MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: You suck at Craigslist

> How is it that people with the cognitive ability of a toadstool are somehow able to
> successfully post on Craigslist? We've been buying a ton of stuff for the kiddos
> there, because baby stuff is stupid expensive and the stuff people are selling off
> is, for the most part, barely used. Up until now, my experiences have been all good.
>
> Today I was supposed to pick up a rocking chair. It's 30 minutes away, and I have to
> go in the middle of a work day because the guy works nights. OK, fine. He sends his
> address, 2 Pleasant St. Apt. 1. It looks a little sketchy on Google Maps, because 2
> Pleasant St. appears to be the lot for a gas station, but whatever, Google Maps has
> been wrong before. So I go there, and sure enough 2 Pleasant St. basically doesn't
> exist. I call the number he gave (after searching far and wide for a pay phone,
> because I don't have a cell and forgot to grab my wife's) and it just goes to
> voicemail. On a hunch, I go back and look at *12* Pleasant St., and sure enough,
> there's his name on Apt. 1's mailbox. I ring the bell, ready to give him a little
> grief for not knowing his own address, and... no one is home.

>
> So I wasted 90 minutes of my lunch break which is only supposed to be an hour, I
> managed to get past his inability to communicate a simple street address, and the
> jerk still can't even be arsed to be home. He'd have to pay me to take his fucking
> chair at this point.

I've had it to the point where I get emails saying just stop by...without ever having given me an address. I generally bite my tongue, as the lack of intelegence is usually inversely proportional to the deal you get