I have sold a lens or two on Craigslist but everytime I try to buy something it's a scam. Some guy was selling a 100-400 Canon for $800 and doesn't want to meet at a nuetral location, he wants to ship it to me because he's busy. I told him give me a time between 7a-11pm any day of the week at any public location in the city and i won't be a minute late, that was too much trouble. I told him i'd even meet him at the post office at the same time and location that he was going to have to ship it to me from. He said I was pushing so hard that i was going to beat him up and rob him. Get a job buddy.

The latest one was a 1DMKII for $610. Yes I knew it was a scam from the start as no one is selling that camera for anything less than $2500. The ad is in Columbus and I respond, here's what I get;
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Hi there,

Sorry for my late reply but I'm currently in England, Wolverhampton. I was promoted to Sales Administrator and I have to take a 6 months trainning program here in UK, before I'll be back home, in States.
The camera is still available, in perfect condition, and I will sell it only in US because here the warranty and the CanonCare are US registered.
The reason why I am selling the camera is because I have just received a new camera as a birthday gift here in UK, so I do not think I will be using my old camera any more. I don't have use for 2 cameras.
I have attached some pics with the camera to this e-mail so you can see the condition of the camera. I bought the camera 8 months ago and it still has 16 months of Canon transferable warranty remaining.
I hope you are still interested and we can make the deal happen right away.
Since I can't meet you and make the exchange, I would like to use a service that will help us with that:

http://www.tnt.com/tnt.express.wolve...y_service.html

TNT is a worldwide delivery company (like Fedex, DHL or UPS). You can see from their procedure that you will be able to check the camera before I receive the payment. If you are in a hurry, I will use 2 day delivery (on my expense).

Let me know what you think.
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I did let her know what i think. I told her although I was born at night... it wasn't last night.

 

Yea...I got ripped off too, I was planning on taking this "gorgeous babe with massive boobs, tight waist, sandy blond hair, and 4 mil in the bank" on a date, but it was just some pimple popping 43 year old fat man living in his mom's basement. Damn I hate getting bamboozled.

 

 

Besides some of the scams, I personally love CL.

Bought our old apartment on a listing there by the owner, bought and sold a few cars, bartered a few things - the latest being a Wii, and I'll be picking up snow tires this weekend.

 

Tell me you perverts don't read the casual encounters section.....that crap is hilarious!

 

You write such good adverts Dave

 

that is the exact same response and format i got when i emailed about a plasma tv except mine was wolverhampton, united kingdom and not england. i find craigslist really helpful if you can meet in person and purchase the item. otherwise i just let these scammers entertain me with their ridiculous emails

 

Trust me, Wolverhampton is not a place you want to buy anything from anyway

 

I should of told her that RichUK is right there so he could pick it up from "her"

 

It is the "her" bit that concerns me to be honest.