Your Thoughts On Craigslist?

I bought my first coin on Craigslist. IMO, there are less scammers than there used to be on it. I believe they hide the email addresses of both parties now. You do have to be careful and meet in public places but you can glean a lot from the initial communication with the buyer or seller. There are a lot of people who overvalue their stuff and refuse to even search ebay completed auctions but that is the same anywhere. Once in a while you find a person right place, right time and get a deal.

I've made half-hearted attempts at placing "foreign coins wanted and for sale" ads on the local list. Most of the responses were either nonsensical (sorry, if you can't complete a sentence I'm going to look elsewhere), or too far away to be worth it. I did sell some bulk foreign duplicates- in that one case skipping the ebay and postage fees was worth it...

I'll look now and then and may try again, but I wouldn't expect great things. There's one well-established (and highly reputable I might add) local coin shop that gets most people's business here- I doubt I can (or want to) carve off some of their business...

cheers,
tbg

I cant believe I actually forgot to mention this in my first post on page 1, I feel bad actually, as It was probably my best Craigslist experience.. But it happened a while ago so sue me, lol, my memory's not what it used to be and life's busy. And sorry, this post many be a bit long..

Anyways, like I origionally said, I have bought and sold coins off of Craigslist many times, more than 10 at least. And most purchases have been great deals. But I forgot to mention one experience that was unbelievable, proof that extremely nice people still do exist out there and sometimes you have to risk trusting people, a little at least.

So there was an add up from a town maybe an hour from me.. It was a man with a quite extensive collection. He didn't list is coins in his add, but said to email him and he would send a list... So I emailed him (with the email I use only for Craigslist) and request a list of the coins.
I got an email back pretty quick, a day or two but it had attancments that my phone wouldnt allow me to open... I figured it was just another scam and pretty much forgot about it.

Well a week or two passed and I get another email from him, he was apoligizing saying that a few people that had also requested the list had had gotten a virus on there computer when they opened the attachments, and that he wanted to make it right and would send everyone that requested the list some free coins and asked what I collected...

So I was definitely a bit suspicious but we wrote back and forth a few times and it ended up that he was a really nice man and unfortionitly having some very serious health issues and needed money for a surgery.. I believe his literal words were that he didn't think he would live past this past Christmas (this happened late last summer), honestly it seemed he had given up hope the way he was talking and he really lost interest in selling his coins, I asked for the list a few more times and he always said he didn't need to sell them anymore because it wouldn't matter but he'd give everyone who asked for the list some ... It was really sad...

But after talking to him a few times I figured I would take the risk and give him my address after telling him I collect (mainly) Morgan's and silver dollars... And low and behold less than a week later I got a 1884 Morgan and a 1922 Peace dollar (both AU) in the mail! I couldn't believe it!! I already had both in MS so they got traded in towards two new MS Morgan's I didn't have yet. I emailed him again thanking him over and over! He wrote back one time saying your welcome and that was the last I heard from him... I tried emailing a few times last fall just to see if he was ok and say happy thanksgiving, but got no response

Anyways, I think of this man every once and a while still and It makes me feel great knowing that there are still people out there with hearts of gold.. So again, I'd have to say cruising Craigslist is definitely worth the few minutes it takes. And as long as our smart about meeting people you have little to worry about!

I've sold a lot of items (not coins) on CL, when I do I give really great deals
so the stuff is gone quick. Everybody I've dealt with was a very nice person.

I always look for coins but prices are either retail or much higher.
I'm not going to deal with CL unless I'm getting a very good price, to much hassle.