individuals share the absolute most experiences that are horrifying’ve had whenever Craigslist deals went incorrect.

“Bought a Keurig on Craiglist. We tried it for 2 times, started observing coffee grounds in my glass. Ignored it. Saw a cockroach in my own home, and discovered out it had been from the Keurig. Took a flashlight into the inside, and it also ended up being infested by having a nest of cockroaches. It absolutely wasn’t coffee grounds in my own glass. I really couldn’t contact the individual I experienced gotten it from because We just had their Craiglist email with no real contact information.

I finished up throwing it in a trash bag doused with bug killer, sealed it shut, and tossed it when you look at the dumpster.”

“we got GTA V for the PS3, however got a PS4 about fourteen days later on since I have got astonished by an additional large paycheck and had cash to blow. Thus I chose to sell my PS3 copy for $40. Right I legit got a text not even ten minutes later from a guy that wanted to meet in half an hour to pick it up as I put the listing up. I becamen’t busy, and so I made a decision to get it done. The man ended up being about a decade over the age of me personally, extremely skinny (to your true point of ribs practically showing through his top), along with a tick. Anyhow, we result in the deal and genuinely believe that’s the final end from it. Nope. On my drive home, he texted me personally wanting me personally in the future up to their spot and play it with him. We politely decrease. Then he continues on to text me personally a novel about his life story and his time serving in Afghanistan and his PTSD and despair. We felt bad I meet on Craigslist for him but still didn’t want to go hang out with a stranger. Then he begins asking me personally whenever I’d be liberated to spend time and attempts to make plans. We explain politely that i am certainly not trying to it’s the perfect time through Craigslist or such a thing. He attempts calling me personally. We turn fully off my phone and get to sleep. We transform it straight right right back on each morning and I also’ve got twenty-something missed calls and over sixty texting from him, getting a lot more aggravated, violent, and threatening because they went along.

We installed an application to block their quantity and therefore solved it, but also for a good week or two I happened to be scared of accidentally operating into him once again.”

“a friend that is dear of who has got since passed on employed a gardener through Craigslist. The gardener robbed him whenever my buddy went along to a various state for the wedding and kidnapped my buddy’s roommate. The gardener had been extremely devious and told the roommate that their mother ended up being deathly ill and that my buddy purchased their mother A television (it absolutely was nevertheless in a package). The roomie had been foolish and aided him pack it and drive the gardener, within my buddy’s automobile, to your mother’s destination. The roomie had been too dumb to ensure the tale with my friend who had been during the wedding, but my pal had been good so that it don’t raise any suspicions. The gardener ended up being one particular criminals that are smooth-talking so that the roomie thought their sob tale. If they reached the mom’s put it had been late, so they let the roomie rest the evening. If the roomie woke up, the gardener had been gone. Their two brothers forcefully kept him inside your home all so that he couldn’t call the cops day. They blindfolded him and allow him away from car in the center of nowhere. Then he discovered a pay phone and called my pal who was simply currently house by that point.