Is craigslist worth it?

[ptenchick]

Thank you for your warning. I'll try to be caareful. I'm from the same city as you are, so I know how dishonest people cam be here. :(

Originally Posted by jbuntz

Just a heads up for ya, she may appear to be a girl in the e-mail or even on the phone but could always turn out be a guy later and just because you decide to meet in a public place doesn't mean you might not end up in a private place later with your bag gone and no money. I've been through those types of situations many times before, just letting you know.

[oge]

Lol jbuntz are you a dishonest person? I better watch out when I go to Kiss & Flys.

[OfficialGenius]

Originally Posted by ptenchick

Are you craz y??? Lol!
I would never sell a fak e especially when you meet in person.
It's authentic. I won it on one of my penny auctions. It's nice and I wanted to keep it but the color is brown. I don' wear brown.

Must be the brown monogram one.
How much did you get it for and how much are you selling it for? I gotta try that site out!

Let us know how it went.

[mememe1972]

CL is cool but not enough traffic. I still keep 2 ads up slow or not because cash in hand beats paypal all day long.

[cardfelon]

I don't know what you are trying to sell on CL but I have a product that I sell on CL and move quite a bit of it. 20-30 per week. I have a Taco Bell like 3 blocks from my house where I meet people at. I have been interested in posting in multiple cities and there is software available to do that but I don't know if any of it is actually any good.

[oge]

You can but it's hard. Post #4 Vic is right if you can't get a ip in that city then your ad will be ghosted.

[cardfelon]

Yeah that's how i can't figure out how some people are posting in like every major city in the US. I can cruise through the big cities from west coast to east coast and will see the same ad posted multiple times and it's the exact same ad. Maybe there is a CL stealth out there

[oge]

Yes there is I see it too I think it's called outsourcing.

There is.

Some people offer their time and skills to list on behalf of people. These folks don't sell their own stuff, but they'll get your info all over the place. I am suspicious of these enterprises. I just sit and ask myself 'if I could do that all over the place, why wouldn't I do it for myself?'

[oge]

Yea I know I see alot of it on freelancer just 10 cents a post I guess you have to be really bored lol.

[jbluntz]

There's plenty of craigslist software out there that use proxies, ip changer's, g-mail generators, ad creator's that give you multiple variations of the same ad some of it's pretty expensive but they've got some freeware out there to.

[ptenchick]

Here is a little update....
So, I took a train to the city and brought a bag with me... I came to the appointed place and waited for the girl for about half an hour...The place was a little coffee shop where this girl worked.. Finally, she came... She looked and spoke very politely...Then she started checking the bag to see if it's authentic or not...All of a sudden her friend (that worked in the same shop) jumped in and started making nasty comments about the bag and me...She was sooo rude... She threatened me in case it wasn't authentic .. I gave my phone number to the girl that was buying the bag just in case... Then her friend insisted on photocopying my ID...I felt soo terrible, couldn't say a word, the whole situation was intimidating!!! At the end, I took the money and left......An hour later the girl emailed me, apologized for her friend's behavior and said that she took the bag to the LV store and it checked out just fine.....

The bottom line is I don't know if I am ready to go through the same experience next time...It almost killed my desire to sell on CL. :(

[jbluntz]

Originally Posted by ptenchick

Here is a little update....
So, I took a train to the city and brought a bag with me... I came to the appointed place and waited for the girl for about half an hour...The place was a little coffee shop where this girl worked.. Finally, she came... She looked and spoke very politely...Then she started checking the bag to see if it's authentic or not...All of a sudden her friend (that worked in the same shop) jumped in and started making nasty comments about the bag and me...She was sooo rude... She threatened me in case it wasn't authentic .. I gave my phone number to the girl that was buying the bag just in case... Then her friend insisted on photocopying my ID...I felt soo terrible, couldn't say a word, the whole situation was intimidating!!! At the end, I took the money and left......An hour later the girl emailed me, apologized for her friend's behavior and said that she took the bag to the LV store and it checked out just fine.....

The bottom line is I don't know if I am ready to go through the same experience next time...It almost killed my desire to sell on CL. :(

Why does that sound so familiar

[OfficialGenius]

Awww...so sorry to hear. =(

Next time you know to hire me as a bodyguard but don't worry, I'll do it free of charge!

On another note, If I was you I would've told that jealous piece of sh** bi*** off. Photocopying your I.D, are you serious? She deserved the

[ptenchick]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you... for being overprotective of me!

[mememe1972]

craigslist is cool because you don't need all your info. Meet in a public place and make the exchange. I sell about two products a week.

[NTP]

Originally Posted by Vicvelcro

Then there's all them haters in all them cities that will flag your posts. Also, at one point in time, there was some geolocating thing that would automatically ghost your posts if you were not located within a certain radius of the city you were posting your shingle. Might have been a temporary thing they were experimenting with or it might be implemented fully. I dunno.

I hadn't heard of "ghosting". It may just be for certian catagories. I know that I posted a ad for contractors (something for my day job), in a few cities over a thousand miles away. That was 4 weeks ago and I'm still getting emails about it.

Maybe the "ghosting" is just for the "items for sell" catagory?

I presume you live in a fairly safe city.

I've lived around some pretty rough places. Have no interest in meeting people. Have no interest in anyone seeing my face, my vehicle, my license plate, or following me back to my lair. Have no interest in defending myself to the death for a couple dollars. 2 sales a week wouldn't be enough to motivate me to get off the couch.

For the items sold by some people around here, going in person would be risky. What if the buyer has some bracelets to trade. The chrome kind that connect together and are meant to be worn behind your back and include an involuntary vacation in a room with bars for a door and without windows.

Craigslist if fine for some, not fine for others. Almost always some element of risk (physical or financial).

Originally Posted by mememe1972

craigslist is cool because you don't need all your info. Meet in a public place and make the exchange. I sell about two products a week.

[oge]

LMAO on the chrome bracelets...........

[jbluntz]

I like chrome bracelets, the thing is you gotta make sure you look good before you put em on, they don't look good on everyone, it's all about looks.

[SelfMade17]

i somewhat like craigslist..but the set back is the risk of them either trying to steal your item/cash or lowball the crap out of you or they can tell you to meet up and or drop off and then cancel at the last minute..but the fact that its cash makes it somewhat worth it. just somewhat.

[jamblix]

Well I did it and it sucks...

Waste of time, no responses at all except for con-artists and junk. All my listings were probably ghosted like members have mentioned. I made 5 accounts for each major city in the US. 35 cities in total and posted one ad for the same item everyday with different accounts and not a single bite. Total, complete, utter and quintessential failure.