Sweet! Now that is a nice Christmas gift. If you can't find a car for it, I'll give you $100 for it. You doubled your money! :beers:

 

I'm not trying to pick bones with you Jim but, If you put it on Craigslist or eBay it's Worldwide I scour both frequently looking for bargains and I'm in Australia

 

I understand about it being world wide, but I advertise this stuff on the tucson craigslist. Alot of times I'll put trade for guns and stuff too, actually, Id rather trade most of my junk, and its hard to trade across the country, plus there are legal issues mailing guns person to person. Jim

 

Simple solution:
No PayPal, Local sales only

 

I'm not sure how you go about advertising locally on Craigslist, but I use Jaxed and it brings up everything

 

Craigslist's aim IS for local sales. But with anything online, more than local can see it. Easy step to me would be to ignore responses that are not local. A lot of buyers and sellers tend to overlook craigslist's intent.

 

searchtempest.com (formerly craigshelper) will search nationwide. It's how I found my car.

 

I posted our old baby crib for sale months ago and sold it right away. I have edited the ad to additionally read "SOLD SOLD SOLD" on the subject line and wrote the word like 50 times at the bottom of the ad. I keep getting emails from crazy old women like this:

Do you still have this bed? I would like more information, new grandma needs everything.. Thanks

You have no idea of some of the things I'd email back if my wife wasn't watching over my shoulder. :angry:

 

I posted our old baby crib for sale months ago and sold it right away. I have edited the ad to additionally read "SOLD SOLD SOLD" on the subject line and wrote the word like 50 times at the bottom of the ad. I keep getting emails from crazy old women like this:



You have no idea of some of the things I'd email back if my wife wasn't watching over my shoulder. :angry:

I always just delete the ads when something is sold.
That way their email messages bounce back to them.

 

Haven't had much good to say about Craigslist.Found a few things relatively local,but until about a week ago didn't have any luck selling.Always get the yahoos who can't read or type in some slang I can't understand.Then of course the "YO you don't have to sell your car,check out my link"or "Please to be sending me specifics address condition etc,needing to be purchasing your item/s".Oddly enough listed my ill-fated 67 convertible project on Craigslist two days before Christmas"for about the fifth time" and it did sell.Buyer was so local might as well consider him a neighbor.Listed on Craigslist and Racingjunk as well as TC and had people mostly from the west coast reply.Debating as to whether or not to list extra parts on Craigslist or just skip the aggrivation and only post on TC.

 

I've gotten a few scores on CL myself

 

Bad--I had a set of Aluminum slots for sale. 4 people asked about them. 3 said they were coming and never showed up...1 won't return the message I left him saying they were still available.

Good-- I sold my used snowblower for $110. I bought it over 20 years ago...used...for $200.

 

You can cut out 90% of the non serious buyers by NOT listing an e-mail address and listing your phone number. I have had the best luck with that. If someone is serious they will call you.

 

You can cut out 90% of the non serious buyers by NOT listing an e-mail address and listing your phone number. I have had the best luck with that. If someone is serious they will call you.

Agreed, this is one way to weed out some idiots. If you choose to go the other route, just don't respond if they don't leave their number. You can usually tell by the questions they ask if they're serious or just lonely or shopping. Also, leave a detailed discription and include wether you would ship or not. Craigslist has been a big help to me but I had to learn fast how to read between the lines from strange responses.

Jerry

 

I ditto the no email address thing.
Last thing I posted on Craigslist that was was my 1995 Pontiac Bonneville. I sold it in 8 hours, 2 people called, both came over to look.

 

I sold a 93 Blazer in 5 hours on CL, took me about a month to sell a 95 Pathfinder, I listed them both the same day.

 

You find more good deals then anyone I have ever heard of. Im going to bring a truck down there and hang out with you for a day and load the thing up on good stuff we can find.

 

I get more scammer responses than serious....Wanting me to click on a link etc...I have never clicked a link but I sware I have gotten some type of virus from a CL email...All I know is I opened a response and withing a half hour I had (not me computer did it on it's own)emailed a bunch of spam to everyone in my address book....don't know how that happened but it did.