The demographics for our group cut across a wide swath of socioeconomics. You would see people asking for clothing and stuff on a regular basis, but I had to put a stop to a lot of it, mainly because people would not make specific requests. If you’re not familiar with FreeCycle, one of the tenets is to ask for specific items, not make a general request for something like “household goods” or “anything you can spare”. This ends up having people try and turn the place into a charity, which is not the intent.
It was clear there were some who would try to get things just to resell them, which is also a no-no. Same thing with pets. Most groups ban the FreeCycling of animals for this reason. Our group did the same, after a member was caught trying to sell puppies they had gotten (for free) from another member. -D > On Feb 21, 2018, at 11:15 PM, Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 19:29:59 -0800 clay monroe via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> I like when there is an ask for a high end item. As if somebody is >> going to willingly part with a new laptop or other pretty recent >> item. I guess it never hurts to try, but I have not seen anybody >> actually respond. > > I know the instructions for the Los Alamos group said to not do that. > > I do see it time to time in the Albuquerque group. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
