Weird question I know but..................

[EbonynIvory]

Does anyone have a lawn mower (either electric or petrol) that I can borrow for a few months until the house is sold? Its just not practical to bring the pony home once a week! (She's a bit big and she eats my roses!)

[dxmedia]

Try your local car boot, you should be able to pick one up for £15 give or take.

[Mud_Medic]

PM Sent

[Range Rover Blues]

Yes

[Smego]

Freecycle I picked one up and sold it for £82

[Yoshi]

Freecycle I picked one up and sold it for £82

Thus defeating the object of FREEcycle.

[Landyman]

Yeah we do freecycle and get most anoyed when people take stuff to sell on.

[winchman]

I wouldnt reccomend it.
Lad near us was collecting broken computers
repairing them and putting them back on Freecycle as a few dedicated people on Freecycle do.
Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools and tracked him down to an Ebay account he was freecycling about 1/4 of them and selling the rest.
As you can imagine it didnt go down well with the locals, quite a few popped around for a chat LOL

[dxmedia]

I wouldnt reccomend it.
Lad near us was collecting broken computers
repairing them and putting them back on Freecycle as a few dedicated people on Freecycle do.
Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools and tracked him down to an Ebay account he was freecycling about 1/4 of them and selling the rest.
As you can imagine it didnt go down well with the locals, quite a few popped around for a chat LOL

So he was collecting (spending money going out of his way and removing junk from people) broken computors.

He was fixing them (spending time and money, stripping parts and using his skills).

He was giving 25% of everything back to the community for free.

Sounds like a sound lad to me and a very sound business plan.

[jasonslaphead]

Freecycle I picked one up and sold it for £82

Thus defeating the object of FREEcycle.

Not really, The point of freecycle is that usefull stuff doesnt go to land fill.

[piggysteve]

Its great for picking up old washing machines, Ive got a Disco and SJ410 almost made from the things  :lol:
A lot better than buying sheet steel

[Disco Matt]

I wouldnt reccomend it.
Lad near us was collecting broken computers
repairing them and putting them back on Freecycle as a few dedicated people on Freecycle do.
Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools and tracked him down to an Ebay account he was freecycling about 1/4 of them and selling the rest.
As you can imagine it didnt go down well with the locals, quite a few popped around for a chat LOL

So he was collecting (spending money going out of his way and removing junk from people) broken computors.

He was fixing them (spending time and money, stripping parts and using his skills).

He was giving 25% of everything back to the community for free.

Sounds like a sound lad to me and a very sound business plan.

I'd tend to agree. Nobody can be expected to repair broken items and put them up for grabs at no charge, it just isn't fair.

There has always been treasure in other people's junk. For example, the owners of our local recycling dump swan around in recent double cab pickups or a Kahn Range Rover (even seen a Porsche a few times). They make their money from the stuff that we drag out to the tip using our own fuel and time, and I suspect they still get local government funding to operate it too. They even manage to paint it as them offering a service to the local community, rather than making money from our waste!

[Yoshi]

I wouldnt reccomend it.
Lad near us was collecting broken computers
repairing them and putting them back on Freecycle as a few dedicated people on Freecycle do.
Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools and tracked him down to an Ebay account he was freecycling about 1/4 of them and selling the rest.
As you can imagine it didnt go down well with the locals, quite a few popped around for a chat LOL

So he was collecting (spending money going out of his way and removing junk from people) broken computors.

He was fixing them (spending time and money, stripping parts and using his skills).

He was giving 25% of everything back to the community for free.

Sounds like a sound lad to me and a very sound business plan.

I'd tend to agree. Nobody can be expected to repair broken items and put them up for grabs at no charge, it just isn't fair.

There has always been treasure in other people's junk. For example, the owners of our local recycling dump swan around in recent double cab pickups or a Kahn Range Rover (even seen a Porsche a few times). They make their money from the stuff that we drag out to the tip using our own fuel and time, and I suspect they still get local government funding to operate it too. They even manage to paint it as them offering a service to the local community, rather than making money from our waste!

No-one is expecting them to do anything, people just offer unwanted items on there that might be of use to someone else.  Note i said might be of use to someone else, not profit for someone else.

[Saffy]

Problem was the moderators have some very powerful search tools

hehe  :^o   or they know how to type more than one keyword into google.