Stupidity at its greatest
 

I was selling a canoe for my uncle on craigslist. He won it at a raffle and never used it. We were selling it for $700.Last night a guy called me and asked if it was still for sale and I said that it was, he said he wanted to stop by and take a look and maybe buy it. Today after work I pulled the canoe of of the attic in our shed and polished it up. He asked for directions since he mixed them up and got lost. I gave him directions and waited until he came. He finally got there almost 30min late and shook my hand. He said that he would take the canoe for a dollar. I thought to my self what is he talking about and I said that I was asking for $700 and he said it said $1 on the ad and I told him that if he would've read closer he would have seen that I was asking $700 and he said thanks and left. It was a $1000 canoe! why in the world why I sell it for a dollar. some people just amaze me.

WOW!! It is amazing what kind of stunts people will try :Choke:

That's a good one!:biggrin2:

All I can say, is wow...lol!

I have seen a lot of Craig's List Ads, where in the title of the Ad, it clearly states $1.00, but once you click on it and open the Ad up, there is a different price. I never understood the logic behind that tactic.

I've noticed the same thing myself a number of times, don't know what that's about and don't understand it.

When posting an ad on craigslist, if you do not enter a value in the price box, the system will automatically populate $1 in the price box...

allot of people put $1 in the price box because people will read the title, see $1 and it encourages people to open and read the ad.

You hit the nail on the head!

In my world, I call that "Deceptive Advertising". :angry: