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[Eee Pad Transformer General] dougstoner:
I've sold SEVERAL items on craigslist. What I usually do, I'll buy a new latest and greatest phone for upgrade price. In a year, I'll sell that phone for the price of a new upgrade phone. Therefore, I end up getting the newest latest and greatest phones for free. I can't tell you how many sob stories I get, with people trying to tell me there bad luck, and can I lower the price 50 bucks, 100 bucks etc. I even put that in my ads now. Please, no woe is me stories to get me to lower the price. The worst, is when you are dealing with someone for a few days, back and forth, and you keep saying the price is xxx amount. I won't take anything less. Then they always show up and say, oh, all I have is xxx cash. Will you take it? Then they continue to go on about how someone screwed them over, and they don't have the full amount. I never sell to them, and they end up wasting my time, gas, etc.... Still, quite frustrating, but I NEVER back down.

I can't tell you how many, "my wife has cancer, my brother has parkinsons, or some other disease", they made up. I understand trying to work the angle, but I think just about everyone knows this. Either way, it's frustrating. Stick to your guns man. You will get 350 for it. :cool:
[Eee Pad Transformer General] *Detection*:
I would have told the guy to do one after the first few lines of conversation
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Tenny:
This is why I hate CL...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
I was selling a car a couple years back and had a guy agree to the price. When we met up he starts telling me how he's a church pastor and was trying to get the car for one of his parish members who's daughter had cancer. Long story short he didn't even bring any money and wanted me to "donate" the car to him. I told him sure but I'd need a donation form and the number and address for his church as well as a copy of his ID and that I needed to talk to my lawyer so he could verify all the information the guy was going to give me. Dude started going on about how I needed to trust in God to tell me if it was ok and there was no reason for me to talk to my lawyer.....whatever, guy. Adios
[Eee Pad Transformer General] blestsol:
Cl buyers annoy me. When I was selling my epic touch a dude offered me like half of what I wanted and wanted me to drive to him after I kept saying no to low balling.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Spidey01:
Maybe he got ordained online or in the mail, like a distant relation I've heard tell of.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] a.mcdear:
Last time I sold something on Craigslist, the idiot came to pick up a $75 car part I was selling, and he wanted to pay me with 6 rolls of quarters and 15 $1 bills....

That was my only, and final, experience with selling locally on Craigslist..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] uploder:
lol I had a similar experience but not as bad. Was selling my old modded ps2 with like 100+ games for like $70. These two kids had like $68 in bills but the rest was change. I only accepted it because they were cool about it and I could tell they were gamers like myself and really wanted it.I had a cool like 20 min convo with them so that kinda helped too. turned out the car they drove was like on E and the money they gave me was all they had. I would have hit the floor if they asked me to spot them some gas money lmao.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] richteralan:
I was just saying. You don't have to roll your eyes.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] brando56894:
Haha wow what a tool!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] fliparsenal:
Sorry but that was pretty funny op.I think he was just trolling.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
My apologies. The stroll wasn't directed towards you, but the entire situation.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
:o

I'm sure he was. Good thing I can laugh at myself
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
Lol...perhaps.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
I'd have accepted 350 in quarters, actually:D. Money is money and it all spends the same. I remember buying candy as a kid with all the change I'd find around the house and on the ground outside.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] 2011CorvetteZR1:
CL buyers can sometimes be a characters. I have had people who agreed on a price then came by and flat out refused to buy the item at the agreed upon price. What a waste of time. I feel for you. and laugh with you too.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stcardinal:
I'm willing to sell mine for $300! Now I know i can at least get 325, which I think is a pretty good deal.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
325 for sure. I'm only charging 350 because I'm lucky and have no creaks no light bleed and it still looks brand new. If I were dishonest I would unroot back to stick and seal it all back up. I still have the static screen cover it came with.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jordanjay29:
LOL. This story made me laugh quite a bit. This is one of the prime reasons I'll never sell on Craigslist, there's just too many idiots like this out there.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] thejamhole:
dicks, complete and utter dicks.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
You sound as drink as I am except I'm not an angry drunk:D

