Urban Ecoist

As my first experiment with the DFWFreeCycle group, I posted an offer for 30 red landscapers bricks. They had been pulled up from my yard with I had a new flowerbed built earlier this year. I had originally tried to gift them to my brother, but he told me that they had gone with the typical gray stones. I posted my ad and within 20 minutes I had at least 6 responses from people interested in the stones. By the end of the evening, I had more like 20.

Because I wanted to move quickly and get rid of the stones as quickly as possible, I just picked a random name from the list of people who had emailed. I sent her my address information and she came and picked up the stones today. The only finger I had to lift was to type the email and answer the responses.

At the moment, the ratio of ‘offer’ ads to ‘wanted’ ads in this group is about equal. I’m currently eyeballing a wanted’ ad placed by someone looking for a replacement phone. I have one that I don’t really know what to do with, and don’t really want to throw away, so I may ‘gift’ that as well. I’ll post back on how that goes.

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