14 May
2013
14 May
'13
5:07 p.m.
On May 14, 2013, at 7:49 PM, mc68010 wrote:
The craiglist give a ways have dried up. Partially
because, like you mentioned, much has already been given away or scrapped. Also because
the number of people using CL has grown astronomically with many people trying to make a
buck off it. Anything with "Free" in the title has 15 responses before the
poster has had a chance to take a couple breaths. There is still stuff given away on Cl
but, it last seconds now. I gave away a pile of parts and broken junk a year ago on. I
had 27 replies within 15 minutes.
The Craigslist giveaways are still alive and well. The only problem is
that they're all things from the last 5-10 years, as they were with the
stuff we're interested in back when they were plentiful. If I wanted a
Pentium 4 system, I'd have no problem finding one for free. I have a
much harder time finding, say, an Apple Multisync monitor (two of which
I gave away on CL a year and a half ago and deeply regret today).
On the other hand, if you need to get rid of a couch, it's great. I
put ours up and got over 100 replies in a day... not ONE of which had
proper grammar, spelling and punctuation throughout. Still got the
couch out of the house for free, to someone who would use it.
- Dave