craigslist advice

I have started to run low on my inventory, that usually comes to me easily. So I've decided to try running an add on craigslist for e-waste. My problem is, I am not good at writing an appealing add. I have looked through over 30 pages of related posts on this forum but haven't found anything that really helps. Does anyone have a 'sample' add I could look at to get a good idea on what a 'good' craigslist add is? Is this asking too much? I don't want any toes to get stepped on. But I think a lot of people on this forum could benefit from a few good sample adds. My area, on craigslist, has no adds about e-waste running and I could be the only one. As always, any help helps. Thanks

I've had 0% luck with craigslist in this area, in anyway shape or form. Hope that helps.

Weather it helps or not. It cant hurt to try.
mikeinreco - That works well? Good for you, Just straight up list what you want and will pay. I was thinking more on a short paragraph trying to win people over from going somewhere else. Money talks though..

I just made up a simple one using a few ideas I'd seen here(not sure where really), offering free pick-up of computers, printers etc. Only had one call, email actually because I don't list my phone due to worries about 3am calls. The one I did get was a company with 2 large copiers and 9 fairly old computers with some monitors etc. It didn't pay off real well cause I had to drive a hundred miles each way, but it was kinda cool and I learned a bit. Such as charging to remove large copiers ; )

i use cl and have developed many contacts and sellers from it, i now have 6 regulars that are always coming by with a load to see what i want, my best buy was a pickup bed full of motherboards for $300, there was alot of cpus and ram mixed in also

Craigslist has been my main source here, and I did develop a few good regular contacts from it. One source supplies me with 400-500 lbs of motherboards per month. Another one sells me all their RAM and CPU's from the 100-120 computers they scrap every week. Plus I get the many one time deals. Sometimes I also get emails from people who are clueless and try to sell one old tower for $20, even if I clearly state the prices in my ad of $5 per complete tower, etc.

Craigslist no good here. Too much competition and others flagging post and sending nasty messages. I got good luck with freecycle groups specially the freecycle yahoo group.

I have had no luck with CL every time I make a listing someone flags it and it gets deleted >

Aurum do you have a link to your CL posting or at least have a anything written up in a .PDF or .DOC file that I and others can go by when making a listing?

Originally Posted by happyisthealero

I have had no luck with CL every time I make a listing someone flags it and it gets deleted >

Aurum do you have a link to your CL posting or at least have a anything written up in a .PDF or .DOC file that I and others can go by when making a listing?

Here is the link:

Wanted old computers towers servers parts

I was pretty lucky with this ad, only got flagged about 2-3 times in one year, and once I received a nasty email which I ignored. I renew it about once a week. The ones that offer a single tower and are far away, I politely tell them that is not worth my time to pick up.

Ok, so I have used your posting and I have gotten five hits 4 turned out to be not so useful and one which turned into a future gold mine!

I got a call from a guy trying to sell motherboards and a lot of other items the guy had a little over 120lbs of material paid 100.00 for the entire lot might make after shipping 200.00 subtracting the shipping cost and initial cost of purchasing the materials. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you.