[Milsurplus] Saw this on Amateur Radio Facebook page

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi Ray,

There is a lot of (being polite) baloney on craigslist. Once upon a time 
we harvested our cereals by threshing and then tossing the mess into the 
air. The wind blew away the chaff and left us with the grain. We got 
fat, went forth, multiplied. On craigslist, eBay, television ads for 
lawyers and drugs, watch for the weasel words. Those will blow away the 
chaff. I have found some great bargains on craigslist but none of them 
had any weasel words. None of them were radios either, but a couple of 
them for radios I thought were pretty reasonable. Just I am not in the 
market.

I have purchased two accordions from the list and a couple of bicycles. 
I declined to buy many, many more times even without weasel words. Pay 
close attention.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 04/27/2015 11:03 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
> Don't know about anyone else and don't intend to be telling anyone what to do but for myself am tired of all this Craig's list junk. Don't get me wrong, if you want to spend time chasing after the listing on that place don't let me discourage you. But for myself have found Craig's List to be an almost complete waste of time. Too many idiots who have no idea what they are selling, too many who somehow believe that they have found some pot of gold when most of the time its stuff that's worth almost nothing and way too many con artist. At least with EBay you have a profile of the seller and some sort of mechanism for recourse. But this latest thread appears to be Craig's list at its best, the statement that this stuff is worth at least five thousand dollars but if someone won't pay that they will just bulldoze it with the house? If it were worth five hundred don't you think someone would be pulling it out before?  Although I have no evidence of the fact have to look at this post
>   ing and think that Joel is just another Craig's list hack. But that's just me and as anyone who knows me can tell you I am often wrong.
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