Just like the paper print Auto Trader went to crap with ONLY listings from dealerships and consignment places so has Craigslist. Search up anything on CL and a lot of unrelated stuff comes up as well as "I buy vintage cars, motorcycles..." FB Marketplace and FB groups are the hot ticket right now but give them time and I sure they'll go the way of Auto Trader and CL.

Scammers have invaded every selling place, from personal experience, but I've had very few on CL.
Then again, very few responses to my CL ads even on smokin' deals.
Local guys seem to think I should deliver the parts or give 'em away.
A lot of the FB ads seem to invite the armchair experts who haven't bought anything since the 1970s.
So I've resisted doing much there because I hate wasting my time.
I prefer to buy/sell here; I've had a couple guys flake out, but 95% of the time things go well.

I have watched my local CL for 12 years very frequently, I sort the cars for sale by owner and have watched the total number available for as long, it usually hovered around 1000 cars at any given time and was slowly increasing, then they started charging $5 for an add and it dropped down overnight to around 300 cars and has fluctuated around that number ever since. I have seen it go just under 200 back in late winter and early spring this year, the lowest I have ever seen it and now it currently sits back up at 321. I buy and sell cars on there frequently and check it most every single day.

I hate facebook market place, I always try to sell stuff and get a million messages "is this item still available" I reply "yes, any questions I can answer for you or do you want to come take a look?" and NEVER get a response. I can't sort adds by price, or how old the add is, I find stuff 1000 miles away, I frequently get one of my friends asking me if I saw XYZ car and I can never find them on there even if I actually happened to see it before and none of the cars I saw before are ever findable again... I guess I am too old to get it. CL is soooooooo much easier to find what I want.

it happened years ago.

I didn't even realize they were charging for ads now. I went there for the first time in a couple years looking for some Ford SB Windsor parts and couldn't find anything. This explains it.

shouldn't this be in proper forum .. mods have special treatment

Only cars for sale adds are payed. It certainly weeded out tons of complete garbage and re-posts of the same exact add every day. It is really much easier to find stuff now and I have much better luck selling my stuff because it ain't 10 pages deep by the end of the day, I am happy they charge for cars for sale, the $5 is very much worth it and yes I was very upset about it at first because I hate being charged for something I am used to getting free but a lot of times you get much better results from something you pay for instead of what your getting for free.

I have had good luck selling Mopar parts on Craig's list..
Make the ad simple, good pictures, competitive price.
Yes, like e-bagger U get the tire kickers but filter out the calls..

Just my $0.02...

Craigslist is a snakepit of thieves, scammers and killers. I wouldnt buy OR sell anything on there. I tried selling on there and nothing but weird phone calls. Weird scammer requests/questions. I tell them to meet me at my city police station to do a deal and don't hear from them again.

I am not selling anything nor am I buying anything. Therefore isn't this the proper forum to ask this question? It isn't a what's it worth and there are no links. It was a simple question. Sheeesh.

In a way but ive learned not to......

I have a couple of items on CL .......

Lately .... all I’ve gotten are severe lowballers and time wasters

And will say I use FB and C/L. haven't checked out letgo or others but may eventually

I still use CL but I get more scammers than ever. Still sells though. Not on FB but I hear good things when it comes to buying and selling.
I used let go a couple times. I can’t remember why I stopped.
KID

I agree. Hated it at first. Though, it’s okay. Needs improvements and more transparency.

I believe this sums it up.
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For things you SEE on Ebay , Craigslist , Racingjunk "no posting your own ads" and What is it Worth Questions

i seem to get 0 response from real people on craigslist.
i had hit or miss response on facebook.
ebay hasn't been that bad if you can ship. if you can't ship it usually won't sell.

my example
for the last 8 months i have had a drivers door from a 2020 chevy silverado, it fits 18-19-20 and probably 21 trucks,. there is a small easily repairable dent above the door handle. this door new list is close to $1K, i think dealer cost is around $600..
i have had is listed on craigslist , face book and ebay for 8 months for $250. i have had 0 replies on craigslist. 0 replies on face book with only 10 views. and lots of offers to buy if i could ship it at that price.
one of the problems with facebook is i think they restrict who sees your ads unless you pay $$$ to boost your listings. i constantly get messages like for $10 453 people will see your ad.

the door is made out of aluminum. i have been thinking of just recycling it, but i still have the storage space. the greedy person inside of me says you are crazy to flush $$$ down the crapper. i am thinking if it doesn't sell at Iola swap next year i will just recycle it.

Craigslist is almost pointless now. Very little traffic on there.

Unfortunately, everyone is on Facebook. I hate it, but you have to go where the people are looking to sell stuff.

Ebay is great for buying, but horrible for selling. With all the fees, it makes me sick to see what it "cost" me to sell something on there.

Not to mention shipping is CRAZY high. It cost $21 to send a distributor cap to VA from SC.

There are several issues I see affecting that knid of add. Most people with a 2018-21 truck have a very nice condition very low miles truck and will not want a used door installed especially if it needs work, maybe if it didn't need work and was already the color they had it would sell faster but even that is a needle in a hay stack. That leads to the next point, shipping, got to be willing to ship it to reach a larger audience and even then the rate you get will probably be significantly higher than someone who ships tons of new body parts so the price gets closer. Body shops are also going to try to sell a new door most of the time because they make more money prepping and installing it and they know that owners of such a new truck either have the money or the insurance so...? I have never had luck selling used body parts that are not PERFECT and ready to bolt on in a common color on a common car, you at least have the common car covered but not the rest of it.

Also as far as scammers on craigslist, I started putting my phone number like this 260 8596 and have not got a scammers attention since then, the bots don't know my area code, they can't decode my spelled out numbers or anything and if someone is local they already know my area code, it is the only one around and the whole point of CL is to sell stuff locally, I don't look on CL for baseball cards in kansas. I suppose if you lived somewhere they had multiple area codes you could do something like "### is my/the area code then dial 260 8596" the bots would never finger it out. Remember to put more spaces than needed between the numbers, this requires smarter bots to finger that out also. If an actual person is too dumb to figure this out you probably don't want to try and sell them stuff anyhow.

Also don't use the phone number feature on CL, just put it in the add like I described and don't bother with the e-mail thingy, I never get a reply when I send someone an e-mail, it is like CL replies are automatically blocked or something.