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Post by chils on Dec 18, 2020 16:32:17 GMT -6
Do you guys have problems with CL sellers? I'd say over the last 15X I've sent a CL seller a message expressing interest about what they were selling I've gotten about 2 replies. Both of those replies were useless and one was nearly incomprehensible, something like:
Me: Does this have a dash screen with it?
Seller: takes all
OK, that was helpful.
I've had good luck on FB Marketplace but the search feature must have been programmed by a drunken, brain damaged monkey. Looking at a trailer 5 miles from me on the main page and want to look at more, search 'trailer" "No items match that inquiry in your area" Or looking at the Marketplace feed with location set to 40mile radius from my AR zip code and it's showing NY, CA, OH, MI items. WTF FB?
What type of experiences have you fellas had?
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Post by tommymorris on Dec 18, 2020 17:01:22 GMT -6
Dens of thieves.
We bought a used car for my youngest last year. The number of frauds on FB was astounding. Overly ripe with repaired wrecks and rolled back odometers.
CL is not much better.
I am a professor. I am continually amazed with student’s inability to speak/write in coherent complete sentences. Then you go on these sites and the communication quality drops by an order of magnitude.
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Post by chils on Dec 18, 2020 17:19:36 GMT -6
Dens of thieves. We bought a used car for my youngest last year. The number of frauds on FB was astounding. Overly ripe with repaired wrecks and rolled back odometers. CL is not much better. I am a professor. I am continually amazed with student’s inability to speak/write in coherent complete sentences. Then you go on these sites and the communication quality drops by an order of magnitude. When I send a message I make sure it is clear that I am not messing around. Usually something like: "If this is as advertised/in good shape I will buy it. I have cash in hand and can pick up today"
That isn't even good enough to warrant a reply apparently. I can't understand how someone goes to the trouble of making an ad and then doesn't even try to sell the item. I sent a question awhile back asking for the measurements of a dump trailer because I needed it to be at least 44" long.
"It's a regular size" GRRR...
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Post by Ken on Dec 18, 2020 17:47:00 GMT -6
I get some things like "I really want your floob-floober but payday isn't until next Friday and..." so right there I know it's an issue. I have some things on CL right now and one is a kitchen light fixture. Some guy randomly sent me an email with a picture of his own light fixture... "yours is nice... look at mine!". Okay nutball. I also have some new (still in the bag) car mats for my now sold minivan. It came with all-weather mats so the normal ones were in a bag in my attic this whole time. I have had two guys reply saying they wanted them but then never responded again which is really annoying. The three things I have on CL right now are being thrown out if they don't sell in the next week.
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Post by chils on Dec 18, 2020 18:30:40 GMT -6
I get some things like "I really want your floob-floober but payday isn't until next Friday and..." so right there I know it's an issue. I have some things on CL right now and one is a kitchen light fixture. Some guy randomly sent me an email with a picture of his own light fixture... "yours is nice... look at mine!". Okay nutball. I also have some new (still in the bag) car mats for my now sold minivan. It came with all-weather mats so the normal ones were in a bag in my attic this whole time. I have had two guys reply saying they wanted them but then never responded again which is really annoying. The three things I have on CL right now are being thrown out if they don't sell in the next week. I've given up on CL. Total idiot asylum. FB Marketplace is much better in dealing with the people. I tried giving away about 6 cases of clean cappable beer bottles on CL a few years ago. Figured a homebrewer would find the ad. After dealing with 50 yo-yos over 2 weeks I finally threw them in a recycle dumpster. |
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Post by OldMan on Dec 18, 2020 18:35:32 GMT -6
I picked up a stovetop pressure cooker from FB marketplace and the only problem I had was meeting the guy for the pickup. He wanted to meet at a neutral location in a 7-11 parking lot near his house. I sat for over an hour waiting for him until I called my house and ask my kid to check the messages on my FB page and sure enough he sent a message for me to meet at his house just down the street from the store. If I had a phone with the internet it all could have been avoided -but we had a plan- we had a plan dang it.
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Post by Ken on Dec 18, 2020 19:04:29 GMT -6
In the last year or so I have sold my minivan, a bike, a small snowblower, some leftover laminate flooring, some bedroom furniture, some firewood racks and a few other things on CL. Remember that I live in a pretty densely-populated area and for every nutjob there are five serious buyers. Here's my take on CL: If you want it gone, price it properly. Don't ask $100 for something that someone could buy new for $109. If you have stuff that you would LOVE for someone to just come and take away, put it on CL for free. I got rid of some old patio furniture that was rusting and required me to repaint every year and I just got tired of it. A big table with six chairs and a smaller table with 4 chairs... boom, gone. I put a perfectly good bike on there for $20. Some people try to get too much and then they're stuck with the item and also stuck maintaining the CL ad. Price it right.
