So Craigslist.. How about some "Are You Kidding me Stories?" - Page 2

To answer some eloquently posted questions. Yeah this would have been tossed into a car for scrap.
There was no "Lying" on my part. If it didn't sell, it was getting tossed and be no good to anyone but the shredder.

Awesome part of the story: I was telling a guy at the store about the texting conversation.. he said "Bring it in.. I'll buy it" Sold it for the $30 bucks.

I was trying to find this thread the other day before starting a new Craigslist Saga.

Originally Posted by Caveman

Pretty rude of you dude to be replying to an ad selling something with a reply to charge them to haul it away.

I have no idea why you think this is rude? Would you go into someone's house to get a red playing 50"POS TV and pay 90$ for it? The ad says "or best offer" so this is my best offer, obviously this person should be paying to dispose of such, and there are a lot of members here that would most definitely agree, like Burly and others, that we should charge for removal. I was polite and courteous, please enlighten me on how you think this is rude.

Its not rude, its realistic!!! Mind you I could have very easily been very rude. For them to pay 20$ is more than fair.

Originally Posted by jw7783

Some of these people, I just don't really know how they get through life.

I SERIOUSLY wonder this exact same thing. The funny thing about Craigslist is that it used to be for hipsters and tech folks, now it is the online ghetto. I have bought a few things here and there but selling is an entire separate beast. I won't post anything for sale on Craigslist at all. It's just not worth it. I value my time and replying back and forth only to figure out that somebody wants me to deliver a 20$ item 30 or so minutes to their trailer because they have no vehicle is just ridiculous (happened AT LEAST twice when I first started out). Also if you have no car, why are buying whatever it is. Buy a car!

Now I have a chain for resale, my first outlet is always eBay. I know a lot of folks don't like it but I have never had a problem and I do ok now that I started using calculated shipping. If it's not "eBayable" then I sell it on one of the little community yard sale pages on Facebook, been having mixed luck at that as well but never as bad a Craigslist. Lastly, I have a store that I have an consignment account with and that surprisingly has done very well. My personal belief is that eBay and the consignment store do well because you can use a credit card at/on both of them and folks are using cash less and less.

These people are so generous!

Attention scrappers! (Arvada )
© craigslist

We need help TODAY picking up a small doll house for child. From 1 mile e of colorado blvd and colfax to car and 58th. Would help if you have a trailer. We need two angles that are strong!

WILL PAY FOR GAS!

Attention scrappers!

I bet they mean doll house as in one of those storage buildings made up like a children's playhouse.

I bet they only want right or acute angles..... As using anything greater would surely be obtuse.







Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
Mitch Hedberg

Craigslist here isn't the success story that it seems to be in the US. Here it's mainly used to buy/sell weed and to engage in seedy sexual practices.

I always get a mixed bag of nuts on CL. i run different adds from Buying, to selling, free stuff and services. So I get a pretty wide range of stupid, funny, and insulting emails. I don not post my phone number at all and most times I don't give out my number until I get the warm a fuzz.

Best one. I cleaned out a house and ended up with a bunch of craft crap (so i thought) I posted it for free and bunch of people emailed with will you bring it to me? How much stuff is it? Will you hold it for me? etc. Finally a lady came and got it and she actually told me there is good stuff in there and gave me $20. About a hour later I got this threading email from a guy who I told were the stuff was but he was too late. He sad it was illegal to offer free stuff on a first come first serve bases. Threaded me with legal action and bla bla bla. Said he was going to turn me into CL personal to have me band Bla Bla Bla.

Originally Posted by Hypoman

I bet they only want right or acute angles..... As using anything greater would surely be obtuse.







Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
Mitch Hedberg

Ahhhhh gotta miss Hedberg...

Originally Posted by pwajunkie

I always get a mixed bag of nuts on CL. i run different adds from Buying, to selling, free stuff and services. So I get a pretty wide range of stupid, funny, and insulting emails. I don not post my phone number at all and most times I don't give out my number until I get the warm a fuzz.

