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just reading some of todays posts and i cant believe this cheeky cow, i was appauled :eek:


3267WANTED - Faberge Egg - BB2 WANTED - Faberge Egg - BB2
Can someone please help!!
I'm not a single mum. I do work so can only collect at the weekend before 4pm. Thank You...




1.. wouldnt we all love a Faberge Egg
2.. whats with the single mum jibe?

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Can I put myself down for a Rolex watch? :D

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yeah i dont see why not willow ;)

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her profile made me laugh

Yahoo! ID: mishyok Real Name: Mishy Location: Mishyland Age: 29 Marital Status: Long-term Relationship Sex: Female Occupation: Mistress (Advertisement)
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If she is for real then boy she needs her head examined!! The single parent jibe was out of order as not all parents are on their own because they want to be.

She comes across as a self centred, arrogant, stuck up, addled brained, money grabbing egotist spoiled brat!!!

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unfortunately i couldnt find a report button on freecycle

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Already reported it! Can't understand how it got through in the first place. Each post is supposed to be individually checked apparently :confused:

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Ooo i feel for her , ill have to buy her one..... NOT , Cheeky thing , the other day i was laughing at a guy who wanted a caravan!

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up here they ask for motorbikes and caravans holiday homes , i dont know if they got them but i wonder if she knew what a faberge egg is , i dont

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doubt it, she probably meant ferrero rocher egg ;)

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The attitude of some people towards single parents whether female or male gets my back up. The government dosnt help by taking their own very subtle potshots at em gggggrrrrrrrrr.

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You mean everything I read about them being the cause of the worlds problems may not be true ? :p

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Well not all of em. :D There are others causing more aggro and they are happily married. No names though but dont need to be a brain box to know who I mean.

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we hyad one over here some weeks back asking for a camcorder for her nan because her nan had bought one of a conman on b/pool seafront and when she got it home it didnt work , so could it please be one with a pull out screen and not too big for her nan to hold and in full good working order .. i was absolutely gobsmacked ..

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Did she get one?:eek::p:D:):rolleyes:

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i noticed the other day that someone wanted a car

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I've given a car away before now. it had been sat on my drive for 12 months and I was getting nowhere near it. I reckoned it needed time and effort to pass an MOT and I couldn't be bothered. I gave it to a frind who jump started it, put some new wipers on it and passed its MOT :eek:

he was happy to get a car for next to nowt and he owed me a big favour in return.

Its a bit like that guy who swapped a paper clip for one thing and for another till he got a house. If your cheeky and use your initiative thers money to be made

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just got this email from freecycle, thought i'd share it with you




Dear Members

We have been experiencing a spate of Hoax Offer Messages.

Please rest assured the Moderating Team are addressing the issue
promptly.

Please can we ask that you all be cautious when expressing an
interest in items.

Please beware if you see an address in a post or get an auto reply
with an address and a message like:

'1st here gets it' or 'you're the first to reply'

This means that

1.
everyone else is getting the same information and it is now a 'who
gets there first situation'.

2. it may be a scam or someone playing a childish prank. Harassing the
residents of that address.

3. it may be a scam and the address being given is actually empty.

We are aware there have been such offers over the past couple of
nights. Some are listed below.

************************************************** *******************
offered laptop 2 year old
************************************************** *******************
offered 6 boxe's of laminate flooring
************************************************** *******************
offered peugeot car
************************************************** *******************
offered mini moto
************************************************** *******************
offered mountain bike
************************************************** *******************
offered Hi-Fi
************************************************** *******************
offered DJ Decks
************************************************** *******************

The Moderator team would like to apologise if this has ever happened
to you.


Many Thanks for your understanding and continued support

The Moderating Team

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Really dodgy isn't it, dont think I'd go and pick anything up on my own, could just be pranks but I suppose you never know who's going to be at the house when you get there.

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I have left things outside on my landing for collection. On the rare occasions I have collected something I have always arranged it for daylight hours and it has been in an area I know locally to be decent - I would have given backword on an item if the district was 'dodgy'

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I am quite fortunate to live in a block of 4 flats with a communal stairway - any noise in the stairwell is heard and provokes response. There are 3 men in the other 3 flats (and 4 men in the block next door)- as the only woman around I feel they are protective towards me (especially since I am the only one who bothers to clean the stairway :D )

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I have been told before that once Chav has been round for a brew you can't get rid of him :D:D:D

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Hello, just wanted to drop in another perspective about peoples wants on Freecycle etc.

The groups usually have limits on how many wanted posts they can make, if someone wastes a wanted post with something really stupid then it is thier loss, the rest of the group just laugh at them & ignore them and they now have less opputunities to ask for sensible stuff.

However, nothing is too good to give away, cars, caravans, plasma tv, conservatories, expensive hifi systems etc all get given away (I have seen them). So what do we call an extravagant item & say "thats too much to ask for" ?

