Craigslist SUCKS!
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- MrDinky0
How about be nice about it and take the bike back. I mean, you sold a broken bike. He is dumb to not real / test out the whole thing but is $50 worth that hassle? Was it $50?
- showpony0
just flip it on him... become the aggressor...
- nicole_marie0
my ad said it needed work, which means it needed work. it was $40 but now that he took it i am worried that he fucked it up trying to fix it or took something off it that he needed for another bike.
why should i take it back when i was completely honest about everything?
- lukus_W0
I'd try out the following:
1. Tell him that you stated the bike needed work when you listed it for sale.
2. Indicate that he had a chance to look over the bike before he handed over the cash.
3. Ask him how much he thinks you should have charged for the bike.
- Milan0
keep the money and just ignore the idiot.
- meok0
kill him before he kills you
- hahahaaa, i should go buy a gun huh... but test it out before i buy it!!!nicole_marie
- just don't buy it on craigslist. lol.akrokdesign
- nicole_marie0
lukus
1. Did it, I also gave him the option of calling the shop who sold it to me, and the emails of others who wanted the bike (and may have read the email more thoroughly)
2. Did it.
3. He told me the bike was worth $10. I bought it for $70, sold it for $40, I think he is being ridiculous and possibly lying because he is trying to tell me the bike won't ride but I was riding it a few weeks ago!Milan
I think I will- gah - the guy sounds like an ass... maybe send him a link for a bike maintenance course and be done with it :)lukus_W
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- fooler20
I tried to sell a scanner on Craigslist. It was a few years old but I had kept all the boxes, literature and software discs. I think I listed it for $30 and used some stock images of the scanner.
I had a few offers asking questions so I took everything out of the box and took my own Digital pics of everything and reposted it.
One guy asked more questions so I actually scanned some images and slides to show him it worked.
He wanted to come over and do some test scans and I said no I don't want anyone on craigslist to know where I live but I'll meet you at a coffee shop.
Then he asked all sorts of technical questions and if I could come over and set it up at his house so he could test it out.
I finally said "look you've wasted more than $30 of my time" and gave it to my neighbor for free.- ahahahaa! nice.nicole_marie
- that went on for almost 2 weeksfooler2
- vitamins0
I remember selling a broken laptop for my ex to some sucker. He kept emailing and calling, but I just told him to call dell.
- jerseyred0
Bout a year ago I was selling some jackets, old suits, etc. Woman called interested in a leather jacket for her boyfriend, I was moving at the time and everything was in boxes except for my computer gear and the stuff I was selling. Spoke to her on the phone, seemed harmless, she came over with her cousin. This was the ugliest girl I've EVER seen and her cousin was a big guy. They both seemed alright so I invited them in.
She bought the jacket, yada yada, and upon seeing my computer she asked what I did. When I told her that I did websites she commenced to tell me that she needs a new one and she owns a business. She leans over to type in her URL and I kid you not on the monitor pops up a Tranny Porn website (pun mother fucking intended). This chick/dude was a tranny who does porn and sells the videos in local smut shops.
I politely explained that while I'm a very liberal and open minded individual I have no interest in getting involved in that industry and quickly threw in some off topic mention of my girlfriend as to establish preference.
Needless to say at least twice a month I get a text asking if I'm still with my girlfriend and when am I going to make her/his/wtf ever site.
- instrmntl0
tell him to go suck an egg.
- tparsons0
Not when you can buy stuff like this
http://honolulu.craigslist.org/m…
- nicole_marie0
I actually bought i portable washer and dryer last week and when we went to go pick them up, this guy had his two kids and it was about 8pm (meaning cranky time) so the little girl starts freaking out when she finds out we are taking their washer and dryer. asking me "where are you taking it?" it was kinda funny but i felt real bad.
- jsabet0
One time I was selling this bike on craigslist. It was listed that I would deliver it "whenever". 9:30 at night rolls around and I get this random call for the bike. I thought, "shit, if someone is gonna call me out to show the bike at this hour, it's good as sold."
So there I was, sitting in front of the high rise apartments next to SF State about to show this single speed that I built when this slow speaking jam band stoner saunters out of the building and hobbles in my direction. He said he liked the bike but wanted to know if he could, "show his brother the bike, he knows more about bikes."
Tired, I agreed. His brother came out of the building, as well as a blond girl who was high as a kite. They rode it around in a circle or two, then asked, "Can we see the bike in the light of our apartment".
Up for anything I agreed, and walked the bike into the building behind them. I was looking down, fumbling with a loose bolt on the back of the bike as we walked into the apartment. When I looked up I was shocked with what I saw.
The room was 18 ft long and about 11 feet wide. On one side of the room was a couch, and about a million miles away on the other end was a tiny tv. A mattress laid on the floor at the far end. The rest of the room was filled wall to wall with cannabis trees, 6ft tall. I stood there shocked, but trying to keep my cool by not calling attention to it.
The guy and his brother started trying to low ball me $15 for minor rusted bolts that held the front and back tires on. When I didn't budge, they attempted to offer me a door-number-two, all the shwag I could put in my pockets. I said, "no thanks, I'd rather have cash." They nodded then said they would be right back and disappeared into the back room leaving me with the brain dead blond girl.
Trying to make conversation I said, "this place is a pretty big apartment".
"Yeah it's a 2 bedroom, but we use the bedrooms as storage".
I rolled my eyes and took a deep breath. They finally paid me and I made a point to stop saying I'll deliver stuff at night.
- jsabet0
This other time I posted on craigslist that I would teach adults how to ride bicycles for $30 hr. Thinking it would be funny to film people trying to ride bikes all wobbly. It backfired when I was bombarded emails from old asian ladies, "thanking the heavens" for such a generous person. I felt to guilty after that point, I told them all my training bike was stolen.
- designbot0
haha, these stories are gold!
- designbot0
craigslist indeed seems to be a haven for the shady, white trash, and cheap ass companies looking to hire people for peanuts. Oh and I forgot, people looking to get design work done for free.
screw craigslist
- not for free... a contest! get it right. lolnicole_marie
- fooler20
I tore up my driveway and put all the metal rebar on craigslist.
It was gone in 30 minutes and I had so many methheads calling for it.
- monNom0
A competing company plagiarized the job posting I wrote... word for word.