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Some general Freecycle advice from a long time list owner

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shardian:

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--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 19, 2007, 11:25:49 am ---
I got the pin from a WANTED... I used to put them out every couple of months saying that I'd haul off any old arcade machines regardless of condition.  Took a while but I finally scored one after months of having people respond asking me to get machines for them or this one priest who kept trying to get me to donate games to his church for their youth center and implying I am a bad person for not doing so.

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Funny, I donated a game to a church and the priest was kind of annoyed.  :D



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Even funnier, my church offered me a Space invaders...only to find it was trashed a week earlier. Oh wait, that isn't funny. :'(

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 19, 2007, 02:32:10 pm ---Funny, I donated a game to a church and the priest was kind of annoyed.  :D

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Asking for the donation would have been fine... except that he called every week for three months with messages of doom and "not being a good community member" until I had donated a game or five.  I told him several times that I wanted nothing to do with his church but that wasn't an issue for him and his attempted guilt trips.  I have no issues donating games to youth centers but sure as hell not in Boston churches.

Dartful Dodger:
Here's a Craig's list tip.

I was looking through the job adds and found one that looked to good to be true, so I figured I'd send a resume to it.  I wasn't thinking straight though. As soon as I hit send I realized I messed up.  It had a BLAHBLAHBLAH@craigslist.com address.  I sent the email from my personal account, I was really good about not using this email address for anything other than personal/business emails.

I'm now getting about 20 spam emails a day on it.  This is a small number compared to my work or yahoo emails, but from 2 to 20 over night it's a big number.  Besides this is just the begining, I’m afraid the number is just going to keep going up.

Either the bogus employer or craigslist collected my email address, either way I should have known better.

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