If you dont ask you dont get, and if its something small that people are likely to have kicking around in the shed etc then your likely to get it.
If you do ask for something that's extravagant then not only do you not get it, but when you do ask for something more basic you dont get that either as people will look up your previous posting history.

At the moment the BwD group is run by some US based international moderators who set it up after its previous owner went awol, they are of the mind not to limit anyones posts, hopefully things will get better when the current moderator gets to take over.

As for moderation of people, when someone joins - yes they are moderated to ensure that they can post correctly, but after they have shown that they can follow the simple subject line format (and its amazing how many cannot!) and have posted a few offers they can be taken off of moderation & are free to post. It doesn't always happen as the people running the groups are volenteers & just like the rest of us have a life to live & cant always commit the time to searching & identifying people.

And as the offers to help from people (other than those that just want to profit from it) are few far between there remains delays & moderation galore.
Luckily the mods have a Firefox plugin that really helps them or all hell would break loose.

Apologies for the spelling errors, for some reason my checker isnt working.

Matty.

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just seen this

i'll give her a slap if she really wants one :D


Yahoo! Groups

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lol.... someone just asked for a nintendo DS.....

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ha ha thats not something people usually ask for

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what did it say flashy? can't get in....

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it didnt say anything thats just my point she just put that as a title and then no other comments...daft sod

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could someone please enlighten me as to what the hell this is?


OFFERED - Chocolate Wonder - BB3

Complete chocolate wonder set, melting including pan, moulds, and
other bits.

Collection ASAP Please

BB3




i half expected it to say something about a bra when i was opening the email

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I think its prob one of those choc melting pots.I have one.
I 'google imaged' it to find out........apparently its this :D

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pmsfl

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they give away some cr*p on freecycle!

lol

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might be needing some of that when i do my garden

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i dont blame ya hun, thats the best stuff you can get for the garden, it'll bring flowers up a treat AND ITS FREE you cant say fairer than that now can ya? some decent stuff on freecycle

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And now i can finally get on it!!!!!!

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pmsfl good :D

seen as you have a car you can register with blackburn too

my dad is registered with Hyndburn,Rossendale,Burnley and Preston, he's always giving things away on them, gave a loada tomato plants and brussel sprout plants away on freecycle last week lol

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Not quite what im after though lol

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lol i know but hey, you get allsorts;) loadsa people have been up for the plants so it just goes to show, the things that people give away on there are worth something to someone :D

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That is true, have still to figure out how to put ad up then can put a wanted for a new table and chairs lol

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click on 'post' at the left hand side of the freecycle screen...then post a message, make sure you put your postcode up


make it something like this


WANTED table and 4 chairs(bb5)


hi has anyone possibly got a table and 4 chairs they no longer need


thanx in advance

Emma

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Will try that later on lol, thanks

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heres another one similar to freecycle that you lot may want to have a look at, theres not as much on but its worth a look

http://lancs.gumtree.com/lancs/lancs...ff_8840_1.html

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this has been offered today.... i thought it was funny...
childs head on a stick lol

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It soon went:D lol

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this one made me laugh today...

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Why, have you never seen silver sharks in a tropical tank?

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Richard has 3 sharks in his fish tanks

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Didn't actually read the post, but the title made me laugh. "wanted, Small fish tank - suitable for an 8 yr old"...

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:eek::rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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I had visions of something from the shark tank at Sealife Centre squashed into a small fish tank. :D

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Posted today.....

sounds like an interesting collection lol

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please try and calm those hormones down Emma :D

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OMG! and I missed that!... lol :lamer:

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some of them are great matty :D

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how could you miss that? :eek: you didnt miss giving me a good telling off about something on there last week :eek: ;)

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That made me LOL too ema :D

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This title made me giggle :)

"man u pop up tent"

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While the subject line may be corrected, spelling and punctuation are not.

Now doing that would really pee people off.

"wot u men I dun spelt it rite! it luked ko to mi".... :D

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My eyes generally glaze over reading whats been put, I often leave it upto the mod tools to spot the naughty stuff & highlight it. hence some does sneak through but you'd be amazed at what does try & be posted :dancedog:

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people on there are getting very picky arent they, cheeky gets

Yahoo! Groups

wanted 28in or more silver telly.bb3









a telly is a bloody telly, and if its free then you dont be so damn cheeky

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did you get the one where some one asked for a sax?

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Or the several asking for laptops?

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oi, i asked for a laptop the other week :D

didnt ask for a specific one though ;)

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Did you get one?

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nah, i aint that lucky lol

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Well obviously it aint cheeky if you ask for one! :p If ya dont ask, ya dont get!!

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lol

it annoys me that they are so specific and picky , fancy only accepting a certain colour or a certain size though



ok ok no wise cracks please

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Now would we do that to you??? :eek::hesoff:

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yes spuggie lol


this one made me laugh.....


Wanted one or two 2-seater sofa(s) preferably cream, terracotta, red, or brown
in reasonable condition.

