I want to rant about an idiot CraigsList dude.
 

marge

what a fucking idiot.


guy was asking way too much to start off with 90% of msrp (we're talking about a 3000$ synth, in production, available in store). Maybe the high asking price was just to keep away the tweakers?? So I go see the item and talk him down, we negotiate back and forth, we settle and agree on a price (78% of msrp). and then he tells me he has to call his friend cause he's only a part owner. turns out his friend wants 50$ more then what was even listed in the ad and won't budge on the price. :mad:

what a waste of time.
turns out they actually own it 4 ways, which is causing them sharing problems and why they need to sell it. had I known I wouldn't have even bothered.
clowns.

Why didn't he pay the other owner the original 50%, that he wanted, then keep the remaining cash for himself? You didn't consider making that offer to the guy?

coordinating how they share the money isn't my business.
the one guy holding out wanted an extra 100$ for himself (quick math).

chump change

did this really warrant a thread

i think a lot of those craigslist posts that are fake. why do they always demand a photo of your dick before they're respond?

I'm just glad I got that out.

carry on with the dick talk. careful not to chew.

i answered a roommate ad in the craigslist and this person lady gets in contact with me like a week after i msged her den i was like ay lets go to the thing and meet and she like okay and then a day before she like okay can we do this on monday and i'm like no i already have something you can't goddamn it and i'm like already looked at the apts and they are shitty and they're asking like $500 and i know also shitty shitty apts that are $600 for one guy and fuck a strangeo roommate to save 150 bucks or something ? whatever

one time i answered a roommate ad on craigslist. it was a pair of girls. we arranged over email to meet at a starbucks. gave them my number too. sat there for like an hour after the arranged meeting time at which point i got an ip-relay call from them telling me that they got into a fight and one of them got stabbed and there was blood everywhere, and therefore couldn't come to starbucks.

not sure what that was about.

dumb stupid austin with its asshole rent

That's crazy. why are people so shootey shootey or stabey stabey in austin?

in unrelated news.
I live in a triplex, and the two other floors are empty because my landlord is selling. The Realtor has taken it upon himself to leave the doors to those apartments unlocked. is that legit?


and to get back on topic, should I just forget about that synth, or should I bother and manage the idiots to get what I want? how soon should I call em back?

it was yo soy
you've been had

ummm...

what the fuck are you talking about

it's about the goddamn cost for that kind of environment is completely fucked off

are you this idiot craigslist dude you wanted to rant about?

you should call them back immediately, before they sell it to someone else for the full retail price. hurry! no time to lose!

Our rent is $3250 a month. The landlord wanted $3423.33/month but we managed to talk him down because it's ugly and old and has no character and falling apart. We pretty much never have anything to do with each other, but when the bees came and set up shop in one of the walls we called him and he sent a guy around to kill them.

is that nz dollar?
still, $3250 is a lot, even if it's nz dollar. i hope it's nz dollar, though, otherwise it'd be even more.
fuuuuuuuck in jesus name, i pray

australian

sounds like a real proletarian place

for $3200 a month you could get a hella nice McMansion in American suburbia. Assuming you have another grand a month left over for an Escalade to roll around in

fuuuuck
at least you didn't have to pay extra per bee that was staying there because some landlords are like that

why would anyone rent at that price anyway, i don't get it

my guess is that vixy's husband is loaded. (she's poor, though.)

but no, you're right, if you can afford such a rent, why don't you buy a palace or something? in fifteen years, you'll own it.

I had a good craigslist weekend. Got 300$ worth of gear for $150

Clearly this is a case for the Craigslist murderer.

some people don't know how to deal with larger transactions?


I guess I'm asking:
is 300$ off a 1000 item is the same to them as 300$ off a 3000$ item.
vs
30% less is across the board regardless of the starting price?

I need to sell two old sets of wheels for my Z on Clist. Not looking forward to being offered $800.00 for a $1500.00 set of wheels and tires and/or being stabbed.

I could stab the guy and get the synth for free.

I'll consider it.

You could get it for the low low price of 10 years in prison

one night i answered an ad to go to putt-putt. we went in the batting cages, played rounds of putt putt, and lost each other in the arcade. it wasn't until he was walking me to my car that i considered possible consequences and worried about attack. so i said no when he asked if i wanted to go out again, but i wanted to say yes.

I dont get why you wouldnt say yes and then leave and have him call you later

Or did you abruptly just dip

because at some time during his walking to me to my car at night in a near-empty parking lot i finally thought of everything that could go wrong. i was on high alert for an attack and couldn't really think of anything but leaving. that's what i get for hanging out with a boy off craigslist.

too bad, though. he made me smile and was silly like me. he was a goofball, but not in the obnoxious carrot top way. more like a steve buscemi/jeff goldblum thing - serious, but didn't take himself seriously. i can't remember what he looked like.