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Ok i am dumbfounded by the ads on craigslist.. Esp. here in Sin City...
I put a few up in the fourms
But really...Who on earth comes up with these..Are some americans that dumb???

Example:
Brand new whirlpool washer and dryer..White with baby blue control panels.. New and never abused.. Pease take.. Need money for our grand babi... $1600...Cash n karry

Really? That blue panel? Thats PLASTIC...
Babi huh? How can i be sure these arent stolen?
$1600????? Um NO!
Really?? Karry??? Do you mean Carry?
 
Yeah, I'm always witting to these idiots and correcting them of their mistakes. You'd think these morons are blind! Those who take a wild guess at the age of their appliance is REALLY entertaining to me, personally. You know, the ones that claim their center dial Maytag is 5-10 years old, lol.
 
I found an awesome whirlool power clean dishwasher here in LV, its about 10 years old and what i want..BUT..they want $300 for it.. And she swears its 3 years old.. Even thought the model number litsts it closer to ten
 
I've Had Good Luck...

...Both buying and selling. For buying, I don't take the seller's word for much of anything; I go and check out the merchandise myself, and buy only if the deal seems good in person. My knowledge of what I'm trying to buy, the condition it appears to be in when I look at it, and my gut feeling about the seller all come into play.

So far as selling, I've had excellent luck, but I've developed a few rules that have served me well. Here goes:

- I post a photo. Always. It helps people visualise what they're reading about, and seems to generate more calls.

- I post a phone number. Again, always. Using the Craigslist email loop means that even if you get the email and respond to it quickly, the person might have turned off their computer in the meantime, not to return to it for another day or two. If people can call, it reinforces the instant gratification loop that most people seem to want nowadays.

- I always include this wording: "Cash only. Sorry, I cannot ship, deliver or hold this item. The first person to come look at it and put folding money in my hand is the one who gets it." This cuts down on email scammers who tell you that they're having UPS deliver a cheque and that they want the item shipped. I always answer those emails with, "I appreciate your response. However, I am selling the item for cash only, not a check. If you would like to call me and make arrangements for that, I will be glad to talk with you." I have never heard back from a scammer after that.

- Never be rude, via email, phone or in person. While Craigslist does not have a feedback system, they do allow users to flag postings. Someone who's mad at you can screw up your postings for a long time, by flagging them.

- When possible, I try to point out the reason for my price, and the advantages buying from me will bring to the buyer. For instance: "I'm asking only two-thirds of what these go for in online auctions, and there's NO shipping charge!" People can then go to eBay, check out my statement for themselves, and hopefully justify their purchase better.

I have sold three window air conditioners, a Vita-Mix blender, and a sewing machine this week alone.
 
Get Some Cash For Your Trash

My vintage Whirlpool portable dryer came from a local CL listing, had no problem. Though was concerned about driving out alone to the house of some strange man I didn't even know, things went quite well.

Though the man did have a bad back and knee, he did assist getting the dryer out of the basement, up a narrow set of stairs (with tight turns), and into the back of the SUV. Paid cash first before he would start things, but that is understandable.

As for listings, well the Internet has changed many things. I mean before eBay, CL and all sundry sites, persons would have had to pay for a classified listing in the local newspaper, and may or may not have sold the item or items at anywhere near cost. While some people may be sadly mistaken or outright daft in what their descriptions and or asking price, hey this is a free country. They are allowed to say what they wish, and I am free to give the listing a pass.

Fleamarkets, estate sales and the like are no different. Many vendors have some VERY strange ideas about their stock and what it is worth. Again, one will simply pass them by. But then again guess what? Normally as closing time rolls around and they see you again, and the item is still unsold, more often than not they will do a deal.

As for CL, will not look at listings without a picture, and the picture must NOT be a stock photo or lifted from someplace else. Even a cheesy cell phone camera picture is better than nothing. Also, if no telephone number is listed, or seller won't respond with one, then I won't bother. My life and safety are worth more than any daft appliance. Too many persons have met with dangerous outcomes by going to a CL rendevous to aquire anything from a cell phone to baby clothing. Just last week a woman expecting her first child was murdered, and the child torn from her womb by some crazy woman who posted and befriended the poor girl on CL, who was only looking for baby clothes.

L.
 
i hate when they don't know what their seling or descriptions,,,i like when they say a set is stackable, stackable means they will come apart, stacked means their all one unit....idiots...and this is who were buying from...
 
On our morning news show they were talking about people making bucks cruising Ebay and CL and offering to rewrite to advert to make it sell better. They usually ask for 1% of the selling price for doing this. Some have been somewhat successful.

