# What the heck was I just involved in? (Weird Craigslist Experience)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 31, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-was-i-just-involved-in-weird-craigslist-experience/716448 "2015-03-31T20:53:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-was-i-just-involved-in-weird-craigslist-experience/716448/21 "2015-04-01T19:57:04Z")

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I’ve lived and travelled across the east, central, and southern United States, and everywhere I go I see small hand made signs posted on roadsides advertising “new” mattresses with a phone number. I’ve always wondered where these mattresses came from. I always suspected they were used mattresses with a new outer wrapping and label.

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**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-heck-was-i-just-involved-in-weird-craigslist-experience/716448/22 "2015-04-01T20:13:46Z")

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**Frylock** ’s mattress adventures to the tune of “Frozen”:

Do you want to buy a mattress?  
I’ll throw in a comforter for free!  
Do you want to buy a mattress?  
Check out Amazon and see!

Do you want to buy a mattress?  
This one here is made of foam!  
Do you want to buy a mattress?  
We’ll deliver to your home!

No? OK, bye…

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