{"id":1588,"date":"2009-04-12T08:36:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T11:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2009-04-27T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T02:31:58","slug":"vol-269-why-cant-i-sell-my-car-parts-a-and-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"YSaC, Vol. 269: Why can&#8217;t I sell my car? (Parts A and B) &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta work for this one a little bit, like the covergirl you are &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>89 honda civix  &#8211; $1000<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>good running car call 682-53-xxxx<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nOkay, the x is right next to the c on the keyboard. That&#8217;s a small mistake. There were, as far as I can tell from the Kelley Blue Book, eleven models of Civics manufactured in 1989 (and no models of Civix), so the lack of detail about which one is for sale here is somewhat of a problem. Not to mention that there&#8217;s no mention of trim packages, transmission, air conditioning, mileage, accident history, etc. Again, somewhat of an impediment to selling the car.<\/p>\n<p>But the biggest problem is that this person appears to have posted his social security number instead of his phone number. I re-checked the ad a couple of days later, and it was still like that. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>[Yes, I&#8217;m aware they probably just missed a digit of the phone number. It still doesn&#8217;t help people who want to call about the car, does it? I can type those nine numbers into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=1332\">Team Mobile<\/a> phone all I want to, but it&#8217;s not going to accomplish anything other than irritating Catherine Zeta-Jones. On second thought, that might be worth it.]<\/p>\n<p>Even when people DO post the right details, there can still be problems:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>2003 Pontiac Grand Am SE1 V6 Sedan  &#8211; $4500<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>$4,500<\/p>\n<p>97,500 Miles<\/p>\n<p>Body Style Sedan<\/p>\n<p>Exterior Color Gold<\/p>\n<p>Interior Color Beige<\/p>\n<p>Engine 6 Cylinder Gasoline<\/p>\n<p>Transmission Automatic with Overdrive<\/p>\n<p>VIN #: 1G2NF52E13M516072<\/p>\n<p>Trying to sell my 2003 Pontiac Grand Am. Well kept and in good condition. Always garaged, Highway miles, New tires, No accidents, Non-smoker, Runs &amp; drives great, Very clean interior, Well maintained,<br \/>\npleas give me a call if you have ani questions. my cell xxx-xxx-xxxx<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1590\" title=\"269a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/269a.jpg\" alt=\"269a\" width=\"308\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/269a.jpg 308w, https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/269a-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\nBesides the obvious problems &#8212; i.e., that&#8217;s not a Grand Am in the picture, it&#8217;s not gold, and <em>the car has been bisected to allow it to carry a motorcycle<\/em> (in the rain!) &#8212; there&#8217;s also the fact that this was posted in <em>Furniture<\/em>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You gotta work for this one a little bit, like the covergirl you are &#8230; 89 honda civix &#8211; $1000 good running car call 682-53-xxxx Okay, the x is right next to the c on the keyboard. That&#8217;s a small mistake. There were, as far as I can tell from the Kelley Blue Book, eleven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,16],"tags":[29,7,11],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-trucks","category-furniture","tag-fun-with-pictures","tag-speeling-prolbems","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}