[Pheebe]

I appreciate some are genuine but alot just seem like freeloader requests rather than genuine freecycler. We've recently had ones asking for computers and laptops and plasma tvs

DH keeps telling me to reply with directions to comet or currys...

[nobodysfool]

What piss takers!
They have as much chance getting a jackpot winning lotto ticket.

[Alambil]

change the incoming emails to daily digest thingy?

[Pheebe]

oo yes, must look at email setting

i mean fgs if i had a spare plasma tv i'd give it to me mum!

had a 'wanted' for a cooker from a oaps lunch club, we had one (long story) and happily passed that along...but computers!!!

[BouncingTurtle]

This has been done already...

[Pheebe]

o sorry to bore you bouncing turtle! feel free not to post! sheesh

maybe i'll start a thread...aibu to think i can start a thread on any topic i like...

[luminarphrases]

loads of people on ours are listing unsubscribe, i'd have thought you'd have just had to yahoo unsubscribe, but clearly people are bored of all the rubbish posts on ours

[WallOfSilence]

Yep, computer being asked for on ours at the minute!! And a green house!

[BreeVanDerCampLGJ]

It is just glorified begging in a lot of cases.

[policywonk]

I don't really understand why people get so het up about this sort of thing on Freecycle. It's only words on a screen - it's not as though people are banging on the door demanding your stuff.

Sure, some of them are chancers, but some of them are people in genuine need - and why not check whether someone is willing to recycle something before going off to buy a new one from a shop? Perfectly valid IMO.

People offer computers and laptops quite frequently on my local list. Admittedly not plasma TVs though - well there was one recently but it was broken.

[Pheebe]

fair point policywonk but i think its the 'glorified begging' aspect that gets to me. i work hard for my money and while i'm happy to pass things on when finished with it someone else has a use for them, asking for computers etc etc on the whole is not imo within the spirit of freecycling.

i appreciate people can't always afford to buy from new but there's ebay which seems a fairer (arguably) way of 'recycling' more expensive items

[Chequers]

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