if they are taking 10% off, that's alright. However most of them talk trash about the stuff that i am selling and offer me 30% of what i am asking for. I have no problem fucking with them.
Listing something on craigslist for free = holy crap.
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if they are taking 10% off, that's alright. However most of them talk trash about the stuff that i am selling and offer me 30% of what i am asking for. I have no problem fucking with them.
I don't mind the lowball offers alone, but some people have felt the need to send rude comments about me, my asking price, or my item for sale along with their lowball offer.
When we moved offices i listed our computers on CL for the hell of it.
15 minutes later someone for northeast named Teddy Williams and said him and his "homies" need some new computers for their "business" and they could come anytime to get them.
I googled his name, and oddly enough i eventually found him (real person) on facebook.
I ended up not selling him the computers, or responding.
15 minutes later someone for northeast named Teddy Williams and said him and his "homies" need some new computers for their "business" and they could come anytime to get them.
I googled his name, and oddly enough i eventually found him (real person) on facebook.
I ended up not selling him the computers, or responding.
We took a good friend and put the following ad on craigslist with a picture of a 52" plasma TV.
"Almost brand new Plasma. I'm about to be a new father, and my wife does not have health insurance. Rent is due next week, and the baby the week after. So, as much as I hate to do it, this TV HAS TO BE SOLD by the end of this week. (We posted this on thursday) I want $400 for it so I can pay the rent. Please call to arrange a time to see it, it's pristine."
Our buddy got so many phone calls that when he was telling one person "I don't know what you're talking about" people were leaving him messages saying they were in their trucks ready to come get it.
When he got home and we told him of the rouse we started messing with some of the callers. "The menus are all in arabic. Your friends might accuse you of hating freedom, is that ok?" and such.
Josh
"Almost brand new Plasma. I'm about to be a new father, and my wife does not have health insurance. Rent is due next week, and the baby the week after. So, as much as I hate to do it, this TV HAS TO BE SOLD by the end of this week. (We posted this on thursday) I want $400 for it so I can pay the rent. Please call to arrange a time to see it, it's pristine."
Our buddy got so many phone calls that when he was telling one person "I don't know what you're talking about" people were leaving him messages saying they were in their trucks ready to come get it.
When he got home and we told him of the rouse we started messing with some of the callers. "The menus are all in arabic. Your friends might accuse you of hating freedom, is that ok?" and such.
Josh
When we moved from one state to the next, we sold anything we couldn't fit in our car. We pretty much sold everything in our apartment over a weekend. I posted our shit on Wednesday, and had most our stuff sold by Sunday.
CL is great.
Long ago, my father taught me the secret to getting people to pick up old, junky, possibly broken TVs left outside:
Set a remote control on top. Doesn't matter where it's from, any old remote control will do.
Set a remote control on top. Doesn't matter where it's from, any old remote control will do.
Craigslist is a very interesting setup , some people can do quite well ,others get ripped off.
For me , i've had nothing but good stuff happen , mostly with buying vehicles a few thousand dollars under bluebook.
For me , i've had nothing but good stuff happen , mostly with buying vehicles a few thousand dollars under bluebook.
I got a real impressive scripted affiliate play scraping 'wanted' listings.
It went something like this.
"Hey dude, I saw your post in the wanted section that you were looking for <insert PARSED item title so it read correctly> - you may want to check out ebay, i've had great results there. In fact it looks like there are a few on there now. Check it out <link to this parsed term as a search query result on ebay>
Bet the person is cleaning up.
you think you get alot of responses for furniture? LOL try posting that you have a slightly worn, 2nd generation iphone with some scratches on the back of the case but you defaulted on your ATT bill and you need to sell it for $55 bucks tonight so u can make rent. reply back to to the HUNDREDS of people who respond that you already gave it away but they can get one for free all they have to do is <fill out this email submit> !!!
wait this isn't BHW
wait this isn't BHW
haha, my friends used to put fake ads on craigslist all the time. Like a free plasma Tv and put a friends phone number in the ad. He had like 85 missed calls haha. They stopped doing it because my one friend wanted to take the ad down because he wanted the calls to stop, and craigslist asked him if he would like to press charges... weird.
Lulz at some of the stories here.
Haven't used CL yet, but here in Norway we have a similarly popular service. One time, we listed an old car bed for kids (the kind by Little Tykes that's made to look like a racing car) in great shape, and for a very low price.
Some asshats who lived 75+ miles away called (keep in mind these beds aren't sold in stores here so they wanted it badly), and wanted us to come deliver it to their house 75 miles away AND go down on the price....
People never cease to amaze.
Haven't used CL yet, but here in Norway we have a similarly popular service. One time, we listed an old car bed for kids (the kind by Little Tykes that's made to look like a racing car) in great shape, and for a very low price.
Some asshats who lived 75+ miles away called (keep in mind these beds aren't sold in stores here so they wanted it badly), and wanted us to come deliver it to their house 75 miles away AND go down on the price....
People never cease to amaze.
If you REALLY want a crazy amount of responses post up an old mattress... My roommate had two that granted were in fairly good condition i think he actually asked like 20 bucks each or something like that... they were gone and picked up in like 20 minutes!
I buy and sell a lot of cars and since eBay has turned gay I've been using craiglist as my primary source.. I swear people will come kick tires all fucking day and offer trades for broken 4 wheelers, xbox's, hot tub repair?, all kinds of stupid shit..
I buy and sell a lot of cars and since eBay has turned gay I've been using craiglist as my primary source.. I swear people will come kick tires all fucking day and offer trades for broken 4 wheelers, xbox's, hot tub repair?, all kinds of stupid shit..
Can you imagine if one of those hoarder types ever stumbled onto CL? They wouldn't know what to do with themselves!
Shit I remember when I first started out in IM, I found a realistic picture of the best looking dog I could find and posted it up on there as "free" under a few major cities so that I could spam them with the dog training program on clickbank. I didn't get any conversions but I got 515 emails in 15 minutes. Craigslist is no joke.
