Kind of the reverse for me, got offered a 2004 Land Rover for my ‘16 Ducati Scrambler... too many scary stories about those beasts to be interested.

I certainly touched a nerve there, didn’t I.

More great weekend content! Thank you!

There is one born every minute, I guess.

I had 3 sets of Avalanche tonnue covers, which in Phoenix sell for about $700. I listed one at that price, took 3 listings and as many weeks to sell and I got $650.

Or 2 guns

I’ve found that the universal currency for Craigslist is dirt bikes. No matter what you’re selling, someone offers you a dirt bike for it.

Gotta love the ones that list what THEY paid for it new, like that has any bearing on its value now. That’s nice that you paid $32,799 for it 9 years ago. That doesn’t make it worth $32,000 today.

If what you say is true, then it sounds like you have real incentive to try and drive prices up. If what you say is true. Like a dealership talking up the extras they are selling too. Of course you wouldn’t want people actually not paying the beyond the top dollar price, so I get why this would get under your skin. If…

This goes nicely in line with most dealers offering me roughly 60% of what my car is worth when I go to trade it.

Nah; sorry that what you know you got ain’t worth what you think, but don’t try and blame other people for it. I get that it ran when parked an’ all.

Zackly ... a previous post on the CL subject also made some strange claim about folk bailing on CL and jumping into Facebook’s new selling space as somehow being cleaner/better ... and I recently spent a few minutes on FB since I was in the market for a used car for my son, and it was pure unadulterated shyte.

Especially because the lister probably put it at 120% actual value to start with.

Well the problem is that people are asking 5000 on stuff that is only worth 4000 at most so they can be haggled down to that actual top dollar price. That is why people bid 3000, so that they don’t get argued up to above top dollar prices. But, of course, you know what you have...

Or the guys from Pawn Stars. “Look, I like it personally, but I gotta pay you for it, then I gotta get it cleaned, then I gotta put it in a shadowbox, then it’s gonna sit here in my store taking up space I could use selling things that actually sell, and I know I will only get five dollars for it at best and someone…

Here is what happens.

I think it’s an old school type of negotiation tactic, where they offer you more than half of your asking price (so as to not insult you) and expect that you’ll dicker back and forth until settling on a price that is below your asking price, but not too far below (so as to not insult you). What they fail to understand…

I think the correct response is to counteroffer 40 percent more than you originally asked, then wait for a angry response and say “ok, how about (original asking price)“

all the reasons you stopped using Craigslist

Yeah, fuck college crowds too. Especially this time of year.