Flake Craigslist Vise Seller

[gtermini]

So I sit down for my break at 3PM and "check the traps" while I eat my snack. Right at the top of the list is a Prentiss vise about 10 miles away. Ads only been up 2o minutes and there's a phone number. I'm a shoe-in. Sweet! My 5x8 Bulldog is lonely and would love a brother bolted to the bench.

Ad reads: Giant Vise $50
It will take 2 people to move this vice

I call the guy up, he's real short on the phone, but we agree to meet about 5 miles away just after 5pm when I get off work. Sweet! I've got cash in hand. Let's do this deal!

2 minutes after I get off the phone, I get a text: hey sorry i told my brother he could have it. ill take the ad down.

God Damnit craigslist pisses me off sometimes!

Greyson

 

[KRB52]

Yes, it *****, but what are you out, really? Be happy that you didn't go there and wait...and wait...and wait...and the flake never shows up. Or, like the one that we had in Connecticut about a year ago, trying to sell something on CL, meets the buyer, the buyer shoots the seller dead. The murder trial just started a week or two ago.

 

[1950mercury]

Lmao

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

Along with the triumphs, be prepared to accept the disappointments.

 

[gtermini]

I totally agree about being glad I didn't go over there and get stood up. I just think it's funny how many people out list things when they haven't gotten their **** together about selling it. Maybe it should take more work to put up a craigslist ad?

Greyson

 

[jerryW]

My life philosophy,

Always expect the worst, then you can never be disappointed!

It has served me very well lately.



jerry

 

[Alienbaby17]

Maybe somebody offered him $70 for it?

If I had a dime for every CL flake I've encountered I wouldn't need to list stuff on Craigslist!

 

[Zeke]

Maybe somebody offered him $70 for it?

Winner.

 

[bigcaddy]

CL is full of those types. I have a Miller 302 for sale right now and got a couple of interested callers. One seemed like he would be the eventual buyer so we set a date and I waited. We talked in the afternoon and was told to expect him around 6. He never showed or answered my calls for the next few days

I get a call yesterday saying he wants to come right now with cash and pick it up. 1 hour later it's gone but he never once brought up the missing days when I tried to call him. Go figure.