Has anyone ever looked at the CL personal listings? WOW! I didn't know such people even existed! Just beyond hope!
 
Used Appliance Store

Good luck finding anything too old in here in Sin City. A few years ago a friend of mine found a nice pair of older Maytags at this place.

Buy Low Appliances
5730 S Boulder Hwy
Las Vegas, NV 89122
(702) 944-8885

Not sure of their current selection, and they are off Tropicana and Boulder Highway.
 
Craigslist...best thing since sliced bread

I do have to admit that some people want ridiculous prices for their items, but it's their stuff and they can ask what they want. Sure there are crooks out there, especially with the vehicle ads, but most of the sellers are just trying to make money in an honest way, although I wouldn't buy anything without inspecting it first.

As far as those poor spellers, I can't spell worth beans, but I look at it this way...it's only an error if the person reading it doesn't understand what is meant. When someone advertises "rod" iron furniture or an item they purchased at "Grate & Barrel," you know what they mean. Like the sign at my front door says...

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Laundress...

I try to give the benefit of the doubt....but they can get nasty when you ask questions to comfirm, I used to work retail and you see it all over the place, you try to help people out by asking to make sure this is the product they want/need and then they come back and yell at me because electical items are not returnable if they got the wrong one! This happens all the time and we have LARGE signs explaining, not to mention verbal reassurances, to help them out to avoid this, and then they claim I never told them or they didn't see the sign, they sometimes need to hold theirself responsible for what they do, this is why machines break, why accidents happen, and why manufacturers write out detail do's and don'ts about their products, many a times a company has gotten sued because the consumer didn't follow the directions, and that "OH, MY BAD, I DIDN'T KNOW"...well darn it, LEARN!

but that's just the way of the world....like the mother who sued the manufacturer because the lid of the washer did not lock during the spin cycle while her 9 year old daughter was adding clothes and it ripped her arm off....there's directions on the lid that tell you donot lets chidren play in or around machine while it is working...and I'm sorry but if your kid is that "stupid" on proper use of a machine, who is really at fault, the mother, the child, or the manufacturer? I was only four years old and helped my grandmother load and use the washer, and knew how it operated and what not to do...as many of the people in here know...what are we, super children?...or just use common sense?

sorry to ramble on...time to step off the TIDE box now!
 
scolding from miss cathcart....

what would you prefer someone do.....walk up to you & ask where the bathroom is or walk up to you & point to their ass and fart?

before pressing "send" or "post" slowly reread what you've written. it's not hard.

AND, dictionaries are inexpensive. okay, sermonette over.
 
Many people

are simply not as brilliant, well-educated and fabulously gifted as are we, the select, the few, the royal holders of vintage knowledge.

CL is a brutal yet very honest slice through the layers of American society. After decades of neglecting even the most basic education of the middle and lower classes, this is what we are left with.

Personally, I think it is wonderful that normal people have a chance to meet other people with similar wishes and desires. The oppressiveness of the Bush#43 administration and the conservative Christians wasn't enough to stop people from dreaming. In a country which permits people to be fired and discriminated against for simply being gay, how else can someone living in Boringsville or Deep Denial find someone?

Before we get too judgmental here, let's remember that we have serious discussions on the uses of 3in1 oil on this site. Not to mention extremely heated discussions on the difference between long, deep strokes and short, quick strokes and the relevance or not of either to turn-over.

There is also a rule, a corollary to Murphy's Law working here: Every single posting about the unwashed masses and their poorly parsed, badly spelled texts has at least one glaring error in syntax, orthography or grammar.
 
Why do So Many of the W/D posting on craiglist never mention if the dryer is gas or electric. "it seals the deal". Sometimes there is a clue like a 220 plug over the dryer, often not.
 
Most don't see what they read.....

I put an ad in for a washer and GAS dryer...I also mentioned this 3 times in the ad, and said it on the phone, they came, paid me, got it on the truck, and the guy noticed the 110 cord on the dryer, and asked could that be changed to a bigger 220 one?...NOT IF IT's GAS, he said "GAS"?, YES , that's what I advertised!...he wished he knew this before he came over, he only has electric...if you only had a mirror to look at yourself!
 
Moon, as Ron White put it so leoquently..."You Cant Fix Stupid." So dont even try. Did you read the lil story about Craigs list on the onion.com? About how they were looking into how the list caught the 1st sexually transmitted disease. I the the disease was genital warts or something like that.
 

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