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Post by tommymorris on Dec 18, 2020 20:52:41 GMT -6
A few months ago I tried to sell a bike on CL. I agreed to a price and a time/place to meet. I waited like 30 minutes outside McD’s. No show. I texted him at least twice. Crickets.
I left McD’s drove and the bike straight to Goodwill. Like two days later the guy emailed to ask if I still had the bike.
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Post by chils on Dec 18, 2020 21:07:33 GMT -6
A few months ago I tried to sell a bike on CL. I agreed to a price and a time/place to meet. I waited like 30 minutes outside McD’s. No show. I texted him at least twice. Crickets. I left McD’s drove and the bike straight to Goodwill. Like two days later the guy emailed to ask if I still had the bike. I had a similar one also with a bike. Waited and finally got him on FB messenger. He was across town at another grocery store when I had specified exactly where to meet. I told him I'd wait for him and he said he didn't have a car. It started feeling fishy and I said I was done. He was pissed. I've had 2 purchases where they specified the time and place and then were at least 1 hr late.
One other where the guy acted all pissy about a welding gas cylinder--his negotiation technique and I told him take it or leave it. He angrily grabbed it and started dragging it to his car w/o paying and I had my hand on my steel extension baton about to crack his skull. I said "Hey! you gonna pay me?" He did but the whole thing was ridiculous.
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Post by Ken on Dec 18, 2020 21:31:41 GMT -6
When I sold my van I clearly underpriced it. I think I put all the details in the thread here. I had a guy respond to the CL ad in something like 8 minutes. He said he was on his way over. Another guy called me and offered $1000 more. I told guy #2 that guy #1 was on his way over. Guy #2 said, "Tell him I'll give you $1000 more!" and so I did. Guy #1 gave me the extra $1000 and I told that to guy #2 on the phone. All of this occurred late on a Thursday night so when all was done I closed the garage, went inside and a few minutes later I see two guys standing in my driveway. I went out there like "May I hep ya?" and they were wondering about the van. I did not advertise my address on CL so that was really weird. They were totally nice guys but I found that really odd.
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Post by zymot on Dec 18, 2020 23:42:53 GMT -6
I recently sold a bunch of stuff on eBay. Mostly a good experience.
I gave away a whole bunch of stuff on Craigslist. I could not believe some of the dumb questions. "Do you deliver?" On a free, sitting on my driveway, come and get it." ad.
I would put my address in the post two places and an active map, still "where are you?" emails.
"Can you hold it until Sunday? I will come and get it then." Why would I hold on a free, come and get it ad?
A couple times, the people that made things easy, I would give them a thanks rebate. One guy bought my ferment fridge for $50 so I gave him back $10 because he showed up on time and did not grind me on pricing.
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Post by chils on Dec 19, 2020 6:27:13 GMT -6
I recently sold a bunch of stuff on eBay. Mostly a good experience. I gave away a whole bunch of stuff on Craigslist. I could not believe some of the dumb questions. "Do you deliver?" On a free, sitting on my driveway, come and get it." ad. I would put my address in the post two places and an active map, still "where are you?" emails. "Can you hold it until Sunday? I will come and get it then." Why would I hold on a free, come and get it ad? A couple times, the people that made things easy, I would give them a thanks rebate. One guy bought my ferment fridge for $50 so I gave him back $10 because he showed up on time and did not grind me on pricing. I learned my lesson on messing with trying to give stuff away with the same stupid questions. No way to do a curb pickup where I live at the end of a dirt road in the woods. The last "hold it for me" guy was educated that someone else was on their way to buy it at full price and if he wanted it he would get here first. He did. When I bought my last garden tractor the guy let me borrow his trailer to haul it home to save me taking the deck off to fit it in my truck bed and making 2 trips. I offered him the cost of a trailer rental and he declined. My CL idiot to good score is 7/10, FB marketplace 3/10 |
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Post by Ken on Dec 19, 2020 7:59:09 GMT -6
I recently sold a bunch of stuff on eBay. Mostly a good experience. I gave away a whole bunch of stuff on Craigslist. I could not believe some of the dumb questions. "Do you deliver?" On a free, sitting on my driveway, come and get it." ad. I would put my address in the post two places and an active map, still "where are you?" emails. "Can you hold it until Sunday? I will come and get it then." Why would I hold on a free, come and get it ad? A couple times, the people that made things easy, I would give them a thanks rebate. One guy bought my ferment fridge for $50 so I gave him back $10 because he showed up on time and did not grind me on pricing. OMG, the stupid questions. With the bedroom furniture, I posted pics of the pieces (three: A dresser, a sort of armoire and a nightstand). The dresser was an unusual, large 14-drawer dresser. The title of my ad was "14-DRAWER DRESSER" and I also put the dimensions of each piece in the description. No shit, I get emails saying "how many drawers does the dresser have?". Seriously? You could read the ad or look at the pictures! Your choice! Also, "How high is the dresser? How long is the dresser?". Wow. This is not "short attention span" this is "no attention span".  |
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