interesting PC recycling

[Jon Pruente]

It is in the Freecycle rules that re-selling items recieved 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 hardluck 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 WINXp 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 dela 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 at 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 ;)
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