19 Oct
2012
19 Oct
'12
5:43 p.m.
On 10/19/2012 12:11 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
Seems like an unlikely item to turn up on craigslist
just when you
happen to need one. Did you find it locally or were you searching
locations everywhere? -Glen
Glen,
Yes, indeed an unlikely item. I envisioned waiting months and/or years
before an affordable one came around.
I actually just googled the part numbers and I saw a craigslist post
from September that was of course expired. I said,
"darn, so close."
Then I figured that it might be a hard time to sell
these items, so I
navigated to the city page and searched. Voila. Same guy reposted the offer.
Emailed him, exchanged info, did some quick background checks to make
sure the name/address/phone number/email/paypal matched, made sense,
etc. And then pre-paid via paypal. Of course I was paranoid with using CL.
The craiglist was not from my city.... it wasn't local, but instead a
few states away. I'm not sure the city mattered.......the fact that it
was in the US, reachable by relatively cheap mail services, etc.....
I never really considered CL a valuable source for this type of
stuff.....maybe I was wrong. I was definitely wrong this time.
And lucky.
Thanks
Keith