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As I saw Deron Beal make his rather large comment about how Matt Weiser was so wrong with his editorial I thought I would inform your readers.  Thanks for the opportunity. :)  Freecycle AnonymousOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

RECYCLE YOURSELF FROM FREECYCLE $

A massive cult freecycle is taking over the recycling world and making it's members believe that it is totally free. What they do not freely show you upon joining is that they have a budget of $150,000 and counting which they receive from individual and corporate donations . This group is for former members who have escaped and want to share their experiences of how they were brainwashed and subsequently taken advantage of one gift at a time. After all it was your items that you offered up and not theirs. Why are you not making anything out of it? Because you have a big heart and want to give. So why should Freecycle be making anything? Please use an email address that you do not or have never used on Freecycle. Remember they have a Freecycle Mod Squad where they secretively pass around information about members and black ball them. So now that you are here. There is no need to fear here. It is time to recover from this addiction and discover other people like yourself who have felt cheated with caring words about items not ending up in a landfill. Too bad your items are generating money for Freecycle. Tell us your experiences about Freecycle so that others around the world will not get caught up in this scheme and end up regretting it. Moderated to keep those freecycle cult members from posting. Please feel free to post and reply. Once you join the freecycle.orgy it is hard to stop because after all you are getting done good one gift at a time. Now it is time to turn on over and assume another position.

RECYCLE YOURSELF FROM FREECYCLE $

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RECYCLE-YOURSELF-FROM-FREECYCLE

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/RECYCLE-YOURSELF-FROM-FREECYCLEOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

TOP TEN REASONS WHY

TOP TEN REASONS WHY YOU DO NOT WANT TO JOIN FREECYCLE

#10 Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranches contents might get posted.

#9 Your a Catholic and someone might post up an offer of condoms and you might take them up on it.

#8 Your lady is looking for clothes and won't admit to her real size.

#7 Your expecting twins and needing articles you do not know the sex of the children or their sexual orientation.

#6 Your mother in-law has a basement full of relics and wants you to be the one to deliver.

#5 Surfing on over to freecycle.org you find a dead link where your town is suppose to be.

#4 You found Deron Beal going through your garbage out front and gave him a swift kick.

#3 You want to post an offer first but you only have 2 minutes to get it before the garbage truck arrives.

#2 Every time you try to sign up that stupid Yahoo X7u3o keeps kicking you out.

#1 You want shares in freecycle before it goes public so that your items are of value to you too.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RECYCLE-YOURSELF-FROM-FREECYCLE

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/RECYCLE-YOURSELF-FROM-FREECYCLE

http://freecycleanonymous.blogspot.com
http://freecycletm.blogspot.com

Freecycle AnonymousOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Deron Beals Freecycle (TM) Canada filing

Deron Beals Freecycle (TM) Canada filing is a farse!

How can Deron Beal expect to get a Freecycle Registered Trademark in Canada when Freecycle(R) is already registered since 1995 and owned by Integrated Production Services Ltd. (Canada) as already posted below in this blog. As of this filing here it is obvious that he is trying to infringe on another companies Freecycle(R)

It is high time someone opposed this filing!

CANADIAN TRADE-MARK DATA*** Note : Data on trade-marks is shown in the official language in which it was submitted.
The database was last updated on: 2005-05-03
APPLICATION NUMBER: 1246124
REGISTRATION NUMBER: not registered
STATUS:
FORMALIZED
FILED:
2005-02-04
FORMALIZED:
2005-02-07
APPLICANT:
The Freecycle Network, Inc. 901 N. Perry Avenue, Tucson Arizona, 85705 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AGENT:
OYEN WIGGS GREEN & MUTALA LLP
SUITE 480 - THE STATION
601 WEST CORDOVA STREET
VANCOUVER
BRITISH COLUMBIA V6B 1G1
REPRESENTATIVE FOR SERVICE:
OYEN WIGGS GREEN & MUTALA LLP
SUITE 480 - THE STATION
601 WEST CORDOVA STREET
VANCOUVER
BRITISH COLUMBIA V6B 1G1
TRADE-MARK:
MARK DESCRIPTIVE REFERENCE:
FREECYCLE & Design
INDEX HEADINGS:
FREECYCLE CYCLE, FREE L
VIENNA INFORMATION:
Code
Description
18.1.5
Bicycles, motor cycles, motor scooters, tricycles
22.1.15
Stringed instruments
27.3.1
Letters or numerals representing a human being or a part of the human body, an animal or a part of an animal's body, a plant or an object
27.3.15
Letters or numerals representing an object
27.5.1
Letters presenting a special form of writing
27.5.17
Letters in heavy characters
SERVICES:
(1) Design, creation, hosting and maintenance of a free website that provides others with a global internet based system of giving and receiving personal property for free.
CLAIMS:
Priority Filing Date: August 27, 2004, Country: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Application No: 78475113 in association with the same kind ofservices.
Used in CANADA since at least as early as October 19, 2003.
Used in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Filed in UNITED STATES OF AMERICA on August 27, 2004 under No. 13 7847.
ACTION
DATE
BF
COMMENTS
Filed
04 February 2005
Created
07 February 2005
Formalized
07 February 2005
Agent name changed
16 March 2005
Rep for service name changed
16 March 2005

