Anybody Use Craigslist?

Just curious...why do you say this? Without having used it, you are making a pretty bold statement so is this based on experience of friends and family? Besides myself, I know of two other people who have used it with good success.

One is a coworker who was trying to sell his car. He offered it to people at work for $1500 and I told him to post it on craigslist. He did and within a couple of hours he had about 7 response. He ended up getting MORE for his car than what he listed it at, and sold it for $2300. I would say the experience went well for him.

I know people who do rental properties and get so many more responses to their listings than what they get from the newspaper. They have found plenty of good tenants from craigslist and I havent heard them say one negative thing.

Besides these two, I mentioned earlier that I have had around 6 successful transactions buying coins on craigslist. I posted that I was buying and picked up some decent collections on there at a good price (I pay more than what they would have received selling to a dealer, but less than what they would get on ebay - no fees to hassle with, no shipping to hassle with). The only negative thing I can say is that some people are not good about following up, but never had anyone not show up when we agree to meet and everyone I have bought from has been very friendly.

I've been on it, but I've never personally used it. I know a number of people who have used it and it always caused some sort of problems. Someone was trying to sell a car on there and they felt that they got some suspicious buyers looking at the car. Later that night, someone broke into their garage and tried to steal it. A friend of mine told me that his friend was looking for a roommate so he found someone off of craigslist and the roommate ended up robbing him a week or two later and disappearing. It's also know to dump stolen merchandise and it has a lot of prostitution on there. Just do some searches online and you'll find various stories about it. I guess that because it's free and their posts get deleted quickly it attracts some unfavorable people.

Craigslist is Great!!

I have used it for both buying and selling non-coin items and have used it to buy coins, and I have gotten quite a few good deals. you just have to be patient. And like others have said, meet in a public place.

I agree with CoinHunter. There are bad things that can and have happened with all channels of trade, just like on eB*y, the newspaper classifieds, even among two friends who buy something from each other! So Craigslist is no exception. I have had 100% positive experiences on there with some high dollar stuff being bought and sold, but I wouldn't also necessarily say it is 100% safe and that way all the time. So I wouldn't same the opposite either.

It does take a bit of street smarts and deal making savvy to know how to make a deal go down smooth and safely with strangers no matter how you do it, Craigslist or not. I've taken many stupid risks and chances, and all worked out OK, but I wouldn't recommend doing that.

Here are some of my personal rules that I should follow myself more often lol:

- Always meet at public places (library, coffee shops, banks, police stations!) or own your own turf but with people you trust around
- If you have to meet at their location, either take someone with you or at the very least tell someone exactly what address you are going to and the name and phone # of the person you are meeting, AND tell them that you will call them immediately after the deal. If you don't call within a reasonable amount of time, have them call you. If no answer, call the cops.
- Don't make it seem like you have wads of cash. In fact, if I'm buying, I often let them know I have to go to the ATM to get the cash

I'll try to remember more of them.

I did a purchase of a small coin collection off of Craigslist today. It went very smoothly and we met up at a restaurant to make the exchange. So far that is something like 7 positive exchanges from Craigslist.