A lot of the people that post stuff on Craigslist are incredibly lazy regarding the postings. I bet that a 3rd of the inquiries I make on items for sale never get a reply, even for more expensive items like $5000 trailers etc.
The postings are free so they seem to think that they can ignore the listings as desired.. Either that or they simply don't have any sales acumen. The guys on Ebay are paying for the ability to post adds so they tend to be much more responsive. Regarding scams on Craigslist ... there was someone or a group that was consistently posting the same Airstream Travel trailer over and over again across the country. The same exact trailer was in about 20 locations around the US at the same time.. Even after it was flagged as a scam several times, the same trailer kept popping up again and again. The trailer (if it existed) was worth in the $25K range and they were selling it for $6000 or so... not unlike the Bobcat scams. If you want to search Craigslist over a larger area than one city try SearchTempest.com It works ok. Dave On 7/2/2013 8:29 AM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I agree this is not an auction but the listing says starting price is > USD500.00. That suggests and auction. I asked to be informed of the > seller's intent. > This seems a reasonable price for a machine like this if the owner's desire > is to dispose of this quick and has no use for the box of tooling. > Seems to me the owner has second thoughts of getting rid of the machine. > This is always the owners choice. It would be nice for the owner to remove > the listing or respond to the questions from the site. There may be > extenuating circumstances eg health, accident... that prevent response. > Keep watching and see if something happens. > This is a sweet deal - IMHO. One person's junk is the next person's > treasure. :) > > > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Charles Steinkuehler< > char...@steinkuehler.net> wrote: > > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 7/1/2013 11:21 AM, Dave wrote: >> >>> It isn't actually an auction as it is on Craigslist.. >>> >>> Charles said they did not respond to him. So I sent them an email >>> also and did not receive a response either. >>> >>> http://kansascity.craigslist.org/tls/3892182813.html >>> >> Yeah, not much of a scam if they don't tell you where to send your >> deposit to hold the machine! :) >> >> ...unless they're just harvesting e-mail addresses, but I gave up >> trying to keep mine secret ages ago. :-/ >> >> - -- >> Charles Steinkuehler >> char...@steinkuehler.net >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) >> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlHRrtUACgkQLywbqEHdNFyLvQCfRf+OAVg3W/whecb9NmMYCdFS >> VS8AoJ5w6X9OUx9U17Sv7ZvJvG6hi7Rp >> =44Hm >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: >> >> Build for Windows Store. >> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
