The duckpond - Freecycle

Jul. 20th, 2005

02:28 pm - Freecycle

I was a member of a group online for a few months that was designed as a way to give and recieve items that were no longer of value to other people. The person in charge of the group was constantly going ot war with the parent organiation so she chose to break away from them and form her own, new group.

She broke away taking everone with her... just changed the main info on the yahoo group so the name was different, but essentally "stole" all the memebers who were there previously. When we found out, obviously we had the option to stay or not. I did stay, but at the same time rejoined the orriginal list under the orriginal organization when it reopened (again, not against the rules of either group).

Now the "owners" of the breakaway group are sending out admin messages talking about everything the first group did wrong (I would call it slander, but some of the things might be true so I am not sure slander is the right word). In any case, the cattyness of the breakawy owners is reay starting to irk me. Thing is, they seem to get more traffic.

So the question is, do I drop my membership to the breakawy group because I do not like the way the owners are conducting themselves?

Tags: freecycle, freetoreuse, musing

Current Mood: annoyed

annoyed

Current Music: I'm free!

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Comments:

From:	leahmiriam
Date:	July 20th, 2005 10:51 pm (UTC)

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Stay with the group if you can get better stuff on free-cycle. I understand the mentality of not wanting to deal with such mean and nasty behavior, but I don't think it matters in the end. It's just free-cycle, not a social group!

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From:	(Anonymous)
Date:	April 7th, 2006 11:23 pm (UTC)

freeTOreuse

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I know that you are speaking of this group that was once "freecycle" and changed its name over to "freeTOreuse". What you do not know now ~ is that FREECYCLE Founder is in a Legal Lawsuit Battle at this very moment as I am typing this message to you. Were you also aware that the time that you typed your message and the time that the owner pulled away from Freecycle. That the Founder of Freecycle applied for a grant from a company in Toronto called Waste Management for $150,000 to run Freecycle. Now think about it. Asking for money to run Freecycle takes Freecycle away from the concept of being totally FREE!!! Another thing - out of this $150,000 , Deron Beal Founder of FREECYCLE was given a $45,000 Salary to run Freecycle supposedly - while all the owners of the individually FREECYCLE groups got dick all -

Freecycle was and still is about CONTROL!!!!

freeTOreuse now runs under freeONTARIOreuse and I heard that they now have 6 other groups within Ontario, Canada and they are TOTALLY FREE and they do not depend on a grant or a salary. They are also not about CONTROL - and are much lenient when it comes to rules.

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