Don’t show up for the meeting. If, by some miracle, he’s actually there this time, perhaps he’ll call you and ask why you weren’t there. So perhaps you can string him along a few times.
Brilliant.
I’ll see if I can get him to go to the Walgreens down the street.
Then the grocery store 4 blocks over.
Then the post office.
Then…
Well, it’s already past 10 but my suggestion would be that if you show up and deal seems suspicious, blow him off but don’t head straight home. Duck into the restaurant for a few mintues until he leaves. You don’t want this weirdo to know where you live.
Also, make him send you the VIN so you can run it on carfax.
Other than that, I was going to suggest standing him up, too. What a fuckwit.
I know you’ll all be shocked - SHOCKED - that we haven’t received a call or text.
Fuckwit, indeed.
I would flag all his CL ads as a scam, too.
I will suggest it to my partner; he’s the Craigslister in the household.
If it only happened a couple of times, I’d say the first time was so that he could follow you home and see where you live. Then the second time would be to get you out of the house while he burglarizes it. I’m not sure why he’d do it repeatedly.
As others have said, I wouldn’t pursue it at this point.
All he/they had to do was follow you home after the first missed meeting. Then, they get you out of the house the next day, and rob your shit blind!
If they wanted to know where you live, they already do.
It seems to me there are much simpler ways of finding victims to burglarize. This seems like an awfully (and comically) convoluted scheme for just a simple B&E and burglary. Does this guy’s voice happen to in any way resemble Joe Pesci or Daniel Stern?
Could they have been doing it repeatedly waiting for the one time when you show up with your whole family (indicating an empty house)?
This “rob you blind” angle doesn’t seem to bear out, seeing as he didn’t call today to get us out of the house, and nothing was stolen last night when we walked to the fast food place.
I’m going to go with illegal car dealer who was going to try to scam us with an invalid title/salvage car/swapped VIN or something hinky, and when I told him last night to “bring the title if you’re serious” realized we weren’t going to be the easy mark he’d hoped. The run around could have been some sort of mindfuck “test” to see how suggestible we are, and maybe to increase our desire to “get the deal done”. (Hmm…we scored a 4/7…apparently too low to complete the scam.)
But yes, we’re done.
This guy better watch out, if he does this to you another five to six times, you might not buy the car.
Don’t ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence.
I sold a car on craigslist, a beatup old POS. Turned into the most ridiculous runaround you ever heard of to unload a sub $1,000 car. Not because the guy was trying to scam me, but because he was an idiot who lost the title of the car he paid cash for. Dude was lucky I wasn’t a scam artist.
Get you out of the house for an hour snipe chasing … no way. I agree have this slime meet you somewhere neutral. Don’t hand out your home address, or make sure they know that you have a housefull of guests if you already did - Gee, my son and his rugby team are having their post game season party/graduated State Police School and are having a bit of a graduation party and it is way too loud there to even hear myself think … lets meet at X instead.
Would this warrant a note to the police department? I know that no crime has been committed yet, but this is very odd.
Very true.
I don’t want y’all to think I’m expending a whole lot of energy over this. I mean, we did drive around for about an hour yesterday, and took a nice 5 minute walk last night. But other than that, it’s just some texting from the couch.
It’s just…WEIRD! And, I’m a curious cat. So, being me, I decided to share it with you other (weird) curious cats to see if anyone had a notion what might be going on. 
I’m guessing he just likes jerking people around and has nothing better to do with his time. And no, I’d never want to meet him in person. This is not normal behavior, let alone respectful or even funny; it borders on sociopathic, IMO.
I think I had something similar but not as complex. Selling my car and there are not many of these cars on craigslist. He wanted pictures, more information, back and forth. I couldn’t close the deal immediately as the garage held on to our other car a little longer than expected. So today I said we could meet and take care of everything and his reply was he just bought one yesterday <picture King Arthur asking the French if they want to join his quest for the Holy Grail.>
I mean I guess its possible that a week was a little too long and I lost out to another seller but there’s just something a little off about the whole thing.
I think some people on craigslist that enjoy fucking with people although your guy has taken it to a whole new level.
Apparently my partner is even more forgiving than I am…he met The Guy with the vehicle today while I was at work. Twice the mileage we were told, and scraped up paint and damage all down the right side. sigh Ah, well. Guess it was Flakeypants, not Evil Mastermind. Guess we’re still not buying his vehicle, though! 
Reported.