Craigslist SCs

[Aethian]

Personally I like free cycle and cheap cycle better then craigslist. But then thats just because I haven't had to call the cops on one guy from craigslist.

[StanFlouride]

I used to FREECYCLE some things (its great, look it up).

http://freecycle.org

It's GREAT! It's Yahoo group so you have to register but it's a wonderful resource. It's international, over 18,000 local groups and 5.5 million members (make sure you cruise the other countries' groups- the last time I checked the one in Ecuador had two members, the one in Haiti had 12)

[friendofjimmyk]

Ahh...craigslist.

The funniest part of Craigslist is the personal ads. I mean, not that I would know anything about them...

Okay, all kidding aside. They're hilarious! Then there's the crazy rants and raves section. I just don't understand it!

I have not bought or sold anything on Craigslist. I have looked for places to live though. I'm a bit leary of anything on there...but you just have to take precautions as with anything.

[Getoutofmylobby]

Mrs Getoutmylobby has been trying to find us a rental house and so far of the three places we found on Craigslist, all three were not even close to what the ad described.

The only one that was worth living in had probably the nastiest landlord, $850/month rent (for a place that was just a bit bigger than out 2 bedroom apt, $1000 deposit plus an additional $500 deposit and an extra $100 (!) a month for our "homewrecker" black lab. AND we had to get, in writing, a recommendation from our previous 2 landlords before he would even look at our application.

And, naturally, he was an asshole about it too.

And our black lab only destroys pillows and squeaky-toys, not homes.

[Dreamstalker]

Some people assume that all pets destroy things.

I'm about to try selling a few old cell phones on CL (SIMs removed of course)...wish me luck.

[clod75]

My sister had an old HUGE wooden teachers desk. Actually, think of it as an old Principals desk It was a monster, and she hated it, but didn't want to say no to the uncle of her bf who graciously lugged it over for them.

She advertised on Craigs, selling it for $20, with a pict. No takers. Two weeks later she is giving it away. No takers.

She then decides to throw in $10 with the desk.... Someone will take it then, right? nope.

So she puts the ad out for junk removal, she wants to pay $20 to whoever will take the effing thing out of her place so she won't have to look at it again.

Two responses:

One guy asks if she has a hand saw or axe, he will happily chop it up and clean it up after, for the $20

The other guy says "I'll take care of it, no problem, I'll take it right out, I have a truck and a dolly."

So she goes with the second guy, as she has no axe at home, just a Ginsu knife for the first one.

Guy shows up, takes it, and wheels it out the door, collecting the $20 and tipping his hat goodbye.

Next day sis was heading out.... and what does she see across the street? The desk abandoned on the sidewalk

[Kusanagi]

Hey, normally if there's someone with a great rack and there's money involved, I'm the one giving it to her, not the other way around. Just kidding!

I don't know if this counts, but a few times myself and my friends have posted personal ads on craigslist and gotten some...interesting responses.

I've met some cool people, just none I clicked with on a relationship level. But oh my god, the responses.

Married men who are closeted homosexuals. I'm not kidding. Every friggen time I always get at least two MARRIED men who are in the closet that offer to, um...service me. When I write back and tell them no, I'm not interested, one of them always offers me money!

Now, I have nothing against gay people, some of my best friends are gay. What I do hate is retarded people who decide "Hey, lets reply to everyone looking for a female that's depressed so I can turn a cheap trick."

I ended up getting one into trouble inadvertantly. But damn, was it funny.

Around March I post an ad and meet some cool people. I get the standard comment of the person above. Now, normally, I would just email back that I wasn't interested, sorry, but this time I had specifically put in the ad that I was not into guys, was not looking to meet guys, and am 100% straight. I write back "No thanks, I'm not interested in guys, sorry."

Then he offers to pay me and sends me some...pictures...and lets me know he's married with kids!

I reply back to him "I sugguest you save your money and take a reading comprehension class or save up for the divorce that's going to happen when your wife finds out you're trying to pick up guys half your age on craigslist."

Well...the dumbass didn't have a seperate email accont. His wife ended up reading that reply, along with everything else.

The pure rage in the email he sent me after she found out the correspondance he tried to have with me was awesome.

[powerboy]

I had put my car up on craigslist. I put it picture from different angles and listed that it just needed the A/C to be fixed. Had a bunch of people from other countries wanting it. Needless to say, I still have the car. Got the A/C fixed and I am happy with it.

[PepperElf]

I wish I was making that up, but some girl actually asked in an email showing interest in the room asking how well endowed I was).

well now we now how she was planning on paying rent i guess

I had a couple of Freecycled items too. A computer desk was just left in front of the apartment when i was in va. So I took it.
And when I was moving out for good I put my mini-fridge by the dumpster... but someone stopped me on the way and asked if it was any good... Yep, the freezer is crap and always frosts up, but he didn't care.

[XXDarrienX]

Kusangi, I have to agree with you. I had a profile on craigslist out of boredom to see what happens. Despite the fact the profile being in the whole guy for girl section I got propositioned wtf?

[Imprl59]

might have... but let's be honest, what relationship that has started off of "hey, I like the size of his dick" has lasted long (besides, it's the internet... so I'd have probably lied )

It would be ok to lie... after all she told you she was female. Dollars to donuts she was smugglin sausage.. not that there's anything wrong with that.