I meant you sound as *drunk.....see
[Eee Pad Transformer General] daverod:
Exactly. Also, you don't tell people you're carrying. There are some crazy, desperate people out there.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] letsgophillyingeneral:
Welcome to Craigslist.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] TheUndertaker21:
Ive just read your story. Really crazy and that guy wasted your time. Jackass

I don't do Craigslist too unsafe for me

EBay all the way

Rather spend 10 15 dollars on shipping even if you live 3 miles away from me.

I remember when I sold my G2 on eBay the guy who bought it lives like 7 blocks from me. I live in Brooklyn flat bush and the guy lives Coney island avenue( for people that know Brooklyn well). Would've taken me 10 mns to get there but I rather go to usps and ship it. Lol he got it after 3 days lol. No Craigslist for me. People get screwed a lot on that site
[Eee Pad Transformer General] reedsw:
Well my TF101 story goes somewhat different.

This guy was selling the TF101 +Dock for 450. I had just seen two go for 350 and I didnt pull the trigger.

So I politely asked if it was still for sale and in the same email offered him 350. I told him I meant no disrespect to his price and if he got the 450 for it I would not be completely shocked but I would be willing to part with 350 for what he was selling.

He emailed me back and thanked me for my candor but told me he wasnt interested in selling it for that price. I told him I completely understood and would get in touch with him in a few days to see if he had changed his mind.

4 days later I sent him an email and he had recieved no offers and would sell it to me for 350. Its all in the way you do things.

I have had zero trouble with craigslist sellers or buyers.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] fineazbro:
Well I sold my g2 yesterday, the guy had agree to buy it for $200 make me drive all the way to ihop just tell me that he only have $180 why do Craigslist people do that crap..well I end up selling to him anyway cuz really he was the only one that came closer to the price I want for it
[Eee Pad Transformer General] notown775:
I was gonna ask if you had the tablet still for sale lol.

!!virtuous ics!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BBowermaster:
I tend to get people who buy things without researching. I was selling an LG Ally on Ebay after my wife upgraded to the Thunderbolt. The person returned it stating she didn't know it required a data plan. Then recently I sold a tablet and the person returned it saying they don't like Honeycomb.

Now I just don't allow returns unless it arrives damaged or defective. Too many impulse/finicky buyers on Ebay to allow returns.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] goodintentions:
Wow! I've only returned 1 item on ebay, and that was because the thing arrived dead when the description said it was alive. Even though it was an as-is item, the seller generously took it back and gave me full refund.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dfin13:
The best is when you meet someone to sell them something, and let's say it's $50, and they only have three $20 bills and ask if you have change. They know they needed $50, yet they intentionally bring three $20's thinking you'll just say, "Ah, just give me $40, no big deal!"

Screw that, I send them into the store we meet at to go buy a pack of gum, or just kill the deal.

I don't do CL much anymore because it's gotten kind of bad in my city (Memphis), with people using CL to lure buyers/sellers into an ambush. When I do, I never meet in a "bad" part of town (which, in Memphis, is most of this city), and never at any time other than broad daylight.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] orateam:
I have an odd story..

pre-story-

I use multiple google accounts and create voice numbers so i can text anonymously.

On CL, i posted a camera for $50. I got 2 replies both asking to drop it to $25 or $30. Told them it's a 12 megapixel sony and worth $250. They stopped responding.

Relisted it under another phone number for $150. Same guys responded asking for it to be sold for $75 and $100 respectively. THen i got a respond to my prior post from one of them asking me if i'd take $40. I said i sold it. Ended up getting $100 for something that i only wanted $50 for.

Another CL wierd moment.

Listed Motorola Triumph cell phone for $100 (sells for $299 new). 3 offers both asking below $100.

Relisted it for $200, 10+ offers, sold for $200.

