Muttley1900
Member
Some of you may know of Freecycle and you may have one or something like it in your area. For those of you who don’t know of it, the simple premise of it is to reduce what would normally go into landfill, tips etc.
How it works is, you have something you don’t want anymore and can’t be asked to try and sell it at a car boot sale, ebay or take it to the local tip (e.g. an old non flat screen TV) and you advertise it on the local site, sit back and wait for the floods of email responses from people whom are desperate for a free TV (did I not mention – everything has to be free).
I use it, as it is good for the green soul within me, but mainly because I love reading the responses I get when I’m offering something, and believe me, you get some classic responses.
Just this week, for instance, I put an advert up for an old digi Freeview tuner thing (my area went digital over a year ago) – now a new one would cost you say £10 in the shops, but I had floods of responses for this dog eared, clunky Freeview box – okay, the price was probably right (£0).
My all time favourite response was from someone who told me that they was absolutely desperate for one of these, they’ve not been able to watch tv for months. But because they had multiple children and was a very hard up, they couldn’t afford one.
All very sad, and members are discouraged to beg like this, but it went on and on about how hard up they are…
The bit that had me in stiches though, was the auto signature at the bottom of the email…
“Sent from my iPhone”
How it works is, you have something you don’t want anymore and can’t be asked to try and sell it at a car boot sale, ebay or take it to the local tip (e.g. an old non flat screen TV) and you advertise it on the local site, sit back and wait for the floods of email responses from people whom are desperate for a free TV (did I not mention – everything has to be free).
I use it, as it is good for the green soul within me, but mainly because I love reading the responses I get when I’m offering something, and believe me, you get some classic responses.
Just this week, for instance, I put an advert up for an old digi Freeview tuner thing (my area went digital over a year ago) – now a new one would cost you say £10 in the shops, but I had floods of responses for this dog eared, clunky Freeview box – okay, the price was probably right (£0).
My all time favourite response was from someone who told me that they was absolutely desperate for one of these, they’ve not been able to watch tv for months. But because they had multiple children and was a very hard up, they couldn’t afford one.
All very sad, and members are discouraged to beg like this, but it went on and on about how hard up they are…
The bit that had me in stiches though, was the auto signature at the bottom of the email…
“Sent from my iPhone”
xxx
