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Subject:Re: 86 weekender for sale "best offer" near Santa Cruz, CA
From:Jim Lieb
Date:Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:50:08 -0400

Funny, ad says it is a weekender but picture shows vent and camper
hookups???

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:44 AM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:17 PM, Peter DiFalco <peter.difalco@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
>
>
>  http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/cto/1648938752.html
>>
>> Owner is soliciting ridiculous offers and "no bidding war". Is that
>> supposed to mean ridiculously high offers? Could read that either
>> way. Well, somebody more local than I should try it out and see.
>>
>> -Peter
>>
>
>
> The way I read it is give me a lowball offer like what I am likely to
> get OR make a ridiculously high offer that I can't refuse for fear if
> losing a good deal while I screw around with the lowballers. Sounds
> pretty clear and ridiculous at the same time. If the Seller wants an
> auction, they should list on Ebay with a Buy-It-Now price. That is
> exactly what he or she is doing.
>
> This is just my personal opinion. Craigslist should be left as a
> community resource. People using it purely for business and setting ip
> auctions should use a pay service such as Ebay where that sort of
> activity is encouraged. Of late, too many of these auction and
> commercial type ads have been clogging up CL.
>
> Rant off.
>
>
>
> BenT
>

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