Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwanted goods from the kerb

Re:Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwant... by specialist on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:47AM (#11108126)

I'd use something like Curbit if it matched my stuff with charities that want it.

I believe (on faith) that local charities make better use of my stuff. My "go to" charity is the local services for the blind, because an ex-gf works for eye surgeons.

Though it'd be more convenient, I'm loathe to give to Goodwill (greedy execs, bad labor relations), Salvation Army (homophobes, jesus freaks), Red Cross (misrepresenting how donations are used).

I'm cool with Habitat for Humanity.

[I live in the USA.]

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Re:Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwant... by boulos on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:57AM (#11108157)

We have something like this in San Francisco for furniture mostly: http://www.communitythriftsf.org

They pick up your stuff, you choose a charity, they sell the item to someone else and the proceeds go to the charity. As it turns out, most charities want cash not my old bookshelves but (the confusingly named) Community Thrift Store sorts it all out.

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Re:Sydney startup Curbit lets users pick up someone’s unwant... by dean_mcpherson on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:10AM (#11108344)

That's a cool idea. A lot of charities in Aus will come and pick up stuff that's valuable if you organise it.

With Curbit we're really trying to create infrastructure for one way gifting that takes the weight of organisational weight off the donor. There is nothing stopping charities from picking up items listed on Curbit though.

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