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Date: Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:11pm
Subject: Free Bay Recycle's latest improvement: FREE AUCTIONS!
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Hello Fellow FREE BAY RECYCLE members and other free recycle
affiliates that like our news and events.

Please register at our site www.freebayrecycle.com we have changed
it and now offer another free place to give away items, sale or
Trade even with buy it now.  Please register and visit to show
your support, this is also a great way to be able to check feedback
on those members you may want to interact with, just like ebay!  So
even if you dont list auctions feedback will be very helpful to our
groups and cut down on bad transactions, drama and the like.

FREE listing of items and NO SELLING FEES unless you
want to upgrade your listing with icons or extras so it stands out.
Get your auctions, offers and such listed asap to help promote the
grand opening!

If you want to give away items for FREE, in the TITLE be sure and
write OFFER: FREE and also in description, and to pick up (Include
your address so members can decide if they want to do the buy it now
option and be able to find your location) or offer shipping on the
free item if your willing to ship.  On FREE items list them at a buy
it now price of $0.10 this will make your listing fee of 10 cents
wash untill we can work out the glitches.

We ask that you spend Wednesday, Thursday and Friday getting familar
with the site, and listing your FREE items, regular auctions, trades
and offers of service and since we plan on having many free items &
not actually BUY IT NOW (ironic I know it will be free) and end the
auctions or untill SATURDAY as our GRAND OPENING!!!

Feel free to continue posting to our regular Yahoo Groups as usual,
this is just and added Perk to our Members as we continue to grow
and expand our membership we look forward to improving your FREE
recycling experiences.

Please check out our new FREE BAY RECYCLE site and add it to your
favorites!

We only just went live please email us with questions, comments,
suggestions etc we appreciate and value your feedback

Heather & April

www.freebayrecycle.com

FreeShare group for the Jackson County, Oregon area.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JacksonCountyFreeSharing/

Completely Free, No Trading, No selling.  Join the group and offer
something!

Please come visit.

Moderator
goddess_cerri

I have created a group for local selling so there is no need for
shipping. If you are in Albany, Lebanon, Sweet Home, Corvallis and
surrounding areas, please join this group. You can buy and sell and
request any item you are looking for. Thanks! Jenny

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/forsaleinalbany/

FreeBeesforMe is a group where everything is FREE!!!
99.99% of everything is No shipping, no clicking 1000 offers to get
something free and No strings attatched! I do occasionally list Instant
Win Games and other great things, so come see what all the Buzz is
about!

The address is http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeBeesforme/

or Subscribe at  FreeBeesforme-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Hello all of you single moms everywhere looking for a good support group

Please feel free to join us here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Single_moms_of_America/

Thanks!!
MELANIE

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BarterBazaar

Buyitfor20orless.com

Warsaw Indiana Classifieds
Buy/Sell/Trade/Barter/Services
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarsawIndianaClassifieds/

Indiana Buy Sale Trade Barter is you where can Sale, Trade or Barter
any item you want as long as it is legal, not offensive, alcohol, drugs
or firearms.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Indiana-Buy-Sale-Trade-Barter/

Original group was closed down by Yahoo at Freecycles request, we
can't get a reasonable explanation from them just that Freecycle had
filed numerous complaints agains our sites and moderators, so we
restarted the group at the folowing address:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheBuySellTradeBarterOregon

AkronOH_FREE_and_THEN_SOME
*NEW* FREESHARE GROUP ~ free/buy/sell/trade ~ North East Ohio,
Akron/Canton, in/or around Summit County
http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/AkronOH_FREE_and_THEN_SOME

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toledoforsalebyowner/

Below is a list of groups that are mine in PA and some I received
from another member in Indiana asking me to post them around.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldwideFreeShare/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NE_PA_Buy_Sell_Trade_Barter/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/United_Neighbors_Recycle1/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/United_Neighbors_Recycle/

Anderson Free Give Away http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Anderson-
FreeGiveAway/
East Central Indiana Free Give Away
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/East-
Central-Indiana-FreeGiveAway/
Free Give Away USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreeGiveAway/
Indiana Free Give Away http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indiana-
FreeGiveAway/
Indiana Buy Sale Trade http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/Indiana-
Buy-Sale-Trade-Barter/
Computer Assistance Free Help http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seagle52/
My Personal Web Site http://seagle52.home.insightbb.com

Another Central Site
Please feel free to post your site at www.FreeCycleAmerica.org as long
as your site is free.

