Just listed a 17" Dell monitor last night, and already I have received 3 scam emails and one guy who is low-balling really bad.

Is this pretty common?

It has been common for me..but I did have one great sale from there

I listed a computer on their once (Pittsburgh). That's pretty much exactly what I saw.

I've pretty much decided that craigslist is only good in the cities where it is already popular, and a waste of time in the others.

And is haggling pretty common? I listed out what my sale price was, which was for local pickup. I said I would deliver it for $20 if it was close to me.

So this guy low-balls me, to which I reply that my price is what was listed. so he writes back and says he'll go with my price - if I deliver it. Hunh? Everything is listed out clear as day, I just don't get it.

It's more of a "garage sale" mentality, that's all. I would probably try it too.

Just stick to your price if that's what you'd like to do.

No Its Not always. I sold out my Car for Great Price. I had 1995 Toyota Corolla, I boiught it for $4400.00 Bucks .It has lot of Problems like noise in engine , Vibration etc, Finnaly I planned to sold it out . I expected only $1200.00 , Fortunately I sold it for $3500.00. I sold Lot of items and Buy there. Craigs list is very fast.

where are you at? Even at DC i think it's fairly slow.

Also i've never been able to sell ANYTHING that has Dell on there, people know all the deals.

Things blow off of the Seattle one in no time flat.

I normally list on craigslist prior to listing stuff on ebay. I list there for a week and then list on ebay. This strategy seem to work ok for me so far since the initial week ebay would be flooded with the same hot deals. I do make my price on craigslist a little bit more attractive though compare to ebay price + shipping. The nicest part about craigslist is that all of my transactions are in cash (no more worrying about charge back). I list my price + $25 normally since people from craigslist likes to "negotiate" and like to think they negotiated the price down by $25 .

I do receive scamming email once a while and sometimes on all of my listing items which I just delete the email immediately. I also received occassional low ballers and I ignore them as well. There are also people who asks lots of questions but have no intention of buying and also people who worried that your items are stolen. I would say 99% of people who send me inquiry asked why I sell my items since they're brand new.

Normally when I list on craigslist, I don't list my phone numer nor email address. I only provide phone number if I sense that they are really interested in buying. I don't deliver either since it might be risky. I only meet with buyers in public places (like high traffic parking lots). Seems to work out for me.

we got spam from this desk we were selling on craigslist.

I have another craigslist story - there is something wrong with people in Baltimore who use craigslist. Check the bolded time between these two emails.

email 1


email2


I mean, WTF? The listing was killed also.



I really could care less that this idiot killed my auction, but what is going on with craigslist?

Oh, and I also had someone else witch to me about not giving my phone number out. *sigh*

Did you perhaps use a "borrowed" picture that may have been changed by the original owner?

C'mon garsh, I know better than that.

Well, why don't you write to that person, tell them that you are thoroughly confused, and ask why he switched from asking about it to reporting it as spam.

I'm wondering if craigslist was hacked, or if he has some kind of link hijacking "malware" infecting his computer. Strange to think that so many people would
be reporting a legitimate listing like that.

Again I bought desktop for Cheapa dn monitor also for cheap. I bought lot of items though craigslist only . May some places it will be problem