(Actually now with PhD, but Doctor of Philosophy just doesn't have the same evil ring, does it?)
In the approximately 24 hours since my Freecycle group was approved, 40 people have joined. I haven't even begun promoting it yet! Frankly I am puzzled as to how they found it, since last time I checked it wasn't in Google or in the Freecycle zip code search yet.
Oh, and I also got an email from a local reporter who wants to do a story on it.
I told him, yeah, good luck with that "getting a photo of people doing an exchange" thing. (Only in nicer words of course.)
Crazy, man!
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Update: 2 days, 66 people. With thank-yous, yet!
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Wow!
Freecycle was very handy indeed when I was moving ... somewhen ...
Me too, overall...except for a couple people who were supposedly showing up the day I moved out of town, couldn't make it, and then wanted me to somehow save the items for them to get later. Huh.
Now it's 57.
I am so putting the brakes on people from other (distant) states joining!
There has to be some kind of scam factor to that, though I don't know what it is yet. I mean, why would you join if you lived 500 miles away? To vicariously experience the exchanges?
There was an article in today's Oregonian about this, too. I mean, the one here. Maybe it got coverage elsewhere that made people suddenly interested.
I guess there is some kind of power struggle / scandal going on with the founder or something, according to Wikipedia.
I just wanted to get rid of that scanner!
I thought "freecycling" was cycling on stationary bikes... but I guess thats "spinning".
I'm pretty sure that should be called "Get Outside on a Normal Bike You Fool," --but that's just my opinion.
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