Paul

Free Share (an associate of Free Sharing)both gather and shares links
to Free groups Worldwide, where as we (this group) gather and share
links to buy, sell, trade and borrow groups, we are "sister" sites.

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/05/19/weiser-
freecycle/index.html

As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide

By Matt Weiser
19 May 2005

Got a garage full of stuff you don't need? Try posting it on
Freecycle. No Freecycle group in your area? Start your own.

A new deal has some Freecyclers down in the dumps.This has been the
happy mantra of Freecyclers since the grassroots online exchange
started up in 2003. More than a million people all over the world
have become members, via some 2,600 local groups. Thousands of tons
of useful goods have been kept out of the garbage. The media has been
charmed.

But behind the scenes at the Freecycle Network, as it's formally
known, the honeymoon may be over. Founder and executive director
Deron Beal recently accepted the network's first corporate support,
in the form of a $130,000 sponsorship from the largest garbage
company in the U.S., Waste Management, Inc. While some say the move
is necessary for success, others are crying "hypocrisy" and leaving
by the score. Meanwhile, moderators of local Freecycle groups, which
have long operated independently, are bridling at a move toward
centralization. Has Freecycle run its course?

First, the funding: Beal says WM came to him with the sponsorship
proposal in 2004. At the time, he was gearing up to secure the
trademark on the Freecycle name. Success in that endeavor has been
elusive: an unrelated Florida company beat Beal to the trademark
office by just a few months. He plans to mount a legal challenge to
prove he has a prior right to the name, and said the sponsorship
money is critical to that battle. The first check arrived in
February, and visitors to Freecycle.org will now find WM linked as a
sponsor. Actually, as the only sponsor.

The money also allowed Beal to quit his day job and begin drawing a
paycheck from Freecycle. He had been working for a program in Tucson,
Ariz., that combined recycling and job training, run by Rise, Inc., a
Minnesota-based nonprofit. Shifting to Freecycle full-time, he said,
will mean better service for the network's 4,000 moderators and 1.2
million members. The money will also help improve the website, which
has until recently been somewhat rudimentary.

The garbage giant announced its sponsorship in late April and, says
company spokesperson Heather Browne, plans to roll out a public-
relations campaign that will urge people to cut down on waste by
using Beal's creation. "We have to exhibit a daily commitment to
environmental stewardship, and Freecycle allows us to be able to
further exemplify that," Browne said.

Indeed, WM has a long history of funding environmental causes; it has
been a leading sponsor of Earth Day for years. But in 1990, it was
denied membership in the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the
group of foundations whose support is critical to the movement. The
association said WM had "engaged in a pattern of abusive corporate
conduct involving repeated violations of both criminal and civil
laws, with the effect of endangering and degrading the environment,"
the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported at the time.

Recent events suggest that the Houston, Texas-based company, which
posted $939 million in profits last year, hasn't changed. For nearly
20 years, it has been plagued by scandal, from accounting misdeeds to
chronic pollution problems to allegations of mob ties. In 1999, for
example, it was accused of illegally dumping medical waste in a
Virginia landfill not suited for that purpose; in 2003, Texas levied
its largest-ever landfill fine for noxious odors at a WM dump near
Austin; and this spring, fire erupted underground at a WM-operated
dump in Hawaii, where state officials also found fluid leakage and
said the dump had been overfilled, making it unstable.


