Argh

[lesliepear]

Dear Spammers of Craigslist,

Stop writing 5 minutes after I post something and ask "is it still available". And then when I reply it is (DUH, I just posted it), don't write back a day later asking me to hold it because you can see it due to your job and will send payment in the mail with extra. I'm not falling for your games. I suspect you have no idea what you are looking at and wouldn't know what to do with 1 very heavy digital keyboard that needs repair.

The last time I tried to sell something on Craigslist (Alan's crib/toddler bed) - I ended up having to put in the local paper's free ads for items under 100.00, but I don't want this to go that cheaply.

In other news, we had a birthday party today - Alan's classmate from kindergarten. Alan had a good time, he only knew one other kid there (another kindergarten classmate) but he had a great time and showed off some dance moves too! (Little boys today seem to not realize that 1980's breakdancing isn't in style now, or is it?)

Anyway 3 day week, 3 days till Alan's thanksgiving feast at school, 4 days till black friday, 5 days to the neat fireman's nighttime parade of lighted firetrucks.

Comments

[harinakshi.livejournal.com]

I hate posting to craigslist. I've pretty much given it up. I got sick of the spammers, too. John had a post looking for mechanic help with his bike. Then we started getting phone calls (which I never answered) about some guy saying he saw that our bike was still for sale and that he could put an ad in at his whatever place and it would only cost $80. Pretty obvious he didn't actually LOOK at what was in the ad, not everything in the motorcycle section is selling, but he thought it was. And he called for DAYS until he finally gave up. John's put up other ads looking for work and he'd get people asking him to tutor their child or some weird request like that that was obviously a scam as they would want some weird info.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

I suppose you could include something in the ad to say, "I'll remove the ad within an hour of selling the item, so if the ad is still here the item is still for sale." A lot of people don't read, but that should help for the people who do.

As for spams, you can include a request like, "To help show that you're not a spammer, include the word 'keyboard' in your subject line."

[eloren.livejournal.com]

Little boys dancing is *fun*, style is irrelevant ;-)

And a parade of lighted firetrucks sounds like so much fun - enjoy, and I hope you get some great deals Friday.