You Suck at Craigslist

Category: computers & tech

  • YSaC, Vol. 1755: Revenge of the Spinach Toothpaste

    eight lap tops cheap – $1

    i have five lap top computers for sale they are Dual cores and work great they just need hard drives and power cords asking $ 20.00 each or $ 15.00 each if you buy two or more $ 100.00 for all eight these are great to put Linux or windows on

    Time to fire up the catulator! (Which, don’t forget, you can get on a mousepad!)

    Eight laptops times five laptops times two cores minus no hard drives plus power cords modulo $20 each to the power $15 each in base eight is…

    *hits catulator*

    Oh dear – I get “Sprunkle.”

    Thanks for the post, Lace!

  • YSaC, Vol. 515: Wanna grow up to be a De Acer.

    I’m sure there are great deals to be found in the Computer section of Craigslist. These, however, are not two of them.

    Sony Vaio laptop,windows xp, wireless,dvd/cdrw,office – $275

    fabulous sony vaio laptop, with windows xp, wireless built in, dvd/cdrw, has office programs, antivirus
    works great , battery lasts close to 3 hours too !!!

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    Sony Vaio laptop, you say? Does Sony frequently advertise their products with their competitor’s name emblazoned across the screen? That wouldn’t happen to be a random screenshot you yoinked from a website, would it? No, of course not.

    Or how about this:

    HP 2Ghz Tower & Flat Panel System – $150

    2.0 Ghz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD read, CD read-write drives, matching keyboard and mouse, 15″ LCD flat panel monitor, Windows XP Pro.

    344a

    Michael sent this one in, saying, “Ok, I’m all for trying to make your posting look good, but… when the headline says “Flat Panel System” I expect a flat panel monitor. I don’t even see a flat SCREEN there. It’s not an LCD, it’s a CRT, with a curved surface. I’m not sure if I should flag it for false advertising.. but anyone who will see that picture and think “flat panel” deserves it, I suppose.

    Also, that’s not an HP. I don’t know what it is, but it’s not an HP. If it IS, it’s FAR older than a 2ghz model, more like 200mhz model. And for $150? I can go to walmart and buy a laptop with a dual core Athlon and 3gb of RAM, double the hard drive size, and an actual FLAT PANEL (it’s a laptop after all) for $250. Why…

    My head hurts. Remind me to never look for computer parts on Craigslist again :(”

    I’m going to have to trust Michael’s commentary here, since I’m a Mac girl myself. (Dan is a PC, which means we’re a mixed marriage. We’re raising the cat platform-independently. She can make her mind up by herself when she’s ready.)

  • YSaC, Vol. 452: No, really, that’s irritating. Stop it.

    possible crt monitor offer, or things

    “this monitor may have been bought in the second half of 2003, and may be an NEC Flat MultiSync 97F, maybe 19”, with a black case, or something like that
    it may be as though it was dropped more than once in the past, although it may have seemed to work fine afterwards, but it may not have the base, the thing that monitors rest on and swivel over
    there may have been a widening in the . maybe like seam in the case from how the monitor was originally made because of being dropped
    it may not be large, but one could notice it if one looked at it
    the structural integrity of the monitor has seemed to be fine since the last time it was dropped, it may be
    this may have been years ago
    the screen may ‘need’ to be cleaned, and there are some scratches on the plastic casing on the front of the monitor, and some maybe like small drop things of paint on the right side, it may be
    it may be as though it seemed to work fine the last time I used it
    may have been in the last month and a half or so
    it may be as though I would be willing to give this away, if someone wanted it, in a particular case
    I live not very far from downtown Pensacola, about 45 blocks from Palafox and Garden, it may be
    it may be as though I ‘could’ provide more information or provide pictures, possibly, if someone wanted
    it may be as though I would want to say something like pardon me if my way of writing will have caused undesirable things
    “, or other things

    It may be that you are not pardoned, as it may be that your pretension is annoying. I may have accidentally tripped and posted your ad on YSaC, and it may be that I’ve given you the tag trying too hard. See, because for all the may be‘s in there, the one thing you definitely did do is irritate me.

    I may wish to thank Amanda for this listing. Meanwhile, also in our linguistically irritating/trying too hard category:
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  • YSaC, Vol. 411: Next thing you know, people will be buying things in Second Life. Oh, wait.

    Twitter Account — 5,000 followers!!! – $200

    OVER 5000 followerers to tweet your messages to. Many people have a hundred or two.. you can get your blog, website, business, etc out to 5000 people at one time. OVER 5000 people!!! Yes your reading that right. I looked on Ebay and someone wants 100.00 for 300 followers. 200 is a great price for 5000 followers!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! 5000.You can use your business name (if still available) and any email you want… I take paypal only.. Or if your in the hudson valley, I’m in fishkill and I can take cash.

    Or you could, you know, open your own free Twitter account and get followers the old fashioned way.

    Here’s the thing that confuses me the most about this — let’s say you start a Twitter account and get 5,000 followers by tweeting things related to happy fluffy bunnies or something. (Everyone loves happy fluffy bunnies, right?) And then you decide, for whatever reason, to sell your happyfluffybunny Twitter account, and it gets bought by someone who, I don’t know, sells steampunk goggles made from old tuna fish cans.

    Suddenly happyfluffybunny is now tweeting about the merits of Chicken of the Sea cans vs. generic cans. Why would the happyfluffybunny people stick around for the SteampunkTuna tweets? Doesn’t anyone ever un-follow anyone on Twitter? I mean, the first time SteampunkTuna starts posting about poptop lids vs can opener lids, wouldn’t his followers drop from 5,000 to 37 immediately? There’s not much of an overlap in the Venn diagram of happyfluffybunny lovers and SteampunkTunaGoggle aficionados.

    Or maybe it’s just me.

    Speaking of Twitter, and me, you should really follow You Suck at Craigslist on Twitter! (See what I did there?) I post random hilarious things there including bonus short Craigslist ads and strange search engine results. (How did someone end up on YSaC by searching for “stewardess flatulence”? Never mind, I don’t want to know.)

    Thanks for the submission, Dani!