Waste Management, Want Not

The new sponsor hardly seems a good fit for a movement like
Freecycle, some members say. While the community of local moderators,
known as the Modsquad, usually gets to vote on important
administrative matters, it wasn't allowed to vote on the grant. Beal
said there wasn't time, and that it wouldn't be appropriate to have
moderators vote on such "binding" matters.


Does Waste Management want a seat at the table?"I certainly felt a
bit deceived," said Eric Burke, founder of the Freecycle group in
Anderson, S.C. "Had the sponsor been an environmental benefactor, a
software company, or just about anyone else, I think most of the
[local group] moderators would have seen it as good news."

Since learning of the WM grant, Burke has left Freecycle and founded
FreeSharing.org, one of several splinter groups that serve as refuge
for disillusioned Freecyclers. Accurately measuring the dissent is
difficult; one former moderator estimates that hundreds of local
groups have left the network.

"It's terribly disappointing," said fellow defector Rosemary Hill,
who founded the Freecycle group in Bakersfield, Calif. She, too, has
left the network and renamed her group. "Freecycle was a good thing,
a wonderful thing. I think it's all about money now."

But others say the sponsorship is not such a bad deal. "Waste
Management does not have a good reputation in Alabama," acknowledged
Tami Tilkin, Freecycle moderator in Birmingham. "The name is
practically synonymous with a notorious hazardous waste landfill in
the western part of the state. However, I don't think the
relationship ... is a negative association. As I see it, Waste
Management is paying money to 'greenwash' their image a bit. They
have not bought control of Freecycle."

Beal echoed that, saying WM's sponsorship allows the company to claim
it is addressing all three "R's" in the recycling triangle, including
reuse. "They have the right to tell the world what a wonderful thing
they are doing in support of us," he said. "We have our first
underwriter, and we're tickled about what that enables us to do for
our members."

This conflict illustrates that environmental grantmaking is a "messy
business," said Robert Brulle, associate professor of sociology and
environmental science at Drexel University in
Philadelphia. "Corporations only give to enhance their public image.
That's sort of a general rule, and there's nothing surprising about
that," he said, adding that many green groups rely on grants from
corporations with imperfect records. The key, Brulle said, is whether
the gift comes with strings attached, and whether it reflects the
first step toward gaining a controlling influence. In this case, he
pointed out, "on the basis of one grant, it's kind of hard to say."
However, past appointments of WM executives to the boards of the
National Audubon Society and the National Wildlife Federation have
generated controversy.


Fast, Cheap ... and Out of Control?

Control is also at stake in the other major issue currently eating at
Freecyclers. Most local groups operate under an umbrella run by
Yahoo!, with the moderator having control over member info and
transactions. But last summer, Beal required every local moderator to
add him as an "owner" with full moderator powers. Beal said this was
essential, because some moderators had abandoned their groups, or
failed to control spammers.

Though the Modsquad approved Beal's change, many moderators worried
they'd be giving him power to collect private information, distribute
advertising, and take over their groups at any time. Beal said he has
no such plans. "I only initiate the bare minimum rules that we all
need to follow for this thing to work," he said.

While Freecycle functions like an online discussion forum, its
structure is unique. Such forums are often like a train; they might
add more cars, but the train remains under the founder's control. For
example, Craigslist, the wildly popular discussion and advertising
forum born in the San Francisco Bay Area, expands to serve other
cities only when the founders see sufficient demand; each new city is
moderated by Craigslist, not a local person. In other words,
Craigslist is always driving the train.

Freecycle, on the other hand, basically said, "Take the name, but
drive your own train." So it became a community of small discussion
groups, each with its own conductor. Now, two years later, it's
hardly surprising that some people don't want another conductor on
board. Those who refuse to add Beal as moderator have been told to
stop using the Freecycle name, and in some cases, he has convinced
Yahoo! to shut down groups that don't comply.

Despite Freecycle's growing pains, Tilkin said most moderators and
users remain unruffled by the changes. She calls Beal a "wonderful
role model" who has guided Freecycle through incredible growth, while
keeping its purpose intact. "It's not the same little grassroots
effort it was, but Freecycle remains true to its mission," she
said. "It provides a 100 percent free service to keep usable items
out of landfills."

