Craigslist Strikes Again

[Bacchus]

About ten years ago I listed a car accessory that I originally paid maybe $30 for. It was still in fine shape and I listed it in CL for maybe $5. Barely worth my trouble, but I wanted to find a good home for it.

Somebody exchanged a few emails with me on it. I indicated in my CL post my location where I worked, an easily accessible location about 5 miles from the Big City.

I thought after his last email the guy was no longer interested but then he emailed me and wanted me to drive into the downtown area of the Big City and deliver it to where he worked. It's no fun driving downtown, lot of traffic and one-way streets. it would have taken me at least an hour round trip just driving, plus however much time to locate him (on the sidewalk?) outside of some skyscraper, and I had no confidence he would even be there.

Not for $5, buddy!

Then a second person answered the CL post and we made a smooth and simple sale.

I remember another time I sold some sort of gun accessory, maybe a gun case. I arranged to meet the guy at a local Home Depot parking lot. I didn't want him to know where my house was because the item being sold kinda implied that I had guns. That transaction went okay, except the guy was late to the meeting.

 

[Tlock]

About ten years ago I listed a car accessory that I originally paid maybe $30 for. It was still in fine shape and I listed it in CL for maybe $5. Barely worth my trouble, but I wanted to find a good home for it.

Somebody exchanged a few emails with me on it. I indicated in my CL post my location where I worked, an easily accessible location about 5 miles from the Big City.

I thought after his last email the guy was no longer interested but then he emailed me and wanted me to drive into the downtown area of the Big City and deliver it to where he worked. It's no fun driving downtown, lot of traffic and one-way streets. it would have taken me at least an hour round trip just driving, plus however much time to locate him (on the sidewalk?) outside of some skyscraper, and I had no confidence he would even be there.

Not for $5, buddy!

Then a second person answered the CL post and we made a smooth and simple sale.

I remember another time I sold some sort of gun accessory, maybe a gun case. I arranged to meet the guy at a local Home Depot parking lot. I didn't want him to know where my house was because the item being sold kinda implied that I had guns. That transaction went okay, except the guy was late to the meeting.

No bjs for beer cans?

 

[Bacchus]

No bjs for beer cans?

That didn't come up!

 

[64MercurysRule]

The cans or .............. I digress.

 

[The Heretic]

CL & FB MarketPlace are full of flakes, scammers and sellers who sell something then don't mark it as sold.

It is no wonder that the default reply to an advert is "Is this still available?". Half the ads I inquire about the seller never replies or they take the ad down after I ask about it. At least CL has (or used to have) a time limit on their ads.

OTOH, about half the ads I inquire about the seller does reply, but about half of those the seller doesn't have the required info in the ad or doesn't know; e.g., I am not going to buy car wheels if the seller doesn't know what car they fit.

I did buy my pickup from a FB advert though, and that worked out mostly ok (seller could have taken better/more pics and done a better job of describing it).

 

[Bacchus]

I am not going to buy car wheels if the seller doesn't know what car they fit.

Good policy.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

CL & FB MarketPlace are full of flakes, scammers and sellers who sell something then don't mark it as sold.

I've been looking for a rower and saw the exact same photos used in ads listed as Forest Grove, north Seattle and Boise Idaho and of course PayPal preferred Reported them to FB with links to all three ads and got an auto reply that they saw nothing wrong

 

[parallax]

I'm kinda new to using facebook market place, but when i find a exceptionally good deal on a vintage car, or a truck that i am looking for, i click on the sellers name, and see its listed 20 times throughout the nation, or the seller has dozens of vehicles for sale and they are all cheaper than they should be.. i report them as a scam..

 

[Provincial]

I have had good luck on Craigslist, both buying and selling. A few buyers who really were not interested for my price, but mostly fair counteroffers.

I've found some really nice stuff, and some great bargains.
I'm not looking for stuff as much as I used to, so other than garage/estate sale notices, I don't pursue items on Craigslist much anymore.

 

[The Heretic]

I've been looking for a rower and saw the exact same photos used in ads listed as Forest Grove, north Seattle and Boise Idaho and of course PayPal preferred Reported them to FB with links to all three ads and got an auto reply that they saw nothing wrong

Yes - FB doesn't care; I see these "sponsored" ad posts on my feed, with some clickbait lead, I click on it, and it takes me to a site that says something like FB deleted/closed my account, or that my Windows computer is infected.

I report the ad and FB says "we don't see anything wrong here".

 

[The Heretic]

I'm kinda new to using facebook market place, but when i find a exceptionally good deal on a vintage car, or a truck that i am looking for, i click on the sellers name, and see its listed 20 times throughout the nation, or the seller has dozens of vehicles for sale and they are all cheaper than they should be.. i report them as a scam..

CL has the same thing; but they seem to actually care - at least they did last time I reported one.

I can understand an ad appearing in multiple locations in a region, like Vancouver/Portland/Hillsboro - but if I see it in Seattle and Denver, then I suspect it is a scam.

 

[Ducati_Meister]

And she would be the one for the meet up .........YMMV

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Damn lol. Definitely the definition of long on the tooth.

 

[CamoDeafie]

Damn lol. Definitely the definition of long on the tooth.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Damn lol. Definitely the definition of long on the tooth.

Not my proudest fap but hey.

 

[Flopsweat]

I've bought a few household items and a quad on CL and everything has gone fine. I did run across one guy selling a quad in Oregon who was full of shet. He was complaining about people flaking on him, kept assuring me that the bike was in "really good condition" except for some item that I knew was easy to fix. Before I made arrangements to drive all the way down there to look at it, I asked, as I always do, "You have the title for it and it's in your name, right?" Well, no he didn't have the title but in WA state you can get a replacement title. While that's true, it's not that simple. You have to wait a year or two and can't register the bike in the meantime. So it's a big deal if you want to ride it in a state park, which I did.

 

[Rkangel]

My general life rule is that Craigslist and Facebook are like social diseases. The more you play around in them the more likely you will get infected.

 

[orygun]

My general life rule is that Craigslist and Facebook are like social diseases. The more you play around in them the more likely you will get infected.

On either one can be seen the unbelievable depths of stupidity that graces our land...

 

[Ducati_Meister]

Most recently for one of my ads, someone emailed me to ask the price, so I simply deleted the email reply to my ad. Price was in the ad title and to ask me obvious questions, playing dumb etc. to suck me into wasting my time, GTFO. In the past, consignment I've had great luck with, sort of a win win on both sides.

 

[orygun]

Most recently for one of my ads, someone emailed me to ask the price, so I simply deleted the email reply to my ad. Price was in the ad title and to ask me obvious questions, playing dumb etc. to suck me into wasting my time, GTFO. In the past, consignment I've had great luck with, sort of a win win on both sides.

Yeah, I has someone wanting more pics of a truck tool box I listed for $20. I'd posted three pics of it in the ad, but they wanted more.
My reply would be turned into "bubblegum" on this site!

 

[Bacchus]

I'd posted tree pics of it in the ad, but they wanted more.

Post the same three pics, but flipped left to right.