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That Robox
Mar 15, 2010
I'll sell vehicles and such on craigslist now and then, and I can't imagine the thought processes behind some of the offers I've gotten. I had a classic Lincoln in excellent shape. Non running as it needed fuel injection work. $1500 or best. Got nonstop emails offering like $200, and that only if I made it run and drive, so they could drive it over the scale at the scrapyard because they had no truck or trailer. Ended up trading it to a guy who restored it.

I have a car on there now, for $600. Parts car. Runs, drives, but badly rusted and horribly unsafe. Worth the price as it's a rare car with valuable parts. Flooded with emails from guys insisting it's the ideal first car for their 16 year old daughter, guys who tell me I know nothing about my own car and that they're going to use it for a daily driver, and one guy who keeps sending vaguely threatening all-caps emails from multiple addresses offering "$150 I AM A CASH BUYER!!!"

Also, regardless of what I'm selling, I get at least 5 offers of a 27" TV. It's always just a CRT TV, never flat screen, may or may not include a built in VCR, but it's always 27".

Same with gas powered RC cars. I get tons of those offered. A guy tried to trade one for my dirt bike. I declined. He then came back with an offer of 2 gas powered RC cars and got upset that I didn't want them. Lots of ads have an "open to trades, no gas powered RC cars" stipulation here.

I do live right in the middle of meth country, so there's that I guess.

That Robox fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Dec 7, 2014

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