And though many former boosters are now feeling down in the dumps
about Freecycle, Beal tries to remain positive. "There's a hell of a
lot of flying by the seat of your pants going on, and we're doing the
best we can to work with all the interests and wishes that are out
there," he said. "It really is half a miracle that this is working at
all."

Someone reminded me today that these groups were sitting around
awaiting growth and advertisement so here I am!!!!!!

These Gleaning groups are a Free Share for Food and food preparation
items. Do you have extra garden tomatoes, apples in your orchard or
walnuts by the bucket? Is there a public park with loads of black
berries going to waste? SHARE these perishable goods with others in
your area...firewood and other basic essential items also
welcomed....Free Share is part of a growing number of locally and
independantly owned free community groups where members post items
they have to give away or want to receive for free, Free Share and
Gleaning takes this one step further to focus on food and other BASIC
NEED items.  Food (fresh, frozen, boxed or canned), canning supplies,
seal-a-meal, basic need items such as toilet paper, soap, shampoo are
also welcome.

Please join and support groups in your area and look for other Free
Share for Food
type groups coming soon as I understand somene else has decided to
expand the project.....Gifting, Giving, Free Sharing Worldwide!!!

Gleaning USA
Free Share for Food is the established group and as the State and
City groups grow become established and grow this one will become a
site to gather and share links to other free gleaning and food sites..
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/GleaningUSA2

Oregon Gleaning
Free Share for Food accross the State of Oregon!!
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/OregonGleaning

Albany Oregon Gleaning
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AlbanyOregonGleaning

**** Look for other gleaning groups to appear soon in the links
section of www.freeshare.savethisplanet.com

Recycled Home Make-Over
2005

Freebayrecycle.com

Our Latest Group Challenge!

This year we have many new fun, creative and helpful group events
planned!

Our current event is to collect donations, restore, paint, create,
and decorate a completely empty living room and a completely empty
kitchen!  Everything must be donated, recycled etc and we will spend
no money on this project just time, picking up donations,
encouraging people to donate and some elbow grease and decorating
just like all the decorating shows you love to watch!!!  All groups
listed on our site are welcome to participate as are all members and
we will be collecting items for the event from group offers/posts as
well.

  We will document the event with photos on our main website and all
groups and members are welcome to participate just email us to let
us know your ideas and how you are willing to help or if you have
any donations you need us to pick up. The location is in Sapulpa and
they are moving in soon so we will do our best to get moving on this
quick.

Who are this year's lucky people?  Three young people starting out
on their own with beds and a donated coffee table!  Help us to
create a great home for them and get them started on their new lives
with less stress and a happening place to call home that we can all
create together, helping the environment and helping our neighbors,
along with recycling.

Living Room:  Colors/ Black, Chrome, with Blue Accents & glass
Theme: Modern
couch, end tables, TV stand, book case, curtains, fabric (to make
throw pillows, accents curtains), frames, lamps, mirror, candle
holders, floral anything you think may be a good addition, paint to
spruce up and restore items so it all fits into the theme and color
scheme.  Rug, wall hangings or art work, create something recycled!

Kitchen:   Colors Black, Chrome, with Blue Accents & glass  Theme:
Modern
hand towels, fabric (to make accents, trim), Tupperware, dishes,
cups, mugs, utensils, utensil holder, bread box, pots, pans, Table &
chairs, bakers rack, hutch or shelf. Containers glass or ceramic to
decorate and display to store items, anything you think might be a
good addition, paint to restore and spruce up items so it all fits
into the theme and color scheme. Rug

If you would like to help us with the restoration, painting,
creating on this project and you live in Oklahoma, Tulsa or
Surrounding areas, just email us! freebayrecycle@...,
freebayrecycle@..., freebayrecycle@... or submit the
contact form on our website.

