why i hate craigslist

I've been far more annoyed with people who post stuff and take 3 week to reply with "Nope, Sold" and then continue to leave the ad up for another 3 weeks.

I had good look when selling vehicles to only put my phone number. People are less likely to waste your time if they have to talk to you.

My favorite; Can text pictures upon request, only contact if a serious buyer.

How can I be a serious buyer without seeing pictures, yet I have to be serious to contact you?

Just upload damn pictures.

Well from selling on Craigslist, my offers are this when I try to sell a complete car.

"Yo, will you sell the passenger seat, the front lug nuts, the ECU only? Cash in hand."

Seriously, people want me to dismantle a car that I'm selling as a whole.

Since Craig's List is free I expect those kind of shenanigans. I just ignore it.

Unless its a cheap car, I go straight to autotrader these days. It weeds out a lot of those calls. It may cost a little money, but my peace of mind is worth it!

My favorites though are the ones that says, "just needs a tune up". Its almost always that it needs an engine or something expensive. If it was cheap, they would have already done it.

Yes, the classic "needs $20 part" - why wouldn't you swap out the part on a multi-thousand dollar car then?

Just cause its a cheap part doesn't mean it won't take 5 hours of labor and a lift to fix it.

that rambler wagon is sad and awesome at the same time.

if i could find a rotted from the bottom up wagon i'd buy it and graft the roof/tailgate to my car. and if i have it much longer i'm going to cut it up into what a rambler ute would have looked like.

i've got an offer of a v8 swapped bugeye wrx that is less and less complete every time i see new pictures, but it looks like a clean body so i am going to look anyway because i'm a rotted out awd 5 speed subaru and a turbo motor away from it being a subaru again.

I put my WR400 on CL for $2k, first offer I got was $700. Told the guy that would be a good deposit and I'd hold it till he got the rest, he hung up. Since then anything I put on CL includes the 'I'm not here to play stupid games' bit and also that anything perceived as a scam will be reported immediately.

Who do you intend to report the scam to and what would that accomplish? Pretty weak threat.

Whenever I get one of those lowball offers, I always accept it, and ask when they would like to come pick it up. The idea is to then ignore their emails, to see how they like being treated like an idiot. So far not a single one has responded back to the offer acceptance.

I am interested in your Rambler. I have a cashiers check for 5000 I will send you. I ask you to cash the check and send me 2000. I will be moving to your city next month and can pick up the car then.

Rusnak_322 wrote: Who do you intend to report the scam to and what would that accomplish? Pretty weak threat.

CL does have a halfass report system. It's more a bluff than anything else but it does seem to cut way down on the idiocy.

see I guess I'm just bored and an shiny happy person because I look forward to the stupidity to give me a new toy to play with. Its fun to play with stupid people. I like the previously mentioned idea of having them meet you someplace in the middle of nowhere....will add that to the repertoire.

Zomby Woof wrote: Whenever I get one of those lowball offers, I always accept it, and ask when they would like to come pick it up. The idea is to then ignore their emails, to see how they like being treated like an idiot. So far not a single one has responded back to the offer acceptance.

I need to look up some address in BFE for the next time someone lowballs me, then email them that address and let them come "pick up" the car.

I'm with JThw8 on this one, berkeleying with the idiots and scammers if half the fun... although not literally, you know, berkeleying. I sold a Bowflex once and got a lot of calls that opened with "so I guess you must have a pretty good body..."

"AC works, just needs to be charged...."

wbjones wrote:

81cpcamaro wrote: I had the same issue when I listed my MGB for $2250, first few emails offered between $400-500 for the car, none of them would come look at the car.

why waste time even answering those types of emails ?

They only got a simple reply "No". Nothing more. Only one came back with a slightly less ridiculous offer, still got "No".

DILYSI Dave wrote: "AC works, just needs to be charged...."

... cause it leaks out almost as fast as you can put it in. <- The part they aren't telling you.

The thing that does piss me off is sellers changing the deal... it happened to me twice while I was searching for a truck. I look at the vehicle, we agree on a price, and the day I'm supposed to meet to have the title signed over "oh, I want $200 more now" "oh, I'm keeping that part and not dropping the price." I walked both times, berkeley that E36 M3.

Yeah when they find out they put to low of a price on the vehicle and even after they agreed to a price with a buyer they change their minds

With my luck I'd send someone out BFE on a lark and they would turn up dead from entering some under the radar escaped felon's property and the police would be all over me for being the person who sent them there or something.

These kinds of Stupid people are very likely to be stupid multiple times and most of the time it ends badly. I'd just assume steer as clear of that as I can.

I don't see the harm in them emailing a lowball offer. It's just stuff, getting offended that they want your stuff for cheap seems like an easy ticket to a stressed out life. Delete it and move on if it upsets you. You lost less time than it takes to drop a deuce and I doubt you'd go online and complain about having to do that every day. ;-)

dculberson wrote: I don't see the harm in them emailing a lowball offer. It's just stuff, getting offended that they want your stuff for cheap seems like an easy ticket to a stressed out life. Delete it and move on if it upsets you. You lost less time than it takes to drop a deuce and I doubt you'd go online and complain about having to do that every day. ;-)

Dropping a deuce can be satisfying while getting low ball offers for your "E36 M3" is most assuredly unsatisfying

I must have thicker skin than most. I just say no and move on. Life's too short to worry about it.