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Deron Beal takes A LOT and keeps on asking all the time
>>"Deron Beal does not take much money" you say.
He took some $52,000 in personal wages and benefits back in 2006. How much do you think he is paying himself now in 2008??
Mr. Beal took an idea that already existed, named it something new and started it in his area. Then he told others who asked if they could do similar to do the same - go ahead and start their own networks in their cities.
Then, once it went International, he realized what he'd gifted out to folks. He realized the potential for him to make $$, so he tried to take it back. That is what we call an Indian Giver where I am from.
Deron Beal has done good for the earth and the environment, that I do not dismiss; however, the method in which he is running the Corporation will cause his own downfall. Deron Beal, his wife and his best friend, can not be trusted to be the Board of Directors. They have mismanged the funds already given to them and they have destroyed all that was good about the network.
Have you not wondered why hundreds of groups and millions of members have left?
I always suggest researching before defending someone. You can't always take someone at their word.
Deron Beal lost all rights to the logo in a lawsuit. He gifted it away and therefore, the courts deemed it Naked Licensing. He won't get a Registered Trademark on a logo that was naked Licensed, and on top of that, was made with previously Trademarked pictures.
And to top it off, Deron Beal won an award from this very company last year with the funds "supposedly" going to the website. Yet here we are a year later - no website. And now, even though it's not been discussed in the OIDG group (the group that is supposed to discuss organizational issues), he is here claiming that he needs more funds to do a cell phone based posting method. He doesn't have the website yet to post the postings to, and here he wants more $$ to supposedly do the next step.
Yet at the OIDG group he is begging folks to vote for Freecycle as "Vote for Freecycle, pretty please...." , "The first prize is basically about $20,000 and lots of coding support.", and "This is very important and every vote counts."
Deron Beal is not the CEO that Freecycle needs if it is to succeed. He has already caused it much harm and will continue to until he is replaced. But good luck with that given it would take him stepping down, or his best friend and wife turning on him. And the chances of that happening are slim to none.