Date:         Sat, 10 May 2008 15:39:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: false ads on Craigslist?
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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I think you must be right. Why else run them. There are also a lot of
ads from someone wanting to buy old VWs and it could be the same person
setting low expectations to make money reselling.

Mark

Jim Felder wrote:
> I'm thinking that people are running these ads in order to print it out and
> show the owner of some car they want to buy how little the thing is worth...
> "look, I know you're asking 2500, but these things are all over the place on
> craigslist for $1100 or so. I'll give you $1200, how's that?"
> Running lowball ads to validate falsely low price is the only reason I can
> think of.
>
> Jim
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>> Mark Drillock
>> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 1:21 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: false ads on Craigslist?
>>
>> It seems to me that every week I see ads for VWs that don't add up. Lots
>> of Vanagons and buses show up with what seem too good to be true prices
>> and descriptions. No phone numbers and never any response to my
>> inquiries. Anywhere else this seems to be happening besides SoCal? I
>> wonder what the purpose is of such ads are?
>>
>> example:
>>
>> http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/car/674983739.html
>>
>> Maybe it is a real ad but the photos are not the year van listed and the
>> price is way low for the van in them.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>