Here is proof of the filing http://tinyurl.com/98c6dOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

freecycle.ca enquiring minds want to know eh!

Taken from the Canada News Wire Group http://tinyurl.com/d3l38 what ever happend to this persons plans in 2004 to create freecycle.ca? Enquiring minds want to know. Well it seems that Eric Snyder Freecycle International GOA oppossed it as you will see at the bottom of this message. Kind of funny though as the Freecycle(R) is already registered and owned by Integrated Production Services Ltd. (Canada)" as posted above in this blog.

The Free Recycling Movement Comes to Ontario TORONTO, Aug. 9 CNW - The recycling movement took a step forward today with the launch of Freecycle.ca - Ontario's first Canadian-based online clearinghouse for the recycling of free goods. The Freecycle(TM) web site, www.freecycle.ca, uses the power of the Internet to enable donors to donate their unwanted goods to a database that is searchable by anyone looking for free goods."Freecycling is a simple model with tremendous potential," said Freecycle.ca founder David Goyette. "People have things they want to get rid of. Other people are searching for those same things.

We bring them together online. Donors list the goods they have. Searchers find the goods they want. They contact each other. All goods are free." The primary purpose of Freecycle.ca is to demonstrate innovation and leadership in the recycling movement in order to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill sites, incinerators and dumps. It has particular application in Toronto, where less than a third of the City's waste is diverted from the waste stream, and where the daily trucking of waste to Port Huron, Michigan is a constant reminder of our City's failure to find local solutions to locally generated waste.

Said Goyette: "Freecycle.ca is cheaper than want ads and truck disposal services. It's less trouble than a garage sale. It's universally available. And it improves our ability to perceive solid waste as a resource - something
that still has value even after it has served its primary purpose."

Inspired by the growing freecycle chat group movement in the United States, Freecycle.ca is currently active in Ontario. Our initial Ontario donors include Toronto City Councillor Michael Walker and TVO Studio 2 host Steve Paikin. A British Columbia service is expected to be online this year. Freecycle(TM) is the subject of a registered trademark in Canada.

For further information: Detail: www.freecycle.ca; Contact: David Goyette: davidgoyette@bellnet.ca, (416) 484-8564

CANADIAN TRADE-MARK DATA*** Note : Data on trade-marks is shown in the official language in which it was submitted.
The database was last updated on: 2005-05-03
APPLICATION NUMBER: 1195275
REGISTRATION NUMBER: not registered
STATUS:
ABANDONED - VOLUNTARY
FILED:
2003-11-06
FORMALIZED:
2003-11-07
ADVERTISED:
2004-07-07
INACTIVATED:
2004-11-01
APPLICANT:
David Goyette 157 Banff Road Toronto M4P 2P8ONTARIO
INTERESTED PARTIES
OPPONENT (CASE CLOSED)
Eric Snyder owner Ottawa Freecycle Group 64 Thare Cr. NEPEAN ONTARIO K2J 2P6
TRADE-MARK:
Freecycle
INDEX HEADINGS:
FREECYCLE CYCLE, FREE
SERVICES:
(1) Operation of a URL and a website which serves as an online clearinghouse for the recycling of free goods among donors and searchers in Ontario.
CLAIMS:
Proposed Use in CANADA.
ACTION
DATE
BF
COMMENTS
Filed
06 November 2003
Created
07 November 2003
Formalized
07 November 2003
Search recorded
14 April 2004
Examiner's first report
14 April 2004
14 August 2004
Correspondence created
17 May 2004
17 September 2004
Approved
03 June 2004
Translation requested
08 June 2004
30 June 2004
20040622135713
Translation received
22 June 2004
Extracted for Advertisement
22 June 2004
Vol.51 Issue 2593 2004/07/07
Advertised
07 July 2004
Vol.51 Issue 2593
Opposition
10 September 2004
Opposition Filed.
Abandon - voluntary
01 November 2004

Here is the url as proof of this http://tinyurl.com/788m3On As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Freecycle forcing (TM) on Moderators

Freecycle forcing (TM) on Moderators going against Yahoo's TOS

All Moderators of Freecycle groups are being told to place this (TM) a pending "trademark" on their groups i.e. Freecycle(TM).

and at the bottom of home page as follows:-

Copyright © 2003-2005 The Freecycle Network (http://www.Freecycle.org. All rights reserved. Freecycle and the Freecycle logo are trademarks of The Freecycle Network in the United States and/orother countries.

