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

**sledge** · 04-29-2014, 05:09 PM

I know we have a fun Craigslist "Hall of Shame" ad post.. But what about some of the glorious, weird, odd or just downright stupid interactions from CL. I know I've got a bunch.. but I can start us off with one perfect example from this very morning.

I have a Rockford Fosgate 1 Farad Capacitor for sale on CL right now for $30 bucks.

Ad Respondent: Still got the Capacitor?
Me: Yes I do
Ad Respondent: I got $20 cash
Me: I'll take it.. when do you want to come and get it?
Ad Respondent: Send me your address.. I'll figure out how far away you are
Me: Ok.. Blah Blah XYZ Road
Ad Respondent: It'll take me 45 minutes- meet me half way
Me: Nope.. already dropped my price.. not wasting my gas and billable time too!
Ad Respondent: Oh.. Ok thanks anyway!

And Ladies and Gents.. Here is precisely how NOT to attempt to transact business via Craigslist!

**shaun319** · 04-29-2014, 06:45 PM

I am the same way, I always leave a little room for negotiations, but I will not go any further then a plaza 5 min. away to meet up and thats only because it makes it easier and don't need a million people knowing where I live

btw, would you do $20 on that cap and ship to Ontario? lol, jk

**MattInTheHat** · 04-29-2014, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by sledge42

I know we have a fun Craigslist "Hall of Shame" ad post.. But what about some of the glorious, weird, odd or just downright stupid interactions from CL. I know I've got a bunch.. but I can start us off with one perfect example from this very morning.

I have a Rockford Fosgate 1 Farad Capacitor for sale on CL right now for $30 bucks.

Ad Respondent: Still got the Capacitor?
Me: Yes I do
Ad Respondent: I got $20 cash
Me: I'll take it.. when do you want to come and get it?
Ad Respondent: Send me your address.. I'll figure out how far away you are
Me: Ok.. Blah Blah XYZ Road
Ad Respondent: It'll take me 45 minutes- meet me half way
Me: Nope.. already dropped my price.. not wasting my gas and billable time too!
Ad Respondent: Oh.. Ok thanks anyway!

And Ladies and Gents.. Here is precisely how NOT to attempt to transact business via Craigslist!

And that is why a lot of useable stuff ends up in my scrap pile. $20 isn't worth the headache some days

**Maiwand** · 04-29-2014, 07:22 PM

Oh here we go. This wasn't on craigslist, but it was on kijiji. Recently too.

Ad: Buying all cat converters etc
Me: Hey do you do pick up? I have XYZ converter
Ad resp: Yes, can you send me a picture
Me: *sends picture of converter
Ad resp: I can offer 35 but I know you want more. I asked around I think its worth more
Me: I can do 45, I have done my research and found that it is around 70-75 in the US + someone offered me 60 but I didnt want to drive to their neighbourhood (very bad neighbourhood)
Ad resp: Oh can you come to my area. I am a student transportation is a problem.
Me: (thinking in my head wtf?) srry i didnt want to travel that is why I asked you
Ad resp: srry wont be able to

**sledge** · 04-29-2014, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by MattInTheHat

And that is why a lot of useable stuff ends up in my scrap pile. $20 isn't worth the headache some days

I just tossed in a vehicle 3 cars of misc parts. All the stuff everyone says they would "die for" Tail lights, headlights, visors, recovery hooks.. all stuff off a Gen 2 Blazer, Ford ZX2 and a Pontiac Bonneville. They sat for 3 months and were on CL 3 or 4 times.. I figure- get this crap out of my garage.. and get .11 cents a lb for it.

The Capacitor is from the Bonneville.. it is the last "part" of any car I have left. If no takers.. I'll bash it and toss it in my next vehicle. I'm kind of an a$$.. if I can't sell it. I beat the crap out of it so if by chance someone gets to the vehicle before the crusher.. there isn't anything left of value!

I heard a story at one time (may have been here) that someone used to torch holes in the blocks of their motors.. that way since the yard was paying for it by scrap- that was EXACTLY what they were getting.. the yard was none too happy about it. I thought it was BRILLIANT! They are getting what they paid for right?

**BurlyGuys** · 04-29-2014, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by sledge42

I heard a story at one time (may have been here) that someone used to torch holes in the blocks of their motors.. that way since the yard was paying for it by scrap- that was EXACTLY what they were getting.. the yard was none too happy about it. I thought it was BRILLIANT! They are getting what they paid for right?

Pure genius!

**wadarbr549** · 04-29-2014, 08:31 PM

there is a very big yard in ashland kentucky,once a car is on there property nothing can be removed from it,not from customers or workers...,,i used to take them all my cars....they always paid the most....now they do not buy from individuals unless you have over 40,000 lbs....any how, i was always amazed at the fact that they do not remove anything at all from cars....they run 3 shredders 24/7...cars come straight from your trailer to the shredder...i asked a worker one time why they didnt remove converters at least..he said the bosses say the main reason is the saftey factor involved.....

i couldnt imagine shredding all those catalytic converters...and radiators...and other things....i geuse at the amount of volume they do they make plenty the way it is...

