Freecyle: Best and worst experiences please?

Question

What are your best and worst experiences of Freecycle?

I have had some great things from them and have been very pleased with people who have come to remove stuff.

The best experience is with someone who gave me 9 reclaimed doors.

Two worst experiences with the same member. First time they promised me an item then told me upon replying to arrange collection that it had gone to someone else. I gave her the benefit of the doubt when she offered something else and I replied. She only did exactly the same again!

The third time I saw her offering stuff I wanted I just ignored her.

Answer 1

well i can honestly say haven't had the best time with them i haven't been using computers long and i genuinely needed help as we don't have much well some one offered a computer so i replied any way i was polite etc they didn't even acknowledge me then re advertised it straight away,and the moderators i am sure they get stuff for themselves and their Friends they told me i couldn't ask again for a month yet i had only asked for 1 thing yet theres people asking for god knows what,can you tell i am not happy with it,lol..

Answer 2

I used to own a Freecycle group in my old hometown (I created it), and when I moved out of state I chose not to offer my moderator services to my new town's FC group.  Why?  Simply because there are some in the ranks of FC owners and mods who get a little dictator-like in their interpretation and enforcement of the rules and guidelines set forth by FC.

As for my personal experiences, as a member of a neighboring group (which was a very large one), I had little success obtaining anything that was offered; and when I offered things, I would receive some of the most terrible emails, people who just felt they deserved to get the item or who assumed that I would automatically choose them because they managed to email me first (I never go by first respondent, by the way).    In my own group, as it grew it experienced some growing pains; but overall I had a very good experience with it (it was just with having to listen to some of the FC overlords in the mod groups that I got tired of it).