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it's been a while since I read some of your stories.

lately I came across a seller who firmly raised his price once I showed up.
Safe to say I did not buy and the amp is still for sale @ original price.


tell me some of yours.

I RULE AUSTIN CL...

Tell me about yours...

I provide accurate info and relevant pics and if someone is coming by I have refreshments; if I go by there I always have at least $20 under so they have to deal...

This morning I was supposed to meet with someone that I contacted yesterday about a boss pc2. When I called him to let him know I was on the way he said he had already sold the item. Someone showed up and he "had no choice". I was very confused and I'm sure I'll never see another at that price. Don't know why he didn't email me after we arranged a meeting to get it.

I bought a cheap HM-2 from a surprisingly very hot girl who came to my work the same day to collect the cash since she lived very close and needed the money asap - everything was done through text so I had no idea what the seller looked like... but then she needed the money for Between The Buried and Me tickets. Not that I was scoping her out, I'm happily married.... but I must say it was my first CL transaction with a woman.

Also I was supposed to buy a pedal from a guy last summer, and we had worked out the arrangement through text and the guy didn't show. I waited for like 45 minutes at a subway station and when I texted WTF he was like "I had a feeling you weren't going to show because you didn't reply to my last text (which was like "ok see you then ") so I didn't bother. What a fucking asshole.

A dude made an hour drive for a $40 table and tried to pay for it with $20 worth of change.
Nope.
Then gave a sob story about how his car is breaking down on him all the time, so to drive this far was really a big deal for him.
Gurl. You cray.

I've had some great luck through craigslist so far. no horror stories yet.

a few months ago i bought a guitar from a guy and tried it out on a Vibroverb. I had never played through one of those before so i was enjoying every minute of it. then he told me that he built the amp replica!! i had no clue, looked perfect. he walked me all over his place to show me all the other amp clones he's built. Hiwatt, tweed deluxe, bassman, and many more! hand-wired amp heaven.

another cool thing that happened was when i sold a cab and pedal to a dude in PA. we started talking about bands and then realized we were standing next to each other at the last We Were Skeletons show a month earlier! the actual transaction took about 5 mins, but we geeked out about music for 40 mins. good times.

I met my now good friend and bandmate years ago through him selling me a used ampeg on c-list. On more than one occasion I've met such cool people that I've ended out hanging for a beer even if the sale didn't work out...but they haven't all been fun and games.

After email exchanges setting up a meeting, I drove once a good hour to a dude's house to buy a Russian Muff...no answer at the door, no answer on his phone. I tried both again after a few minutes, still nothing.
I sat there, in my car down the street drinking my coffee and fuming for a bit...and sure enough, 10-15 minutes later, slyly out the front door comes douche and his girlfriend, running across their front yard towards the driveway trying to be all stealthy and "hiding" against the bushes...in broad daylight. When confronted they fell all over themselves telling me he lived there but wasn't home.

I met a kid halfway (which meant we both drove an hour) to buy a GIbson Thunderbird in "mint condition." It may have been when he shoved it in his basement years prior...the neck was so badly warped there were huge cracks up and down both sides of the fretboard, and all the hardware was rusted brown.

A kid emailed me to buy an MXR distortion BNIB for $25. When I got there, he asked me tons of questions trying to get me to describe in detail what it sounded like, took it out and inspected every inch of it, asked if I had anything he could "try it out on" (we were in a church parking lot) and then lowballed me, after repeated emails him telling him that the price was firm...

I haven't used Craigslist since I was in college, but in all I've had pretty good experiences.

First experience using Craigslist I bought a Peavey 1820 off of a guy, went to his house to pick it up. Turns out he was a bass player and was SUPER into 18" speakers. Had a garage filled with cabs that only used 18's. Was fucking nuts. He was in his 50's or 60's and played like oldies too. Fucking killer to hang out with him for a bit. It was funny, I tried to talk him down but then I forgot to reread the ad before I tried to lowball him and ended up telling him I could do the price he was asking instead of lower hahah

I bought a Peavey 2x15 for $75 once because the speakers were blown, it was a bitch trying to wrestle that into my car in the middle of the street after I picked it up from the guy. That was fun and kind of embarrasing. Later ended up trading that 2x15 for a DeltaLabs delay and a DOD Flanger. Strange times... but I really needed to get rid of it because there were 4 guys including myself living in the apartment I was in, and I had the 1820 and the 2x15 in a corner. Which was just a total wall of amps. It was funny though because the dude I traded the 2x15 to said he was going to use it as a PA monitor wtf haha

Once I traded a Super Hard On clone that I built for a Valve Junior. That was an awesome trade.

Oh yeah, I was trying to sell a pedal, and this one guy was interested, and we'd try to set up a reasonable meeting point, and he would inevitably counter "why don't we meet at this central subway stop" with "why don't you come to the kitchen I work in on the other side of the city during my shift Friday betwqeen 7-2 am" and of course I'd say no, and he'd be like "well why don't you come to my apartment in a suburb of Toronto that's two hours away from me and drop it off" and I eventually had to tell him to fuck off... I remember his reasoning was "I have a kid" for not being able to meet and for me to come to him.... like I care if you have a fucking kid, I hate kids.....

There's a guy who does pedal repairs and I had him fix a faulty switch on a pedal, and he wound up building me a brassmaster clone that's one of my favorite pedals ever....

I have met 3 bros who have turned into beyond good friends and bandmates though, like I consider them solid friends as well as fellow noise makers.

However I would say the ratio is 30:1 overall as I have met some real fuckin' kooks, weirdos, junkies and space cases through the good old CL.

one time i went to scoop an old combo organ from a dude when I lived in a phila.

he goes "its in my basement, follow me".
i stood at the top of the stairs for a good couple minutes, contemplating if those would be the last words i ever heard.

he turned out to be a pretty cool old head. he had a space echooooooooooooooooo, at the time i was obsessed with them.

First thing I ever sold on CL was an Alesis Sumo keyboard amp. Lindy Fralin (the pickup maker) emailed me about it, so I took it down to his shop. He plugged a passive bass into it to test and seemed confused about why the level was so low. Me and one of his employees had to explain to him that it needed a line level signal not a guitar signal. Seemed kinda odd for a tech guy like him, but he was buying it as a gift for his brother anyway so whatevs if he doesnt fuck with keyboards. He was super nice and it was cool to see his shop.

Also traded a synth to the guy who is the projectionist at the Byrd Theatre (historic movie theater in richmond). He was working when i got there so I had to take it up into the booth, we swapped and hung out and talked up there for a while, super cool dude and all the old 30's projection machinery (still being used) was so fucking cool.

Shit trace I didn't realize you were in Richmond! When I'm down next we should chill

Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D. wrote:one time i went to scoop an old combo organ from a dude when I lived in a phila.

he goes "its in my basement, follow me".
i stood at the top of the stairs for a good couple minutes, contemplating if those would be the last words i ever heard.

he turned out to be a pretty cool old head. he had a space echooooooooooooooooo, at the time i was obsessed with them.

Ha, a while ago i sold a danelectro bass to a dude, at the time I was living in a super creepy basement apartment, like to get to the actual living area you had to enter in through the unfinished dark dim shovel storage part of the basement. Yet he had no problem coming down there and bringing his 4 year old son with him

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