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Clatter
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 Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 3:47 pm Post subject: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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After having my derelict junker on Craigslist for a while,
And being home in bed with the flu..
I decided it was appropriate to update my posting with pertinent details,
To make the information more specific,
And help eliminate the many questions i was receiving..
Identify your Target Audience, right?
Wonder why they deleted it!?!?
(And this is just a portion, BTW..  )
Date:2019-02-13 17:00:07
PostID:6818860265
Title:Hippy Bus Project - Runs and Drives
Egad! Where do all of you creatures come from!?!
Dozens of derelicts every day...
I guess having the CHEAPEST RUNNING DRIVING VW Bus on this site I deserve it...
This is not some $35,000 Bus where the owner has no idea what he has.
The bus is priced really well for what it is,
It's a beat battered POS.
This is not some great life-changing score.
If you think you just won the lottery, you are wrong.
READ this ad FIRST. ALL of it.
If you can text, you can read.
When you text me, I will automatically ask you "Did you read the ad"!
If you cannot read this many words, no need to text me.
This bus if for SALE. Like as in money. Cash money. NO trades!
If you do not have any money, there is no point in you communicating with me.
If your trade is so great, sell if for money and buy the bus.
If you text me with some scammer "vehicle history report" web-page I will report it.
See where it says "Not OK to solicit"? This means you and your stupid "vehicle history report".
I am not going to donate this bus to you. I am sorry you are homeless,
I'm sorry you have cancer, sorry you are sleeping in your Prius, sorry you have a restraining order, just sorry you are so sorry, but sorry..
Tweeker?
Methamphetamine produces a rush of ambition that might make you think to buy this!
This thought will soon become redundant in your head, and then you will realize you're broke.
No need to text.
No need to text me about asking your wife.
I can guarantee that she will NOT like the idea.
If you aren't smart enough to know this, it's a good thing she watches over you!
Dragging this thing home will not make your screen-addicted teenager want to suddenly start a father/son project.
Figure this out before texting me.
If you always wanted to see a bus, or want a chance to take selfies by a bus,
Go to a local VW car show, there will be tons of nice people in lawn chairs who would love to talk all day!
If think it would be fun to come to Santa Cruz with your family and spend the day looking at a VW Bus,
Your children will leave with new vocabulary words.
The guy who is letting me store this is getting tired of me starting it up under his bedroom window to show dorks that it runs.
I will not demonstrate the bus running until you are waving CASH MONEY in my face.
This bus is worse than it looks in the pictures.
LOOK at the pictures, and THINK about what you are seeing.
Do you really want to buy an old beat-up VW bus? No? Then don't text me!
You will need:
Money
Intelligence
Time
Ambition
And also likely:
Tools
A place to keep it
Somewhere to work on it
If you are lazy and broke and stupid, you have NO PRAYER of having success with this!
Too many derelict lookie-loo trolls have wasted my time for me to be nice and show this to people who have no interest.
Unless you actually want to buy a bus like this, and bring some cash with you,
our encounter is going to brief and unpleasant.
This might look like a Westfalia Camper, it is not.
It has a genuine Westfalia pop-top laid on the roof, and held down with a bungee cord.
There is a hole cut in the roof under the pop-top.
Yes, it has a jalousie window in the slider,
But,
Vinyl headliner, vinyl door panels, rubber floor mats - it's a BUS; NOT a Westfalia.
Don't let your imagination deceive you.
I am not going to do any investigation of what parts are there and all, that is the job of the person who buys this.
There is some hoarder junk up under there, including a thigh master.
Suzanne Summers loved hers! Your thighs will be smoother and thinner in no time!
There might be gold bullion or Westy pop-top pieces; buy this and find out!
I have a clear title and current NON-OP in my name.
NO, I will not go and insure/register the vehicle so you can use the tags to sneak home.
These things cost money, and I'm not spending more money.
Plus,
I'm not your dad..
If you want to drive this legally on the road, YOU will need to buy insurance and registration, not me.
The tags only just expired at he end of January, so maybe some cop might feel sorry for you and extend some grace period, provided you had insurance, of course.
The DMV is only a mile or two from here.
If you want to just drive the thing away, I won't stop you or rat you out,
But you can bet I'll be mailing the little title transfer slip right in.
The only key I have fits the rear door.
This has been really confusing to some people; They have never seen or heard of anything like this!
It does not keep the bus from driving.
The locking pin in the column has been disabled, and you twist wires to turn the bus on and start it up.
Incredible!
It works to make the bus drive down the street.
The last guy used it like that for years no doubt.
A locksmith can easily fix this problem.
Chances are, your friends will also be amazed and delighted to see something so unique and different!
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 3:53 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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Seems straightforward to me, why would they delete that?
