Dude Claims:
"1969 Shelby GT350 Hertz Rent-A-Racer - $4000 (chicago)
The title is clean , the car is clean... non smoker and everything runs great ! Please email me and ask me all questions if you have."
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ctd/1044864794.html
what is the purpose of listing useless listings?
collecting email addresses of those people that respond to it.
rebelgtp wrote:collecting email addresses of those people that respond to it.
Yep.
Pretty much every single time I log on the local Craigslist, the top two or three cars on the list are scams so I report them. I think it's worse than eBay these days, since it's so easy to post ads the scammers just throw them out there fishing for gullible people.
EastCoastMojo wrote:rebelgtp wrote:collecting email addresses of those people that respond to it.
Yep.
okay, I am not the brightest bulb in the box; what do they do with my email?
send me stuff that is marked spam that I don't open?
collect a total of 40 emails?
Email lists are worth money, qualified email lists are worth more money. By the fact a person responds to an ad for a Shelby, the list seller can show those people have a valid interest in Mustangs/Shelbys/muscle cars/etc. thus making their list more valuable to those vendors.
The people harvesting the addresses could care less whether you even see/read the emails.
pete240z wrote:Dude Claims:
"1969 Shelby GT350 Hertz Rent-A-Racer - $4000 (chicago)
The title is clean , the car is clean... non smoker and everything runs great ! Please email me and ask me all questions if you have."
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ctd/1044864794.html
what is the purpose of listing useless listings?
I saw that in CLE as well. It was pulled before I could click on it.
My thought was, all of the rentals were 1965, at least so I thought...
Hertz rented Mustangs in '66 (numbers vary somewhere around 1000 cars)...by most accounts it was a flop due to blown clutches, time slips found under seats, swapped engines etc. There was a split between manuals and automatics.
They rented Shelby's again in '68, a friend of mine has a nice '68 GT350 Hertz that has been partially restored...just sitting...since '90.
Not sure about '69, as I wasn't really interested in them.
Most of the time those ads are trying to scam your money. You email and get a reply that goes something like, "I'm moving to UK hence whyfore the cheaply pricing. In US my agent will handle transaction..." yadda yadda. They're hoping someone will bite and paypal a few grand on a car that doesn't exist.