According to Yahoo in their TOS (Terms of Service)

Yahoo! Groups Guidelines
http://groups.yahoo.com/local/guidelines.html

6. You may not use Yahoo! Groups for commercial or advertising purposes.

If you would like to contact Yahoo about this violation send an e-mail to egroups-feedback@yahoo-inc.comOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Corporate World Comes Courting Freecycle

This is how freecycle got all that cash $ from Waste Management Inc. (WMI) who have been fined for their environmental violations at its landfills in the United States. A deal that only could be made by Beal!

Corporate World Comes Courting Beal's baby has gotten so big it's taking over most of the space in his home, and most of his spare time."We've got nearly a million members now," he says. "We've grown 2,300 per cent in the past six months, so you can figure that eight months down the line, we're going to have eight to 10 million people who are doing this."So he's a tad enthusiastic. But there's no doubt Freecycle is growing, and fast. Which means the inevitable is happening: the corporate world wants a piece of the Freecycle action - and it's willing to pay for it.

Beal's negotiating a sponsorship deal with Waste Management Inc. (WMI), which Beal says is "one of the largest recyclers in the world." Beal hopes the deal will bring in enough cash that he can quit his day job: "and my dream, of course, is to have enough money so that I can hire somebody to be doing the programming for the new web page."So Beal's happy, but what do the members think of a corporate sponsor for Freecycle?

For Oshawa Freecycler Nancy Daniels, it all depends on the details: "If they leave it the way it is right now, it's going to be an awesome tool for a lot of people. If they start wanting to make money off of it, then I think we've got problems. "Beal agrees that Freecycle can only survive if it keeps its grassroots appeal: "There is absolutely no way I could find enough sponsors to pay for all the volunteers that are required in every city worldwide. It just would be a mind-boggling sum. So there's no doubt that this is and will remain a grassroots movement, or it'll just disintegrate."Wes Muir is director of communications for Waste Management of Canada, the Canadian division of WMI.

Headquartered in Burlington, Ontario, it's Canada's largest garbage collection, recycling and disposal company. Muir says that for about $130,000 a year, the Freecycle website will feature a link to WMI. "We jumped on to this program was because a lot of our commercial customers, we help them with waste reduction and how to reduce their waste in the plant before it gets disposed of," says Muir. "And we do a lot of that work on the recycling and we thought this is a nice service offering we can offer our customers. "But could there be another incentive - a little recycling of the company's image, perhaps?

After all, Waste Management of Canada is the same company that wanted to open a huge landfill in northern Ontario that would have taken some of Toronto's garbage. Part of the debate surrounding the "Adams Mine" proposal focused on WMI's environmental record - in particular, fines for environmental violations at its landfills in the United States. Wes Muir says he can't speculate on whether Freecycle's environmentally sensitive members will strike up against his company's sponsorship of the Freecycle movement. And he insists the company's not motivated to polish its image by making a connection with Freecycle.

Muir says WMI is merely "trying to raise awareness among the public about the waste we generate. And to think beyond just dropping it off at the curb and walking away and saying, `Well, my job is done.'"Deron Beal insists on focussing on the positive too: "It's a beautiful thing to have a company step forward --that's into recycling-- and say, `don't give us your recyclables, reuse it. 'That's a pretty inspiring thing for a company to step forward and do."

http://tinyurl.com/3qyzdOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Freecycle going down as Deron Beal squanders all a

Well look what we have here. Deron Beal after receiving $150,000 in sponsorship is now stating he needs more cash to launch a new web site for Freecycle. Like where did all that money go?

He also states that he never had control over Freecycle. Like what was his first clue. But then why does he force people to have ersatzfriend@freecycle.org as co-owner of each and every Freecycle group that is created. Oh yes he is charitable alright. Like unto himself. So ego driven as to only need these interviews to fuel his narcissism. What can we expect from someone who use to pick garbage and now is picking the pockets of each Freecycle member who joins.

Being non-profit, he adds, is both the beauty and the challenge. "Quite frankly we could use a stack of cash to design a website that's not dependent on Yahoo Groups. And we will definitely do that one day, but we need more sponsorship first."

