Selling on Craigslist

[clutch]

You gotta love these request. I get them no matter what:

Hi there,

Thank you for getting back to me.Can you assure me the item is in good
condition that i will not be disappointed? I'm willing to pay
your asking price and to be honest, i want to buy it for my brother
as a gift. I a marine biologist I works on the sea at the moment.
phone calls are not allowed and visiting of website is restricted but i
squeezed out time to check this advert and send you an email regarding
it but my quickest payment option is PayPal as i can send money
via PayPal anytime.Since I'm requesting this transaction to be done
via PayPal, i will be responsible for all the pay pal fee/charges on
this transaction and if you don't have an account with paypal, it is
pretty easy, safe and secured to open one. Just log on to
www.paypal.com. I hope we can complete the transaction as soon as possible? I
have a mover that will be coming for the pick up
once payment clears . i will like to see more pictures as I look forward to
read from you soonest.

Below are the details needed

Your PayPal e-Mail Address :
Full name:
Firm Price:
Cell number :

Thanks.

[ɹǝʍoןandɹǝʍoן]

I once got a counterfit money order in the mail, trying to sell my old dr350 dirtbike. it went something like yours, so when I got the check in the mail I was like wtf? but after I brought it to a bank and explained what had happened, they assured me it was a fake. I was like darn, cause it was for $4500 (waaaay more than the asking price for the bike). LOL

[yasure]

craigslist should be changed to dick you around.com.

[Awesome]

As much as selling shit on Craigslist sucks, I prefer it to posting shit for sale here.

[AVI8_636]

I've bought and sold almost all my vehicles on craigslist. There's a lot of BS that comes up, but once you weed it out and set your own rules than it works pretty well.

I don't deal with "I'll send you a check". If I can't meet you in person in a public place, you're not buying what I'm selling. I mean really guys, if someone offers you more than your asking without having ever even met the person, do you really believe it's a legit sale?

[breakdirt916]

anytime there's an unregulated medium of buying and selling items, there will be scams

out here in CA, it's rampant...I can't tell you how many mexican dudes approach me when I'm driving the BMW in parking lots or gas stations saying "hey, I just need a couple bucks for gas to get my car home...can you help me out? how much do you have? nice car! how long did it take you to save up to buy that BMW?"

yeah, f-that...nowadays I say to them "I don't have a money, but do you have a minute to hear about Jesus Christ?" and they usually walk away

but what's new? money makes people pretty evil

[HanktheTank]

When I first moved to Boston, I was looking for a place to stay for ~6 months and looked on CL for people who had roommates leave in the middle of their. You meet a lot of interesting people that way....
On the plus side, I found a place in Newton (with good roommates) and my next place in Brighton that way, bought and sold my first bike and bought my second on CL. You just need to know: if the email sounds like it was written by a second grader, don't bother responding.

[aldend123]

For as long as it keeps paying out, there will always be the famous nigerian 419 bad-check type scams. I accept that any listing I post on CL will get them and just ignore them.

I've seen a few good tricks to simplify like requesting certain things be put in the subject line. Most of the scammers (and dumb people) don't read the ad so you can just ignore most of it if it pisses you off.

[B440]

I have had to list my number like this: 401-five55-12one2. I was starting to get spam calls when I was listing it 401-555-1212... basturds writing programs to search out phone numbers on CL.

The one other thing that I hate is ads listing what they have and then the "ignore this" line with every possible word relating to bikes after it. So my specific searches for a 97 CR125 come back with hits for a KX250F and a TaoTao 110 quad

Does CL offer searches where you can omit certain words? Just like ebay i.e. - search for "CR125 -kx250f -taotao" (can't check cl right now)

[nhbubba]

The one other thing that I hate is ads listing what they have and then the "ignore this" line with every possible word relating to bikes after it. So my specific searches for a 97 CR125 come back with hits for a KX250F and a TaoTao 110 quad

I agree entirely. Those people deserve the spam.

[breakdirt916]

I usually search the thread titles only

[Garandman]

/The one other thing that I hate is ads listing what they have and then the "ignore this" line with every possible word relating to bikes after it. So my specific searches for a 97 CR125 come back with hits for a KX250F and a TaoTao 110 quad/

If you and everyone else flagged it as "SPAM/OVERPOST" or other category the problem would go away.

My pet peeve is dealers who post in the owner-only car section. Some of them even go to the lengths of taking pics in front of a house. I searched on a phone the other day and the B@d had 20 cars for sale - all "By Owner."

[aldend123]

I'll flag mega shitty ads as spam... I'm talking ones without any info at all, those kind. And I hope you all get as mad as I do and do the same

FYI, phone numbers and email addresses have been 'scraped' from any public website for years now. Automated tools are easy to build. And to say 1one2-5five5five wouldn't be terrifically difficult to scrape too with a well made program. These kind of programs are sold in the digital underground and become psuedo-commercial applications. I could totally see them marketing that kind of feature. I could make some suggestions out how to better 'hide' your phone number, but I'm sure the google has better and more current data than I would.

[jwm2k3]

As much as selling shit on Craigslist sucks, I prefer it to posting shit for sale here.

We dont want your crap anyway.

[B440]

It takes too much effort to flag as spam. There used to be an add-on for firefox that would allow me to flag without even looking at the ad.

[AVI8_636]

I don't list my number on craigslist. When someone emails me interested, and I can verify it's actually a person, I'll give it to them.

[gregp]

My pet peeve is dealers who post in the owner-only car section.

I agree with this. There should be some way to show these people how annoying they are.... If I am looking in the "By Owner" section, there is a reason, and there are reasons why they are separate listings. Flagging just isn't good enough. That just comes down to a test of will - some salesman has the entire week to sit there and re-post. Perma-ban?

[B440]

*ya take the good ya take the bad, ya take them both and then ya have- the facts of life!!* now keep this tune in your head the rest of the night

[Garandman]

Georgia family loses nearly all their possessions after Craigslist ‘free yard sale’ ad goes awry

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2C2kn4xtA

[slammp]

I know its a scam but this one said Paypal how do they send you money on Paypal and then get it reversed?

[Bkilm]

Georgia family loses nearly all their possessions after Craigslist ‘free yard sale’ ad goes awry

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2C2kn4xtA

Wow... i would of walked in guns a blazin to people ransacking my house

[aldend123]

I know its a scam but this one said Paypal how do they send you money on Paypal and then get it reversed?

There's a decent chance it's a stolen PP account. So that probably isn't their goal. They are trying to turn a stolen PP account's balance in to something useful for them. It's kinda money laundering. You have a stolen account, buy goods off CL, sell at pawn shop, spend money on crack, repeat.

Paypal can reverse transactions. From what I understand, its basically down to if you can convince their claims department. Someone who's a real charmer may have a plan, though I doubt it would be successful more than once.

Mildly unrelated PSA : be wary of the 'gift'. Avoid paying via paypal gift at all costs, paypal will tell you to when you get screwed.

[jwm2k3]

These idiots deserve what they got...