# Craigslist wankers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 9, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365 "2009-09-09T01:21:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/21 "2009-09-09T16:25:58Z")
“It has a 265 HP engine to outrun the cops.” Ha ha! Are these cops on bicycles?
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### Author:  [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/22 "2009-09-09T16:31:52Z")
Ha! Thanks.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/23 "2009-09-09T16:49:12Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#):
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> And this isn’t even counting the scammers that are interested in your “item”! People seriously need to get a life. The item I am selling is going for $7000, so if you are interested, you should be pretty darn interested. This isn’t a goddamn beanie baby!
Hmmm. RealDoll?
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### Author:  [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/24 "2009-09-09T16:58:34Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Here’s the deal: you NEVER allow an email response on Craigslist. Phone only. Spammers cruise CL and respond to every ad with an email contact. The response goes through the CL server. YOUR response back, however, goes directly to the spammer and includes your return email address. Get the picture? Now the bastard has your email to sell to people who sell those penis extenders.
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> I only post my phone number and have never gotten a crackpot caller. Talking on the phone to someone also gives you an idea of the person, and allows you to set up a meeting in a public place, if you’re not comfortable giving your home address.
So giving out your phone number to the entire Internet is perfectly okay? 😕
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### Author:  [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/25 "2009-09-09T17:01:37Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#):
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> So giving out your phone number to the entire Internet is perfectly okay? 😕
If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear about the White Pages.
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### Author:  [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/26 "2009-09-09T17:25:29Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Here’s the deal: you NEVER allow an email response on Craigslist. Phone only. Spammers cruise CL and respond to every ad with an email contact. The response goes through the CL server. YOUR response back, however, goes directly to the spammer and includes your return email address. Get the picture? Now the bastard has your email to sell to people who sell those penis extenders.
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> I only post my phone number and have never gotten a crackpot caller. Talking on the phone to someone also gives you an idea of the person, and allows you to set up a meeting in a public place, if you’re not comfortable giving your home address.
It’s called gmail. It’s free and you never have to look at it again. Viola.
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### Author:  [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/27 "2009-09-09T17:25:33Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear about the White Pages.
People \*still \*have land lines?
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/28 "2009-09-09T17:30:19Z")
What’s a land line?
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/29 "2009-09-09T17:40:40Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#):
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> And this isn’t even counting the scammers that are interested in your “item”! People seriously need to get a life. The item I am selling is going for $7000, so if you are interested, you should be pretty darn interested. This isn’t a goddamn beanie baby!
Hello:
I am interested in your item. I have a cheque that has been pre-approved by my bank in the sum of $9,850. I will send you the cheque for your item, send me back the difference. For your inconvenience, you may keep $200 more than your asking price. Thank you and please send the money soon. God love you.
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### Author:  [@TheMadHun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheMadHun)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/30 "2009-09-09T17:41:24Z")
I agree. What’s wrong with those jerks who call to ask obvious questions and then don’t care about the answers.
I listed a free twin bed and box springs. They call and ask if the box springs is also twin size. Duh. And then I ask what size they wanted. Oh yes, I want twin size. Okay, when do you want to come pick it up. Do you deliver? No, see it’s free. You want delivery, call Sears.
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### Author:  [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/31 "2009-09-10T00:45:59Z")
This is a good source of fun if you are bored and have nothing better to do. I once tried to sell an upright piano on CL. It was less than 5 years old and in perfect condition so I was asking about 80% of the original cost.
Of course I got the form letter robo-response asking if the item was still available and offering some ridiculously small amount of money (a few hundred I think) plus an extra $50 to cover shipping charges 😃
After I stopped laughing, I replied back to ask if the person knew what a piano was, and that shipping costs would be a little higher than $50. Response: ok how much will it cost to ship to the UK? Apparently the person still hasn’t grasped that he is asking for a piano to be shipped overseas.
I poked around online for a bit and came up with a ballpark number for shipping such a large, heavy, delicate item overseas (thousands of dollars). I replied with the new total cost. Response: OK (of course). I sent another note telling him that I would have to hire somebody to come by to pad and crate the piano, costing another few hundred.
