One important thing to avoid when selling on Craigslist is reducing your price because there are other sellers selling the item for less. The person to whom I sold the TI-84 graphing calculator discussed in a previous post asked me to reduce my price to $50 (from my minimum of $75) because there were other sellers on Craigslist selling their calculators for as low as $40. I politely told him that my lowest price was $75 but he was welcome to try to contact the people selling their calculators for $40. If they didn't work out he could call me back, I said.
He called me back in less than an hour offering the full $75. Apparently the $40, $50, and $60 calculators were no longer available -- or, most likely, never available.
I am fairly certain that the absurdly good deals on Craigslist are almost always too good to be true. Judging by these posts' spelling and grammar (even worse than the average Craigslist user's), I am guessing that most of these posts are listed by scammers or spambots and their respective items never actually existed. Of the few real items that are priced extremely low, I am guessing they are stolen and/or sold immediately and the seller never took down the posting.
All I'm saying is that you shouldn't use Craigslist to price your items; it's too unreliable. Use Amazon instead.
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