What I took from him saying not carrying cash, is that I am not going to show up to meet a stranger who knows I have $4500 in my pocket. I don’t know if this guy even has the car at this point, and I don’t really want to risk a baseball bat to the head for some junky to get some quick cash — which is exactly what…

People also have the common perception that, if you don’t tell them the absolute minimum you will accept, it’s not worth trying to buy.
Seriously, screw those people who ask “what’s the least you’ll take”

So; he’s willing to accept something south of 4500...but not as far south as 3500.

Why doesn’t he just list the price he wants and say “non-negotiable”. If you don’t want low-ball offers, you just say: “$4000 Firm, non-negotiable” and be done with it. If you say “negotiable” in a private car-sale, all anyone reads…

We tried to GIVE away a matress, people kept asking what was wrong with it, can you deliver it, why are you giving it away....so we pulled that listing and listed it for $20. First person who called gave us $20 and carried it away. CL is useful but can be weird.

I tried to give away a perfectly good Ikea couch in the Free section. For two weeks. Lots of jackoffs asking me if I still had it, even though the ad said, “If you’re still seeing this ad I still have it”, and “don’t ask me if I still have it, just take it off the curb and message me when you do so I can take down the…

Lots of it, my friend.

I’ve had mostly good experiences selling on Craigslist with a few exceptions. The best bad story: I listed an old 302 for $250 with several pictures of it on a stand. At least 3 people asked me if it was in a car and could I run it for them? Several offered me $100 without seeing it. One guy came to look at and…

Well, I mean if I were selling a bike and some dude shows up with no money and offers me the assult rifle that he brought with him... I’m not saying no to the guy with the assult rifle

I learned the hard way, twice....

When I was around 19 (about 1997) I got suckered into a sob story, acquaintance of a friend deal. I sold him a ‘72 Mustang on payments. I got the first payment and never saw him or the car again. (In GA if the car is older than 25 years old you don’t need a title to register it, just…

Not a car but.. I got my Dog off of a CL free ad. When I went to pick him up the guy told me he had at least ten people that would take him but only delivered.

I had a bicycle on CL that was getting zero attention. Finally a guy showed up, rode the bike, said he wanted it, but didn’t have the money. What he did have was a Chinese SKS assault rifle. I took it. No paperwork, nothing. Every single Australian I’ve ever told this story to refuses to believe it. Until I pull the…

When I sold the E30 before we moved to New York, someone emailed me to ask if I would trade it instead for a custom AR-15. Texas!

yes. meanwhile at nissan: “we dream of such failure”

“we started to look like Toyota” 

It’d be great if you could reel in the headlines just a bit. I don’t want to see this site on the banned list from our IT guy.

That Eagle Creek fire looks awful.

OH YEAH!!!

On a serious note, it’s really disappointing to think that the Columbia River Gorge is on fire and was likely started by teenagers doing stupid things. It was beautiful when I was up there a few years ago, with some great hiking. I never did make it up Eagle Creek Trail, though.

I’ve lived in the greater Seattle area for my entire life, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this.

This shot has been making the rounds of Twitter today. Unreal.