Adventures in Craigslist Auto Sales

Kinja'd!!! "That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5)
07/22/2015 at 10:45 • Filed to: None

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I’ve successfully sold a vehicle on Craigslist without being murdered. Here’s how!

Step 1: Meet your customer right outside the police department’s parking garage.

Step 2: Have a job that requires you to wear a police radio and turn that sucker on so they can hear it.

Step 3: Proceed as you usually would.

So what actually happened is that I had the kid who wanted the Civic to meet me before work. We met outside said garage, and we went for a ride in the car. After we agreed upon a price, we came back to the garage so I could empty the contents of my car into my work vehicle.

The part I wasn’t quite prepared for was that they didn’t bring plates, so they wanted me to follow them home, pull the plates, and he would give me a ride back. Normally I’d have an issue with that, but I had the radio on, so whatever.

Deal went about as smoothly as you could hope for, honestly. They paid cash, drove me back here, even gave me a bottle of water. So now the Civic is officially gone and I’m making plans to go get the ‘08 P71 I wrote about last night on Saturday morning. I'm extremely excited...buying cars is pretty much my favorite thing to do, and I like this car a lot. Look for an Opposite Lock review sometime in the coming weeks.


DISCUSSION (5)


Kinja'd!!! My citroen won't start > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
07/22/2015 at 10:51

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Ah the old polonium-210 in the water bottle trick.


Kinja'd!!! EL_ULY > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
07/22/2015 at 10:53

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cool, congrats!!


Kinja'd!!! That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > EL_ULY
07/22/2015 at 10:58

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Thanks! I'm really proud that I managed to not be murdered. I mean something like 90% of Craigslist sales end in murder, so I did a good job here.


Kinja'd!!! That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > My citroen won't start
07/22/2015 at 10:59

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Damn, I've been murdered after all. Ah well, they got one over on me.


Kinja'd!!! Justin Hughes > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
07/22/2015 at 11:22

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Hmm, I never thought of that! My ham radios can receive public service frequencies...