By the time I was done, the guy could probably buy two brand new pianos locally for the amount of money he claimed to want to give me for my used one.
One of these days I’m going to go the extra step and actually get the guy to send me the fake money order. I’ll reply a week or so later telling him that my bank won’t honor it, and can he please send some fake cashier’s checks instead?
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/32 "2009-09-10T01:37:38Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#):
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> If you think that’s bad, wait until you hear about the White Pages.
Yeah, that’s why I have one of those newfangled unlisted numbers.
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### Author:  [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/33 "2009-09-10T02:50:45Z")
> [@TheMadHun](#):
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> I agree. What’s wrong with those jerks who call to ask obvious questions and then don’t care about the answers.
Umm… They have no life?
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### Author:  [@Stan\_Shmenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stan_Shmenge)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/34 "2009-09-10T02:55:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Here’s the deal: you NEVER allow an email response on Craigslist. Phone only. Spammers cruise CL and respond to every ad with an email contact. The response goes through the CL server. YOUR response back, however, goes directly to the spammer and includes your return email address. Get the picture? Now the bastard has your email to sell to people who sell those penis extenders.
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> I only post my phone number and have never gotten a crackpot caller. Talking on the phone to someone also gives you an idea of the person, and allows you to set up a meeting in a public place, if you’re not comfortable giving your home address.
I have no phone. I am just going to fucking kill myself. I have had enough.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/35 "2009-09-10T06:15:00Z")
Without a classification appropriate to Crackpots Trying to Rip You Off, I had to post my one-time, half-hearted, curse-removal service in the wrong service. I will rethink it in the future. The [del]rubes[/del] honest people who post and search on CL should be my market. I blame my half-etc service and not following up on it, especially since a large part of me is appalled that it’s a scam that might, somehow, make me money.
**Ed\_Zotti** , you and the Dominicans have done me wrong. Or right. Either way, I can sleep better, but without an accumulation of Master Card receipts. Which part of me misses. And for which I blame you. ☹
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/36 "2009-09-10T13:52:12Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#):
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> So giving out your phone number to the entire Internet is perfectly okay? 😕
I’ve sold countless items on Craigslist and my phone number being available has never been a problem. As in ever. No crank calls, no increased telemarketing, nothing. So you confusion is self-generated.
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### Author:  [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/37 "2009-09-10T14:55:55Z")
See, your problem is that you are not offering FREE MC HAMMER PANTS with your hellcat from Planet Kickass. Do that and you will only get serious responses.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/38 "2009-09-10T15:21:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I’ve sold countless items on Craigslist and my phone number being available has never been a problem. As in ever. No crank calls, no increased telemarketing, nothing. So you confusion is self-generated.
I’ve never had a problem either, both as a seller and a buyer. Although one time I was inadvertently a dick as a seller. We were still doing home renos, and got so super-busy knocking down walls that I just plain _forgot_ to get back to someone. For a cheap item too. (Sorry dude.)
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### Author:  [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/39 "2009-09-10T16:51:56Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#):
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> I’ve never had a problem either, both as a seller and a buyer. Although one time I was inadvertently a dick as a seller. We were still doing home renos, and got so super-busy knocking down walls that I just plain _forgot_ to get back to someone. For a cheap item too. (Sorry dude.)
You son of a bitch.
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-wankers/509365/40 "2009-09-10T17:33:13Z")
> [@CaveMike](#):
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> S… It attracts a ton of people that are casually interested; they’d like your item because it is free, but they don’t feel like going to the trouble of picking it up.
I think this is it. It’s easy so see an ad, and think " I want that!" and it takes all of a few seconds to send an e-mail, which gives the sender the pleasant feeling to have secured the item. But then he starts to think about the trouble of picking it up, and storing it, and taking care of it, and explaining to his wife that there’s now an X taking up space in the garage… And he becomes tired, and lets the whole thing slide.
It’s called poor impulse control.
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