**Russell** · 04-29-2014, 09:28 PM

haul away dirt (orland park)
compensation: $20
I will pay $20 for someone with a truck to pick up roughly 8 50 lb bags of dirt. In yard bags. Garbage man wouldn't pick up. I can help load. If you stop by after 6pm or before 8 15am. Hoping to get rid of tonight or tomorrow morning. At intersection of 88th and biloba st in Orland Park 60462. Email if you have questions

(in yard bags)( I don't think they realize how small the 50 lb bags of new dirt are, compared to a yard bag.) I'm guessing the g man couldn't even lift them.

This isn't even the worst one I've seen, just the most current. Usually people want a lot more; listings for free that would be a several hundred dollar removal. Thanks, but no thanks...

**sledge** · 04-29-2014, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Russell

haul away dirt (orland park)
compensation: $20
I will pay $20 for someone with a truck to pick up roughly 8 50 lb bags of dirt. In yard bags. Garbage man wouldn't pick up. I can help load. If you stop by after 6pm or before 8 15am. Hoping to get rid of tonight or tomorrow morning. At intersection of 88th and biloba st in Orland Park 60462. Email if you have questions

(in yard bags)( I don't think they realize how small the 50 lb bags of new dirt are, compared to a yard bag.) I'm guessing the g man couldn't even lift them.

This isn't even the worst one I've seen, just the most current. Usually people want a lot more; listings for free that would be a several hundred dollar removal. Thanks, but no thanks...

Reminds me of a story from last weekend. Once I do a car drop off, I stop at a gas station on my way back from the yard.. every time. I'm sitting there drinking my Mountain Dew and an older gentleman and his wife pulls up. Offers me $10 bucks to load 20 bags of mulch into his pickup. I offer to do it for him for free.. he insists.. Easiest $10 bucks for 2 minutes worth of work I've done in a long time!

**KzScrapper** · 04-30-2014, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by sledge42

Reminds me of a story from last weekend. Once I do a car drop off, I stop at a gas station on my way back from the yard.. every time. I'm sitting there drinking my Mountain Dew and an older gentleman and his wife pulls up. Offers me $10 bucks to load 20 bags of mulch into his pickup. I offer to do it for him for free.. he insists.. Easiest $10 bucks for 2 minutes worth of work I've done in a long time!

Nice work Sledge...I will always have a soft spot for the older folks that are still trying to do it themselves even though their bodies don't always agree.

**SuperDave** · 04-30-2014, 09:21 AM

Mine recently started like this:

I have a 50" tv that plays red it still works but it can be scrapped for metal.

I also have a screen door for scrap
A desktop computer
Another t.v

All I am asking for is $90 Or best offer.

You would have to come into the house to pick up these items

So I say:

I'd like to charge you 20$ and I'll come and get your stuff. Good strong couple of guys.
Thanks

Then they reply:

50 will be my final offer

So I say:

Sorry but you will need to pay to get rid of these items. Unless you can remove them yourself.., there is ALMOST NO value in the items you listed.
Sincerely

Then they say:

Then if you want it take it all for 35

sheesh, I say

sorry I cannot accept that. I am not in the business of losing money. I need 20$ from you. that's all
respectfully yours.

Some people's children!

**auminer** · 04-30-2014, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by SuperDave

Some people's children!

Funny (?) thing is, they probably posted to a thread just like this one somewhere about the crazy guy that wanted them to pay him for the priviledge of receiving the precious items that they no longer had a use for.

**weaponepsilon** · 04-30-2014, 09:36 PM

today. I have a long forgotten ad on CL. I finally get a bite on it. "Hey do you still have (item)?" I respond yes. "When would you be able to meet tomorrow?" Me, "Anytime" I get the standard "Cool, call me and we'll meet up." Today I leave a voicemail. I get a frantic text, "Yeah I really want this (item)!" so I shot back "Where do you want to meet?" "huh? which guy are you?" I angrily respond 'The one with the (item)!" He shoots back to me, "are you the guy who wanted to meet at the funeral home?" I mull this guy over and respond with one more, "NO.did you want to meet or not?" "Oh sorry, I got a different one. Thanks."

**davidarlen** · 05-01-2014, 12:12 AM

Hi had a lady call me about 5 in the evening a couple months back. She was responding to my wanted scrap metal add. She says that she filled up her boyfriends truck with $40 dollars worth of scrap and needed to empty it tonight, he needed he truck in the morning. She lived about 40 miles away, she said she did not have time to go to the scrap yard in the morning and would I take the scrap, I said ok and gave her my address. She calls back about an hour later and said she needed some gas money, I said if she really had $40 worth of scrap I would pay her $20.-. She calls back another hour later and says she needs $40.-, I said good by and good luck. What a waste of time. David

**jw7783** · 05-01-2014, 11:51 AM

I had a dirtbike (88 KX250) up for sale or trade about a year ago. Ran great, needed nothing. For sale or trade. So someone offers me some "old,vintage rare clock worth $1,000. I only paid 500 for the bike so I said send me the name, model, pics etc. The thing was from the 50's, didn't work, and working ones weren't selling for $30 on ebay. I told him I'd have to pass, and he then went on to say the bike is a piece of $#!+ and no one will every buy it, blah blah blah. Ended up selling the next day for $900.
Some of these people, I just don't really know how they get through life.

