Plus, you need to be a savvy Craiglist user. If Craigslist creeps you out, this may not be the grocery shopping plan for you. Because they were bartering so much, the Hamiltons were basically able to stop grocery shopping entirely.
So if you have a junk drawer or a ton of things you need to donate , try it out! What do you have to lose? Just make sure you follow basic Craigslist safety rules like using a secure email address, not giving out your phone number and meeting people in public places. An aspiring food and health writer, native Chicagoan, and nut butter enthusiast.
The Best Dolls. The Best Card Games. Some people would be happy to have traded an old cell phone for an iPod Touch. But not Ortiz. He told the Tribune that he managed to barter the iPod Touch up to a dirt bike, then another. The 4Runner was less useful to him than it might have been to some, as he was only 15 at the time. So he bartered that for a golf cart that had been somehow sportified. This got traded for another dirt bike.
Then came a street bike and a series of cars. One of these was a Ford Bronco, which is revered, at least in some quarters, as a collector's item. And that's how he got his Porsche Boxster S convertible. This, remarkably, was a bad deal. But just imagine the looks he now gets at Charter Oak High School. Steven's father, Esteban, explained the principle to the Tribune: "A lot of people don't have money right now, in this economy.
So they think, 'I really need a new phone, but I don't have the money. I am not one of the type to meet CL people only at parking lots after getting my buddy with a rifle 50 yards away to spot the whole transaction, but some people are, and CL could attract these people with a rating system of person.
Hah yeah, technically.. Except if you look you'll find that there are a ton of guns listed in most cities. May 30, 11, Apr 23, 17, 7 Only do business with people that will exchange phone numbers, meet in person at a public spot and deal in cash only. It's also good to communicate with the person multiple times prior to the exchange so u can get a "feel" for that person. AustinInDallas said:. Anything good? You should take one. SlitheryDee Lifer.
Feb 2, 17, 18 I've never used it. I have absolutely no interest in meeting anyone anywhere to sell them something or buy something from them. In most instances if I don't want something you can get it for free when I leave it by the road for the garbage man.
SlitheryDee said:. Sorry, the terms are that you have to happen to be driving by on your way somewhere else. Who knows, the next time you see some lightly used piece of outdated property sitting next to the road in a neighborhood somewhere in the south, that might just be my house. Jul 7, 4, 0 You can tell the paranoid, anti-social types here I've saved some money and made some money off CL. Nothing to fear so long as you're not an idiot.
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