[Milsurplus] Saw this on Amateur Radio Facebook page

[Ray Fantini]

My comments were more in regards to that listing and only generally about the state of Craig's list. Perhaps I was a bit too heavy handed in the first couple lines.
Weasel words are great ways of describing my opinion of that one add, or at least my interruptions of that add. Don't want it to appear that I am discounting Craig's list completely, but it's not for me. Something like the way I feel about Walmart, hate the company and what they do to people and the community but still end up shopping there.
Anyone who wants can post any relevant topic in this venue; I am not in any position to tell anyone who is on the list what to post. My point is that this particular listing is taking on a life of its own, appearing in other reflectors and web groups. Reminds me of often occurring stories of other Craig's list deals that appear almost everywhere and when you go looking for it they often turn out to be nothing, and how often are we presented with these urban legends of "complete Collins station for $20" or "extremely rare radio " statements that spread like wildfire?
  
Ray F

-----Original Message-----
From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Cromwell
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 2:01 PM
To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Saw this on Amateur Radio Facebook page

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 po
 st
>   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.
>
>
> Ray F