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From: ogden on 23 Mar 2010 10:56 Higgins wrote: > Champ wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:08:02 -0000, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: > > > >>> Just don't be tempted by Freecycle - despite the fact that they are getting > >>> it for nothing , the demands are even less reasonable than ebay. > > > >> Ain't that the truth. It was alright when I was in Maidenhead but since > >> moving back in to central London I've given up on Freecycle completely. > > > > ah. > > > > I was hoping to Freecycle a big old CRT TV. > > > Good luck with that. I couldn't give one away, a couple of years ago. V ebayed one a couple of years ago. Often seems you can sell stuff on ebay for money that you can't give away for free locally. Oddest one was when I sold the dented tank from my old 7R. It sold for 99p and the bloke insisted on giving me 8 quid when he collected it. -- ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250
From: ginge on 23 Mar 2010 10:56 On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:29:47 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: >I was hoping to Freecycle a big old CRT TV. Helping clear my gran's house now she's moved into a care home I put her old tv into a skip. It was gone by morning. I think so long as it's left outside it'll go.
From: "Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot" on 23 Mar 2010 11:01 "Dr Zoidberg" <AlexNOOOOO!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message news:hoacp6$vn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Switters" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message > news:Xns9D447776B4B32swittersnospam(a)188.40.43.245... >> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:48:43 GMT, Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot wrote: >> >>> Ebay does open your eyes to the general idiocy of a considerable >>> percentage of the world's population. It's sometimes best to keep them >>> tightly shut in the first place. >> >> And people wonder why I don't do ebay. I'd rather give my tat away to >> charity and save myself any prospective grief. > > Just don't be tempted by Freecycle - despite the fact that they are > getting it for nothing , the demands are even less reasonable than ebay. > I've met two *very* obviously male transvestites through Freecycle. Si
From: CT on 23 Mar 2010 11:02 ginge wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:29:47 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > > > I was hoping to Freecycle a big old CRT TV. > > Helping clear my gran's house now she's moved into a care home I put > her old tv into a skip. It was gone by morning. > > I think so long as it's left outside it'll go. And stuff goes doubly quick if you put it on the pavement and stick a "For Sale - enquire within" notice on it. DAMHIK, etc... -- Chris
From: darsy on 23 Mar 2010 11:04
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:43:56 +0100, Higgins <the.best.names.are.gone(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Champ wrote: >> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:08:02 -0000, ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote: >> >>>> Just don't be tempted by Freecycle - despite the fact that they are getting >>>> it for nothing , the demands are even less reasonable than ebay. >> >>> Ain't that the truth. It was alright when I was in Maidenhead but since >>> moving back in to central London I've given up on Freecycle completely. >> >> ah. >> >> I was hoping to Freecycle a big old CRT TV. >> >Good luck with that. I couldn't give one away, a couple of years ago. I managed to out my last CRT TV to Sweller a couple of years back. Commies will taken anything. -- d. |