Lol at asking the kid for gas money.
are you really a kid when you're in your late teens/early 20s?
You really shouldn't be driving an hour and a half for a Craigslist deal, that's insanity.
true, i bought a laptop there a couple of weeks ago.Should have sold it on GAF...we are very reliable. Buy/Sell/Trade Thread 2015
Also $20 extra for a 3 hour drive? No thanks.
You really shouldn't be driving an hour and a half for a Craigslist deal, that's insanity.
So many Craig's List horror stories. The only time I ever bought something from someone on CL, I got screwed over. Does anyone ever have a good experience? Geeze.
true, i bought a laptop there a couple of weeks ago.
So I finally ask him, "so what do you think?" He replies, "I like it! Give me your bank account information and I will have my parents transfer the money into your account tonight" EXCUSE ME?!? I say, "you told me you had cash on hand for this and I will not give you my bank account information.
Traded a xbox 360 for some DJ equipment that's worth more than double the cost of the systemSo many Craig's List horror stories. The only time I ever bought something from someone on CL, I got screwed over. Does anyone ever have a good experience? Geeze.
So many Craig's List horror stories. The only time I ever bought something from someone on CL, I got screwed over. Does anyone ever have a good experience? Geeze.
So many Craig's List horror stories. The only time I ever bought something from someone on CL, I got screwed over. Does anyone ever have a good experience? Geeze.
The b/s/t thread was only a couple clicks away the whole time....
You have my sympathy since you have nothing to show for that three hour drive, but you shouldn't have taken that extra step to ask for gas money after its already clear that kid shouldn't have been making these kinds of dealings in the first place. That I don't understand.
I am now curious about those horror stories of Craigslist
I always voice verify people on the phone when buying/selling anything on CL.
Also never had an issue going to someone's house or having someone come to mine. It's just a fucking classified ad site, some of you think it's just for finding potential murder victims.
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I don't know how it works in the US, but where I live that would be a perfectly valid way to do it (immediately of course, not hoping his parents would do it at night). In my country he could have called his parents and have them transfer the funds to your account and they would have been available to you instantly.
I also don't understand this paranoid fear about giving people you bank account information. That's its purpose, you give it out so people can make deposits on it. You obviously don't have to give any passwords or anything.
I don't know how it works in the US, but where I live that would be a perfectly valid way to do it (immediately of course, not hoping his parents would do it at night). In my country he could have called his parents and have them transfer the funds to your account and they would have been available to you instantly.
I also don't understand this paranoid fear about giving people you bank account information. That's its purpose, you give it out so people can make deposits on it. You obviously don't have to give any passwords or anything.
I guess I'm just baffled that in a first world country no way could be found to make this transaction and it turned out to be a huge waste of time for everyone involved.
Identity theft?
You can't just freely give out your bank account info to literal strangers off the street. That's asking to be robbed blind.
There is NOTHING someone can do with just your bank account information. Stop spreading nonsense.
People aren't comfortable giving their personal information to strangers. Shocking, I know...
Well this just happened up the road from where I live a few weeks ago:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...attack-on-pregnant-woman-in-colorado-da-says/
Yah.
wtf kid is clearly not a kid
This is one reason I'm glad I got the Paypal debit card.
If he's autistic there is a distinct possibility he didn't know this wasn't OK to do.
Always meet somewhere halfway in public. First rule of Craigslist.
Dumb.
Should have sold it on GAF...we are very reliable. Buy/Sell/Trade Thread 2015
Also $20 extra for a 3 hour drive? No thanks.
Sounds like this kid's parent did not approve of him buying a Vita, so if he had given him the VIta and then his bank account info, he just would have never been paid. Giving bank account information to make a payment is abnormal in the US. ALmost every person to person transaction is done using a check, cash, money order, or some sort of payment system (PayPal, etc), not transferring money via a bank account. Craigslist is almost exclusively done in cash.
This.
GAF B/S/T was literally my favorite place to buy things until the Canadian dollar kept getting worse.