Another successful and fast Craigslist transaction this morning....

We bought a new memory foam mattress which was delivered this morning, and had to get rid of our old king mattress.

I put an ad in the free section saying come pick it up and whomever brings a case of Corona gets the the front of the line. Jacob from Bothell just showed up with a cold 12'er and took away my old mattress.

SCORE! so instead of hauling sh!t to the dump or paying to have it removed, a dude comes over in less than 2 hours from my posting, gives me beer, and takes it away....Take away my old sh!t and give me beer for it...only on craigslist!

Sweet. I'm going to try something like that now.

Did you browse the casual encounters? always a good read. I think bait dunker could find a piece of ass on that sight....male ass that is

This isnt the first time either, I've given all kinds of stuff from old furniture to kids swimmin pools for beer.

If you have a successful I just gave away my crappy stuff for free beer transaction, lets hear about it on this thread

Quit being so godammned nitpicky on my words Hank

A box, a case, half rACK..WHATEVER... its all good!

Nah. I intentionally had to make this post confusing because if Todd knew I had a free 12'er or case, or whatever I may or may not have....I'd be getting a call that we should probably shoot some pool, or hey, can I come over to check out those pics from last weekend. etc etc.

I have no need for subterfuge...I'd call you from right down the street and say "I'm here to help you drink that 12 pack, I hope you put it in the fridge! Rack'em while yer at it, biotch!"...and then show up two minutes later

Fish on...

Todd

A couple years back, my g/f's family was moving from Gresham down to Dallas. After renting several huge-ass trucks, and packing them to the brim... there was still tons of stuff in the house. New buyers were throwing a party in it that night...so it HAD to be empty, or pay a fee...

g/f's step dad pulled out the lap top, and stated, "anything you want, free, has to be gone this afternoon"

Not 30. min later, a van full of Russian dudes, fresh off sturgeon fishing the Big C, rolls up and takes charge of the situation. They got a small hot tub, big ass trampoline, and a 40" tube TV into that van on the first trip. Then, several of the dudes posted up outside, and kept new arrivers from getting anything. Van pulled back up, they loaded it again... and repeated the process several times. Even took the flower pots w/ plants scattered around the yard





My neighbor had a big hot tub that hadn't worked for years. Full of green water, leaves, etc... he was complaining about having to haul it off and pay dump fees.
I said, "Put it on Craigslist"
"Nobody will take THAT" he replied.
"The hell with Take... someone will PAY for that thing, watch..." I dared him.

"Broken Hot Tub, Don't Know What's Wrong = $100"
- Gone in two days

Took your advice Ryley.

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/zip/2185503783.html

I am getting thirsty waiting for a call.

"Scary... a bunch of biker lesbians are going to show up at syko's place with beer and do bad things to him now."




Damn if there's video it might be the best thread of the year..

never understood the giving away used mattress on craigslist before... yet i hear of it all the time..

Did you throw in the fact that the "stains are free"...

Keith

Actually had 3 calls and the mattress is gone.

No beer.

But things are looking up for the TV.

Keith, Mattress had a cover on it, no stains, just used.


Syko,
I think you need to be more clear in your ad and say " I'll give preference to anyone who brings me a 12 pack of beer, you'll go to the front of the line."



I'm going for another 6'er with this ad

http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/zip/2185788045.html


<edit> Dan, if you look to the left in the pic, you'll see I still have your special chair here at the house

Great idea SG.

,.......... but it's been "flagged for removal' ???

farking flaggers, ok I relisted:

I keep clicking on the ear of the rocking horse in your ad, but nothing happens. Am I doing it wrong?

Mattress, like new, slight urine smell.

No beer involved, but a couple years back we torn down a mobile. It had a foundation of cinderblocks and the guys had piled up them to go to the dump. I put an ad on craigslist friday night and the response was incredible. All gone by saturday morning. We saved the dump fee and the cost of hauling it. Figure we saved a couple of hundred with a 2 minute post.

If I could only stop the tranny's from replying to my ad's, life would be much simpler.

I gave away a used toilet, gone in about 20 minutes.

Don't know about other towns, but I can tell you that around Port Townsend, if you don't want to haul it off, you just put it out by the street with the ol' FREE sign......gone in a heartbeat.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/van/1625829503.html



If you get bored read Best of Craigslist..Some real dandy's out there.

penis contest! thats fuuuuuny.

TV and mattress are both gone from my add.

Nobody brought beer........

To hell with Craigslist.

hahahahahahahahahah tooo funny

I'ved used CL to have people haul off an old POS BBQ, a million pounds of half-bricks, lumber, etc. All for free and a case of Corona tossed in here or there if I think my "garbage" might be worth something.

Never had anything but praise for CL. Have sold/bought all sorts of stuff, unbelievable how large of a marketplace it has become. I've put things up on CL and within 2 hours had cash in hand.

Might have to try Sky-Guy's approach next time I have some worthless stuff that needs removal from my garage...

Its really a pain in the ass all the spambots and people who flag your sh!t on there. Wish they would fix that crap.

ferking obumer spam. This what you're talking about? (copied and pasted)

My family was having a incredibly difficult time due to the slow economy until
There was revealed to the gov is passing down green notes to People in the usa.

I did have little idea they were conducting this so I explored this and found out it was true.

Take a moment to type out "gov wehp" into google so you can peruse more
info on it so you too can help out your folks just like I did for mine.

Kind Regards, Nathan Graham

I don't give a sh!t that your family is going through a hard time. Even if I did think you were real, I wouldn't respond because you're an idiot who doesn't know how to spell. Your just making my time worse by crumping up my inbox and making it harder for me to make a couple. I know your not listening becuase you're a canned computer message, but you need to shut the fuk up and stay out of my personal space.

I've replied to many of these and sometimes I wonder if anybody reads it. Even if they don't, it's a great way to vent.

Precisely, either that or they want to sell you miracle penis pills or show you their webcam. Really fukkin annoying when you're trying to do actual business on the site.

love craigslist sold and purchased items I found on thier.

Best deal I found was someone listing a treagar BBQ for 100 bucks, Saying it didnt work anymore. I went to see it and offered him 75.00 he accepted my offer. Got it home and started looking it over he left it outside and the pellets had gotten wet and turned to concrete. pulled the motor and a couple panels off and managed to get the auger out. cleaned it and removed all the stuck pellets put it back together works like a charm. It was one of the original BBQ's they put out and had a attachment so you could remove the lid where you cook and install a box on top that holds 3 more racks plus the lower one. I can smoke a 100 pounds of meat on thier when I want. About a month later a buddy of mine that works as a Designer/fabricator. One of those guys that can do anything with anything. Said hey I am intstalling another brew system in the brewery where he works and we are using these digital controllers I can order a extra for $90.00 and install it in your smoker. So now I am into it for $165.00 and now have a digital controlled smoker. Best part was he supplied a couple of growlers of Manny's so I could watch him install it.