I hate Freecycle Gwinnett!
These people have completely lost their mind.Posters are becoming more and more greedy every day!
Excuse me,I have no money either and I also find it hard to buy my kids expensive stuff but that's just the way it is.Why the hell do you expect someone else to buy it FOR you?The purpose of that group was to keep unwanted items off of the landfills.
Do you REALLY think anyone is throwing Nintendo/Playstation/XBox games and systems into the trash?
Someone asked the other day for a TRAILER!"In case you have one rotting in your backyard....".
Someone else keeps asking for donations for churches and other institutions,right now they are asking for deodorant,toothpaste etc,all kind of personal care items to make gift baskets.Don't get me wrong,I don't mind that kind of thing nor do I mind donating,but I honestly don't think you want my old,nasty,used deodorant and toothpaste for them?Because the rules for Freecycle state that you can only request things that someone else doesn't need anymore in order to keep them off the landfills.I am not going to run to the store and buy stuff to throw it out!So this is the wrong place to ask for donations,period.
There are folks that claim they lost everything when they moved down here and haven't saved up enough money to buy pots and pants to cook in for the holidays and since they have the ENTIRE family of 20 coming for dinner they need pots and pans.So you actually CAN afford to feed THIS many people but do not have enough money to go to the store and get a cheap,nasty pan set for 14.95 from Walmart?Next time just say you want to SAFE some money because having all these folks over for dinner is expensive or you just need pans.But don't give me crap about not having saved up money for pans.
I know I sound cruel but believe me,I know what it is to get by without so I mean...you really just gotta set your limits somewhere,don't you think?I am willing to give you anything that I don't use anymore and help you out any way I can but please be honest!
Then there was a lady that offered some PC games for kids,so I replied and she said I can have them and because I wasn't able to pick up until Wednesday she was going to drop them off this morning.I just found out she gave them to someone else,without even telling me.Which is against the rules,but then again the management of Freecycle sux so bad,they don't give a shit.
I was asking if I could post a request for some info on a low-cost or maybe volunteer dog trainer,just to hear that I wasn't allowed to do so because "that has nothing to do with keeping things off the landfills".Next thing I read is a post from a lady that got stuck in traffic,missed Dr.Phill's advice of the day and was asking if someone who had seen it could send it to her.WTF does THAT have to do with keeping stuff off landfills??Of course I got no answer when I tried to get that across to the management....
I gave so much stuff away on Freecycle,even my kids beloved swing set,thinking the lady who came and picked it up could REALLY use it....she sold it,because her in-laws wouldn't let her set it up in THEIR yard.
Nice,just nice.
I used to be a manager there and things were much better then.Now,they just don't give a crap anymore.
I am going to unsubscribe there now....