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We are small fries that have a VERY good understanding of economics and want to address a concern. PAY ATTENTION. Craigslist is a melting pot for almost anything, locally, in any city in the world. Craigslist is void of most sought after items, nothing is listed in the barter section in direct contrast to multiple years prior, people are selling their personal home defense items for cash to pay bills, which is unheard of prior to this year. If you sell on craigslist, your phone hasn't rang all year and your email inbox is empty. If your item for sale is out of prime season by one day, it won't sell and nor get a single phone call on it (zero future planning on buyers part) regardless of price. If you are looking to buy an item, it is priced at full or above retail, as people are desperate and cannot afford to take less, and will continue to use that item until its done. If you attempt to sell the previous item, no calls or only beyond low offers received. Even the wholesale bulk buyers have dried up??? Items that are novelties or are recreational toys, forget it, they sit and rot. This has never happened before since the start of CL, even during the housing bubble bust. I ask you to pay attention and see for yourself that things aren't going anywhere in an average or good direction.....
let's not forget the piles of un-used concert tickets and sporting event tickets that are available online sites like facebook and CL that people cant seem to give away.... Diesel is insanely high priced, gas hasn't gone down. If they lowered fuel prices to around $1/gal, it would NOT boost the economy.
The economy is booming, Ameritards are going back into massive debt mode and bubbles are being inflated.....what more can anyone ask for???????????????????????????????
THEY can keep this thing going for a LOT longer.........at a minimum it will continue until Hillary gets into office.
An alternative theory is THEY let thing fall apart after the November elections, when the evuuuul Pubbies are going to gain more power........that way the DumDumocrats can blame the fall on the evuuuul Pubbies, ushering the era of HilHil.
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We are small fries that have a VERY good understanding of economics and want to address a concern. PAY ATTENTION. Craigslist is a melting pot for almost anything, locally, in any city in the world. Craigslist is void of most sought after items, nothing is listed in the barter section in direct contrast to multiple years prior, people are selling their personal home defense items for cash to pay bills, which is unheard of prior to this year. If you sell on craigslist, your phone hasn't rang all year and your email inbox is empty. If your item for sale is out of prime season by one day, it won't sell and nor get a single phone call on it (zero future planning on buyers part) regardless of price. If you are looking to buy an item, it is priced at full or above retail, as people are desperate and cannot afford to take less, and will continue to use that item until its done. If you attempt to sell the previous item, no calls or only beyond low offers received. Even the wholesale bulk buyers have dried up??? Items that are novelties or are recreational toys, forget it, they sit and rot. This has never happened before since the start of CL, even during the housing bubble bust. I ask you to pay attention and see for yourself that things aren't going anywhere in an average or good direction.....
What? I have been scanning Craigslist for some fairly high priced items and when I contact the sellers they are always gone. Craigslist, like jobs/unemployment, housing prices and lots more depend on where you are. Your experience is not indicative of what's going on in the rest of the country.
Seattle has many big yellow construction cranes, with over 100 major new construction projects underway with a total value of $2.8 Billion.
When I filled up the other day for $3.15/gallon I almost fell over at how far it has dropped, that definitely helps the economy. We're planning several day or weekend road trips in the next few weeks to take advantage of the low prices and car commuters can spend that savings on other things.
We just got a notice from the county that the assessed value of our home has gone up by over $100,000. Their assessed value is now higher than the full market value was before the recession in 2008.
We bought a new 2014 car and the dealer only had one with the color/features we wanted because they are selling so many. In nearby Bellevue, WA a luxury car dealership bought an entire block for expansion.
I think it has more to do with the fact that people are giving up on craigslist. It was cool at first before all the crazies and scammers heard of it. Now you cant even post an ad without being spammed by an African con artist or lowballed by some junker whos trying to make an income off of you.
What? I have been scanning Craigslist for some fairly high priced items and when I contact the sellers they are always gone. Craigslist, like jobs/unemployment, housing prices and lots more depend on where you are. Your experience is not indicative of what's going on in the rest of the country.
Seattle has many big yellow construction cranes, with over 100 major new construction projects underway with a total value of $2.8 Billion.
We bought a new 2014 car and the dealer only had one with the color/features we wanted because they are selling so many. In nearby Bellevue, WA a luxury car dealership bought an entire block for expansion.
As a couple guys point out in the Seattle forum, we're probably living in an economic cocoon here. There are various other parts of the U.S. in such a renaissance; a peer of mine hired week after me moved with her husband from Cambridge, MA: their housing market is not terribly different from Seattle's, she's losing not a nickel getting out of that and into the heated-up Seattle market.
I buy seldom, and sell rarely, on CL. Never had a problem on either end, assuming that when selling I price fairly or aggressively. Of course there are halfwits and low-ballers, but somewhere in there is usually a reasonable offer. "Can't afford to sell" something doesn't make any sense, to OP's point. 99% of what I sell is at $.50 or less on the dollar, exception being a high-end handgun that I sold at-par seven years after I bought it used as-well (not sold on CL btw). A relatively few types of items either accidentally or by-design don't lose much value. My Toyota Tacoma is demonstrably worth 60% of new, with 100K miles, because certain vehicles (Tacomas, FJ Cruisers) simply have excellent resale and the used truck market might be hot nationally...probably because they're crazy-money new.
The rest of it, who cares? Cash on the barrelhead is way more than I had when it was cluttering up the closet.
Dont post phone on cl.. take emails only.... scammers like to text best not to give them your number... Id rather buy from CL than pay $2500 extra to get from a car dealer. Just gotta watched out for overpriced salvaged garbage.
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