NON-RANT RANT: Why do Craigslist posters advertise and not respond to e-mails?

[her209]

Are they just doing it for the LULZ? Maybe collecting e-mail address for spammers. If the item is sold, at least have the decency to respond stating as such or delete the advertisement.

:|

 

[CRXican]

werd

 

[lxskllr]

I agree, it's discourteous and irritating.

 

[Nik]

The last couple times I've posted something on craigslist, I got literally hundreds of email responses. If I hurt your widdle feewings by not responding, tough shit. I learned the hard way that people who are truely interested will send more than one message. Every person I initially sent replies to for their inquiries never respond anyway, so why should I take the time to reply to every single one? A solid 90% of those that send initial "I'm interested" emails aren't really interested and don't bother responding if I do reply, so I only send responses to those who inquire more than once.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Craigslist is full of flakes (both buyers and sellers).

It's free. That's not an excuse, but I think that has a lot to do with why you can't expect that people will bother with courtesy.

 

[arkcom]

"Do you still have it?"

I never respond to that. Unfortunately those are the only emails I get.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Nik
The last couple times I've posted something on craigslist, I got literally hundreds of email responses. If I hurt your widdle feewings by not responding, tough shit. I learned the hard way that people who are truely interested will send more than one message. Every person I initially sent replies to for their inquiries never respond anyway, so why should I take the time to reply to every single one? A solid 90% of those that send initial "I'm interested" emails aren't really interested and don't bother responding if I do reply, so I only send responses to those who inquire more than once.

yeah i got to the point where i do the same. i get lots of responses, so if im not going to take the offer or whatever, i ignore it. i *do* delete items if i sell, however

 

[jupiter57]

I particularly hate the e-mails from doofuses that ask me everything about the item that I included in the posting!

And not just all the questions in one e-mail! Noooo, they must send multiple e-mails, each & every one asking a single question, and everything they ask is clearly listed in the posting.

/rant

 

[guyver01]

the lowballing bullshit is what pisses me off on craigslist.


Me: Item available for $500 OBO

email: will ya take $10?


F U

 

[Freejack2]

My coworker had some script or something that would alert him if something he was looking for was posted on Craigslist. I imagine some people may even have gone further and have their script email the person too. So there is a chance that within a second after it was posted, it was gone.

As for the scammers, you can usually get a good idea who they are by their email address. If they post the is it still available crap that Arkcom mentioned and they're on gmail, yahoo, hotmail, or a free webmail service like that, odds are it's a scammer. If it's from a isp like comcast, verizon, or rr chances are more likely it's not a scammer.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

I have no idea.. but I do love getting 'is this still available?' 'are you still having money problems?' and 'i have that new job you are looking for' all the time after I list something for sale.

 

[jonks]

I tried selling a vid card for $140. Got an email "will you take $90, I have cash, can pay tomorrow - Xiolou Zxhsia (or something)

I wrote back "How about $75 and you pay me next week?"

He wrote back "great, what your address?"

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: jonks
I tried selling a vid card for $140. Got an email "will you take $90, I have cash, can pay tomorrow - Xiolou Zxhsia (or something)

I wrote back "How about $75 and you pay me next week?"

He wrote back "great, what your address?"

LOL

 

[zebano]

Isn't being able to make lowball offers/haggle the real draw of Craigslist? When I'm searching for something there are usually 3 steps:

1. determine an acceptable price
2. watch for any offers that are < price +10%
3. haggle, if you fail go back to step 2 and be patient.

I was willing to pay $50 for a deep freeze and by waiting three weeks, I ended up getting one for $25 instead. Sure, the guy got ripped off, but he listed it at that price, I didn't even have to haggle.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: jonks
I tried selling a vid card for $140. Got an email "will you take $90, I have cash, can pay tomorrow - Xiolou Zxhsia (or something)

I wrote back "How about $75 and you pay me next week?"

He wrote back "great, what your address?"

I get a lot of emails with really low offers. I usually just respond with "LOL".

I was just selling a $250 monitor that I bought a year ago. I was selling it for $100. I got a lot of $40-60 offers. "LOL"