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Clatter
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Location: Santa Cruz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:01 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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I know, right?
Having had the ad up for about a week,
and getting bombed with one text message after another,
I fiqured I'd address the specific issues i had been presented already..
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Clatter
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:07 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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And,
Tell you what,
It's either been a really long time since I sold something on Craigslist,
Maybe something about having the cheapest bus on the whole site,
(certainly not the worst bus by far, just the cheapest),
But,
Dag,
There are SO MANY derelicts now! 
Is Craigslist like that in your town?
80% of everyone texting was some kind of mutant snail..
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Starbucket
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:10 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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The ONLY way to run an ad on CL is say "VW BUS" must be the 1st words in your answer or you will get NO RESPONSE. The BOTs that are spamming you just give short one line answers to get your contact info, that's all they want!  |
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busdaddy
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Location: Surrey B.C. Canada, but thinking of Ukraine
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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| Clatter wrote: |
| Is Craigslist like that in your town?.. |
Depends on what you are selling, a bus attracts wannabe Vanlifer dreamers, Barrett Jackson watching flippers to be, and homeless bums who think they can live in it. But an ad for industrial tools, household furniture or a set of winter tires isn't even something the losers can be bothered to look at.
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skills@eurocarsplus
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Joined: January 01, 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 5:53 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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| words, lot's of them |
dude, that was epic. I would have emailed you just to buy you a beer and commiserate how shitty people are
I thought it was well written. just like the Jesus tap dancing Christ Pontiac ad
https://jalopnik.com/jesus-tap-dancing-christ-the-greatest-craigslist-car-5905078
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busmania
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:13 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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| I have a wanted ad on craigslist looking for a front door. The only response I have had so far was "do the world a favor and send that unsafe obsolete polluting piece of shit to the crusher." |
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skills@eurocarsplus
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:17 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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| busmania wrote: |
| I have a wanted ad on craigslist looking for a front door. The only response I have had so far was "do the world a favor and send that unsafe obsolete polluting piece of shit to the crusher." |
I would have rickrolled the asshole
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my reason for switching to subaru is my german car was turning chinese so i said fuck it and went japanese....... |
| Jake Raby wrote: |
| Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
| Brian wrote: |
| Also the fact that people are agreeing with Skills, it's a turn of events for samba history |
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outcaststudios
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 6:26 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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i hate c-list people, they are a specific form of bottom feeder. the site smells like a huge clove of garlic. we had a help wanted ad at work and every single person who showed up was a trainwreck.
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timvw7476
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:54 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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does it have the middle seat?
will you hold it for three weeks for a $10 deposit?
& lastly, is the heater core plugged? |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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| Clatter wrote: |
After having my derelict junker on Craigslist for a while,
And being home in bed with the flu..
I decided it was appropriate to update my posting with pertinent details,
To make the information more specific,
And help eliminate the many questions i was receiving..
Identify your Target Audience, right?
Wonder why they deleted it!?!?
(And this is just a portion, BTW.. )
Date:2019-02-13 17:00:07
PostID:6818860265
Title:Hippy Bus Project - Runs and Drives
Egad! Where do all of you creatures come from!?!
Dozens of derelicts every day...
I guess having the CHEAPEST RUNNING DRIVING VW Bus on this site I deserve it...
This is not some $35,000 Bus where the owner has no idea what he has.
The bus is priced really well for what it is,
It's a beat battered POS.
This is not some great life-changing score.
If you think you just won the lottery, you are wrong.
READ this ad FIRST. ALL of it.
If you can text, you can read.
When you text me, I will automatically ask you "Did you read the ad"!
If you cannot read this many words, no need to text me.
This bus if for SALE. Like as in money. Cash money. NO trades!
If you do not have any money, there is no point in you communicating with me.
If your trade is so great, sell if for money and buy the bus.
If you text me with some scammer "vehicle history report" web-page I will report it.
See where it says "Not OK to solicit"? This means you and your stupid "vehicle history report".
I am not going to donate this bus to you. I am sorry you are homeless,
I'm sorry you have cancer, sorry you are sleeping in your Prius, sorry you have a restraining order, just sorry you are so sorry, but sorry..
Tweeker?
Methamphetamine produces a rush of ambition that might make you think to buy this!
This thought will soon become redundant in your head, and then you will realize you're broke.
No need to text.
No need to text me about asking your wife.
I can guarantee that she will NOT like the idea.
If you aren't smart enough to know this, it's a good thing she watches over you!
Dragging this thing home will not make your screen-addicted teenager want to suddenly start a father/son project.
Figure this out before texting me.
If you always wanted to see a bus, or want a chance to take selfies by a bus,
Go to a local VW car show, there will be tons of nice people in lawn chairs who would love to talk all day!
