Interesting, not-so-nice Craig’s List practical joke
Anytime you see a house listed FSBO at over $200K below market you gotta wonder what’s going on. This particular one on Craig’s list was just down the street from my home so I decided to take a look.
$307000 – 4 bedroom fhouse or sale by owner
4 bed 2 bath completely remodeled inside in desireable redmond location for sale by owner.this lovely split level home is located within walking distance of lake sammamish ,parks,and schools in a secluded neighborhood!
Serious buyers only!
I will be holding an open house friday through sunday 7am-8pm if im not there my wife will be so feel free to stop by and have some cookies and a mocha
please do not email i rarely check it
These poor owners had people knocking on thier door all weekend thanks to someone’s idea of a practical joke. Open posting options like Craig’s List, Google and others are free and get great exposure, they are also prone to abuse. As the man said “If it sounds too good to be true…”
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What you should be talking about is how good of an exposure Craiglist is for agent’s and their listings. Agents can easily receive 6-12 leads just by taking 5 minutes of their time and putting their listing on Craigslist. I’d rank it as the best agent marketing tool in terms of ROI (free!).
Craigslist is a great tool. Its too bad that it gets abused like that.
We do training for our real estate agent clients on how to use craigslist but more importantly how not to use it. I think it is important for every Realtor.
On a side note, our new Ubertor software is integrated with Craigslist so that Realtors can quickly add listings to it.
PLEASE send me the link to that ad, I’ll deal with it.
thanks!
Craig
Jimmy, I couldn’t agree more. I use Craigslist all the time for real estate and other stuff. I think it’s a tremendous contributor towards recycle and reuse for personal items, so I even love it on a moral basis.
The point of the post was not “Craigslist BAD” (in fact, it’s very good) but to pass on an interesting story and the obvious word of caution that you can’t take anything on this type of service at face value. Bummer of a prank for the poor owners of this home.
Craig – someone already nuked it over the weekend. I had it cached in my RSS reader and when I looked for it live again Sunday it was already gone.
So the lesson to learn from this post is Craigslist is a great place for practical jokes!! Right??
Yeah,
But you can see that Craig takes abuse of his list extremely seriously, so don’t expect more than a few moments of fun before the practical joke gets pulled!