if you were in line for the iPad 3 this Friday, and the Employees then say their Stock is Depleted/Sold Out! would you take your chances on a paying a high premium for one on Craigslist or wait 3 weeks ??
I am going to share some of my tips.
FIRST: Craigslist can be dangerous no matter how careful you are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYGIIEuyDk
Meeting in daylight in a public place means nothing.
SECOND: Try Radio Shack, and other small retailers some do not think to try. Look during the week when most people work.
THIRD: Make friends with employees of the store, the ones that like TIPS for TIPS.
I am going to share some of my tips.
FIRST: Craigslist can be dangerous no matter how careful you are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJYGIIEuyDk
Meeting in daylight in a public place means nothing.
SECOND: Try Radio Shack, and other small retailers some do not think to try. Look during the week when most people work.
THIRD: Make friends with employees of the store, the ones that like TIPS for TIPS.
Give me a break. I've dealt with people on Craigslist many times. I always meet people in a busy Starbucks. The chances of somebody mugging like happened in this video are extremely remote. You could get mugged just as easily coming out of an Apple store or on you way in to an Apple store.
Just use good common sense and there is nothing to worry about.
Of course, you have to consider what area you meet in. Maybe that was a rough area of Houston.
Man, it must be rough in the States, I walk around with a bag full of expensive gear, and have never been successfully mugged.
People have tried, and I usually talk them out of it, or in a couple of cases, smack them in the mouth and run like mad.
In some areas in the US that would earn you several rounds of 9mm lead bullets in your skull. Just sayin...
what about meeting someone from Craigslist in a bank? security cameras abound and you get to verify the cash is real.
You can think /do whatever you want but people get robbed everywhere. But when you go on somewhere like craigslist you are on a forum where crooks target you to be there next victim.
People get there iPads stolen at coffee shops too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DTsOhnFQY
Being in a rough part of Houston has nothing to do with it because you are guessing. The victim meet them at a public, and popular restaurant during the day. It would not matter where he would meet them criminals are brazen. They beat him down in the doorway come on.
So this happened while other diners watched? And this being Houston, I should believe no one had a gun on them besides the crooks?
I carry a gun when I make craigslist sales.
You can think /do whatever you want but people get robbed everywhere. But when you go on somewhere like craigslist you are on a forum where crooks target you to be there next victim.
People get there iPads stolen at coffee shops too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DTsOhnFQY
Being in a rough part of Houston has nothing to do with it because you are guessing. The victim meet them at a public, and popular restaurant during the day. It would not matter where he would meet them criminals are brazen. They beat him down in the doorway come on.
Wait, definitely. I would NEVER buy from those craigslist imbeciles.![]()
So this happened while other diners watched? And this being Houston, I should believe no one had a gun on them besides the crooks?
I carry a gun when I make craigslist sales.
I think this whole topic is just ridiculous. Thousands of people sell stuff off of Craigslist everyday safe and sound. If you scour the news archives you can come up with a few horror stories, probably can count all of the serious ones on one hand.
Use common sense and it's safe. There's more of a chance of getting hit on the tuchas by a meteor than getting robbed meeting somebody in a public place to sell something, period.
I'm sure people have been robbed having garage sales. Are you going to lock yourself up in the house and never come out. Sometimes people get carjacked driving down the street. Are you going to stop driving (which happens to be the most dangerous thing we do, far more dangerous than the one-in-a-million chance somebody might mug you in broad daylight in a public place)?
The media always makes a big deal about these rare occurrences and issue an ominous warning about it as if there's some major problem going on.
We do things every day that are far more likely to result in harm.