{"id":23,"date":"2006-07-10T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T21:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-07-10T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T21:35:53","slug":"question-does-craigslist-attract-eediots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/2006\/07\/10\/question-does-craigslist-attract-eediots\/","title":{"rendered":"Question: Does craigslist attract EEDIOTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or is it just the general population?<\/p>\n<p>Since we are leaving the country, we are selling a lot of &#8220;stuff&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Furniture, dishes, lamps, clothes, books, books, books. That kinda stuff.<\/p>\n<p>We have a web page up where we list items for sale, many of them with photos.<\/p>\n<p>I have a post on craigslist saying that I have<br \/>\na bunch of stuff for sale, including furniture,<br \/>\nbooks, computer stuff, kitch stuff etc etc.<\/p>\n<p>It clearly says, for a complete list and prices<br \/>\nof what is for sale, visit my website,<br \/>\nand I give the URL for it.<\/p>\n<p>I have received *3* phone calls that all went something like this:<\/p>\n<p>EEDIOT: Hi, I am looking for a couch and an easy chair.<br \/>\nME: Ok, I have a couch, but no easy chair.<br \/>\nEEDIOT: What color is it?<br \/>\nME:(pause: there is a PICTURE on the website AND it lists the color as &#8220;taupe&#8221;) It is taupe colored.<br \/>\nEEDIOT: What style is it?<br \/>\nME: (pause: this info is on the website) It is a &#8220;roll arm, attached pillow back&#8221;<br \/>\nEEDIOT: How big is it.<br \/>\nME: (pause: the dimensions are on the website) Did you look at the website?<br \/>\nEEDIOT: I am looking at it now.<br \/>\nME: oooook, it lists the dimensions and all this info on the website<br \/>\nEEDIOT (huffily): Well, all it says here is &#8220;furniture etc for sale&#8221;<br \/>\nME: (pause to repeatedly apply head to desk) You are looking at the ad on craigslist.<br \/>\nEEDIOT: Of course, that&#8217;s where the ad is!<br \/>\nME: (pause: count to 10) See the line below the line that says<br \/>\n&#8220;furniture for sale? The one that says click here for a complete list<br \/>\nand prices&#8221;?<br \/>\nEEDIOT: uhhhh yeah.<br \/>\nME: click on it and take a look around. It has photos and descriptions.<br \/>\nEEDIOT: cool! I&#8217;ll look through them and call you back:<br \/>\nME: Ok, bye.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"moz-txt-tag\">BTW: None of these people ever called back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BTW2: I had a woman that really really really wanted a couple of pieces of furniture.<\/p>\n<p>She was very concerned that someone would buy it before she could get to see it.<\/p>\n<p>She called on a Thursday and couldn&#8217;t get to the house till Saturday. I told her I would hold them for her.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning she called and said she was running a little late, maybe half-an-hour late. Fine.<\/p>\n<p>She never showed up.<\/p>\n<p>I called her cell phone and it rang and rang. Then voice mail picked up and said &#8220;This users voice mailbox is full and cannot receive any further voicemails. Thank you. CLICK&#8221;<br \/>\nI have had several people email and call about a car I have listed on craigslist as well. Tried to make arrangements for people to come see it. No one has.<\/p>\n<p>I have another person from craigslist schedule to come by to look at some remaining furniture. We will see how that goes.<\/p>\n<p>As of yet, I have not sold a single item through craigslist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or is it just the general population? Since we are leaving the country, we are selling a lot of &#8220;stuff&#8221;. Furniture, dishes, lamps, clothes, books, books, books. That kinda stuff. We have a web page up where we list items for sale, many of them with photos. I have a post on craigslist saying that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-sale","category-packing","category-the-prep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}