Craigslist has always been a great tool to find good deals. If you know what you want and do some research, you can do very well. I have sold items I no longer needed and bought 2 cars on Craigslist and was very happy with the value I received from this free service. Something has changed. when looking for another car for the teenagers, I found the car ads to be littered with scams of too good to be true car deals with offers to ship the vehicles from another state. The scammers also prey on people looking for a job by stealing information and or money from desperate job seekers. Craigslist has put scam alerts on the site but it hasn't stopped the thieves. It must work well enough to keep the crooks posting the ads.
Buyer beware, in hard times, there are plenty of shady characters looking to fleece people of their hard earned money. Honest people can find it difficult to believe that someone would defraud them out of money so they become good targets. Greedy people think they can get a too good to be true deal and fall for the scam also.
It makes me sick to see scum of the Earth people using any way possible to steel from people. Those of you doing this, please refer to my post on the Golden Rule.
I'm hoping this will pass. It will make looking for things on CL much more efficient.
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