Thread: CL Deals in the Great Deals thread or Not?

Quote: Originally Posted by Verne Andru I'm going to have to call melodrama on this one. You're generally a valuable poster and your contributions would be missed. Just curb the random chatter and avoid CL that don't specifically say they'll ship and I'm sure nobody will have a problem. Certainly I won't. This should not be about personalities. Let's back away from that. But you know - I think I've said...

Quote: Originally Posted by Woody_in_MN You are right - both Golias and I post a lot of deals from CL from Mpls/St Paul. I thought I was helping people. I don't get paid to do this. But if the majority think this is a waste of time, I'll stop doing it. Actaully the way I'm feeling right now I'm so turned off by this contraversy, I may stop posting there at all. Its not worth the criticism. Not worth the aggravation. - w...

ok, according to the poll results, looks like we are creating a new monthly non-sticky CL Thread, and leaving all CL posts out of the Deals thread.

Quote: Originally Posted by Verne Andru It's an ongoing issue - people just don't understand that if it isn't a "great deal" it doesn't belong. Chatter and CL ads belong in other threads IMO. For a person like myself who doesn't know the price of every single piece of gear on the market, I'll check the price of something when I find what I consider a good deal before posting but that...

I would NEVER pay money to some random CL lister hoping he'll ship it to me. that's a HUGE risk! and since I've never once seen a CL great deals post here that was in my area (and most people probably haven't) it's useless. the deals thread should be for VETTED, REPUTABLE dealers, ala slickdeals or fatwallet. you don't see CL posts on those because -- well, that'd be garbage. and they know it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Verne Andru You just waste a lot of my time. I feel like 'a lot' could be relative here.

I think Marko asked a great question- Who is checking this thread that isn't also constantly checking their local CraigsList? So you're not really helping anyone local. Chances are the seller isn't going to ship since he/she is already getting e-mails about the item from people who will drive up and hand them cash. And in many cases the seller is going to go " Holy shit, I'm getting e-mails from North Dakota to...

Quote: Originally Posted by twotimingpete I would NEVER pay money to some random CL lister hoping he'll ship it to me. that's a HUGE risk! and since I've never once seen a CL great deals post here that was in my area (and most people probably haven't) it's useless. the deals thread should be for VETTED, REPUTABLE dealers, ala slickdeals or fatwallet. you don't see CL posts on those because -- well, that'd be...

WTF is lamp?

Also with the CL posts being in a separate thread should cut down on the "This is spam and does not belong here" type threads and then the ensuing 3-4 posts defending the reasoning why it isn't SPAM posts which further clog up the Good Deals thread.