craig's list

I've been driving a 2000 wagon for several years. It has over 165,000 miles on it and by the time we replaced it, it had some issues. Actually that is kind of an understatement. We thought we had it sold to a lady in the neighborhood. By the time she got around to paying for it, the car didn't run anymore... oops. She changed her mind.

So I put the wag on Craig's List. Wow. I had 12 e-mails in one night. I sent them on to Justin and he fielded calls and arranged for people to check it out. When I got home from work, not even 24-hours after posting, we had a string of people on our front lawn. The first was sure it was the engine. He said he'd take a chance and offered us half what we where asking. I was tempted, but with the response we had gotten, we had to give it a little more time. The next guy had never paid a car payment. He just kept breathing life back into cars like ours. Very Green. He didn't know what was wrong and wanted to tow it to a shop near by. He said, take the money if someone hands it to you. I'll be back tomorrow. We said that would be fine. Before the night was over, we had two more guys looking at the wag. Crawling under it. Poking around. These two thought it was the fuel pump. They said they'd be back later that night. They didn't show up until guy #2 was about to show up to tow it. They had their laptop out and were dead set on figuring it out. They got kind of mad when the wag headed down the street. I really thought there might be a fight on the lawn over our old wag.

I am happy to report it was a minor electrical issue and we got our full asking price. Thanks Craig. Your list rocks.