Moral is that people believe if an item is selling cheaper, it's for a reason and must be crap. Or people are stupid and want to pay more.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] notown775:
The best, are the guys who sell their stuff like a some guy is selling an Asus 16gb eee pad for 400. They're going for 300 on amazon.. lol

!!Virtuous Quattro!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
where on amazon are you seing a tf for 300?!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
Yeah after almost being robbed once before im definitely more careful. Luckily I live in a very nice area. I usually won't meet anywhere outside of my town or the town to the east of me. I also tell my wife where I'm going and give her the phone number of the person I've been dealing with. Depending on my mood ill make a show of taking photos of their license plates and mmsing them to my wife. If all else fails Im still carrying. In places like NY where the gun laws are a lot more strict I probably would be doing eBay as well.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] player911:
Lol I did this with an iPad2 release day. Picked last one up and didn't need it right away. Plus they didn't have exactly the model I wanted. So put it up on CL for $650. Had so many offers for $500, $530, and $550. I kept saying nope. Its $650 and the first person who pays for it gets it. They all read me the riot act how they can pick one up down the street so I said go then.

Even the guy who bought it gave me **** but wanted it bad. Wham bam and we were both happy.

I like the stupid trades too... like Dr. Dre beats and bikes. I got enough junk ala why I'm selling crap.

LTE EX Galaxy Nexus - CM9 AOKP

Asus Transformer - Revolver
[Eee Pad Transformer General] notown775:
someone scooped it up. it was at 310..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
Before getting my Galaxy Nexus, I bought a 10/10 (a.k.a perfect condition) HTC Sensation from a guy off kijiji.

My wife went to pick it up because I have a disability and can't really leave the house because of it.

Anyway, before she got there, the guy emailed me and said he had lost his original charger, but had a replacement that works perfectly and asked if that was OK. He also mentioned that he lost the usb cable for data transfer, but I was OK with that.

My wife brings home the phone and I immediately notice this 10/10 device has quite a few scratches on the back... And the charger was a Motorola... Red flags went up.

I turned it on after putting in a SIM card and I thought "wow, what a cool 3D background effect" as I noticed the background had this 3D marbled look to it. So I began testing stuff and things looked OK, but when I went to install the SD card, I noticed pieces of plastic and a little spring rolling about IN the card slot... Red flags are many now...

So I remove the pieces and insert my card and it won't read it. I email the guy and let him know we have a problem. He replied and said the card slot worked fine when he had it, so I must have broken it. I immediately knew this was bs because there was a system update notification on the phone for a June 2011 update, and the only way to apply that update is with an sd card...

So I continue testing, knowing that if I had to, the card slot could be replaced. But then I realized that the cool 3D effect on the background was everywhere... In every app, on the boot screen, etc. Things were going very bad. I emailed the guy again stating that the unit was defective and far from mint condition.(i even sent photos of the screen to him) and I wanted my money back. I didn't hear from him in close to 24h, so I started to panic. I called the cops and asked what options I had and was told to take the guy to small claims court. I emailed one more time stating that if I don't get my money back, he'll be paying for the court fees and many hours later he agrees to refund me.

Damn, if he was honest to begin with, all this crap could have been avoided. The thing is, I needed a few hours to test everything on the phone, so "check the item at the door " wouldn't have cut it.

I'll stick to buying movies and video games from sites like that. :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
I was once offered a gun for a tablet... The guy sent pictures and all.

