Another Craigslist joke

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http://plattsburgh.craigslist.org/wan/1789641217.html
Wow just think, this guy will take away your "eye-sores" for "FREE or CHEAP!!!". All the people beating down his door to get rid of their "eye-sores" will have to bear in mind that "CHEAP means CHEAP"...ROFL! I think I'll email him that he can come over and get an I Robot, cockpit Star Wars, Warrior, Quantum, and a weird looking game called Computer Space for free; later I'll contact him and say "Oh, sorry a guy came over with fifty bucks and took them all and $50 was probably not "CHEAP" enough for you!"

Sometimes I just wonder what these people are smoking. Just reading how nuts ads like this are leaves me shaking my head.
 
What is wrong with this? People give away cabs all the time for free or at least inexpensively. I've put up ads like this as well. Sometimes you have to specify cheap because I had people offering to sell me gutted and beaten up cabs for 2-3 hundred bucks. Nowhere in there did he say he wanted a working Computer Space cab...
 
Maybe. Still, I feel like the whole "will take away for free!" shtick is kinda played out. This ad just seemed cheap; pins, vids, even slots and for free or little seems a little unrealistic. I know games are no longer worth what they once were in the days when ebay was a gold mine, with internet millionaires burning cash left and right; still it seems slightly annoying. Hey, if these ads net results I'll be the first to run one and reap the rich rewards!
 
I think there are guys like this in every location across the country, what I find most annoying is how they like to just blatantly spam c/l with these ads changing the wording ever so slightly, tricks me into clicking on the ad...... :(

The ads do work, the local (So Cal) guy gets games all the time with them, I don't have the patience to put up an ad like that and then deal with who resopnds, much rather just target what I want and buy only what I want when I'm satisfied.
 
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me?

Am i the Local guy>?
i place these ads,
I offer $40 to $100 or so depending on condition.
My ads always state i will take ANYTHING,.that yo udont want,.
as long as it has no water damage..
i get people all day wanting to sell me all kinds of stuff,.
i also get some of you jokers,.
but its ok...
 
well considering you americans get nearly all your cabs for next to nothing its bound to happen that someone would want free as thats next thing down from getting a dedicated rare cab for 100 bucks.

i am in united kingdom where lets say getting a tempest would be next to nigh on impossible and if you found one you would expect to pay in excess of £1000 and you lot can get them for $125,so go figure.
:)
 
Am i the Local guy>?
i place these ads,
I offer $40 to $100 or so depending on condition.
My ads always state i will take ANYTHING,.that yo udont want,.
as long as it has no water damage..
i get people all day wanting to sell me all kinds of stuff,.
i also get some of you jokers,.
but its ok...


If you post those ads on the socal c/l then it probably is, I don't have a problem with it.

I'm pretty specific about what I'm after, I personally wouldn't list an ad like that because I do not want to deal with all the responders and their issue's.
It's bad enough just dealing with people on there who have things I do want.

Didn't someone bring you a Ms. Pac for next to nothing a little while back? If so that's what the ad is intended for, anyone who complains needs to put their own ad up and deal with all the responses....just my opinion of course ;)
 
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