Lovejunk

A partnership with lovejunk [[1]] was announced by the Board on Central 4.2.21 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/paid-collections-in-london-via-lovejunk-com/2820 . The full details are in the announcement, but the basics are:

The idea is that:

• If you have something you want removing you list it on lovejunk.com.
• Businesses or reuse organisations, who are licensed to take stuff legally, reply, with a kind of bidding process.
• You choose your preferred bid - this is a paid collection.
• They come and take it away.
• Depending on who they are, they may reuse it, or may recycle it. 95% of stuff is recycled.

Lovejunk is currently London-only, but is highly likely to expand and form partnerships with some major furniture retailers in the UK. It is getting significant momentum - typical response time to a listing is now under a minute, and it’s something like 80% success from listing to pickup.

The Board agreed a partnership with lovejunk as follows:

• If, after some time, an OFFER cannot be freegled, we will offer freeglers in London the option of booking a collection via lovejunk.
• This is at the point where we currently send a chaseup/autorepost mail, and also via a button on My Posts. That means it’s not “competing” with normal successful freegling, and only kicks in when an item isn’t immediately shifting.
• There will be a popup which explains the process (see below).
• If they choose to go ahead, then it’ll take them over to lovejunk with some of the details filled in.
• All the arrangements between the person and the collector are entirely lovejunk’s responsibility, not ours.

In effect it’s a bit like we’ve offered them an easy way to organise a bulky waste collection, and we will get paid a bit for doing so.

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