Thursday, January 30, 2014

One Question Answered, Maybe??

Third post down from this one I mentioned one of my pet peeves is when I ask a question and/or questions and don't receive an answer. One of the things I mentioned was that I had replied to three different ads on craigslist for outboard motors in the past year and hadn't received a response from any of them. I looked into doing feedback on craigslist, but discovered that in order to do so I needed a craigslist account. Now, I don't need a craigslist account to post an ad, but if I want to ask them if there's a problem I would need an account with them. WTF!! So I decided to run an ad on craigslist and see what happens:
Is There A Problem With craigslist (UP)
or the people posting on craigslist. I've replied through craigslist to three different ads for outboard motors in the past year and haven't gotten a response from any of them.

In less than 3 days I had 5 different people reply to my ad. Several of them asking what kind of motor was I looking for. I answered the ones asking what kind of motor, but so far haven't come up with what I am looking for. One was from the Downer Peninsula and another from Illinois.

That pretty much answered my question. It's the idiots posting ads that don't know how the system works.



5 comments:

  1. Damn!
    And, most of them people living across the river voted for Rand Paul...


    Ron

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  2. I don't know shit about how craigslist works cuz I don't shop on it. If I want to buy something I look around this area in person and talk to people in person. You don't need a fucking computer to go shopping.

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  3. Haven't dealt with Craiglist yet. I assume the bell curve of intelligence runs about the same as it does out here in Real World.

    Love the Carlin Quote.

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  4. Here in Maine we have our own local buy and sell web site: it is called Uncle Henry's.
    the Ol'Buzzard

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  5. For registrations to do thnigs that shouldn't need a registration, use a throw-away e-mail address e.g. from mailinator.com.

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