Boy do I hate CL. It seems like a necessary evil...I know of no other outlet for trading instruments on a local level. Last night I had a trade for a Seafoam Green, Signature Jeff Beck Strat lined up. I was offering up my LP Premium Plus....fair deal I think. After days of trading photos and information, last night we had a place lined up to meet and make the exchange. An hour before we meet, he text's me to say, "Hang on a bit, I need more time to rethink this." Not to be heard from again. I can't tell you how many times I have had sales and trades lined up on CL, with various instruments, over the years....and this same type of stuff always goes on.

The other thing that just chaps me is the low balling. "I'll give you $300 for that LP Premium Plus." Then there are all the guys trying to sell their used instruments for over "new" retail value. What a whooping that place is.

Every item I've ever listed on CL has sold without a hitch.
 
Alesis Surge cymbals
Berhinger Bass Module
Berhinger 8 channel preamp
 

My bass boat was the smoothest sale I ever made on CL.  I had a dozen phone numbers lined up of people that wanted to buy it.  The first guy shows up and wants to negotiate on the price once he is at my house.  I showed him the list of phone numbers.  He quickly turned over the cash.  Afterwards, I thought to myself....I might have let that boat go too low. 

How many strings did that boat have?

14lb....mostly. Some wound up in the Minnkota.

I've sold literally over a hundred items on MyList () with very few weird things happening.  I've also gotten good at upselling other things I want to get rid of (many that I haven't gotten around to even putting up for sale yet) once the person stops by.
 
Now eBay is another story.  I've stopped selling there after the last thing I sold COST ME $6 to get rid of!  Between the eBay and PayPal fees (both of which are calculated on the GROSS sale so I'm being waxed on shipping money I don't get to keep), as well as the extremely high (and incorrectly calculated) shipping costs, it's just not worth it.

I don't know how he finds the time to do all this, what with helping out at the forums, his work with Gibson, traveling around everywhere giving seminars/lectures, trade shows, writing articles for magazines, finding time to do his own music would be hard enough, let alone setting something like this up to help everyone sell their gear, the man is a machine !!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
or have I missed something here ?

My wife has successfully sold on CL with good results. My one attempt still riles me. Not really CL fault. Just an ignorant buyer. Was selling an outdoor Christmas nativity display (handmade, 8 piece set). Guy called and was interested (a local sale). Wanted to come the following day to check it out. My only request was to please let me know if he couldn't make it. "Sure. No problem". Next day about an hour before the appointed time, I carry these rather large pieces (piece sizes ranging from child-height to as tall as an adult) up from the basement storage. And then wait. Well after about an hour beyond the appointed time I gave up and dragged them back down to storage. Just a quick courtesy phone call was all I asked for. Gosh darn xxxxx.

jih64
I don't know how he finds the time to do all this, what with helping out at the forums, his work with Gibson, traveling around everywhere giving seminars/lectures, trade shows, writing articles for magazines, finding time to do his own music would be hard enough, let alone setting something like this up to help everyone sell their gear, the man is a machine !!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
or have I missed something here ?

You get a gold star for creative use of white-space. Well done, you.

That's the sheet music to John Cage's 4'33".