I deal with the cars section on CL a lot. Daily almost. There are some bargains to be had especially down here in FL where granny croaks and the family just wants the stuff gone so they can go home but....

I saw one today that was supposed to be "perfect" with a few small cracks in the leather seat. The top was worn through. Every body panel on the car had some major problem. Part of the car was spray painted with white paint to cover God knows what and the interior looked like grandma kept angry tigers in there. I drove over an hour to see it. I could have killed the guy.

I saw three CL cars today...
This was the nicest one...

I don't understand why people lie about stuff on there. Do they think that since I drove an hour I'll just settle for something that looks like it just came out of the pick and pull?

As for the personals.... well.. this is a family board so all I'll say is I've found a couple of keepers.

Steve B.

[Hon'ya-chan]

As for the personals.... well.. this is a family board so all I'll say is I've found a couple of keepers.

Steve B.

Oh, so you finished the Dungeon in the basement already?

[depechemodefan]

I hate the phone/email tag.

Like Sat. I see early something for free. The ad didn't say anything for ph. number. Anyway, email the guy around 10am, around 4pm I guess he emailed me. Oddly enough I didn't see the email at 6:30. so Sun. morning I see the replay that he wanted my phone to call.
I send him my ph. around 1 he says someone picked it up.
Sucky, but not like he or I were a jerk.

Then another person lists somethingfor free then says she wasn't going to answer if the item was picked up, it was for free. She wasn't going to spend time emailing people. I hope she bothered to at least delete the thing.

[draftermatt]

Good:

Sold my car in a matter of like 2 days. 92 Lumina with only 55K miles for $1800 will do that I guess.

Sold my old truck after months of trying.

Sold my broken printer for $15 to a guy who's disabled and spends his time fixing old computers and printers and selling them on craigslist. I thought that was cool.

Bad:

*The number of scammers is astounding.

*I gave away free a counter top and some cabinets. They were in my garage when we got the house and I hated them. I got over 150 e-mails from people asking about them. Quite a few were people who were e-mailing every hour asking if I still had it. Some were adamant that I "must get back to them right away".

So I picked someone, but they couldn't get them till the next day, stupidly I left the ad up, saying "pending pickup" and got e-mails from people I wrote to saying it was gone already asking why the ad was up, and could they come and get it now.

*Gave away boxes after I moved. I gave the girl my phone number in case she got lost. Her husband ended up a half hour late because of traffic. She never gave him the number, and e-mailed me 10 minutes before we were to meet (public place).

*That truck I sold? I waited in a parking lot for one guy to show up for an hour. I called a few times and wrote an e-mail after I gave up. Never heard back.

*I've been trying to sell an antique maple table and chairs. I've gotten a lot of interest in the chairs, but I was hoping to sell as a set. A few people wanted like 3 chairs. Well then what do I do with the other 3 chairs? Not really a set anymore. I mentioned to a few people that they could take and sell the table if all they wanted was the chairs, but no dice.

Two people have said they wanted to look at the table and chairs. One guy never showed so I told the other person they could come and look at them if they wanted, but they never called or wrote back.

*My BIL asked me to sell some video games for him. EBay is a no go anymore since they'll only accept Paypal for me to sell. So I tried Craigslist. One person wanted to know how much to ship. Never heard back.

Another person wanted to know if I'd drive 40 miles out of the way to drop them off. Uh, no. I offered a halfway point (near where I work) but no answer.

I wrote a name down wrong for where to meet. A guy wrote saying he wanted all the games, but where is the ***. I responded that I had the wrong name, it's the +++ and when did he want to meet? No answer.

Funny thing is, I've never bought anything on Craigslist. Sold some things, hired some people off of it.

[protege]

I've found an excellent way to get rid of things you simply want gone is to put them out by the street, clearly visible to car traffic, with a large, day-glo orange cardboard sign that says FREE on it.

Shortly after I moved into my current house, I'd started doing some work in the yard. Not much, because I didn't have the time. However, I did take down a small wall, and ripped out some of the planters. That left a nice pile of cinder blocks to dispose of. Not wanting to get caught dumping them in the woods across the way, and not wanting to pay to haul them...they sat on my patio for many months. Dad took a few for the "sidewalk" he was working on, leaving me still with several dozen. After months of them taking up space on the patio, they had to go. I took them out to the curb, spray-painted "free" on one of them. Next night, someone had taken the lot. Too bad they didn't take those fugly concrete lions too. I hate those damn things! At roughly 300 pounds apiece, they're still sitting out by the curb...and currently serving to keep the idiot drivers off my grass. As nice as they work that way, they really need to go--I've already bashed apart one with the fence maul

Locally though, garbage day is the best time to put that sort of crap out. There's an older, green Chevy van...which cruises the entire neighborhood looking for crap to "salvage." That guy will take anything. I'm not sure if it was him...but someone took the smashed remains of the '66 Radio-Flyer (only the badly crunched body...I'd kept the rest for fleet repairs!) that I'd put out. Not sure why anyone would want it, since the entire rear end was bashed in...unless they took it for scrap.