I think what he was saying was that he would eBay a computer rather than give it away on freecycle, or any other means. I was saying that some PCs are old enough and heavy enough that unless you did something with it locally, you wouldn't get someone to pay you enough for the trouble and pay enough to ship the heavy box of old parts. Brian
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It is in the Freecycle rules that re-selling items received is a no-no. That doesn't stop some people, but it does give an excuse to blacklist the abusers when found. I've recently given away several systems on Freecycle, including that COMPAQ with DSL on it. I've gotten about a dozen responses for each system, and most have some sort of hard luck or sob story attached. It makes it hard to tell who is telling the truth about needing a system, or just hoping that they'll get picked so they can re-whatever with it. One of my main tactics for giving away a system is if someone can make it somewhat obvious that they know what they are doing with it. I'm not going to make life hard for somebody and give them a P-133 with 32MB RAM and let them go off and think Win XP will be dandy on it. ;)
I had offered a few things here, but through my own scatter mind I let the deals drop. I've been much better at keeping up with doing free give aways on Freecycle. I've got some better equipment that I need to part with, and it's too good to let go for free so I'll be posting some of it on here in a while. If anyone I had made a deal with previously is still interested, let me know I'll try to keep things going this time around.
Jon.
On 8/22/06, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
The problem with FreeCycle is the number of people getting stuff just to sell it on eBay... and a horrible UI for the task. But it does seem a good place to distribute some of my excess Kubuntu disks ;)
On 9/25/06, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay@kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
I think what he was saying was that he would eBay a computer rather than give it away on freecycle, or any other means.
But he said, and I quote:
On 8/22/06, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
The problem with FreeCycle is the number of people getting stuff just to sell it on eBay... and a horrible UI for the task. But it does seem a good place to distribute some of my excess Kubuntu disks ;)
I read that as people taking the free stuff from Freecycle to resell on eBay being a problem with giving away on Freecycle. ;)
I was saying that some PCs are old enough and heavy enough that unless you did something with it locally, you wouldn't get someone to pay you enough for the trouble and pay enough to ship the heavy box of old parts. Brian
I agree. Freecycle has let me get rid of some clunkers that aren't worth the price of shipping, but still have enough value to be used as word processors. Jon.
Ok- we are coming to a consensus of sorts. MY 2 points are learned from experience. 1: Restrictions on reuse or "conditional donations" tend to displace good deeds. with bad karma. 2: "Recycle" as shred/melt make new stuff should be the least desirable use compared to plugging it in at a new job.. DO note that Linux often makes this desirable use more viable!
I think Karl Childers would like the way you talk. http://users.aol.com/aleong1631/sling.html On 9/25/06, Oren Beck <orenbeck@gmail.com> wrote: Ok- we are coming to a consensus of sorts.
MY 2 points are learned from experience.
1: Restrictions on reuse or "conditional donations" tend to displace good deeds. with bad karma.
2: "Recycle" as shred/melt make new stuff should be the least desirable use compared to plugging it in at a new job.. DO note that Linux often makes this desirable use more viable!
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