I am selling my Outfitter Apex. Beware of scammers!

mkirsch wrote:

daveshan wrote:
The most common theory about these types of responses is these "your item" replies are email harvesters. They try to get you to reply outside of craigslist's anonymous response sytem then they have a valid email to sell to spammers.

Wow, that's an awful lot of work to go through for just ONE email address... Even if it's automated.

What's an email worth to "legitimate" spammers, who will pay money for email addresses? A few cents?

The hourly wage for harvesting emails through answering craigslist ads would be pathetic. You'd earn more working at McDonalds and the work is easier.

FAR more likely is this person is looking for a "BIG SCORE" by working some angle. One way they like to do this is to send you a fake cashier's check for way more than your selling price, then ask you to forward the extra on to a third party, or refund it. By the time the check is identified as a fake, they're long gone and you're responsible for the money you sent.

I get the feeling you're thinking of a guy sitting there tapping away on a keyboard, this is the computer age, very easy to setup a program to email "I'm interested in your item" emails. A few thousand proven email addy's is worth $$$$ to spammers.