What contact info do you provide to CList?

This 1953 Caddy came up 8 or 10 days ago for $1300. When my wife noticed the clean garage, shiny cars, happy motorcycles and me sitting in the back yard talking to a chipmunk; she suggested I need a project.

The only contact information is an email, been banging one out every day with no response. My friend Ron won't post his phone number, I don't mind and do.

Write this Caddy off and move on? I thought it would make a nice Carrera Panamericana tribute car/daily driver. Believe it could be done for under $2k.

I only provide an email at first. Then once I screen out the 80% of responders who are bots or spammers or time wasters, then I exchange phone numbers with people who are serious.

I like that Caddy. Good luck. Perhaps all your emails are in someone's junk mail folder and it may pay off being persistent.

A fresh, unmolested gmail address for that purpose if it's a car or something big - then usually abandoned afterward. Or, in the case of a bunch of little things like a garage cleanout, reused only for posting on the internet and finally abandoned when the spam to hit ratio exceeds 10:1.

I never give out a phone number until after a real human sends an email.

I also never meet anyone at my house or give out the address. I guess in the case of acar it's on the title but... I try to avoid the scenario where a stranger gets to say "You got a lotta cool stuff in your garage" so I get to keep it there.

I provide an email address I use specifically for CL, and a google phone number that I use for texts. I'd never give up my real cell number until I'm certain it's not a scammer.

I have a craigslist email account,and the problem is remembering to check it all the time when I'm selling things.

I run it through my usual Gmail account. Your car is probably gone and the seller is too lazy to take the listing down.

I just use my normal yahoo account and my cell #. Most buyers these days prefer text messaging and I have very few issues with spamming.

I have a special email address and I use my regular phone number. When I sold a car a couple years ago via CL, I tried to use a Google phone number with forwarding to my real number, and it got confusing fast.

T.J. wrote: I only provide an email at first. Then once I screen out the 80% of responders who are bots or spammers or time wasters, then I exchange phone numbers with people who are serious.

This.

I still get most of my responses in my spam folder and your seller might be too. I'm sure I've missed out on cars -some I really wanted- due to people not checking their spam folders. (At least that's what I tell myself).

Well, after 9 days the seller finally emailed me asking to call her at (111) 000-1245.

Done.

She bought the white '53 as a project but her head was turned by a satin black number with a ruby red metal flake roof. Now she is undecided if she should keep the white one for parts or use the $1300 toward the new black '53 Caddy. I suggested that if the satin black car is that nice, she would never need parts off the skanky white one; but I've been shot down by women before.

Having dinner with her car guy husband to discuss it tonight, she'll let me know tomorrow.

Her every day car is a chopped channeled 1929 Model A with a 302, the other car is a '49 shoebox and if you look around in the background......

Caddy Lady decided not to sell the car. Sucks.