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Who would dare do that to you.
Have'nt got over the chest freezer yet.

Retlaw.
:hidewall: still in hiding, when can I come out.

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lol


the chest freezer went to an accywebber, the fridge has gone now too :D just gotta get rid of the bike and the kid and i'll have a lovely tidy house :D

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i tryed to join this but they said no

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what exactly did they say?

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they said my membership was regected i said i live in rishton do you thing that could be the problom?

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Do you have a yahoo account because freecycle is part of the yahoo groups.

It wont be because you live in rishton because its Hyndburn is nt it?

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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

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no i do not have a yahoo acc its bt internet thank you for that

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I don't know this site. Do you mean I can ask for anything I want and someone will just give it to me - free?

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? :)

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


so a mod on freecycle told me anyway


oh he also happens to be a member of accyweb too :D

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

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.

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 :D

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).

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 :D

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 :D


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 :D :D

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

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pmsfl, Matty your off your head ;)

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I lost my head many moons ago, its in the same bag with my marbles :D

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Funnily enough, absolutely nothing has changed.
BwD is still looked after by the Yanks because they got rid of a perfectly good moderator and people are still taking the pee when asking for stuff.

And despite having a message creation web page that creates the whole message & sends it for you, people still get the simple subject line wrong....

\bangsheadonwall :end:

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Matty, why are you quoting yourself mate?

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Pointing out that in the past year, nowt has changed :D

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Free stuff is one of the few highlights of someones death. People leave some pretty valuable stuff behind and not everyone's family has the time to find everything a good home. Some might just give away expensive books or paintings so that other people could appreciate them for example, so why not the same with laptops? And before anyone whinges about my first sentence, you only have to look at disputes over wills to see exactly what I mean. All of a sudden the death becomes highly irrelevant once there is property to be fought over.

Household appliances and electrics are the thing that people generally already have so when someone dies, its easier to just give it away on freecycle if you aren't bothered about the money. And some people don't really care about making profit.

I think ASKING for expensive items is somewhat cheeky but as someone said, if you don't ask then you don't get. Simple as that really. We shouldn't be so cynical about listed expensive things though, there are many reasons why a person might decide to just give away something of value.

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I think thats a good idea, I lost my mother in law in November and we have yet to find homes for all her stuff, we're not going to rush to sort things out but thats one idea I hadn't thought of.

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We have had people join just to clear out a recently deceased relatives house, we normally do not allow people from a long way away to join local groups but if they let us know the reason we are always open to helping out.

Last one I know of was from Oxford, clearing his mothers house which all went smoothly.
he then left straight afterwards.

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Just in case anyone from Blackburn area is reading here.

The Blackburn With Darwen Yahoo group fro Freecycle is about to close.
Instead all members are asked to go to the Freecycle.org website and sign up for what is called "my freecycle" and the "new" site that the Freecycle Network are hoping to replace Yahoo with.

IMO the whole new site (which is a beta & still in development) as naff in comparison to the Yahoo groups. There is absolutely no help with it & the current moderator of BwD is no help whatsoever.
The whole of BwD appears to be going to the dogs & I can see a great many of the current 3000 members not bothering to sign up with it.

I can also see that they will instead try joining the neighbouring Hyndburn group.
(And we have decided that we will welcome them).

I have to say though, there has only been 1 admin email about this & the group closes on the 27th.
A pathetic way to organise a whole groups moving IMO.

Matty

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does that mean i can post on Hyndburn now without getting any grief? ;)

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Only when BwD officially closes it's Yahoo group.

From then I wont care as i won't entertain the new site in any way shape or form. :D

thank god for that :D


i wont be signing up for the new Blackburn one anyway

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Can I ask why?
Please explain as best you can, so that I can provide feedback to those creating the site
on why members do not want to join it.
Your name will not be mentioned.

Matty

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because i dont trust things i dont know, simple as that, i trust Yahoo

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OK cheers.

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Well Flashy, it looks like your going to have to bite the bullet & join the BwD crappy site after all.

TFN are rutheless and dont give a toss about the thousands of members they will lose & are determined that the Hyndburn & B&P groups will close & more to the new site.

They are insisting that we appoint their prson as group owner so thatthey can then kick us off, delete all our hard work and then tell the members you have 2 weeks to join the new site before closing the group.

This is how Freecycle work, not like any other charity where you have transparancy at the top, but one where the founder is paid & he is slowly taking all the groups off of Yahoo so he can make more revenue from the advertising there.

There used to be moderators groups where we could discuss organisational issues but they have been stomped on & noone is allowed to show any form of dissent or say anything against how it is run.

I'm sick of it.
I have told them so.

So now they are making almost 4000 people pay for it, as Hyndburn then B&P will close very shortly.

Matty

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Could always use the buy, sell and swap facility on here couldnt we? I wont be rejoining freecycle with the sound of things.