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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1954863, member: 38849&quot;]CraigsList is a minefield of scammers, hackers, and jerks.&nbsp; However, it&#039;s free, and has unlimited space for text, as well as up to 24 images.&nbsp; I&#039;ve sold several thousand dollars worth of junk (relatively few coins) since moving to Columbus in 2005, which happens to be one of the most active CraigsLists in the world, literally hundreds of new ads under &quot;Collectibles&quot; every day.&nbsp; I currently have about 20 ads running.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a LOT more to know about CraigsList, but no room for details here.</p><p><br /></p><p>You do NOT let CraigsList responders come to your house the first time, or in the rare case of repeat business, even the second time.&nbsp; Meet at McDonald&#039;s or some such public place, with a buddy sitting a few tables away.&nbsp; Cash only, of course.&nbsp; All sales FINAL, of course.&nbsp; Seller does not respond to &quot;offers,&quot; of course.&nbsp; You will get plenty of insults, rude comments, and nutcases, but that&#039;s part of the game; if you&#039;re resilient and thick-skinned, it&#039;s hard to beat unlimited FREE.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably half of your responses will be bogus, mainly from Chinese and Eastern Europeans trying to get your email address, which they can sell for 7c to 10c.&nbsp; I&#039;d get a new Gmail account, to be used ONLY for CraigsList; emails are now coded anyway, but it&#039;s a good idea to be able to pitch an entire account overnight.</p><p><br /></p><p>CraigsList doesn&#039;t work very well in small cities and towns.&nbsp; Columbus is the 30th largest city (or was) in the U.S., with a metro area over 1.5 million.&nbsp; You can pull up the Columbus ads to see the system at its prime.&nbsp; In the past year, the number of bullion ads has skyrocketed, and surprisingly, some of them are pretty good deals; I met my primary supplier on CraigsList, and he is a straight-arrow guy who has become a very good friend of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Beware of responses from someone who &quot;wants to buy your <i>item</i>,&quot; but never mentions exactly what it is, in his email.&nbsp; This is once again a generic response, trying to get your email address.&nbsp; It looks like a buyer for sure, but...it ain&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have only been flagged twice since Christmas, and that&#039;s pretty good, in view of how many ads I customarily run.&nbsp; I have had as many as 40 at one time, and the moderators don&#039;t seem to care.&nbsp; There&#039;s no explicit limit in the guidelines.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a few of the points to consider.&nbsp; Incidentally, keep in mind that a criminal can follow you home from McDonald&#039;s and learn your address.&nbsp; If you&#039;re single and meeting at McDonald&#039;s with his partner, guess what?&nbsp; It&#039;s &quot;safe&quot; for a ten minute burglary, depending.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ebay is by no means a &quot;training ground&quot; for CraigsList.&nbsp; But that&#039;s why you&#039;re paying over 10% (that&#039;s still CHEAP, for the size of the clientele and the broad reach).&nbsp; I do not recommend CraigsList for coins until you have plenty of good experience selling junk and dealing with proles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see desperation sellers on both CT and CraigsList, but that will change (growing numbers on CL) as economic conditions deteriorate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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