I've had 2 bad experiences with free hosts/forums before where on one everything disappeared because they went bust and the other the servers were confiscated by authorities so we lost everything both times so I'd prefer not to have a repeat experience.
I have a friend who has private hosting and will let me put a forum on her area which will cost nothing as I'm not expecting it to be busy so just need to get a domain name or we can use proboards but we still need a name for the site.
@fredsnail I noticed while googling about, there is a place called Simplesite.com, I don't really know anything about it, but it seems to be free. A free lunch? I doubt it!
If we have a forum we could sort the posts by area of the country and can then leave posts on there until the item has gone and we can remove the post (or close it). I don't think we'd have that flexibility with facebook.
You just need a single 'word' to register a Proboards forum so it could maybe be registered as swapshop.proboards.com as long as no-one else has already used it. The actual name of the forum can be changed.
New site to request or offer equipment for swop or sale
Al'z Swop & Sell has been set up to bring together people who have equipment they no longer require and people who need equipment.
All equipment can be requested or offered (larger items could be couriered rather than posted using Royal Mail if agreed by both offerer/seller and the recipient/buyer)
Actually I tried to blame the cat or dog.Trouble is I'm not sure (even though my animals are all supremely talented) that they are capable of wrapping poo in paper!!!!