I've been on freecycle for years elsewhere. I joined freecycle here. Apparently "Needed:" is not permitted. I was used to WANTED: NEEDED: OFFERED: TAKEN: and PPU:.
Okay, they rejected my post for that.
Now it's been rejected again. Why? Because in the past few months I posted 4 Wanted and 1 Offer. Uhm...yeah? 2 Wanted were identical (and was the same as the Wanted I was trying to post again). I have received NO responses for my Wanteds other than one person that was willing to give up a shoe box of legos but would have been an hour's drive for me (adding in that I don't know the shortcuts in a county without any STRAIGHT roads). It wasn't worth the trip or the "waste" of gas and time from my family. The offer I posted? A HUGE lot of homeschool curriculum that I could have sold! Instead I GAVE IT AWAY! Also they had the gall to tell me that posting more offers to wanteds somehow keeps more things out of the landfill. HOW? We are a large family, we live with the basics, we don't buy much extra, we use what we buy, we recycle what we can (metal items are recycled by the landlord's father, we use old oatmeal containers to add to our crafts supply), and the only thing we throw away is actual trash (unless someone wants my used meat wrappers, the paper off of soap bars, or empty cans of shaving cream?). I have even taken broken crayon bits and melted them to make bigger crayon chunks before.
What is the deal? I actually do have a couple of items to post as OFFERED:, but because I didn't post them first (was busy and could only chuck out an email here and there), I'm "rejected". Makes me not want to bother now.
Okay, they rejected my post for that.
Now it's been rejected again. Why? Because in the past few months I posted 4 Wanted and 1 Offer. Uhm...yeah? 2 Wanted were identical (and was the same as the Wanted I was trying to post again). I have received NO responses for my Wanteds other than one person that was willing to give up a shoe box of legos but would have been an hour's drive for me (adding in that I don't know the shortcuts in a county without any STRAIGHT roads). It wasn't worth the trip or the "waste" of gas and time from my family. The offer I posted? A HUGE lot of homeschool curriculum that I could have sold! Instead I GAVE IT AWAY! Also they had the gall to tell me that posting more offers to wanteds somehow keeps more things out of the landfill. HOW? We are a large family, we live with the basics, we don't buy much extra, we use what we buy, we recycle what we can (metal items are recycled by the landlord's father, we use old oatmeal containers to add to our crafts supply), and the only thing we throw away is actual trash (unless someone wants my used meat wrappers, the paper off of soap bars, or empty cans of shaving cream?). I have even taken broken crayon bits and melted them to make bigger crayon chunks before.
What is the deal? I actually do have a couple of items to post as OFFERED:, but because I didn't post them first (was busy and could only chuck out an email here and there), I'm "rejected". Makes me not want to bother now.
: That's too funny.
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: If I hadn't seen that someone had posted items they were offering, I wouldn't have asked for anything. I always offer stuff, as I'm trying to get rid of a bunch of junk (not really junk) that we don't use/need/that's taking up space. People always respond to my offers, but *never* tell me how they want to get them. 
