Wednesday, July 2, 2008

FreeCycle for profit

yuck! i have a nice couch to get rid of (w/a queen size pull-out bed) and also a double bed. i went to FreeCycle to make a posting because i'd heard it was a good way to give away useful stuff, but it's so commercial!

it's Yahoo this and Yahoo that. fill out a zillion forms and wait for a moderator to review everything. (all while looking at a zillion ads.) i couldn't even get a good user name, other than this_stinks_2008 (which does have its own merits).

maybe i'll finish the bureaucratic/commercial stuff (and make a posting); maybe not.

2 comments:

sus said...

i don't understand what is commercial about yahoo groups. in my part of the world it is just another listserv kinda thingy

dsm32 said...

yahoo groups bombarded me with advertisements and obtaining multiple permissions for doing any tiny little thing; it wasn't worth it, and because of all the ads & bureaucracy i decided not to use FreeCycle to get rid of the stuff.