Nonsense. CL will be around because it works and for most people it’s free. As for scammers, they will be around anywhere people are selling stuff. Use your common sense, that’s all. Screening? If I had to provide CL with all my personal info to sell something I wouldn’t use it, and neither would most people.
Second the motion.
I really can’t complain about my CL dealings. They’ve been generally pleasant and no hassle.
As for CL, I have some hard set rules about responses. All common sense stuff.
Something that I found that discourages scammers is in a response is to meet in the local police dept parking lot.
I use both Ebay and Craig’s List. They work for me but it would be nice if there were alternatives to shake the tree.
>>As for scammers, they will be around anywhere people are selling stuff.
Yes and they proliferate on CL because a) it’s free (as you point out) and b) there are no standards for use or ‘membership’ such as it is. CL washes its hands entirely of any disputes.
>>Use your common sense, that’s all.
Never said I wasn’t or hadn’t, but an absence of demand for scams doesn’t mean the supply automatically disappears. The signal-to-noise ratio in almost every category of CL is poor.
>> Screening? If I had to provide CL with all my personal info to sell something I wouldn’t use it, and neither would most people.
I find categoricals about what ‘most people’ would do as risible as they are specious. Neither you nor I have any way of knowing.
eBay has taken its share of deserved knocks and we can debate its future prospects but they do, in fact, demand personal information and despite this effrontery they managed to scrape together $9 Billion in 2016 revenue alone.
We buy and sell on CL all the time. Never had a problem.
“Nonsense. CL will be around because it works and for most people it’s free.”
Completely agree. If it ain’t broke.....