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Some general Freecycle advice from a long time list owner
ChadTower:
I always advise people to put an item outside on a porch to be picked up rather than setting up a meeting time. The number of noshows is mostly solved that way. Plus, more importantly, it's a major safety issue. The majority of Freecyclers in my area are women and inviting a random net stranger to your home is a bad idea.
Noshows are definitely an issue... a bigger one for Craigslist, I think, as I get a way higher noshow rate there.
HaRuMaN:
I've scored some nice stuff off freecycle... A dreamcast, complete with about 20 games, steering wheel, etc. Also got an NES with zapper, controller, SMB1, 2, & 3.
ChadTower:
I've gotten a LOT of great stuff off Freecycle... many game consoles... I got a Laser Cue (pin)... I got to clear out someone's 1985 era pro electronics repair workshop ('scopes, transistor/cap checkers, tube testers, DMMs, variable power supplies, etc)... a 27" RGB presentation monitor... recently snagged like 3 whole years of Nintendo Power.
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 19, 2007, 11:11:20 am ---
I've gotten a LOT of great stuff off Freecycle... many game consoles... I got a Laser Cue (pin)... I got to clear out someone's 1985 era pro electronics repair workshop ('scopes, transistor/cap checkers, tube testers, DMMs, variable power supplies, etc)... a 27" RGB presentation monitor... recently snagged like 3 whole years of Nintendo Power.
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I figure that in one of those emails I am deleting now, that some pinball or something else awesome for a gameroom will show up. That happened when I gave up reading the local trading journal. The week after I quit, Wade told me he scored a working DK Jr. with a spare board set for $50. :banghead: :banghead:
ChadTower:
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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