Craigslist scammers responded to car for sale add.

[mike0000]

My youngest daughter just bought a new to her car, Dad now gets to sell the family college car. I listed it on Fb Marketplace and Craigslist. I’m up to 4 scammers now, area codes as far away as California. They ask a few questions and then want a vin report and send a link in the text. These all originated from the Craigslist adds. I listed it yesterday.

 

[John T]

Marketplace is hit or miss.

Personally If I get any stupid questions or "is this available" I block them immediately and delete the conversation.

Same goes for anyone with a location outside of driving distance.

Basically anything fishy.... BLOCKED

C-ya

 

[Old Machinist]

Marketplace is hit or miss.

Personally If I get any stupid questions or "is this available" I block them immediately and delete the conversation.

Same goes for anyone with a location outside of driving distance.

Basically anything fishy.... BLOCKED

C-ya

I don't know what you consider outside of driving distance but I recently sold my backhoe on FB to a guy 250 miles away. Some years back I sold a racecar off CL to some guys in TX. I am in N FL.

The backhoe sale began with "is this still available" I think. Doesn't take that much effort to reply with a yes. FB actually gives you an automated response for that if you don't want to type it you can just click on it.

Don't get me wrong, I have singled out some flakes and blocked them but that isn't usually my first response.

 

[mike0000]

Well the car sold today from the FB add, in total I had 5 what I believe to be scammers from Craigslist. I immediately shut down the adds, glad it sold quickly, probably stick to Marketplace in the future.

 

[jyoutz]

I simply tell the Craigslist people that the terms are: show up in person with cash. The scammers don’t reply back.