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You never know who is on the other end of the email, for good or bad.

I replied about a motorcycle lift for a cheap price a year or two back. I was put off initially by the texts I got about it, but tried to be patient and follow through on my end. It turned out a guy had died and his young oriental widow (who worked crazy hours) was selling off his stuff. It was only 2 blocks away from my house! Everything was 100% legit and I got a deal that time.

You never know though....

[quote=gwrench]...am interested in this posting.../quote]

This would have sent the reply directly to the trash bin.

Have never used CL. However, like some of the ingenious replies... Tag for future reference...

"Cash only upon pickup" shuts them down every time.

I love to delete the stupid fug's that have 15, 5$ articles and list them all separate taking up the whole page stupid bastads get the hint after about the third time!!!!!!!!

I do not sell things, I give them away or throw them away.... except for a car we got for the kids to commute to school. I sold it on Craig's list.

An extended family of blacks showed up with multiple cars in my dark driveway and moved as fast as cats.

I felt like a blind old man in slow motion watching money being counted on top of my garbage can.

The buyer was a guard for the University of Washington basketball team.

Luckily Craigslist ain't an option around here.

I tried to sell a truck on CL a couple years ago. I won't try selling a vehicle on there again.

That experience ranged from hilarious to terrifying.

If you got some time to kill....
Don't even reply

yes it is in Tennessee, bought several pieces of farm equipment on CL there.

Sure, but the nearest city listed is 90 minutes away, with a handful of posts from a town 20 miles away.

and 2 hours away from the cities is where I have bought stuff, normal people not the ones from crack whore hollow

Compelling

CL is not what it use to be.

Ten years ago it was a decent place to do business....both buying and selling. Any more it's just for entertainment....and even that isn't what it use to be.
"Rants and Raves" use to be funny....

The "Buyer" wanted my paypal account. Asked me to make a new account if need be.

And has since dropped off the scene. I was going to see about making a paypal account just to see how these guys make dummy transactions work and what this guy's angle was going to be.

He hadn't shown that card yet. I don't know if he was going to pay me the shipping charge and ask me to forward a check or money order to the "shipping company". Or if he was going to overpay me and ask me to wire the overage to an account somewhere.

I tried texting him to see if he still wanted it. Told him a lady just left that wanted to buy it. Was he still interested. No response so far.

i put a camper and an antique stove on CL at the same time.
got a reply on both that was exactly the same wording " hi is this posting still available? if is i will purchase. i will give you 70 $ over your asking, what was the price.
my transport people will bring you money and you can pay them with the extra i send with check. what bank used? i will send check from that bank."
gave me a head ache reading it. i emailed back asking for a phone number and stating CASH only! never heard from them again.
the whole inquiry smelled from the git go.

Guess I must have experienced the exception to the rule. I'd never used CL until a few years ago when we first moved down here. We bought a house here, kept our home up north and left the furnishings in it. We furnished the house down here from Craig's List. We got a lot of really nice furniture for real bargain prices, had no problems with anyone. When we bought another house down here and sold the one up north we had too much stuff, had to get rid of some, back to CL. Quick, easy, no problems.

Learn to accept and respect people for who they are.

Why?

I used to buy and sell on CL but tend to avoid it now. We were looking for a used mower recently and very few were listed on CL. Facebook, on the other hand, had dozens in our area.

Tried to buy a Camaro for my son's first car and the owner wanted me to give him a check so he could take it to his bank to pay it off and get the title. I told him that I would accompany him to the bank and would pay them myself. He then stopped answering my calls. A while later, I seen it posted again but from a different seller. Turns out the original seller had a mechanic's lien against the title that the second owner had to pay off to get it registered... after adding a Magnaflow exhaust and some paint work. We ended up buying it from the second owner.