you got to love craiglist

that be what happens when I use it to sell stuff all the time.?? :roll:

before craigslist there was just no place to sell stolen goods, So there must not have been any crime at all. :wink:

I cant tell you how many times I have bought or sold stuff on craigslist with out a problem.
 
localboy":2y2f22nn said:
Craigslist is nothing but a portal for thieves to dump stolen goods. Period.
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Mark, I suspect you've seen the bad side of it. I sell a lot of my old camera gear, plus buy some on Craigslist. In all cases, I show the receipts from my original purchase, and won't buy something unless the seller has a valid receipt.
 
localboy":3rly5kgk said:
Craigslist is nothing but a portal for thieves to dump stolen goods. Period.
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There is the other side, and I have heard of thieves using Craig's list to scout out houses and gear worth stealing. (At least that is a caution given in our local area).
 
I show the receipts from my original purchase, and won't buy something unless the seller has a valid receipt.
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I have never had a receipt for anything I have every bought make it to the car let along survive long enough for me to resale anything. amazing.

There is good and bad in all things in life. I go to a lot of yard sales and flea markets where there are stolen goods mixed in with the completely legal stuff. Craiglist helps people have a place to sell stuff for free. it is also the #1 listing of homes for sale or rent in the country. More cars are listed and sold on craiglist then any where in the world. Its a great tool that sometimes gets used for bad stuff. But so did news papers in the "old" days. i answered a ad in the "Little Nickle" classifieds years ago and the guy was selling a stolen cb750, I knew the owner of the bike. It had been stolen a year before. So new medium same game.
 
starcrafttom":28bnb8ez said:
i answered a ad in the "Little Nickle" classifieds years ago and the guy was selling a stolen cb750, I knew the owner of the bike. It had been stolen a year before. So new medium same game.
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last halloween our car was broke into and a LOT of stuff stolen, including my wife's cell phone. the part that devastated her the most were all the lost pictures of our son. I found the phone on craigslist the next day and almost did something about it, but decided life was better if we just moved on.
 
thataway":2vyx4lbz said:
localboy":2vyx4lbz said:
Craigslist is nothing but a portal for thieves to dump stolen goods. Period.
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There is the other side, and I have heard of thieves using Craig's list to scout out houses and gear worth stealing. (At least that is a caution given in our local area).
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Bob, I never meet people that I don't know at any place other than a public setting (Starbucks, etc.). When I recently sold a square stern canoe, we met at the Tillamook county sherif's office.
 
Thats funny I just bought a square stern canoe last week.

I have bought cars, boats, downriggers, kayaks, appliances, and tread mills on craigslist and never a problem,Which I think is the norm. We hear about the bad stuff but is is a very little part of the transactions that go on. And yes you have to be careful but i think its a great tool to save people time and money.

It really helps my industry a lot. If your under 30 the first place you go to check out houses is craigslist or zillow or both. Its no longer to a agent. You call the agent to see the house that you already found. Its changed a lot in just the 8 years that I have been a Broker. because of that no longer work in a geographical area. I cover three counties now the size of some states. My job is to list the house and make it visible to as many people as possible so they can bring call me or bring it to there agents attention, and craigslist does it for free.
 
After purchasing the CD-22, we decided to sell out 19yr old 20' pontoon boat, trailer, & 40hp 2cy Yamaha engine. We had taken excellent care of it, kept it covered, and it ran like new. I had never bought or sold anything on Craig's List before. It was a Sunday morning. It took only a few minutes to learn how to post pictures and the listing. Within 30 min the phone rang and I had an interested couple on the way to see the pontoon. Husband was elderly and handicapped. He had trouble walking from the driveway to the trailered boat 100' away, then had to sit in a lawn chair while I helped his overweight wife up a step ladder to view the inside of boat. She called out that it looked brand new inside, he said the same about the outside, I started the engine with a garden hose connected, he offered me my full asking price, and we had the deal closed in less than 30 min. He gave me a check from the same bank where I bank, (Wells Fargo), I held the boat until the next morning, went to the bank and deposited the check. The bank verified that the funds were securely in my account and out of his. No way he could stop payment, the bank assured me. Back home the old guy arrived with a much younger friend with a nice pickup truck. They hooked up and drove away.

I actually felt guilty. This old guy was way past being able to use the boat, I feared. His wife had said he had it in his mind to go fishing with the time he had left and that he would have to purchase fishing gear Monday after picking up the boat. I kept their phone number and called them recently to see how things were going. The younger friend stores the boat at his place and launches at the river near by. The old guy and his wife simply step from the dock to the boat, the friend handles the boat and off they go fishing. They have added 2 fishing seats on the front deck. They love the boat. So Craig's list had given him a way to quickly get started doing what he has little time left to enjoy. Of course this friend is to be commended for all his help. And I have one less expense sitting around. Thought it would be nice to post a positive Craig's list story. :)
 
Wandering Sagebrush":2fg717n2 said:
localboy":2fg717n2 said:
Craigslist is nothing but a portal for thieves to dump stolen goods. Period.
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Mark, I suspect you've seen the bad side of it. I sell a lot of my old camera gear, plus buy some on Craigslist. In all cases, I show the receipts from my original purchase, and won't buy something unless the seller has a valid receipt.
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I have. When I did detective work it was non-stop. C-list, E-bay and pawn shops. I'd say it went: Pawn shops, C-list then E-bay. Tools, electronics, jewelry, sporting equipment, car parts...it never ended. Dopers who need to support their "habit" are thieves that steal. Period. Car prowls, burglaries, shoplifting...I would spend >3/4 of my time on these types of cases. I'd get victims "I know this is my (insert item here)...can't we set up a sting?...." Reality check; we don't have the time or manpower. It was never ending. I don't do any C-list. I know people do; but I don't. I don't want any of those people near me, my house or my family. Call me a cynic, I prefer a realist. I donate it. I get a write-off, it goes to good use and I don't have to deal w/ "people".
 
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