OT: Selling Stuff on Craigslist

Apr 26, 2019 20 Replies

For many years, I'd successfully sold off surplus or no longer wanted tools, electronics, cell phones, sporting good, etc. on Craigslist. I'd write some descriptive copy with a little marketing pizazz, take some good quality close up photos, price it on the low side and list away.



The really good stuff often sold in hours, most everything was gone in a few days. I'd also get load of spam and scam replies but I got pretty good at filtering them out and not responding.



Since last year though, stuff just sits there and sits there. Weeks and weeks go by with no responses- not even spam. I renew the listing over and over. It's like no one is reading the for sale ads any more.



Only thing I can figure is the website's viewership has fallen way off- maybe as a result of them killing the personal ads section due fear of litigation.



That ^^ and its too easy now to get used stuff off Ebay,and new stuff from Amazon. I too used to buy and sell on C-List, but no more.

And our neighborhood Facebook page does a brisk business, especially free stuff.

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Deal with your neighbors. There are some freaks, but nothing like CL.

Try Ebay, bet you'll get higher prices and come out ahead too, even after Ebay takes their 10% cut. That's like the world's best business, isn't it? Not stocking, no shipping, no loading the site with the descriptions, just match buyers with sellers and take 10%.

Cant be that given that the facebook buy swap sell groups are doing so well.

We do see a few use public places to meet with the facebook buy swap sell groups but they are the exception.

Uncertain of your area but mine is still prospering fairly well. I, like you, do the same and ignore the scam/spam crap and most items go within days. If you've ever given free stuff away, that will be gone within minutes or hours. Overall, it appears to be doing well here, though I haven't sold much lately but always searching when I want to buy. In fact, I just bought a trailer yesterday and going to look at a fridge tomorrow.

But ebay does, f****it.

But f*ck all put on it sells anymore, because most use the local facebook groups instead, f****it.

Sure, that's why Ebay rakes in BILLIONS, f****it. You have a sunroof motor for a 2000 Mercedes sitting on your shelf. Good luck selling that to some local guy who's going to drive over. Oh, and then there is the "drive over" part, where people have been robbed or killed. Put it on Ebay and you can sell it all over the USA and even internationally. Peeler is right, you really are a true Ozzie senile troll.

Some gutless drug crazed drunken f****it child desperately cowering behind Meanie snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com spewed just the s*it you'd expect from a desperately cowering drunken drug crazed gutless child.

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