- Purpose
- The purpose of this feature is to provide a resource to post-op individuals
who may be on their way to losing as much as 100 or more pounds in the course
of a year. That represents a lot of clothing sizes. Please do not
list items you are trying to sell. If you want to sell your items,
try an online auction place like Ebay.
This forum is for the FREE exchange of articles of clothing. Please do not
list ‘wanted’ items. Only list items that you have to offer, not what you
are looking for.
- How does this system work?
- People with oversized clothes donate them to the system. Shrinking post ops in
need of them ask donors to mail them requested articles. All recipients
are thereafter obligated to re-list those same articles back on this system
once they are no longer needed. Thus, when you inject your clothes into
the system, you can benefit dozens of people.
- How do I list my clothes?
- To list your clothes, log into your private admin system.
Once there, click on the new “ObesityHelp Clothing Exchange” link in the
upper left of the option list. List your items SEPARATELY, ONE by ONE. Doing
so might take you more time, but it saves everyone time in the long run
as your actual clothing inventory changes from week to week. MAKE
SURE TO REMOVE YOUR ITEMS ONCE THEY ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE!
- How do I get clothes?
- Simply contact the owners of items listed. Try to shop carefully in order to find people
who can send multiple things to you all at once (web site tools are being
developed to help facilitate this). Once you receive your clothes, remember
to re-list them once they no longer fit you.
- Who pays for mailing postage?
- On a case-by-case basis, recipients may offer and/or pay postage. It's up to
both parties. If the owner wants the recipient to send money for postage,
then the owner should list that in the item description box for the item.
- Should I stay local?
- You could. This could certainly save on postage. However, at the same time there are
also advantages to having a unified pool of thousands of items for everyone's
selection, rather than having dozens of local pools with perhaps only dozens
of items available. Also, it might be the case that the average value per
shipment is, say, $100.00. Postage might range little, say from $3.00 to
someone across town up to maybe $6.00 for someone across the country.
- Where do I post what I'm looking for?
- This exchange does NOT maintain any list of what people are looking for.
Instead, the focus is on listing those items currently available. Please
do NOT abuse our system by listing item requests. If you are looking for
clothing, please simply encourage any and all post ops you know of to list
all their items on this system. If you wish, you can frequently remind
people on the message board to post any extra clothes they might have,
stressing how much their doing so would mean to you and others like you.
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- Abuse
- If you see someone abusing the system, or you see someone is being fraudulent, please
click
here to contact us and let us know.
ObesityHelp will not be held liable for any fraudulent actions. By using this forum you
accept all risks.
