I am selling my Outfitter Apex. Beware of scammers!

Geez, I just listed something on this Craig list tonight, first time use and now I see it's true. Seems even the site owners started out with warnings about these potential scams as I read through all the disclaimer pages!

I've bought and sold a lot of stuff on Craig's List, including selling my boat, cameras, cars, etc. I always post the deal has to be in person and cash only. I've never had a problem.

One car was sold to a guy who flew in, casher's check in hand for the full asking price. I picked him up at the airport and he drove my car home. No problem. (He was a deputy sheriff and I checked him and his check out before he arrived. He checked me and the car out (with the VIN) before flying in.) He later wrote that he and his wife were very happy with the car. It was a present to his wife for her birthday. (It was a red Mustang convertible.)

I just moved and never used craigslist before.
I just sold over 4,000 of my stuff I didn't need at the new place on craigslist to real people!

I put my phone number in the ad with a bunch of symbols inbetween or spell out the numbers. 555->>555>>>seven two one two

Scammers don't like to call. I didn't get one scammer just a bunch of real nice people that live in the area.

I just go to outlook and set up an email with for 'just' craigslist. And if I choose to list the email address in the ad since so many people have smart phones and like an instant answer I just put symbols in the typed email address too so they can't robo rob it.
rvnet (AT) outlook DOT COM
Don't get any scammer/spam mail either.

Honestly I find them so obvious it amazes how many people buy into these ebay and for sale ad responses from scammers from other countries. :B

I may be just too old, but don't see using CL at all. It appears to be full of scammers. Why risk it or put up with the hassle?

I just sold a dirtbike on Craigslist and got a similar inquiry from Guatemala.

kerry4951 wrote:
Stick with ebay and pay the sales fee. It's protected and they have a great security dept. I don't waste my time dealing with Craigslist scammers just to save a little money.

Ya just as soon as I update my Pay pal account which I used to get notifications about.No problem doing that as soon as I get one,never ever had one or ever will either.

Stick with ebay and pay the sales fee. It's protected and they have a great security dept. I don't waste my time dealing with Craigslist scammers just to save a little money.

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.

I use craiglist fairly often to both buy and sell, I always put something in the listing about "emails without specifics about the item for sale will not be answered". Real buyers always understand and comply.

^This. It's the easiest way to weed out most scams. They don't take the time to customize the inquiry. If a inquiry does not mention the item at least in passing (i.e I am interested in "your stroller for sale" vs I am interested in "your item") I just trash it, I don't have time or energy to deal with scammers.

A few years ago, I was selling my son's Honda 100 dirt bike on CL. I noted that the sale would be

*no trades
*cash only. No lowballers, I know what this bike is worth.
*local only, no shipping

Had a few "inquiries" that were obvious overseas scammers, I ignored them. One response was an offer to trade for a TV that I could buy, new, at about 1/3 of the price of the bike. I responded back that, as I mentioned in the ad, I was not interested in trades. The "ahem" came back and offered me the same amount of cash as the TV was worth, again, far less than the worth of the bike.

It took all that I had not to respond to the scammer lowballer that obviously he couldn't read. I just trashed his email and marked his email address to automatically go to trash.

Sold the bike the next day to a young man who showed up with cash, he was happy, we were happy.

You Guys are missing all the fun........

I went to a barbecue one at of our friends house this summer and took 12 certified checks amounting anywhere from $400-$1800 from those scammers.

If you just play them along for a while they will send you a certified check by UPS overnight or FedEx overnight for the amount.

Then you email them and tell him if it is sent me $5.00 Cash and kept the other $5.00 would be $5.00 ahead.

We roasted those checks over the barbecue fire and had a blast.

Lynnsr

PS this winter I have some more items I'm going to sell on craigslist, I get the certified checks on about half.