I guess he doesn't realize how illegal handguns are in this county! LOL
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
I love the CL ads where someone will say. "For sale cheap! Cannot use because I've forgotten the password (pin)" Seriously just say "I stole (or found) it and need money to buy <insert drug of choice> and I'm too jacked up to learn how to reset the device."
[Eee Pad Transformer General] micaman:
Reading through this post makes me laugh because I am going through allot of these issues myself right now trying to sell my tablet. I think my problem is that I am too honest and try to make an effort to disclose all the facts AHEAD of time. The last thing I want is to waste my time to meet up with someone who actually has no intentions of paying my asking price just to pick apart every nook and cranny in an effort to knock down the price.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jinsoku3g:
Woww, I really hope he ends up getting a TF, coming to XDA to Root it, and see himself getting flamed, that'll start his ownership with a bang. What a tool, I mean lowballing you like that.. btw, would you take $325 on the Prime? :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
karma

Made an edit to the OP if anyone needs another grin, laugh or someone to commiserate with:(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] aggie6600:
I have done the rice thing 3 times and it worked two times. See below for why I think it didn't work the third time. The key is to pull the battery immediately and shake out all the water you can. Then throw both the battery and phone in rice and leave them there for a couple of days ( 2 days seems to be enough).

In case you are wondering why I have done this three times:

First time 3 year old dropped my Evo 4G in the tub while it was on. Two days it rice and good as new (except for the moisture sticker). Kids fault

Second time wife's Hero was in her pants and went thru a full cycle in the washer. I thought for sure this one was toast, but two days in rice and it worked. It had a little moisture trapped under the screen, but burned off after a days use. Wife's fault (wife blames kids though)

Third time was my ipod nano. Again a full cycle in the wash machine, but this one also made a full cycle thru the dryer. I think the dryer is what killed the screen. It was hot as hell when I found it banging around. It would work when plugged in, but the screen as black and battery wouldn't charge. Luckily the moisture sticker apparently washed away because Apple couldn't tell it got wet and replaced it under warranty. My fault.

Good luck. Don't sell that TF101 just yet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] chatch15117:
ive only done a few craigslist deals. i used to be super poor and to eat each week i would burn windows xp cds(like 2 or 3) or office 2003 and post em up for $20 each. that got me food at least. i was always scared it would be an undercover cop trying to bust pirates. i had a volume license from something. cant remember

years later i was watching some webcast and tigerdirect had this deal where they were selling $500 in computer parts for $250 to the first 40 people. i put in a coupon code and got it to $216 shipped.

i made up some story like i just bought the parts and need to sell them for some stupid reason. put $400 in the ad. the guy thought he was cool lowballing me $350 for $500 of parts(cpu/mobo/ram/gpu hdd psu and case)

i agreed and got $350 cash at a 7-11 for parts i paid $216. it was a smooth deal but it would have sucked if i really did pay $500 for the setup.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] morbidrealities:
Good news! Sold the TF and my phone works! Happy camper right here:)
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] tech.callforhelp:
Here is a paste of the command line instructions to format a bootable sd card for the nook tablet for use with CWM recovery image. It uses only Native Windows 7 tools and nothing that does not ship with windows 7.

This tool is called diskpart and is a little known command line partitioning tool similar to Fdisk that ships with Windows 7.

I though this might help people who are not good with Linux.

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7601

Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.

On computer: MYLAPTOP

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---

Disk 0 Online 232 GB 0 B

Disk 1 Online 238 MB 0 B

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---

Disk 0 Online 232 GB 0 B

Disk 1 Online 238 MB 0 B

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> clean

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> create part primary size=50

DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> list part

Partition ### Type Size Offset

------------- ---------------- ------- -------

* Partition 1 Primary 50 MB 64 KB

DISKPART> select part 1

Partition 1 is now the selected partition.

DISKPART> format

100 percent completed

DiskPart successfully formatted the volume.

DISKPART> list part

Partition ### Type Size Offset

------------- ---------------- ------- -------

* Partition 1 Primary 50 MB 64 KB

DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info

---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------

Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media

Volume 1 C laptopboot NTFS Partition 158 GB Healthy Boot

Volume 2 G NTFS Partition 73 GB Healthy

Volume 3 System NTFS Partition 1500 MB Healthy Hidden

* Volume 4 D FAT Removable 50 MB Healthy

DISKPART> active

DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

DISKPART> rescan

Please wait while DiskPart scans your configuration...

DiskPart has finished scanning your configuration.

