Why Must People Be So Ignorant On Craigslist Or Kijiji (a rant)

"Robert Alexander" (bobbysgarage)
04/12/2018 at 12:25 • Filed to: craigslist, for sale, idiots, cars, ford, kijiji, chevy, dodge, internet

I recently posted an ad on Kijiji (basically the Canadian version of Craigslist) looking for someone who would be willing to tow my travel trailer across Canada for me. I work in Northern Alberta, but recently moved back to New Brunswick as I work a shift rotation and fly back and forth. There’s one little issue though, my travel trailer is in a storage facility here, and my F-150 is back home. “Simple!” I think, “I’ll just post an ad on Kijiji and offer to pay someones gas and a little something for their troubles to get it home.” Well not so fast now, cause the trolls and assholes will come out of the woodwork like crazy.

LOOK AT THESE CLOWNS!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve never understood what it is about online classifieds that just brings out the worst in people, but I have done a lot of buying and selling online, and it is endless. You know the people I mean. You have a car posted for $2500.00 and they come in with a “$600.00 CASH” post. Well buddy, of course it’s cash. I don’t fucking take MasterCard. Or the people who ask you to donate the car because they are unemployed. Or even better, the guy who wants you to take it to his “mechanic buddy” “to look it over”. The worst though is the guy who demands a CarProof report. It’s a 1988 Ford Tempo for $1000.00, GET BENT.

If you are one of these people, for the love of God, please stop. It makes things really unpleasant for the honest people that use these platforms. Also I think that its the reason why Facebook Marketplace is taking off so much. People on there seem to be a little less likely to do that when their face and name is attached to the post.

Anyway, that concludes my rant about idiots on the internet. Wait... what the hell did I expect?

DISCUSSION (20)

As Du Volant > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:15

The guy who wants $14,000 to haul the trailer is the same kind of guy who will offer you $500 for a car listed for $3000, I guarantee it.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:17

It’s because of the low effort. It means almost nothing to post a shitty offer. If you required a contractual offer like buying a house you would get higher quality. Can’t you hire a shipping company to move it?

Party-vi > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:18

That’s a 6 day drip if you’re driving 8 hours a day. $50 a day for food, $50 a night for a cheap motel, and 513 liters of gas puts you at something like $1,300, and that’s just the cost for someone to do it. Minimum wage is another $600, might as well say $2,000 for someone to drive yer shit.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:23

hmmm, that’s a big ask man. You fly back and forth, can you not slowly clear it out and then sell the trailer? Maybe a better way to go.

Robert Alexander > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
04/12/2018 at 13:34

I moved everything across with a moving company back in January, but didn’t want to tow my trailer because it was winter. Moved the trailer to storage. I plan on driving my truck back out instead of flying and then bringing the trailer home next month or so, but just thought I’d post an ad that if someone is going across with a truck and wants to get paid to do it then that would work for both of us. Even shipping companies don’t want as much as these clowns are trolling for. Selling the trailer isn’t an option, it’s only about 6 months old and financed so you can do the math. lol

Mid Engine > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:34

I shipped a car by rail from Montreal to Vancouver for $1000

Urambo Tauro > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:36

What’s an appropriate price for something like this? Just curious, ’cause I have no idea. I guess I would start by calculating distance (about 3000 miles?) against expected MPG (12ish?), which amounts to 250 gallons. What’s the average fuel charge in Canada? I know it’s by liter, but would $3/gal be a good guess? I’m not good at metric stuff...

Anyway, that would bring it to $750, and if we add fuel for a return trip (at better MPG), maybe another $550 or so (?) would be appropriate.

(There’s a lot of variables here, so this math is obviously very rough...)

How much for the driver’s time? Google tells me that the trip could be 50 hours or more each way, so if we call it $12/hr (is that a fair price?), that’d be at least another $1200 there-and-back. So that brings the total up to $2500- add some money for wear and tear, plus time spent hitching and unhitching, etc... $3000 total? That would be an even $1.00 per mile, if the price-per-mile is based on one-way mileage (the return trip being already calculated into the figure).

How’s many math holding up? Is this close to what people usually charge for this sort of thing?

Robert Alexander > Party-vi
04/12/2018 at 13:37

People go between Alberta and the Maritimes all the time for various reasons, mostly cause they work here and are from back east. What I was looking for is someone who is already going across, and would like to have their trip paid for. Kind of a win-win thing for both people. Plus they could use the trailer to stay in if they were clean people.

Robert Alexander > Future next gen S2000 owner
04/12/2018 at 13:39

Yes I can hire a shipping company, but what I was looking for is someone who is already going across the country, and I would pay for their trip instead of it coming out of their pocket. I will likely end up doing it myself, but I’ve had luck in the past getting things moved this way, because so many easterners work in alberta, there is always people going back and forth.

Robert Alexander > As Du Volant
04/12/2018 at 13:40

Plus he doesn’t know that “Moncton, BC” isn’t a real place. lol

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:41

Gotcha.

are you out in the oil fields?

Robert Alexander > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
04/12/2018 at 13:45

Yes sir. Up in Fort McMurray.

Robert Alexander > Urambo Tauro
04/12/2018 at 13:48

Well most of the shipping companies are quoting from $2500-$4000, whatever that works out to lol. But I am looking for is an individual who is already making this trip, and could get it all paid for, and make a little extra money by doing this. Mutually beneficial thing.

Robert Alexander > Mid Engine
04/12/2018 at 13:49

That’s a pretty decent price really.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:50

Nice. I deal with some claims in the area (especially when the fires struck) but don’t make to AB as much as I’d like.

I’m originally from Edmonton

Urambo Tauro > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:53

Ah, no return trip, gotcha. Did you make that clear in your ad? Sounds like a good way to cut that price nearly in half!

Nom De Plume > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:55

A deadheading deadhead: Legit, I need keys to trailer so I can, um, inspect it isn’t carrying anything illegal.

That is what I expected instead of idiots fishing to subcontract bigger idiots once the line is set.

Mid Engine > Robert Alexander
04/12/2018 at 13:56

neither did I, and I lived in Canada for 48 years LOL

Robert Alexander > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
04/12/2018 at 19:35

Good stuff! I was born and raised in Edmonton myself, grew up in the Meadowlark area on the west end. Family is from NB, so we moved back when I was 15. My girlfriend and I were living in Edmonton for over a year when I got the job up here and decided to move home base back to NB.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Robert Alexander
04/13/2018 at 08:56

name and face on FB?

nope.