Good old Craigslist

[monaco75]

I know carigslist is nothing but bottom feeders. Hell I'm one of them! But is it me, or are they getting worse, and worse??

Why do these people post stuff for sale, and never answer the phone/email, or get back to you? Why when selling something do these picture collectors say they are coming on a certain day/time, then never hear from them again?

Over the last 2 years that has been the only situation I have gotten from Craigslist. A few things I've posted for sale, only to get calls, and emails for pictures, and info. Once they get what they want, they tell me they are "coming out that weekend" to buy the stuff. Then never to be heard from again. Time and time over.

There has been a couple things I've wanted to buy, cash in hand ready to go, only to meet a phone ringing off the hook to no answering service. Or leave a message, and never hear back. Uhg

Currently there is a car I'm VERY interested in on there. I've called the 2 numbers on the HORRIBLE ad. On one of them, someone picked up the phone, and then hung it up. The other one had a voicemail with a some wonderfull ghetto *** women, whom you could not understand a word said.

Sorry guys, Im just venting! But its been driving me nuts lately...

I've had one care free transaction last year. An old 80s record/cassette/tuner for the garage. Some kid was selling stuff out of his parents house. He was a little nervous.. I pulled up in the blumo, and had some people stop, and talk to me before entering the premises. Hell one car pulled to the side of the road, and a guy got out to talk to me, so I couldnt blame the kid for wondering WTF?? lol But we made the transaction in 10 mins, both of us happy, and I got outa there.

 

[vdk2010]

And I thought that it is up to me. During the last 12 month, I tried to contact a lot of people to buy their cars. Either they have not even responded or never called back after the first contact... Especially with cars, many people just want to know what the market will bear...

 

[70NPORT]

Plain and simple, people are assholes. (present company excluded, of course). I went thru that too before finding my Newport. It's just a reflection of society today.

 

[Big_John]

It seems in general that people have become very rude about selling cars/parts. I've been responding to ads for parts on CL and forums with less than half even having the courtesy to respond back.

The other side of the coin... Buyers can be just as rude too. It's a two way street with the nice guys getting the fallout.

 

[BIGBARNEYCARS]

What I've found iz that buyers aren't even buyers unless they think their stealing something. I callz 'um wishers and If Idaz. They have no clue what it takes to put a car together. Still think if they shop hard enough, long enough they'll find a real diamond for the price of quartz. They probably ask the guy at the discount tire store if they can make payments for 12 months with no interest added on ah new set of 14" black walls! We all know we're gonna loose some $ if we sell one that we reserected, that's just part of the game, but if you spend $1000 or $100,000 where do you draw the line at an acceptable size of loss? 25% 50% 75%. And no matter what number you lay on the potential buyer he acts like you've just ask him to throw his old lady AND Daughter into the deal. I'm done now! Time for ah Martini, it's 12 oclock somewhere

 

[70NPORT]

I'm a nice guy.......until a yahoo returns my prior call at 2:35 in the morning the next day. Not so nice at the time.

 

[polara66hardtop]

C/L

I'm not a computer geek, but my geek son Informed me that many ads on Craigslist are setups, hoping to get somebody to post a return phone number or email address, I guess they have value. of course. The newest scam is, calling your number from outstate, letting it ring only once. A percentage of people will call the number back out of curiosity. When you do, it diverts to a **** site with a $19.95 automatic charge to your phone. Bingo, times a hundred times a day! Don't trust your local area code either, the big companies rent out their lines to out of state marketers, god bless their hearts!
So a company in California can hide their area code behind the local one, for a fee of course. Some days I miss the party line, at least the only person eavesdropping on you is Maude down the street!

 

[70NPORT]

I'm not a computer geek, but my geek son Informed me that many ads on Craigslist are setups, hoping to get somebody to post a return phone number or email address, I guess they have value. of course. The newest scam is, calling your number from outstate, letting it ring only once. A percentage of people will call the number back out of curiosity. When you do, it diverts to a **** site with a $19.95 automatic charge to your phone.

THAT is some devious ****. That would make me want to seriously trackdown the MF'r who owned the **** site.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

What ever happened to earning 20 bucks I guess easier to set up elaborate scam for 20 bucks. My wife had a text that she deleted and caused a charge because it was worded so if you didn't say no it charged you. Verizon took the charge off/ credit after a while but really aggravating to have to open text to tell it no, that's bullshit.

 

[70NPORT]

Some people have nothing better to do then to try screw up someone else program. Idiots.

 

[commando1]

And there's no such thing as a free app...

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[bluefury361]

I've been using CL more since ebay got so greedy. Just got to lay down some basic rules.
I post my phone number only. In the discription I state that I will not respond to emails and text. I never call back unless a valid message has been left. And if no one answers on the first "hello" I hang up.

It seems to be working. The number of "junk" contacts has lessened and i've made some good sales lately.