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243 reviews
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A nonprofit and globally local re-gifting and re-use network, each group is moderated by a local volunteer who keeps things flowing along. It's like a cyber curbside, or a family-friendly and scam-free Craigslist for free stuff, keeping good stuff out of landfills to the tune of 32,000 items a day in over 5,000 local groups. Find your local group on Freecycle.org and let the re-use and de-cluttering begin!
Freecycle (freecycle.org) has 243 customer reviews on Rated Honest, with an average rating of 2.2 out of 5.
243 approved reviews, newest moderated first
Ian C.
Posted
I have used Freecycle many times to save having to take stuff I don't need to the dump. And it's great that other people are finding life in things I no longer need - everybody wins! What a great service this is.
CZapata
Posted
I absolutely love the idea of recycling the items in my house I no longer want. I've been able to give away numerous items to people who really needed them, so it's a feel good process. I'm also glad Freecycle updated their website to reflect current times. It would be nice to have an app.
Response from Freecycle· Feb 28, 2023
Thanks for your review. App on the way. Give us about three more months...
Rita R.
Posted
too hard to post to the Cardiff site, they moderators keep rejecting my posts for being duplicates when they are edits of live posts. Really useless volunteers who just want to make it impossible to post!! WHY!. I am surprised anyone gets a post of my local site, but as I only see 1 or 2 a day others must be having the same problems, am looking for a better alternative
Marcus S.
Posted
A terrible interface that is awful to use. Not at all intuitive and very cluttered. The buttons you need in order to navigate are small to the point of being invisible. I joined a few days ago and am just about to leave, shame as its aims are good. But the execution is among the worst I have seen.
philip
Posted
Hi I have been trying to to reset password.i have used the reset password link that then tells me an email has be sent to my email. I have check my spam and no email i have try this reset over the last couple of days but no email. Please can you tell me how i can rest my password. Regards phil
Phil
Posted
Messaging is painfully slow. I have waited days to get a response from someone who wants to pick an item up. Relying on freecycle just sullies the good reputation of the recycling movement.
Ruth C.
Posted
Again - as a long time 'offerer' on freecycle, the new website looks to leech funds from every transaction. Not a community service.
Response from Freecycle· Dec 6, 2022
Freecycle.org / The Freecycle Network is a charitable nonprofit. Membership is totally free and posting/replying is totally free. We don't allow money to exchange hands ever on Freecycle. Freecycle has 10 million members, and every local group is moderated by a local volunteer. Freecycle is run on about 90 servers in over 110 countries with thousands of volunteers and two staff members globally. Over a thousand tonnes a day of used items are gifted on Freecycle, roughly the equivalent of what goes into a mid-sized landfill. Giving freely with no strings attached is what we are all about.
Brian
Posted
Freecycle is the typical "curate's egg", good and bad. I have managed to clear numerous items over the years that would have otherwise gone to landfill, but recently my local site seems to have declined. Not sure why. Just not getting interest in items, but when I switch them to Gumtree/free they go in a flash. I have noticed flakey search results in search for items also recently. [cant find my own posted item by name for instance]
