Fron a post: "Because I still owe money on the car, I will need to receive payment for car, then pay off, then wait for title to arrive and do title transfer."
So, I will give you money to pay off your car, and you promise to send me the title when you get it? Oh sure, that doesn't worry me at all.
Insane like a fox 
BTW
They aren't called "craigslist people", they are called "useless pieces of crap".
I've been looking for a 2nd gen wrx lately and the Craigslist ads are making me weep for the future of this country
I know this isn't really the point of the thread, but if its a car you really want, you go with the seller to the title/lien holder, and transfer the money to them. They clear the lien, hand you the title, and all is hunkydorey.
In reply to Streetwiseguy:
That's what I did when I sold the redline......I even arranged for the title to be sent to a satellite branch we could both reach when open.
If you wanted to sell your car quickly wouldn't you put a phone number in the ad? I lost out on a nice utility trailer as I waited to get a response to my inquiry. Now I'm waiting on an Astro van owner to either call my phone or text me or email me. So much easier if I could just call the owner.
vwcorvette wrote: If you wanted to sell your car quickly wouldn't you put a phone number in the ad?
Given the kind of e-mail response I'd get from CL ads, putting a phone number in the ad would be crazy-stupid. I can easily filter e-mail, it's hard to filter an assault of derp coming into my phone at all hours of the day.
pinchvalve wrote: Fron a post: "Because I still owe money on the car, I will need to receive payment for car, then pay off, then wait for title to arrive and do title transfer." So, I will give you money to pay off your car, and you promise to send me the title when you get it? Oh sure, that doesn't worry me at all.
shrug I've done that on cars I've still owed money on. They get the car, a bill of sale and the title gets sent straight to them from the finance company (E-Loans RoadLoans division is not a local bank you can just go to a local branch and finish the transaction at).
I have a title that shows the lien holder, so I sign that off and they have paperwork in hand then that they do own the car. they just can't transfer it to their name until the signed off title comes from the lienholder. But it hasn't been a problem.
Knurled wrote:vwcorvette wrote: If you wanted to sell your car quickly wouldn't you put a phone number in the ad?Given the kind of e-mail response I'd get from CL ads, putting a phone number in the ad would be crazy-stupid. I can easily filter e-mail, it's hard to filter an assault of derp coming into my phone at all hours of the day.
I usually put it split up and spelled out, No bots and very few spammers, and those usually text the cell number anyhow. But hey, I'm just crazy-stupid, I guess.
Jesus, people it's not the friggin' hard to deal with. I've sold a lot of stuff on CL, bought a bit on CL, and used the free stuff category many times to get rid of things the same day.
I guess I'm just one of those "useless pieces of crap" that uses CL successfully.
From my experience, I'm about to stop giving my e-mail on CL, and only give my phone number. With the e-mail, all I get is stupid e-mails. And an e-mail has NEVER lead to a sale.
I'm trying to sell my Saabaru now, and the first e-mail I got about one hour after posting the ad was:
"VIN # PLZ"
That's all of it.
And I think that if you put all the information in your ad, there is no question to ask, so all you need is to get an appointment. And that's much easier to do by phone.
Jesus, people it's not the friggin' hard to deal with.
it all depends on who you're dealing with.
I listed some stuff for sale recently for the first time. it was frustrating (and depressing) to see the overwhelming majority of people are incapable of communicating in a remotely coherent manner. it was like pulling teeth to try and arrange transactions.
I don't want strangers coming to my house so would meet publicly close by to do deals. one time I was left waiting, no phone call, buyer would not answer my calls.
"derp" is an apt description of most of the emails I would receive. finally I just gave up.
previously I'd bought a lot of stuff and had great experiences, met nice people. I actually call people when I'm given a number & then show up when I say I will. after my attempts of selling I now understand why the people I bought from were happy to deal with me.
I have a separate gmail inbox just for my CL stuff. Not that I use CL that often, but when I do I try to make it less likely to spill over into my communications.
Along those lines, I HATE being asked for my phone number at grocery stores. 'We don't sell your number.' Yeah, SUUUURE ya don't. I was born at night but it wasn't last night. I even got asked for it at DangerZone to 'register your lifetime warranty'. Like hell you need that. The number's on the damn starter and I have the receipt, case closed.
I'm on the Do Not Call registry but I learned that doesn't stop a damn thing. Even with the precautions I take like that, I still get some spam texts which I dislike intensely.
when they insist on the # and I can't see any reason for their needing it, I make one up ... too bad for whom ever's it turns out to be 
( actually I usually use the main # at the VA ... no one ever answers that #
wbjones wrote: when they insist on the # and I can't see any reason for their needing it, I make one up ... too bad for whom ever's it turns out to be
I give them my ex boss's cell phone number.
pinchvalve wrote: So, I will give you money to pay off your car, and you promise to send me the title when you get it? Oh sure, that doesn't worry me at all.
Yeah, when I bought the Golf I'm driving now the doofus tried to pull that. The difference is, there wasn't a loan on the car, he was just an un-trusting E36M3-head
Chris_V wrote: I usually put it split up and spelled out, No bots and very few spammers, and those usually text the cell number anyhow. But hey, I'm just crazy-stupid, I guess.
It's not those I'm worried about, it's the actual people.
When you post a car for sale with the fact that it's an automatic right there in the headline and in the body of the ad, and people e-mail you asking if it's a stick, frankly they're not worth my time. Probably so dumb they don't wash their hands after taking a dump. I wouldn't want to touch their money.
Whenever I've sold something on CL, the response was so swift and plentiful that I could afford to quickly weed out the difficult ones. Because you know that someone with reading comprehension that poor is probably going to be difficult to work with.
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