DISKPART>
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thiruk:
Hi ,

I couldn't unlock AT&T Samsung captivate after upgrading to Android 2.3

I would appreciate any help,

Tnx,

kt
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 24fan4life:
Have you tried Galaxy S Unlock by Helroz from Market? Follow the directions, and make sure you put your backup data in a place on your phone where it isn't going to accidently delete it if you flash another ROM, so you can relock your phone if you have to. I always put my backup data files on my external card, because that isn't touched if you update, or flash ROMs.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Boumbles:
I was able to root my phone using the program here. I don't remember if I had updated to 2.3 beforehand though. I recall reading that you would have to revert back to the older version (2.2) first. I'll see if I can find the source for that.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] crisisinthecity:
I get it every time I turn it on. That's not normal right? Sorry if its been discussed. I searched for an hour. :)
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] fairgun:
I have the same notification all the time too. So I think it's normal :)
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] crisisinthecity:
Thanks! This is the first time I've ever seen it on any HC tablet.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] max69power:
i get it also but only when I power it on. not coming from sleep
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] crisisinthecity:
Same thing here. I meant power on...
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] IRIE4IPIER:
Me too. I think it's normal. No need to worry.
[Acer Iconia Tab A100] nolan.b:
Same here, get the SD Card inserted on start-up from power down.

Guess it's normal :cool:
[HTC Rezound] jeradsjunk:
New to android. Using a MAC to unlock, root and install senseless ICS. I've unlocked the bootloader via htcdev. Everything worked and now shows unlocked. I downloaded amon ra version 3.11 and installed with this command:

./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

It seemed to work:

sending 'recovery' (4124 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.908s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 1.265s]

finished. total time: 2.173s

When I go back to the fastboot menu and select recovery it goes to the white HTC screen and freezes. At least I think it freezes. Waited 10 minutes and it didn't do anything. I am trying to root the phone now. It looks like I should be able to root by booting into recovery, go to developer and install su. I may be wrong though. Can someone help me with this? I've searched everywhere and there's not a lot of help on using a MAC. My phone boots normally if I don't go to fastboot.
[HTC Rezound] mrmadrid:
Hey, man I know that its a pain because most people here don't use Macs, or the ones that do have iPhones or whatever but I feel your pain. I'd start from scratch and follow this post from start to finish. I did it and it worked fine.

A couple of notes that you should be careful of:

1. When copying the token identifier from your phone, do not copy the INFO text at the beginning of each line

2. At the end of the process it shouldn't reboot to HTC logo but back into the Hboot screen and say S-off at the top. (If it hangs anywhere after successful completion, try a battery pull and then reboot into hboot)

3. If you got there safely, boot back into your stock rom, and follow this post to flash custom recovery (choose AmonRa NOT cwm).

4. After you flash recovery, flash Super User (non-eng) from within Amon Ra (again follow directions from the post!) and then reboot and you should be perm root. Download Titanium Backup to test and back up your crap before flashing roms or something.

That's how I got mine going from my unibody macbook pro running Lion. Good luck my fellow mac-tard! (I say that with love :p)
[HTC Rezound] feralicious:
I think you meant to say that the phone will say "unlocked" at the top, not S-off.
[HTC Rezound] random155:
Yep Un-Locked on the top left corner.
[HTC Rezound] davidbudd1:
are you typing this exactally?

./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

If so that may be your problem, recovery.img should be whatever the recovery file name is.
[HTC Rezound] jeradsjunk:
I was using the latest amon ra recovery and it wasnt working. I used an older version and it worked. Been running scotts senseless ics for 2 days now. Working very well.
[HTC Rezound] DbZ Gokuu:
If you want to avoid this issue in the future, don't buy a Mac lol
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] senectus:
Has anyone bought one of these?

Any reviews? or Speculation?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/160687657213?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Accessories] DannagE:
Not sure I would want to put my note in one of those. I would be devastated if it fell out of the holder.

What would you do with it on the handlebars anyway?