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Joe Soucheray: We lost more than spelling when we lost the classifieds
St. Paul Pioneer Press ^ | 6/8/12 | Joe Soucheray

Posted on 06/18/2012 6:37:22 AM PDT by rhema

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To: cripplecreek

“My local paper printed that I had been arraigned for drunk driving nearly 7 yeas after it happened.”


Holy crap! Did you get them to print a correction? Hopefully something that said “we mistakenly said that it was Joseph Cripplecreek isntaid of Joseph Thomas” and not something that rehashes yet again a seven-year-old incident.


21 posted on 06/18/2012 7:50:36 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: cripplecreek
you wonder where this door was hiding for all those years.

I had a 60s Corvette fuel injection unit stored away for 30+ years. Sold it a couple years ago on eBay for $4500. One of these days I may peddle my massive stash of R12 freon LOL.

22 posted on 06/18/2012 8:01:02 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: rhema

I still laugh when I see someone selling a “Chester Drawer”.

*shakes head*


23 posted on 06/18/2012 8:04:09 AM PDT by RMDupree (I'm not really here.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

You are correct. Poor ole Joe is having a mental wet dream wanting to move back to the past:

“Face facts, Joe.
Newspapers are nearly as dead as weekly news magazines.”

None of our younger relatives in their 30-40’s subscribe to a newspaper. The free weekly ad paper goes from their driveway to the recycle can, unopened.

We still subscribe to our local fishwrap due to a reversal of their left wing stances. I never look in the ad section except to find the hard to finish crossword puzzle.

I don’t use Craig’s list as cop friends call it the robbers ATM.

We use the internet to sell/buy sporting goods to similiar people. We go to the internet sites of clubs/activities, we are interested in, and many friends use EBay to buy sell items.

About a decade ago, a younger relative couple wanted to sell their current home to buy a larger home for their larger family. Their Realtor refused to use the internet, she didn’t want to share the commission with other realors. There were no buyers in a hot market.

After 30 days on the market and 4 open house Sundays, I felt the realtor didn’t really want sell their house at the asking price and was waiting to come in with a lower price.

I told the wife to send the Realtor an email and to put their house on the internet. Then give her 8 hours to post the internet info or she would find a new realtor.

She and I worked on the internet to create the internet ad and it was posted after some harsh words in time for the weekend.

The internet open house had more good lookers than the previous 4. Our relative and her husband stayed at the house and monitored the realtor. After the realtor downplayed their home to two lookers, the husband told her to go sit in her car.

They ended up with a bidding war and about $10K over their asking price. One of my relatives sat in on any discussion a potential buyer had.

After the sale of their home was completed, our female relative let everyone in her circles know what happened. The worthless/game playing realtor sold her home on the internet and left the area.


24 posted on 06/18/2012 8:05:18 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: nascarnation

Watch out for a hellfire missle from an EPA drone.


25 posted on 06/18/2012 8:05:41 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: RMDupree

I love perusing Craig’s Listings. One of my all time favorites was a chair that was “genitally used”.

Uhhh, no thank you.


26 posted on 06/18/2012 8:14:13 AM PDT by Shelayne
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To: Grampa Dave

I put an RCA Victor Victrola radio/record player console from the 1940s on Craigslist.
I’ve had four inquiries, all bogus.


27 posted on 06/18/2012 8:17:43 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: nascarnation

“I had a 60s Corvette fuel injection unit stored away for 30+ years. Sold it a couple years ago on eBay for $4500.”

One of our relatives in the midwest sold his beautiful Slant Back Ford Torino, he bought when he got out of the military.

Fish Wrap ads were expensive, and they didn’t want to use Craig’s list. He was a member of some web site or older Fords and Torinos and posted picture of his baby and the price.

Immediately, he had a small bidding war, and a couple on the Gulf Coast bought it. The guy’s dad drove up with a car hauler, paid with a cashier’s check, loaded it on the hauler, secured it and drove away.

The cost to our relative, 0/zero $’s.


28 posted on 06/18/2012 8:17:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: sam_paine
I think the author was thinking along the lines of something more like this:


29 posted on 06/18/2012 8:18:33 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")
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To: rhema

Over the weekend, I ran across a copy of the 1908 Sears & Roebuck catalog. Fascinating to see the difference a hundred years had made in the world of advertising copy.


30 posted on 06/18/2012 8:21:58 AM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

“I put an RCA Victor Victrola radio/record player console from the 1940s on Craigslist. I’ve had four inquiries, all bogus.”

The bogus/scams on Craigs List work both channels, seller and buyer.


31 posted on 06/18/2012 8:22:20 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: cripplecreek

Stupid paper....Very rarely do they actually do something worthwhile.


32 posted on 06/18/2012 8:27:19 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: a fool in paradise
but some news accounts that are 16-48 hours old are delivered every morning to the public’s doorstep, sometimes even if they don’t want it.

I haven't subscribed to a newspaper in decades but I get 2 to 3 per week. They go under the cat litter box and the newspaper gets to claim increased circulation - it's a win-win.

33 posted on 06/18/2012 8:28:25 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RMDupree

A local wood seller repeatedly listed chords of wood for sale. I always wanted to call and ask if they were in a major or minor key.


34 posted on 06/18/2012 8:29:22 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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To: Shelayne

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMG, that DID make me spit my drink!

LOL..."genitally used"...:)

35 posted on 06/18/2012 8:39:47 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: rhema

I used to use “The Want Ad” and classifieds in papers...I BLOODY WELL HATED THEM. They were a pain to use, a pain to pore through, there was NOTHING good about them except that there was no alternative.

And dipstick that longs for the days of the classified ads has a screw loose. Newspapers are dead, Dead, DEAD. They just don’t know it yet.

And, I say, GOOD RIDDANCE.


36 posted on 06/18/2012 8:43:11 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: abb

Democratization of the language. A lexicon is a terrible thing to waste.


37 posted on 06/18/2012 8:49:54 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: rhema

Must be a slow opinion day.


38 posted on 06/18/2012 8:56:06 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Agreed...I am visualizing some doddering old liberal type sitting on a tall editors stool with a threadbare button down sweater and hunched shoulders, his glasses with a piece of string attached to keep from losing them, getting himself all worked up into a lather over this!


39 posted on 06/18/2012 9:19:14 AM PDT by rlmorel ("The safest road to Hell is the gradual one." Screwtape (C.S. Lewis))
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To: rlmorel

lol! Exactly!


40 posted on 06/18/2012 12:12:11 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Congrats to Ted Kennedy! He's been sober for two years now!!)
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