You Suck at Craigslist

Author: dan

  • YSaC, Vol. 1749: Turns out $200 is your price for flight.

    Yesterday’s poster was selling all sorts of wacky stuff. Today’s poster? Not so much:

    Motor – $200

    condition: like new
    Robin

    Well, $200 is a pretty good deal. And there’s really only two types of motors, right?

    It could only be either this:

    or this:

    And either one of those seems like a steal for $200. Of course, my grasp of engineering may be a little fuzzy, but it’s still better than Robin’s grasp of Craigslist.

    Thanks for the link, sd!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1748: Bricks are Heavy

    free crap!!

    Moving and have plenty of stuff we no longer need.
    Kitchen table….made of lovely wood like substance…has stains and scratches
    Eight toaster ovens
    Three foot tall green glass duck, head is broken off, currently has a smaller wooden duck mounted in its place
    Old potting soil
    Broken Microwave oven (Kenmore brand, very good quality, lasted many years before it died)
    Large pile of old clothes.
    Canned Goods…most expired.
    Diapers
    First aid kit
    At home std test kits (at least a dozen)
    Bricks
    Front seat from a honda (large cigarette burn)

    too many more items to list
    All items are in the middle of ### road, near ###. Im sure they wont last long

    OK folks – today’s homework assignment is to design a Rube Goldberg machine using all of these items. It should accomplish a very simple task in a needlessly complex way. But please hurry – either the potting soil or the duck is starting to smell funny.

    Thanks for the post, Matty!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1747: With apologies to Rob Van Winkle

    OLD ELECTRIC CLOTHES PRESSURE – $30

    VENTAGE ELECTRIC CLOTHES PRESSURE WOKS WELL 27″ wide 50 YRS OLD

    dun dun dun da da dun dun,
    da dun dun dun da da dun dun…

    Pressure,
    Pushing down on pants,
    Pushing down on shirts,
    no man has worn

    Under pressure,
    That gets your seams all flat
    takes your wrinkles out
    can leave scorch marks

    It’s the terror of knowing
    This machine has a mouth,
    The knobs look like eyes
    Screaming “Let Me Out!”

    Thanks for this scary appliance, Susan!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1745: I’ll take two!

    Now, normally we try to conceal where a post was made, in order to protect the stupid. However in this case, that would seem to involve removing half of the post:

    free (vancouver)

    Seriously. That’s the entire post. And there’s an obvious joke to be made: This person is giving away free Vancouvers! Wakka Wakka Wakka!

    Well, actually, it seems they ARE giving away free Vancouvers – since this wasn’t posted in Vancouver at all.

    Really. It was posted in an entirely different, non-Vancouver city. So… there you are. Vancouvers for everyone!

    Thanks for the post, Stephanie!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1743: Boweling for Dollars

    It’s amazing the things you can find on Craigslist:

    Avengrs Panic Table

    WOW*** BIG HORSE ***STAFFED ANIMAL ***

    fish bowels

    Heavy Solid Made in USA Copper Bowels

    Breaded Dragon

    Gardenza – $30

    Self repelled mower

    Leather ‘barker’ lounger

    Doeer electric corp. Wench – $1

    STUDIO W/ WALKING CLOSET

    Thanks, Melissa, sd, euleria, Lynette, Molly, Ginger, Ted, Cat, and Jessica!

  • YSaC, Vol. 1741: The Fast and the Spurious

    1998 Honda Civic Es Special eSport Editions – $1000

    1998 Honda Racing Civic fuel : gastransmission : manual title status : clean
    The car es in goo conditionss
    Its fast and furios looking
    Much JDM
    The car has proffesionals stickers
    And racing wings
    17 inche rines
    Cold air intakes

    The car is 5 speeds with R makes its 6 speeds
    It has the single cams no vtec much powers full

    When I was growing up, we had a 1979 Chevrolet Chevette hatchback. With black plastic upholstery. When it got hot out, it would melt anything you put near it in seconds. I wonder if that’s what this ad means by “goo conditionss?” Probably not, though, since it has cold air intakes. Then again, those probably wouldn’t work in summer when there’s no cold air.

    Also, I don’t think you’re normally allowed to count “reverse” towards the total number of speeds. Although the other possibility, that the car doesn’t go in reverse, but has a pirate gear, is intriguing.

    Thanks for the ad, MC – you’re 2 for 2!