If think it would be fun to come to Santa Cruz with your family and spend the day looking at a VW Bus,
Your children will leave with new vocabulary words.
The guy who is letting me store this is getting tired of me starting it up under his bedroom window to show dorks that it runs.
I will not demonstrate the bus running until you are waving CASH MONEY in my face.
This bus is worse than it looks in the pictures.
LOOK at the pictures, and THINK about what you are seeing.
Do you really want to buy an old beat-up VW bus? No? Then don't text me!
You will need:
Money
Intelligence
Time
Ambition
And also likely:
Tools
A place to keep it
Somewhere to work on it
If you are lazy and broke and stupid, you have NO PRAYER of having success with this!
Too many derelict lookie-loo trolls have wasted my time for me to be nice and show this to people who have no interest.
Unless you actually want to buy a bus like this, and bring some cash with you,
our encounter is going to brief and unpleasant.
This might look like a Westfalia Camper, it is not.
It has a genuine Westfalia pop-top laid on the roof, and held down with a bungee cord.
There is a hole cut in the roof under the pop-top.
Yes, it has a jalousie window in the slider,
But,
Vinyl headliner, vinyl door panels, rubber floor mats - it's a BUS; NOT a Westfalia.
Don't let your imagination deceive you.
I am not going to do any investigation of what parts are there and all, that is the job of the person who buys this.
There is some hoarder junk up under there, including a thigh master.
Suzanne Summers loved hers! Your thighs will be smoother and thinner in no time!
There might be gold bullion or Westy pop-top pieces; buy this and find out!
I have a clear title and current NON-OP in my name.
NO, I will not go and insure/register the vehicle so you can use the tags to sneak home.
These things cost money, and I'm not spending more money.
Plus,
I'm not your dad..
If you want to drive this legally on the road, YOU will need to buy insurance and registration, not me.
The tags only just expired at he end of January, so maybe some cop might feel sorry for you and extend some grace period, provided you had insurance, of course.
The DMV is only a mile or two from here.
If you want to just drive the thing away, I won't stop you or rat you out,
But you can bet I'll be mailing the little title transfer slip right in.
The only key I have fits the rear door.
This has been really confusing to some people; They have never seen or heard of anything like this!
It does not keep the bus from driving.
The locking pin in the column has been disabled, and you twist wires to turn the bus on and start it up.
Incredible!
It works to make the bus drive down the street.
The last guy used it like that for years no doubt.
A locksmith can easily fix this problem.
Chances are, your friends will also be amazed and delighted to see something so unique and different! |
SOLD!
Shipping is included, right?
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wcfvw69 
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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Wow..
I couldn't read all that. I'd also have wondered if you're really trying to sell it. Had I "tried" to read all that I'd of wondered-
* How many diagnoses have you had?
* What your daily mental health cocktail consistent of-
* Do you really own this bus or?
* How many voices do you hear in your head and do you answer any of them?
I see ads like this on The Samba all the time. I don't even bother to try and read them. I simply pass right along.
SO, with all this said, I'm going with you really don't want to sell said bus!
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Clatter
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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I saw your vw bus and was wondering if you would be interested in donating it to a couple in need of a better Vicheal to drive in to get to San Francisco the wife has brain cancer, we are the couple in need our rv has to much work and barely working would you be interested it would be a blessing please
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Clatter
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:45 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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Hey is no joke I have couple of watches that I will trade for your bus I am homeless and is going hard for me, defending against people with money I would like to see if you are atrActed to the watches
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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Sorry but I don’t what to think about all this
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:55 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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If you cannot read this many words, no need to text me.
My favorite line.
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Clatter
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:03 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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It’s Friday night,
And my phone is blowing UP!!
I like to surf and work on cars..
On Friday afternoons if the surf isn’t good, I’ll be out in the shop!
Craigslisters are doing some Craigslist!
They are texting me,
Lying that they are coming to buy it,
Trying to chisel my price down,
And asking questions that are already written in the ad!
Yeah!
On a Friday night,
We do what we like!
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skills@eurocarsplus
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| Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: Craigslist Is So Much FUN!! |
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If you cannot read this many words, no need to text me.
My favorite line. |
I know, right.
facebook is even more stupid than CL. I am purging my father in laws collection. I had a zero turn for sale. listed the hours on it, year, engine size etc etc....you still get:
how many hours?
what engine?
so I just started replying with "it's in the ad...photo 6" some would reply with "crap, missed it" and some would reply with "no need to be an asshole" to which I would reply "if you think that was being an asshole, you ain't seen nothing"
it did sell fairly quick...but holy shit internet sales are just harder than they need to be.
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| Thanks for the correction. I used to be a nice guy, then I ruined it by exposing myself to the public. |
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