[mattylad]

Hi folks someone I know thats in Freecycle told me that there are some little misconceptions need correcting:

I seem to recall that if you have email run by some obscure provider (whose name I cannot remember) you cannot use it on freecycle - have to use a recognised email provider to register

As far as I know Not quite right, you can use Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, BTinternet or any other ISP.
Although some ISP's have had problems blocking Yahoo mails, NTL & AOL were 2 that spring to mind.
The thing that is not allowed is to be using Grouply.com as they have some serious security issues that Freecycle groups (and others) do not agree with.

In that case I want a 4 bedroom bungalow in this area, with half an acre of land, on a country lane. I'm even willing to swap for a 3 bedroom semi (with new, very posh bathroom) on a semi-rural road. Now, I can't say fairer than that, can I?

Might have been a fun post but:
As far as I know Freecycle is about saving stuff from landfill, I have never heard of a Bungalow being thrown into landfill

Also As far as I know swapping is not allowed, all exchanges are meant to be free & without conditions, a swap contains a condition (I'll give you mine on the condition that you give me yours).

you can become a member of every freecycle site in the country, but you can only advertise for 'things wanted' on your local site....
you can pick up from ANY of the posts on any of the groups though

ISTR If you join a lot of groups you will likely end up on a spammers list & be queried about it, but there is nothing to prevent you doing so.
99.999% of the time anyone that joins all the groups is a national spammer and soon gets noticed and removed.
I'm personally in about 20+ Freecycle groups internationally.

You can usually post both OFFER & WANTED posts on any group that accepts you as a member, but you are asked to post them all on your own "local" group first,as Freecycle is all about "local gifting".
The basis of that is to also respect the environment & not emit loads of nasty emissions into the air

oh he also happens to be a member of accyweb too

Who's that then, I'm sure it wasn't me.

Lancslad, did you reply to the email that was sent to you asking your local area location & partial postal code? ISTR not replying to that is the biggest reason for non approval. It's usually because someone joins up & signs up for a Yahoo email which gets set as default & then they do not check the Yahoo email account.

Other problems are when they join with 1 email address and then reply from another, which means that Freecycle cannot be completely sure that they are the same person, so the same email address needs to be used.
It also needs to be the same email address as the reply will often be searched for to find the members location because they often forget it


Try joining again, email the group owners email address & mention this thread on AW then the dozy sod who's overstretched trying to keep 3 groups in the area running might take more notice

Now if I had some spare time & knew anything about how to use Freecycle well I'd help out as I know they could do with some lol