**sledge** · 05-01-2014, 12:42 PM

Anytime I get a vehicle that runs and drives.. it is going to have some type of issue. I always list every little problem either the previous owner told me about- or that I find myself. I'm totally honest with the CL ad and basically the vehicles are being sold at a little higher than me tearing it apart and scrapping it. I figure win-win- I make the same or more money.. and don't have to do anything but get a cheap title- as I pay so little for the car.. they cost me virtually nothing from the state. I had 2 vehicles that fit this bill about 6 months apart. Each time I listed them I got an Email stating simply:
"Scrap that POS"
On the first car I ignored it.
On the Second Car.. I said "Thank you for your interest.. but I sold the car yesterday for $700"
Never have gotten a "SCRAP that POS" email again!

**sledge** · 05-19-2014, 05:17 PM

Oh ladies and gents.. Do I have a good one for you.
Back story: I bought a car back in December. In the car was a 1 Farad Capacitor for car Audio. Great Shape. About a $100 piece of equipment. I have been trying to sell on CL since then.. started at $50.. then dropped it to $30 and listed and renewed multiple times. No Luck. So this thing is just needing to go. Last night I renewed the ad and changed the title to say "LAST CHANCE" In the ad I said if it doesn't sell by 5/21.. it gets tossed. I really don't care at this point. I have gotten so many replies "Hey give ya $10" "Hey I gots (sic) no cash.. I can trade ya somethin" But this one today Iced the cake.. I'd like to share with you Verbatim this text conversation. I have to "bleep" mine.. but read it as it would be read.

CL Ad Reply: Hay man why throw away the capacitor why don't u give it to me? I don't have any money right now but car adio is my passion.

Me: Dam*it..did my wife put my sh!t in the free section of CL again? F*ck!

CL Ad Reply: No it said it had to be sold by like the 21st or it's gana be thrown away... So I mean if it's gana be thrown away I'll take it.

I nearly knocked myself out thinking how absolutely STUPID this dude is!

**Caveman** · 05-19-2014, 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by SuperDave

Mine recently started like this:

I have a 50" tv that plays red it still works but it can be scrapped for metal.

I also have a screen door for scrap
A desktop computer
Another t.v

All I am asking for is $90 Or best offer.

You would have to come into the house to pick up these items

So I say:

I'd like to charge you 20$ and I'll come and get your stuff. Good strong couple of guys.
Thanks

Then they reply:

50 will be my final offer

So I say:

Sorry but you will need to pay to get rid of these items. Unless you can remove them yourself.., there is ALMOST NO value in the items you listed.
Sincerely

Then they say:

Then if you want it take it all for 35

sheesh, I say

sorry I cannot accept that. I am not in the business of losing money. I need 20$ from you. that's all
respectfully yours.

Some people's children!

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

**Caveman** · 05-19-2014, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by sledge

Oh ladies and gents.. Do I have a good one for you.
Back story: I bought a car back in December. In the car was a 1 Farad Capacitor for car Audio. Great Shape. About a $100 piece of equipment. I have been trying to sell on CL since then.. started at $50.. then dropped it to $30 and listed and renewed multiple times. No Luck. So this thing is just needing to go. Last night I renewed the ad and changed the title to say "LAST CHANCE" In the ad I said if it doesn't sell by 5/21.. it gets tossed. I really don't care at this point. I have gotten so many replies "Hey give ya $10" "Hey I gots (sic) no cash.. I can trade ya somethin" But this one today Iced the cake.. I'd like to share with you Verbatim this text conversation. I have to "bleep" mine.. but read it as it would be read.

CL Ad Reply: Hay man why throw away the capacitor why don't u give it to me? I don't have any money right now but car adio is my passion.

Me: Dam*it..did my wife put my sh!t in the free section of CL again? F*ck!

CL Ad Reply: No it said it had to be sold by like the 21st or it's gana be thrown away... So I mean if it's gana be thrown away I'll take it.

I nearly knocked myself out thinking how absolutely STUPID this dude is!

Are you really just gonna toss it in the trash? You would be the STUPID one. Or are you not stupid and just lying about 'just' tossing it? Would you not be selling it as scrap at least?

**Mechanic688** · 05-20-2014, 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by Caveman

Are you really just gonna toss it in the trash? You would be the STUPID one. Or are you not stupid and just lying about 'just' tossing it? Would you not be selling it as scrap at least?

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