Experiences with pepple responding your selling ad

sellers often are upside down and price accordingly for what they owe, which is way more than it is worth.
bumpy

there are a lot of people in the world that are a bit more "weird" than we ourselves are...

when it comes to selling, even when selling a perfectly good item at a low givaway price, someone will throw a lowball offer at you hoping you will take it...

and on the other side, some people think the POS that they are selling is a piece of Gold, and they wont budge on the astronomical price they have it advertised at.

when selling or buying, it pays to check and see what like items are selling for in your area, and price your item accordingly, KNOWING that you may have to come down 10-20% just to allow the buyer to feel like they're getting a bargain on it...

and when you are able to be FAIR in your pricing and negotiating tactics, then you can ignore the weirdos and know that you arent one of them....

I had a guy call me giving me a story about his home burning down in the Southern California fires. He had no where to go. Wanted me to help him out with a low price he offered, too low I said. He then started bumping his offer up.He wanted to come and see it. When he was 2 hours late, I called him and got a weird response from him. In one sentence he said he ran into heavy traffic, then said he did not have the money nor could he afford the gas(50 miles away). I knew he was nuts and said o.k. and hung up. He did not have a home that burned. I was able to sell to a very honest gentleman from out of state. Only took one week on Craigslist to sell. I was getting ready to cancel the craigslist ad and go another selling route. Thank for all your replies!

We had been looking for a nicer home for many years. Went to many open houses.
About a half a dozen years ago I saw a place on Craigslist, that perked my interest. So I contacted a realtor that I had met going to open houses, to go with us to look at the place listed on Craigslist.
With our realtor friends help we bought the place.
House built in '94, older 55' x 88' pole barn, 17+ acres, 3/4 acre pond, and a wood lot.
I wish the house floor plan was a little different, put it is a real nice place.
It's kind of hard for me to believe that we found this place on Craigslist.

Dusty

Buying/selling a vehicle (anything really) in any format is hard work. That's why salespeople get the commissions they do. I bought my current Class A rig on CL (for cash) with no issues at all, but, that said, I have bought/sold hundreds of vehicles in my lifetime, most without issue. You've been given good advice so far. If during a potential sale ANYTHING seems fishy . . . . STOP. Buy more time and don't transfer anything until YOU FEEL GOOD about the deal.

If your vehicle is worth what your are asking and you market it correctly, someone will buy it shortly.

Good people do honest deals. Flakes are flakes and should be avoided. It's been that way for me since I slid out of the birth canal.

Chum lee

I sell on CL as well (and buy). Maybe it's the NRA sign in my yard that deters the wannabe criminals. Pretty easy to realize who is window shopping and who is serious...

I use CL all the time to buy and sell. No problems in the last 15 yrs or so.
You do have some lookloos etc but nothing that I cant handle

If you are reasonably smart and use a little common sense, no problem with CL. Yeah, you may get a kook but don't count on any of the other advertisement sites being immune.

Craigslist has been good with me. You do have to have a voice conversation with them rather than all the texting back and forth. Seems some people just love texting for no apparent reason at all.
Brian

I tried CL and had one very curious candidate who then claimed he'd fallen ill and couldn't come look at the coach. Others, sure: Would I finance it? Could I park it at their Lake Property? So, I rented a slot on the Resale (aka Lemon) Lot at the Naval Station. Handful of inquiries, a few wasted 25-mile round trips. Took one woman around the base on a test drive and actually talked her out of buying it. Could tell her plan wasn't going to work.

Then, Small World kicked in: A man came by late one afternoon. He was from Texas visiting his daughter on base in Florida. His coach was totaled in Hurricane Katrina and he'd been watching for another one. We talked awhile and learned his nephew flew on AWACS with my SIL in Alaska. Came back next day with asking price in cash. We drove to Motor Vehicle and closed the transaction. More on that in a minute... Then later that year, I sat at a birthday party in Anchorage with that nephew AND the retired USAF people we had bought that same coach from, eight years before, in Tampa FL...

About the DMV: On any private deal, go, no GO, no ***GO*** to Motor Vehicle in person, with the other person, with the cash (or after first going to the Bank if it wasn't Cash) and watch the whole transaction go through. I sold a car of that Lot, pulled the Plate, Scraped the Base Parking, took the Cash, and Signed the Title. Notice arrived in the mail saying "My Car" had been towed abandoned at an apartment complex. So keeping the tag wasn't enough. This kid had a tag from another car and just drove that way till this ship deployed. And in FL, the form you can mail in, saying I Sold It, has small print saying "not effective till buyer registers."

By the way, a BOAT is worse. The Numbers stay with the boat. Looks just the same as Theirs as it did when it was Yours. Maritime rules are different, and you don't want an accident. What's probably worse is it sinks and creates an oil spill. State will trace Numbers to Registered Owner, that's You, and the Beginning of Sorrows.