craigslist - C or D

I've sold and bought a lot of things via craigslist quite nicely. also got a lot of helpful response via there when my iguana ran away. (unfortunately no iguana though. . .)

We're getting a dog off of there this week.

We had a whole lot of very dumb records that my parents gave me and we realized that we didn't want the entire Riders of the New Sage discography so we put them in the alley behind our apartment, and threw up an ad on clist that said "Free records come get 'em" and in less than a half hour, they were gone. We stood looking out the kitchen window and record lovers and Riders of the New Sage fans flock to our alley and carry them all away.

Gear!'s new Craig's List experiment: men submitting haikus in hopes of random sex

Never used CL before, but I'm thinking about buying a computer listed there -- how safe is this? How common are scammers and fraudsters; what is the recourse against same? The only way I should proceed here is to meet the seller and test drive the computer first, right? Help a CL noob.

Not particularly safe, very common, bring a posse, right. Just be uber skeptical and paranoid about the whole deal and if things don't smell right, gtfo before they take your kidneys.

I've sold a futon and a television set on craigslist. Worked a lot better for me than eBay. Sunny bought an electronic easel board for The Beeps from a woman on craigslist. Keep your eyes open and it should be okay.

any computor you dont want. that you want to get rid of for free. will pick up in las cruces area.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist?currentPage=1

article is worth reading for sentences like this:

On our way out of the cafè, I step aside to let Newmark go ahead, and he walks face-first into the plate glass door.

ha great article

thanks for posting it

My sis lives just a couple of blocks away from the craigslist.org building, and whenever I'm visiting and go out in the morning to get coffee and pastries at the Arizmendi Bakery I pass by it just happily sitting there, nondescript as hell.

ya that article is kinda fascinating

There seem to be loads of ads for paid market research surveys in SF bay area Craiglist. Are they all legit? Many claiming to pay $50-100 for an hour's time.
E.g.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/etc/1559169921.html
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/etc/1554479511.html

Some are more detailed, and I guess they might not pick many people. I'm just wary of sending off my contact details left right and centre.

CL has gotten almost totally useless, I would say over 9/10 ads for jobs are fakes posted by vague and generic robots seeking to sell your contact info to third parties. The personals ads are way over 99%. Real bummer. I think buying specific shit people post ads for is still solid though, plus garage sale ads.

Oh and I found this apartment there, the place is fine but the process sucks b/c every day robots post like fifty ads for the same soulless condo-place with different and misleading titles.

wau

The battle flows back and forth. Captchas—distorted words that can be interpreted by humans more easily than by machines—tamed spam on craigslist for a while. Then it came back full force, not because the spammers had solved the difficult problem in artificial intelligence but because they had hacked an easier problem in global economics. I recently established a friendly email dialog with a young man in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who works on a 13-person team that creates craigslist spam. He fills in Captchas, creates new accounts with masked IP addresses, and posts ads all day long using text from a database provided by his employer, an anonymous spam king. The going price for a spam post on craigslist is about 50 cents, with large discounts for volume.

I signed up for a bunch of those in sf and got contacted by some...did one. I'm sure not all of them are real, some definitely are.

i am selling my bike on craigslist and am offering many wonderful benefits.

http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/bik/1769298230.html

great ad!

thanks!!

I'll rep for Hudson Hawk. It's pretty funny.

wanna buy my bike?

sold!

fuck craigslist buyers seriously. "my son has a 103 degree fever. can you hold it for 4 weeks?" NO.

seriously do people really think "oh boy if I just knock $10 off the cost of a buying a brand new, in the box, warranteed item w/free 2 day shipping on Amazon, people are just gonna be fallling all over themselves to drive 20 minutes to buy this from me"??

So, is craigslist still the best way to buy/sell stuff locally or is there some newfangled app taking over the game?

had probably the most frustrating car selling experience of my life

listed my old car for $2000. it blue books at $3500, but the AC is busted and can't be fixed. and it's got some other issues. mostly cosmetic though.

get ghosted on it not once not twice but THREE TIMES. normally I wouldn't care but I have to drive 35 minutes away to get to where I have it parked. these fuckers call all desperate PLEASE HOLD THE CAR FOR ME I WILL BUY IT TOMORROW AND PAY CASH then just not show up.

eventually get a guy to give me $1800. pretty good, whatever.

a few days later he texts me to say the front end is junk and needs to be fixed. its a bit wobbly yes but not too noticeable. never knew it needed work there. will cost 2 grand with labor. so I let him return it and relist it for $1500.

same story as before, get ghosted a few times, including once BY ONE OF THE SAME GUYS THAT GHOSTED ME BEFORE. what the fuck??

someone comes and says I'll give you $1300 right now. I say sure, if you show up. He does. Drives it and tells me oh the struts need work too. I'll give you $1100. I'm like sure just get it out of my driveway. Feel like I've been taken but whatever. I'm dumb.

two hours ago someone texts me PLEASE HOLD THE CAR I WILL GIVE YOU $1600

Nothing I got rid of when I moved just now was worth it to me to try to sell, paid the haulers $500 and they took it all

I've been selling tools via Facebook Marketplace and started out driving to meet people to be nice and shit... now there's a set time to meet me at a set place I'll be at anyway.

it's many years since i used craiglist but now i'm trying to give away a desk and i get this unhelpful message when i try to post:

We're sorry, but we're unable to create a posting at this time.

that's all it says, on a blank page. anyone know what this means? my post is completely innocuous and I can't see what i'm doing wrong. nothing about this in their help pages or elsewhere online.

Generic fallback error due to an underlying service failing in an unexpected way. I’ve written more than a couple such useless error messages. There’s gotta be a fallback.

Somebody’s pager is probably going off and it’ll be fixed sooner or later.

i first had this problem on friday... tried again today. i see other posts going up in the section i'm trying to post to. guess i'll try again in another couple of days.

I suppose it’s possible you’re shadowbanned. Any exotic characters in your post?

shadowbanning was what i thought but, as i said, this is the first time i've used it in years. not using an account... tried signing up and get a similar message. tried three different email addresses, tried three different internet connections... all the same result.

and no exotic characters. thanks for your input on this.

Are you using any ad blockers? I get weird responses to submitting things sometimes - ILX doesn't like whatever content blocker I've got on iOS, uBlock Origin on Chrome will screw up some form submission buttons.

hmm... good call but turning off noscript and ublock didn't solve it. i'll try a different machine and browser...

ok i got it to work by switching to chrome on a diferent machine (i was using firefox). thanks all.

I've been making this argument forever so I'm glad somebody ran the diff-in-diff!

tl;dr Craigslist destroyed newspaper revenue and, in turn, polarized & nationalized American politics

ungated: https://t.co/42b9du5kEL pic.twitter.com/3jkf1r4ATA

— Jake M. Grumbach (@JakeMGrumbach) July 10, 2023

in other news, video killed the radio star