Craigslist

[tada]

Anybody recognise these phone numbers.  I don't know the numbers but knew a real estate agent like that 5 years ago.


https://honolulu.craigslist.org/big/tro/...21352.html

[terracore]

We do some business on craigslist, but it is the online forum of last resort. It's easier to vet people on FB groups. I bought a couple cars off of FB, had to pass some offers up due to the red lights going off that couldn't be resolved, a few others resulted in purchases after the seller was able to correct a few things, like acknowledging the year the car was actually sold when new and getting the title transferred into their name.

Had a deal that was "almost too good to be true" but the title was fishy. "Somebody else was going to look at the car in 20 minutes" and it was furlough Friday, the one day a month we couldn't go to the DMV and get the title issue resolved. Uh... no thanks. Smelled like cigarettes anyway. But the year thing... I finally figured out that some people list the vehicle's year as the year THEY bought it. Not the year it was first bought as a new car. SMH.

Caveat emptor.

Selling on FB is no joy either. No matter what size font you use and how many times you repeat a sentence there are always people who pretend they can't read. NO TRADES. CASH ONLY. PICKUP ONLY. NO INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS.

[tada]

I'm not on Facebook. So my only alternative is CL which I look at daily. Have to match your Paranoido with their Paranoido. I called one one guy and ask where can I see this item. He shot back "Where do you live?" That's when you know not to call him again.

[terracore]

I'm not a fan of FB either but it's worth getting a dummy account so you can check out the local groups. A lot of people won't touch CL. And its easy to ban the crazies so you never see their posts again.

[tada]

I don't answer my landline anymore. Too many mystery calls. Frustrating expecially since I don't have caller ID. Mostly they hangup but had one recorded offer for zero % rates. Don't know if cause& effect with CL. Bought my dream 1990s era bicycle frame on it 3 months ago!

[terracore]

We haven't had a land line in at least 15 years. The last time we had one was because it was a requirement to get DSL internet, and we didn't actually have a phone plugged into it, so it was a landline to nowhere.

Nowadays the "land line" uses the same fiber as our internet, so if the internet is down we would have no land line anyway.

Our cell signal is generally good to make calls, but just weak enough that often times people calling go straight to voicemail. With Verizon and an iphone it has an option to use our wifi to make/receive calls and use cellular as backup, and it solved that problem. With our android phone we have a free "google voice" number to call out on wifi and have an old android phone that doesn't even have cell service on it. The only odd part about using it is warning the elderly parents that when we call it will show an Ohio area code. It's a good backup option, not having a landline, to use an old wifi-only cellphone as a communication backup in case one loses or breaks their cell phone. One can also forward their cell numbers to it so they don't miss calls going to a number with a disabled/missing phone. And it costs nothing.

Also, any cell phone, regardless of whether one has activated it to an account or cell phone number, can call 911 if it can reach a tower.

[tada]

I get emails for "Shopper survey" ?

https://takeonme.ru/fly/w17a

Anybody with good experience ordering so called free krap as a reward?
I was fool enough to give my debit card info and ended up filing with American Savings for unauthorized withdrawals but had no recourse for debit card so had to replace it. So is that a legit survey?

[eightfingers2.0]

Scam! Why would a survey need any kind of payment?

[tada]

Thanks. I needed that! But who are those suckas??

Actually I was trying to link the original first page which was a Home depot shopper survey but reverts to the gift page after the survey so watch for emails offering any big box shopper survey be careful.

[leilanidude]

You must not know what the ".ru" in that link means. Russia... I advise you to run a good anti-malware like MalwareBytes on your computer, immediately.

I hope no one has tried to follow your link.