Is Craisgslist Losing it Cache?

[poorgradstudent]

Funny, never actually used Craigslist for a car.

Apartment, yes. Girlfriend, yes. Sold furniture, bought furniture. Even job hunted.

Still love CL for those purposes.

[34f3f3f]

Never thought there ever were many bargains on craigslist. Everybody thinks their second hand goods are retail less 10% for some reason. Still, it is a market for second hand cars at the moment, so that may have impacted seller expectations.

[34f3f3f]

Never thought there ever were many bargains on craigslist. Everybody thinks their second hand goods are retail less 10% for some reason. Still, it is a market for second hand cars at the moment, so that may have impacted seller expectations.

[34f3f3f]

Never thought there ever were many bargains on craigslist. Everybody thinks their second hand goods are retail less 10% for some reason. Still, it is a market for second hand cars at the moment, so that may have impacted seller expectations.

[34f3f3f]

Never thought there ever were many bargains on craigslist. Everybody thinks their second hand goods are retail less 10% for some reason. Still, it is a market for second hand cars at the moment, so that may have impacted seller expectations.

[34f3f3f]

Never thought there ever were many bargains on craigslist. Everybody thinks their second hand goods are retail less 10% for some reason. Still, it is a market for second hand cars at the moment, so that may have impacted seller expectations.

[paramount]

To many scammers on CL.

[paramount]

To many scammers on CL.

[paramount]

To many scammers on CL.

[paramount]

To many scammers on CL.

[paramount]

To many scammers on CL.

[SmellsFeeshy]

I have never bought anything on CL but used it occasionally to sell random “garage sale” type items. As a seller the problems I see are:

1. 90% of buyers are flaky/not serious. They’ll send me one email saying they are “very interested” then when I reply I never hear from them again. Pretty annoying.

2. Of the remaining 10% of buyers most seem to either want your goods dirt cheap (much less than fair value) and/or will pull a bait and switch by lowballing when I meet up to sell the item.

Personally when I sell items I always list them slightly higher than what I actually intend to get, to account for the fact that everyone tries to negotiate. So maybe that is factoring into the high prices that you see.

[SmellsFeeshy]

I have never bought anything on CL but used it occasionally to sell random “garage sale” type items. As a seller the problems I see are:

1. 90% of buyers are flaky/not serious. They’ll send me one email saying they are “very interested” then when I reply I never hear from them again. Pretty annoying.

2. Of the remaining 10% of buyers most seem to either want your goods dirt cheap (much less than fair value) and/or will pull a bait and switch by lowballing when I meet up to sell the item.

Personally when I sell items I always list them slightly higher than what I actually intend to get, to account for the fact that everyone tries to negotiate. So maybe that is factoring into the high prices that you see.

[SmellsFeeshy]

I have never bought anything on CL but used it occasionally to sell random “garage sale” type items. As a seller the problems I see are:

1. 90% of buyers are flaky/not serious. They’ll send me one email saying they are “very interested” then when I reply I never hear from them again. Pretty annoying.

2. Of the remaining 10% of buyers most seem to either want your goods dirt cheap (much less than fair value) and/or will pull a bait and switch by lowballing when I meet up to sell the item.

Personally when I sell items I always list them slightly higher than what I actually intend to get, to account for the fact that everyone tries to negotiate. So maybe that is factoring into the high prices that you see.

[SmellsFeeshy]

I have never bought anything on CL but used it occasionally to sell random “garage sale” type items. As a seller the problems I see are:

1. 90% of buyers are flaky/not serious. They’ll send me one email saying they are “very interested” then when I reply I never hear from them again. Pretty annoying.

2. Of the remaining 10% of buyers most seem to either want your goods dirt cheap (much less than fair value) and/or will pull a bait and switch by lowballing when I meet up to sell the item.

Personally when I sell items I always list them slightly higher than what I actually intend to get, to account for the fact that everyone tries to negotiate. So maybe that is factoring into the high prices that you see.

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