I've been doing some "Spring Cleaning" of stuff I don't need/use any more and posted several items for sale on the local Craigslist. Good pictures, accurate and descriptive copy and priced right. Responses start to come in within the first hours after posting and the first guy (who I meet in front of the busy supermarket in a nearby shopping center) usually takes it.
But there's a core of folks- or bots- out there that respond with vague, generic emails- "Hey, I want to buy it, do you still have it?" If you reply, they either don't respond back or they give you some half-assed or string-along comments.
Some are clearly fishing for a phone number, home address or trying for a rip-off setup on a cell phone or laptop sale...so I can understand their motivation.
But others seem to just want to have an extended email exchange or set up a meet which they cancel at the last minute then want to reschedule.
What's up with that? Is it the 21st century version of teenagers calling the local drug store and asking if they have Prince Albert in a can...and when are they going to let him out??