So does he mind losing control of Freecycle to the individual communities, and not being able to cash in after all his hard work? "The thing is, I never had ownership in the first place, so I don't mind losing it," comes his charitable answer.

Taken from an interview done May 12, 2005

http://tinyurl.com/c99bvOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Deron Beal Loses His Appeal

Darwin can not even control his own temper. What kind of business man is he. Oh wonder Freecycle is going down hill.

"Deron Beal"

PS: Folks, could ya cut me a little slack here? Why don't you ask me this stuff instead of announcing it to the board? You are not making the Freecycle Network stronger or better nor are you making my life any easier.... Fer cryin' out loud. Some woman is mean and rants and you believe her, but don't even bother asking me off board. Or you don't even bother reading the old posts on this exact topic from this exact same person. Thanks a lot. I'm gettin just a little ticked and will not be looking at the board again for a while so don't expect any further comments on this topic from me. Don't allow yourself to be suckered is all I can say. Sheesh. On As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

The Raw Deal Of Deron Beals Freecycle Fiasco

Would anyone quit their day job for this raw deal? When they are already making $45,000 a year. NO! But Deron the Recycling Baron wants you to believe it is so. What is the real truth behind him and Freecycle? Did Rise Corp fire Deron Beal? More than likely. No one would sign such a deal with Waste Management who has been fined for landfill violations and others. Either one of these parties can up and end this contract within 60 days notice. When will Darwin be getting his?

"Deron Beal"

The Freecycle Network receives $10K per month and a $10K on signing or $130K total for the year. Either WM or we can end the contract at any time with 60 days notice. If something egregious is done, then immediately. The contract is limited to one year and they in no way limit what we do as an organization.On As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

The new junkyard: It's online and free (Freecycle)

Seems Darwin did not like this past article as it makes reference to Freecycle being a junk yard. Well they are right!

THE CSM Article...Mr. Kaufman, they called us an online junkyard! I feel so violated...Deron

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1027/p13s01-stin.htmlOn As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Why donate at this rate! Freecycle

Who wants to donate to a supposed nonprofit where your donation is not tax deductible. Where is there legitimacy in that. Like ok if you want to it is your loss.

"Deron Beal"

*OK, here we go again: we are registered in AZ as a nonprofit -- we have showed her this directly numerous times. The IRS bit is pending. So tax deductible gifts are not yet assured. This doesn't make us any less of a nonprofit. It does make us a particularly poor anddisadvantaged nonprofit because who wants to donate if they can't deduct it from their taxes. Particularly foundations and individuals want to see this tax deductible status.*On As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Freecycle Intimidation

This is how Freecycle intimidates people with threats even though they do not have a registered trademark they send out these notices making out like they do. All one has to do is start a Yahoo group with the word Freecycle in it and the next thing you know you too will be getting this notice. This is a violation of the persons rights. Also for Freecycle to send this unsolicited message is constituted spam. Someone should get in contact with the proper authorities and have a stop put to this.

Dear Owner of the Yahoo group

This is your second and final notification to cease and desist using the trademark-protected Freecycle name and logo, any confusingly similar derivations thereof, and The Freecycle Network's copyrighted texts/rules/guidelines in your Yahoo group, including in the title/name of the group. Please do make the necessary changes to your group name, group URL, and applicable texts to avoid any confusion with Freecycle services or delete the group immediately.

Realize that unauthorized use of these protected materials is confusing to the public and may be damaging the Freecycle Network's reputation and goodwill. Moreover, your unauthorized use is a violation of the Yahoo Terms of Service, and a trademark and copyright infringement report will be filed with Yahoo if we cannot verify that these materials have been removed with 48 hours of the sending of this notice.

As we noted in our first letter to you, you are welcomed to continue the operation of a gifting or exchange-oriented site similar to that operated by our organization. However, any Freecycle mark, logo or name, as well as any and all materials copyrighted by The Freecycle Network, must be removed before the end of the 48-hour period.

Thank you for your attention to this matter,

Database Admin
Freecycle.org
database@freecycle.org
On As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses

Congratulations go out to Matt Weiser

Congratulations go out to Matt Weiser

An excellent editorial you wrote portraying Freecycle to a tee.  Deron Beal did not get the write-up that he wanted and is now furious.  That is what makes this article so important for those who need to know the real Freecycle.  Asking questions instead of spreading Derons doctrine will now be the mainstay.  Thank you so much for finally allowing the world to read the truth behind a movement that has finally been pulled out of it's grass roots for all to see what is underneath.

http://freecycleanonymous.blogspot.com
http://freecycletm.blogspot.com

Freecycle Anonymous

 On As Freecycle grows, idealism and reality collide posted 4 years, 6 months ago 85 Responses