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After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - chopper - 05-12-2008
Tried to sell my problematic Intel Mac Mini this AM on eBay. The listing wizard kept bouncing me to add a Paypal e-mail address even though I only accept USPS Money Orders. After bouncing through the screens for a while I noticed this:
"eBay and PayPal are making buying on eBay safer. All sellers are now required to offer PayPal or a merchant credit card as a payment method in their listings."
Okay. I'll risk things on Craigslist now.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - mattkime - 05-12-2008
wow
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - olnacl - 05-12-2008
I put a Panasonic Showstopper 27" combination TV/video recorder on CL last Saturday and sold it the same day. I prefer CL especially with all the fraud that's going on with eBay. I have several items I want to sell that need a wider audience than local though, so I suppose I'll have to use eBay when I get around to them.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - PeterB - 05-12-2008
Remember though that ebay has bought a substantial stake in Craigslist -- just a matter of time before CL starts charging fees. In fact, they've already put a fee setup in place for placing listings.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - IronMac - 05-12-2008
That was almost four years ago, though.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - chipste® - 05-12-2008
I am looking for a musical instrument. Each time I search CL it only searches a particular area. Any way to search all of CL?
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - PizzaGod - 05-12-2008
I gave up on eBay years ago. Yeah, I have to dig a little deeper sometimes, and don't get the quick response when I'm selling something that isn't a great bargain, but the freedom from PayPunk and the arbitrary rules more than make up for it.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - D-Rod - 05-12-2008
[quote chipste®]I am looking for a musical instrument. Each time I search CL it only searches a particular area. Any way to search all of CL?
Yes, but as far as I know you have to use firefox. So, open or get and open Firefox and aim your browser to:
http://www.crazedlist.org/
It lets you chose where you want to search. Remember also to search with close spellings. When I was looking for a Goldwing motorcycle I searched for Goldwing (one word) and Gold Wing (two words).
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - olnacl - 05-12-2008
What about using Amazon to resell things that they may still have a product page for? Is that a good way to move things at a fair price? I have a couple high(er) end HDD/DVD video recorders that I'd like to sell before the digital revolution starts in February.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - PeterB - 05-12-2008
[quote IronMac]That was almost four years ago, though.
Yes, but will not be long before they've bought majority stake.