Thanks
Heather
Owner
www.freebayrecycle.com

Sister group to South Bend FreeShare....

http://tinyurl.com/4ccz5

Ron

> Good Afternoon All!
> This group was built for people who do not have enough stuff for a
> garage sale.
>
> People can post their things here and sell, trade, give away, or
> advertise their garage sales here.
>
> We encourage people to come up with creative ideas to get rid of
> their things as well.
>
> We also take the garage sales out of the papers and advertise them
> online w/reminders sent to the members (per their vote!)
>
> and to add to it--we list community events that are going on as
well!
>
> we encourage all of our members to participate, they have access to
> do pretty much what ever they need here!!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brevardcountyyardsale/

http://2good2toss.com/

This tulsaworld.com story has been sent to you by Heather of
Freebayrecycle.com

Comment from sender:

Web site helps clean out closets while helping the community
URL: http://www.tulsaworld.com/EmailStoryDisplay.asp?
ID=050209_Co_zw1_websi

Synopsis of story:
For every used pot and pan, pair of jeans, toy or bookshelf someone
wants to get rid of, there is at least one person who can find a use
for it.

This article was published on tulsaworld.com on Wednesday, February
09, 2005.
After Wednesday, February 16, 2005 this story will only be available
in the tulsaworld.com archives.

Hello,

This email message is a notification to let you know that
a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the WorldwideBuySellTradeBarter
group.

   File        : /Why we do not support Freecycle.org
   Uploaded by : dlcfreeshare <dlcfreeshare@...>
   Description : An alternative truely FREE group:
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldwideFreeShare

You can access this file at the URL:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldwideBuySellTradeBarter/files/Why%20we%20do%20\
not%20support%20Freecycle.org

To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/files

Regards,

dlcfreeshare <dlcfreeshare@...>

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CentralPaSwapShop

(OK, it's almost all sale, but you can try to swap too)

Sara

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LCPA-TagSale/ - when it's too good to
give it away ;-)

Sara

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FabulousRecyclers/

Do you know a fabulous recycler, someone who has built a fence out of
recycled tires, shingled a garage with old hub caps, reated beautiful
art from rubbish? Have a great idea for recycling to create something
useful or artistic?

We would like to hear about it and better yet, if you have photos,
please share them with the group.

FREE SHARE GROUPS
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/AlbanyOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigTicketFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinnBentonCountyFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewportOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CorvallisOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LebanonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LincolnCountyFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MadrasOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ToledoOregonFreecycle

www.freebayrecycle.com

I agree free cycle sucks, therefore I started www.freebayrecycle.com
and we are quickly growing!!

We are featured in the Tulsa World Newspaper next wednesday and look
for our membership to grow very rapidly after that.

We have some group owners that switched to free bay recycle from free
cycle and are very happy now :) We have group challenges, free
garage sales and monthly group events.

We welcome you to join our site also and I appreciate the updates on
free cycle, and wish you great success with
your venture!

We are NOT affiliated with free cycle and we condem their bad ethics
and business practices. Locally and also worldwide from all the
complaints we regularly hear.

Owner
www.freebayrecycle.com

We are rebuilding, Please visit some of these New groups and help us
spread the word.

WORLDWIDE
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldwideBuySellTradeBarter
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/WorldwideFreeShare

FABULOUS RECYCLERS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FabulousRecyclers

BUY, SELL, TRADE & BARTER in OREGON
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BuySellTradeBarterOregon/

FREE SHARE GROUPS
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/AlbanyOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/BigTicketFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LinnBentonCountyFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewportOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CorvallisOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LebanonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/LincolnCountyFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/MadrasOregonFreeShare
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ToledoOregonFreecycle

OREGON Community Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlbanyOregonCommunityBB
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CorvallisOregonCommunityBB

Groups Exposing the true Darkside of Freecycle.org
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/FactsEvidenceContacts
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/ModSquadRevealed/
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/DarkerSideOfFreecycle
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/darkside_of_free-cycle
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/darksideoffreicycle
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycle_complaints