For buying and selling. Success? Scary? Big Risk?


What about services that do not have anything to do with sex?

aha

9/6/2008 7:09:51 PM

success

you've gotta be kidding with this thread

9/6/2008 7:10:19 PM

is the first line serious?

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 7:10 PM. Reason : ^]

9/6/2008 7:10:34 PM

Internet people are scary ok??

There's no meeting in a mutual place when selling big shit.

IM PARANOID OK

9/6/2008 7:13:54 PM

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

9/6/2008 7:15:13 PM

you meet some interesting people when buying/selling

9/6/2008 7:15:17 PM

I'll just be sure to have a male around when they come to pick shit up.

9/6/2008 7:16:10 PM

price is FIRM

9/6/2008 7:16:20 PM

i have a few services i can offer you.

free of charge.

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

9/6/2008 7:16:36 PM

great success
I bought my PS2 and some games from CL
I had the dude meet me at the bar
he wasn't scary

9/6/2008 7:17:25 PM

don`t worry, no potential buyer of your junk wants to take advantage of you

9/6/2008 7:17:40 PM

i've only had 2 sketch buyers/sellers ever...out of like 10-15

9/6/2008 7:18:10 PM

i never let them come to my house...i sell a lot of stuff on CL, and some of these people are downright crazy

9/6/2008 7:19:23 PM

i always end up buying stuff from raleigh yankees (ie. the canoe i bought from the hippie lady). they always seemed surprised when i show up. i think it's because i'm a redneck who uses punctuation and doesn't use caps lock in his emails.

9/6/2008 7:20:00 PM

9/6/2008 7:21:45 PM

I sold a car in 30 minutes. I was when it happened.

9/6/2008 7:23:08 PM

9/6/2008 7:28:44 PM

i had 1 lady that kept calling me over and over again, each time she called, she acted like she hadn't called me before. she asked the same questions every time and never committed to buy. it finally got to the point where if she was gonna call again, i was gonna tell her to fuck off, but she never called again.

i bought the item here and sold it there for a profit of $25. w00t.

9/6/2008 9:28:56 PM

When selling, if people try to low ball you:
1) accept their offer
2) tell them to meet you some place
3) don't show up
4) profit

9/6/2008 9:33:53 PM

^you are the worst kind of faggot

you could always just say "no"

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 9:36 PM. Reason : somebody find that thread where that kid did that and then we were all [NO]]

9/6/2008 9:35:31 PM

also, i only give out my grandcentral number instead of my real cell phone

creepy-ass people

9/6/2008 9:35:45 PM

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9/6/2008 9:37:38 PM

I've bought/sold probably 800-1000 items on craigslist. Never met anyone I'd really describe as creepy. In fact, I'd describe most of them as pretty cool.

Girls sometimes don't want to meet at their apartment, so fast food restaurants make good meeting places. Personally, I don't care if people know where I live.

Of course, when it comes to large amounts of cash, the usual precautions apply. Just take a friend with you and you'll be fine. Don't accept checks without photocopying tons of ID...eh, just don't take checks.

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Oh, I don't put phone numbers in the ads, but I do reply by email with a phone number ASAP and I give preference to people that I actually talk to on the phone. I've found that people who are afraid to use a telephone are probably too lazy to come pick something up anyway.

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Also, to the asshole up there...lowballing is often the first step in haggling. Haggling is how adults do business. Both you and the buyer have the same goal: to make a transaction that you are both satisfied with. Instead of blowing someone off, you could have used that as an opportunity to start a real negotiation that led to a successful sale.

[Edited on September 6, 2008 at 9:54 PM. Reason : .]

9/6/2008 9:46:33 PM

Calm down people I was making a joke based on the thread which I provided a link for.

9/6/2008 10:48:10 PM

don't worry, no one is going to respond to your misc encounters post

9/6/2008 11:06:48 PM

^^ I got the joke and lolled

9/7/2008 8:49:38 AM

some fucker just flagged one of my posts and it was removed

no reason whatsoever - it's not a duplicate, it's not profane (it's just selling some RAM), and it's not bogus...i SUSPECT it happened because of the guy who sent me half a dozen emails wanted to make sure i didn't have any other offers, but i don't know for sure

fuckers

9/9/2008 10:55:39 PM