After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL

[chopper]

Tried to sell my problematic Intel Mac Mini this AM on eBay. The listing wizard kept bouncing me to add a Paypal e-mail address even though I only accept USPS Money Orders. After bouncing through the screens for a while I noticed this:

"eBay and PayPal are making buying on eBay safer. All sellers are now required to offer PayPal or a merchant credit card as a payment method in their listings."

Okay. I'll risk things on Craigslist now.

[mattkime]

wow

[olnacl]

I put a Panasonic Showstopper 27" combination TV/video recorder on CL last Saturday and sold it the same day. I prefer CL especially with all the fraud that's going on with eBay. I have several items I want to sell that need a wider audience than local though, so I suppose I'll have to use eBay when I get around to them.

[PeterB]

Remember though that ebay has bought a substantial stake in Craigslist -- just a matter of time before CL starts charging fees. In fact, they've already put a fee setup in place for placing listings.

[IronMac]

That was almost four years ago, though.

[chipste®]

I am looking for a musical instrument. Each time I search CL it only searches a particular area. Any way to search all of CL?

[PizzaGod]

I gave up on eBay years ago. Yeah, I have to dig a little deeper sometimes, and don't get the quick response when I'm selling something that isn't a great bargain, but the freedom from PayPunk and the arbitrary rules more than make up for it.

[D-Rod]

[quote chipste®]I am looking for a musical instrument. Each time I search CL it only searches a particular area. Any way to search all of CL?
Yes, but as far as I know you have to use firefox. So, open or get and open Firefox and aim your browser to:

http://www.crazedlist.org/

It lets you chose where you want to search. Remember also to search with close spellings. When I was looking for a Goldwing motorcycle I searched for Goldwing (one word) and Gold Wing (two words).

[olnacl]

What about using Amazon to resell things that they may still have a product page for? Is that a good way to move things at a fair price? I have a couple high(er) end HDD/DVD video recorders that I'd like to sell before the digital revolution starts in February.

[PeterB]

[quote IronMac]That was almost four years ago, though.
Yes, but will not be long before they've bought majority stake.