YSaC, Vol. 521: Cellular, modular, interactivodular!
2009 December 20
i have three phones, a sprint, a tmobile blackberry, and a verizon flip, all in great shape hardly any scratches just o ld phones i had laying around, 70 for sprint, 50 for tmobile, 65 for verizon, 250 for all 3 call/txt with questions xxx-xxx-xxxx
Um, yes, hi there. I’m calling with a question about your three phones. They’re $70 for the Sprint one, $50 for the T-Mobile, and $65 for the Verizon one, right? Or $250 for all three? Okay, I think I’ll take all three, but I’d like to buy them each separately. Here’s $185; lovely doing business with you.
Oh, wait, I have one more question: so you just found these lying around — er, I mean had these lying around, huh?
Thanks, Corrinne!
The math is challenging. I’m sure he was including the bundling charges for putting all three phones in a bag for you.
I love it when people whose business activities of a questionable nature require them to get rid of their phones (or perhaps the phones of other people who don’t need them any more) on a regular basis, because the deals are great ones like this! What could possibly go wrong?
Well, if anything does go wrong, just take it to the phone store. Probably still under warranty.
… Makes me think of the third season of The Wire.
Not to be flip about it, but that Verizon phone doesn’t look like a flip phone to me.
It’s an env2, it does flip open, but sideways to reveal a full qwerty keyboard…
Ahh, I guess I’m a little behind on the technology curve.
Sounds great! I’ll take it!
I always thought a “flip phone” was a term used to describe the the kind that has a cover over the front that you have to flip open in order to make/receive calls.
I guess this one does sort of qualify though, given the way it opens up
http://www.itechnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/lg-env2-vx9100-verizon.jpg
I thought that too, though more recently I’ve seen those referred to as “clamshell” specifically, while “flip” covers a wider range of phones that open up.
And then there’s mine, which *slides* open instead.
Will the person buying the red one please send me Beckie’s number from the directory. This very important to me – thanks…..
“(I really hope the buyer read this)”
I’m a very hungover art historian who can barely put 2 and 2 together, and even I can tell that’s bad maths.
I can sympathise with the hungover bit. Don’t you wish the world was a much quieter place, with less bright lights? I know I do.
I think my favorite hangover quote is “The molecules of air are crashing together so loudly!”
I don’t think I’m feeling quite that bad, but perhaps not far off it.
I was horrified though when I got out of bed to see it had snowed even more over night and the sun was out. It was all just TOO BRIGHT! I almost went right back to bed there and then.
Ugh. Really wish I could go to bed…. But I get to work! Yaay…… Ugh.
I’m so hungover/still drunk that I just tried to put a handful of ice cubes into a can of Dr. Pepper. The can wasn’t even open.
Scotch on the rocks is a harsh mistress indeed.
What exactly are “o ld phones?” Originally loser devices?
Our Latest “Donations”?
Orchestral Louvres in the Dark?
i got big hands, i mean look how BIG my hand is, i canz hold 4 phones at once, who’s the man?
um, what? well its hard to count em, theyre covering my fingers,see
I love the posts with phones (and iPods) for sale that don’t include the charger. Why not just say, “When I stole this, I didn’t steal the charger too.”
Just what I was thinking. It’s ‘lying around’ in someone’s pocket or purse. Can we make a ‘probably stolen’ tab, or would that have too much stuff under it?
We definitely need that tab…except named something like, er…”Fell off a truck”?
And Irreglar Fractal, you are now eligible to have your card punched! Please see the Don’t Suck box for details.
Mimi, I really need your interpretation of this ad. Just laying around? Is he that fickle when he buys a phone, to just discard it so callously?
(Sung to the tune of I saw three ships come sailing in)
I saw three phones just lying there
On Sunday morn, on Sunday morn
I saw three phone just lying there
On Sunday morn so I stole them
I think I’ll sell ’em on Criagslist now
for 70 and 50 and 65
I think I’ll sell them on Craiglist now
all three of ’em for 250
Call or txt to questions ask
they’ve not a ding, they’ve not a scratch
Call or txt to questions ask
I’ll answer before my next purse snatch
…..
That is my interpretation of this ad. Christmas songs have a habit of popping in my head all year long but it’s particularly bad in December. 🙂
Well I’ll tell ya what, THAT is a much better song to be stuck in my head than the Banana Phone song the title of today’s post evoked.
Last time the banana phone song was stuck in my head it took 8 months to leave. Persevering little bugger.
Today’s ads: New 3G Blackberry ™; Teletracker; Ask a cat vet online now!
The first two I get. Where did the cat vet come from? Are they reading avatars now?
Why, yes, Windrose, I think they are. (I seem to be talking to myself here at this time.) *goes to play with birds while others get back from church or sober up or both*
Church?
Sober up?
No, no, I’m coming off of cold meds right now. Been stupid sick lately, and accidentally took Nyquil in the middle of the day yesterday. Knocked me out for upwards of 18 hours.
I saw that one, too. It is as if they caught on to that one about giving the cats cod-liver oil … from a couple of months ago. If they’re analyzing the avatars, I’m a little scared by that level of scrutiny …
What?!? I just tried posting this and it said “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down.”
I haven’t posted anything since this morning … hmmm.
You know, something funny was happening earlier – comments that I hadn’t given “+1” to were showing as if I had.
Not hungover here, either. Parties were earlier in the week.
I’m getting a lot of cat vet ads today, too. And Russian Singles.
