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This was for sale in GP last week for $200. A rattle can of black paint and a week later, relisted for $750.

The rise of full time flippers with cell phones has sure changed the landscape of buying and selling, not that I have a problem with it, hell, I've done it myself, but sometimes it does annoy me when you always have to compete with the full time flippers. Makes it harder and harder to find a good deal on a used item when it's something you legit want/need. Sometimes I miss the days when all there was for classifieds was the nickel ad.


Inclosed utility trailer - $750 (White city)


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Inclosed heavy duty utility trailer,
With all metal sides and aluminum top, with a bed that can tilt.
Measurements are 4.5 feet wide x 8.5 feet long. 1 tire in new condition and 1 in ok condition, takes 2" ball.
Cash only
Not interested in trades

With or without flippers I think the seller who asked 200 was way under priced and getting  calls within minutes.
I think $750 is still a pretty good price.

Yes, I agree, I just mean it is harder and harder to score deals like that. I think the professional flipper folks literally spend all day refreshing their phones waiting to snatch up the deals. I don't shop CL as a flipper, I just like finding a good deal on something I may need or want and those seem to be getting more and more elusive.

I guess so. I look at CL several times a day. The way I search I look at whatever was posted last. It seems to me that just about anything I want I can find for a very good deal... IF I'm patient and wait.

I wanted a conversion van and there aren't really that many around that are nice and with fairly low mileage.
Anyway I bought one for $2100 with 150 K 1995 Dodge that was pretty nice but the captains seat drivers side was worn out from the fat owner.
I kept trying to find one with no luck. So I put it on CL for $3500 firm and sold it the next day.

So a few weeks later I found a 1997 dodge conversion van with 82 K miles and I paid 1900.
So since then I have been looking for a back seat for it that folds in to a bed. It took a couple of months and one showed up out of a Ford for $200.
He said he would take $150 over the phone. When I arrived it was a business and there was a ton of free stuff that someone had been storing that they just wanted to get rid of.
Among all the stuff was a nice RV cover I've already sold for $75.
And there is PLENTY of other stuff I will sell so the seat will be free.

BTW Incredibly the Bed/seat out of the Ford fit my Dodge perfectly. It's in perfect shape and even motorized.