Best one. I cleaned out a house and ended up with a bunch of craft crap (so i thought) I posted it for free and bunch of people emailed with will you bring it to me? How much stuff is it? Will you hold it for me? etc. Finally a lady came and got it and she actually told me there is good stuff in there and gave me $20. About a hour later I got this threading email from a guy who I told were the stuff was but he was too late. He sad it was illegal to offer free stuff on a first come first serve bases. Threaded me with legal action and bla bla bla. Said he was going to turn me into CL personal to have me band Bla Bla Bla.

so it would be perfectly legal to tell him to come on and get it after it's already gone... shoulda done it.

Originally Posted by pwajunkie

About a hour later I got this threading email from a guy who I told were the stuff was but he was too late. He sad it was illegal to offer free stuff on a first come first serve bases. Threaded me with legal action and bla bla bla. Said he was going to turn me into CL personal to have me band Bla Bla Bla.

I want to know how it is illegal to get rid of your stuff for free?

I ran into this many times. Here I am a guy who just wants something gone and wants to do a NICE thing by not trying to make a buck off it. I tend to put things on CL for free on my kids stuff that they have outgrown. I'm looking to "pay it forward" When my kiddos were little a lot of people gave us things.. We never even asked.. they would just say "Hey I have a bag of boys clothes my son has outgrown- you can have them" or Toys we got as say Christmas gifts like a tricycle. My daughter couldn't ride the thing anymore- so we gave it away.

I got so fed up with the Free section trying to help another human being out I nearly gave up on it-- until I devised a plan.

Recently, I tore down a deck around my pool as the pool went kaput. I was looking at a $300 bill in order to rent a dumpster or haul it myself- both were in the same ballpark for the amount of wood I had. It was about 98% good wood- 2x6's, 4x4's, spindles and 5/4 lumber. I wanted to put it up on CL but knew there would be a fight if there were any takers. I had already torn it down- they just needed to haul it out and I offered to help them load it all.

So I posted this in the ad with the pics:

"I will be taking the first to contact me IN ORDER. So if you are the first person to contact me- you get first crack at it, you take what you want and then the next person will have their shot. This way I don't have people fighting over it or hurt feelings."

It worked out perfectly. I had lined up 6 people who wanted it. First dude came and took it all.. then sent the other 5 a message letting them know it was gone.

Here's a funny CL story that I got to hear. It didn't pertain to me personally, but it was being done by a local scrapper that was getting irritated with another specific guy that he would always see loading up stuff just as he was getting there. Usually beating him by less than 5 minutes.

This is pretty tactful and funny, and since it didn't involve anyone else specifically, i think it's rather funny.

This guy waited until he saw a decent score pop up on craigslist for free, and he wanted it, but he wanted to make sure this other dude didn't get there and start loading up before he had the chance. So he immediately posted a picture and listing for free copper wire, and left a "at the curb on the corner of X Ave and Y St" kinda thing. 20 miles in the other direction. And when he got to the stuff he wanted, it was still there. He started loading it up and the other guy shows up just as he was finishing. He stopped and talked to him for a minute and the guy told him that someone else had just beat him to a decent load of free copper, so it just wasnt his day.

Couple days later, same scenario. The guy lists 400' of free chain link that was just tore down, of course in the opposite direction of the load this guy wanted again, and he got to what he wanted, loaded it up, and saw the guy again while he was pulling off. Said the look on the face of the other guy this time was more one of "you MFer". Old guy was starting to get irritated.

So the next day something pops up and he decides, he's just going to play it fair, take his time, see what happens. He gets to this house, and the guy is there about to load up a broken down rider and he feeds him some BS about how he just got beat to some sheet about 5 miles away just before, so now there is a mythical 3rd person involved that is beating both of them to their free CL scores.

This story is something that is still in progress, but I thought I'd share it because I laughed a little bit, and it was absolutely CL related. have a good one boys (and girls)