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Title: Well there's your solution right there
Post by: ChadTower on July 12, 2007, 01:59:02 pm

A Freecycle post I just saw:

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I'm in need of a outside chain link dog kennel for my 2 dogs and i got
a nextel from a freecycler and it dosn't work with boost because the
phone is too old so if anyone has a couple of nextel cell phones that
they no longer need
also my washer has just let go and i need a
washing machine as soon as possable having 4 kids laundry piles up fast
so please if someone can help i would thank you so very much i can pick up this weekend and also a tv stand would be good

also nutra systen food if u don't have use for it anymore because i need to loose 20lbs

Walk the dogs to the laundromat, stop waching TV, lose 20lb!

Title: Re: Well there's your solution right there
Post by: shardian on July 12, 2007, 02:02:28 pm

I signed up for freecycle and it is just full of "want ads". I don't even bother reading the free-cycle emails anymore because of ads like you posted.

Title: Re: Well there's your solution right there
Post by: ChadTower on July 12, 2007, 02:05:26 pm

Set up a couple mail client rules separating the WANTED from the OFFERs.  Makes it much much easier to parse out the crap since 90% of the crap is WANTEDs.


If I weren't a "freecycle official" I'd be tempted to respond with an OFFER:  PUNCTUATION email.  That thing reads like a runon haiku.

Title: Re: Well there's your solution right there
Post by: ClubNinja on July 12, 2007, 02:10:19 pm

That's one of the neediest Freecycle posts I've ever seen.  I recommend setting up a dummy account just to shame her with.

Title: Re: Well there's your solution right there
Post by: Chris G on July 12, 2007, 04:02:23 pm

Hey at least she offered to pick it up... there are folks around here that would have asked about free shipping.

Title: Re: Well there's your solution right there
Post by: SavannahLion on July 12, 2007, 11:23:54 pm

I just signed up for Freecycle myself. There's not really much by of way of decent stuff. Mostly offers of baby clothes and one boob who keeps putting up a WANTED for a dual Intel CPU.

I tried to do it at work, but surprisingly the work email blocks the ads, but not the admin mails... hmmm....

Title: Re: Well there's your solution right there
Post by: boykster on July 13, 2007, 01:39:25 am

Quote from: Chris G on July 12, 2007, 04:02:23 pm

there are folks around here that would have asked about free shipping.

How much is the free shipping?  Oh, and does it work? ;)