Craigslist
@bluebutterfly20 (462)
United States
March 9, 2013 7:49am CST
DO you know craigslist? Some people who are selling stuff in craigslist are not careful enough. Why? Because some of them just give their home address to people who they didnt even know. I mean how will you know if the person whom you've given your home address is a good person and not a criminal or murderer or something lol. If I will sell something and someone wants to buy it, I would do meet-ups in public and not in my home address. How about you? Have you ever bought something from craigslist?
7 responses
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
10 Mar 13
It would be a better idea to ship the item. Protecting your private information is a good thing but then we use the newspaper and sometimes put our phone number. People can get a lot of information from that right there so at some point we have to ask ourself a question or how safe is safe and how safe do we really need to be?
I don't use craigslist.
@bluebutterfly20 (462)
• United States
10 Mar 13
Yes you are right, shipping the item is probably better.
@bluebutterfly20 (462)
• United States
10 Mar 13
I have only used craigslist once. Luckily the seller was really nice to me.
@jayceeg1987 (293)
• Philippines
9 Mar 13
I agree with you, the idea of giving out your personal address rather than just doing meet-ups for a business transaction is unsafe. In PH, a very common way for an online business trans. is by meet-ups
@jayceeg1987 (293)
• Philippines
9 Mar 13
Its safe on the part of the buyer and convenient on the part of the seller.
@bluebutterfly20 (462)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Yup! That's really true. I have a friend in PH that has online business and all she do is meet-ups. She usually do it in the mall.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
12 Mar 13
I have a small business online. Aside from the website that I created, I do sometimes post on craigslist. I understand that it could really be dangerous to post personal information on the site, as it may attract unwanted elements. I just direct my craigslist add to my business website. This way it screens off unwanted characters, and only real interested customers go to my site.
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
9 Mar 13
I think it is terribly dangerous to give your address out on Craigslist. There was a killer going around killing people from Craigslist.
@bluebutterfly20 (462)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Very very true sir. That's people should really be careful these days. Killers are everywhere.
@paperdolls28 (222)
• Philippines
12 Mar 13
There should always be precautions and I agree with meet-ups on public places. I never bought anything from craigslist. I still prefer ebay :)
@blackrusty (3519)
• Mexico
9 Mar 13
you are right when we sell items though craigs list we do put our self at risk but how else do we get the stuff to the buyer if they don't come to our home it puts you in a catch 22
@bluebutterfly20 (462)
• United States
9 Mar 13
Well, as what I said, you can do meet ups somewhere in a public place. Its more safe :)
@BettyandAnthony (47)
• United States
12 Mar 13
yeah that is one of the reasons why I don't buy from craigslist. Although it's cheaper than ebay at times, I'll rather go with ebay.