I noticed that with the +1 thing when I came on earlier. I looked in on yesterdays thread for a quick read and several had no +1 option, which usually means you’ve already clicked it right? Well unless I was clicking through some special psychic power I didn’t know I had I certainly didn’t click on any yesterday as I never even turned on my PC.
curiouser and curiouser.
I was reading older posts (I’d read a lot but never back to the “In the beginning, drmk created YSAC, and it was good” post) and just had a non-connection message; server too busy or something. Maybe these things are related?
Lola,
I’m pretty sure that message was meant for me. Thanks for passing it on. 8)
I had the opposite problem last night – I tried to click on some +1s, but the link wasn’t disappearing, and after a few minutes I got an error message (I don’t remember what it was). Everything worked fine after I’d navigated away from YSaC and come back later.
My web host is doing some work on my server today. There may be intermittent connection errors. Sorry for any inconvenience.
As far as the +1 weirdness, not sure what to say about that.
well whatever was causing the +1 weirdness seems to have corrected itself, for me at least, so maybe that was something to do with the server work. I just went back at looked at yesterdays comments again and it’s fine now, all the +1s are back where they’re supposed to be.
I think you get +1 Weirdness from wearing either Pasta Armor (Fusilli) or Al’s Helm of Googly Eyes.
But most of us already have higher buffs from other items, so I wouldn’t bother with those.
I should begin this post with a disclaimer – I live in a tiny island nation at the arse end of the globe (we call it New Zild) and we don’t have Craigslist here *shock*.
That said, however, I would like to ask those of you who are familiar with the List of Craig this – when you go to post an advertisement, does it have a spambot-trap? Like, “type these letters – alfjhaelg” but instead it’s “what does 2 and 2 make”? ‘Cos I’m thinking that someone’s set it wrong, so that only people who can’t add are allowed to post.
Otherwise, I’m afeared at the ‘tardedness.
Jen,
It’s hoping to catch non-human posters. That’s the point of most Captcha (that’s a real word, I have to look at it every time I go onto the US Patent and Trademark Office site for work) and similar programs. It doesn’t say anything about addition or numbers – a machine won’t understand what it means, but a human (w/ reasonable grasp of written English) will know to type 4 or four.
That’s my take, anyway.
Lola – *blush* yeah, no, I know about them, I just wondered if Craigslist had an addition one which a negligent / disgruntled / negligently disgruntled IT monkey set wrong, so that only people who can’t add 2 and 2 together are allowed to post. ‘Cos people on CL seem unnaturally bad at counting. Which should be easy… For people… Who don’t…
*sigh* explaining a joke’s always much easier / less lame IRL. Back to my down-under lurking place.
I got the joke. 😉
And thanks for reading the site, even if you don’t have the horror/wonder of Craigslist where you are.
I also got and appreciated the joke. Look, I even gave you a +1. : ) You don’t have to leave.
I haven’t posted on CL recently enough to know if there’s a second. Considering that we have seen those auto-poster ads, people may have tried to write programs that can do one captcha but not two? Or something. Or … maybe they do it if you are posting on CL from a foreign server? I dunno.
Please don’t just lurk! Or motormouth posters like me will be all there is (dude, I try to be funny, but I’m by far NOT the best on here) and we don’t want that. Variety is better.
Please post. I like your accent.
@ drmk – how could I _not_ read the site? The crazy you uncover is hilarious and unlike anything we have here (our CL equivalent, TradeMe, is a pretty straight up auction site), so it’s like a wonderful window into another world. A world full of crazy people who can’t spell and dress up animals in weird biblical plays!
@ lola – aww bless, but that just proves you’ve never heard a kiwi (pron. koi-woi) talk. *shudder* It’s all flat vowels and run-on sentences and rising inflections. I was raised by proper-speaking, English immigrants, thank the Gods of grammar and pronunciation.
Hehe Jen
You are NOT joking about the Kiwi accent. I visited there close to 20 years ago. While on a home-stay visit we were asked if we wanted to go “teppinbollen.” It took me a good 15 minutes to figure out she was saying “ten pin bowling.” 😀
I’m actually geeky enough* that I enjoy the differences of accents and have yet to find a non-US one that is as annoying as some US ones. I’ve lived in the US Mid-Atlantic region for almost 15 years and have made a point of retaining my not-particularly-regional, general US West Coast accent rather than acquiring the local one (upstate New York, Philadelphia, and NY City, in that order) because while people can tell I’m not native, they can’t tell where I’m from and that doesn’t negatively influence their impression of me. So, your English-accented influence (I’m currently listening to streamed BBC and imagining perfect RP) would be perfectly mellifluous to me! Chat on.
*Two degrees in English and several classes in the history of English and etymology and the fact that I enjoyed them may have had something to do with this.**
**Yes, I’m inarguably geeky.
Later edit: I’ve just read this over and don’t know that it makes sense. Time for bed!
My only experience with the NZ accent comes from watching the movie “Black Sheep,” and I was too busy being freaked out by the man-eating zombie sheep to pay attention to the talking.
I should have checked to see if the person who “found” a phone lying around on the dashboard of my car tried to sell it on craigslist.
Funny thing about that is that people have actually caught thieves of their items via Craigslist.
Well, not funny “ha ha”, but funny in a “sucks to be you, asshole thief” way.
At least he/she is honest about ripping you off. LOL Buy 1 get the next two for 30 percent more.
There’s another Corrinne that reads this? Awesomes!
I’m the OP, and awesomeness abounds to see another Corrinne on the interwebs. Not just any old Corrinne but a double-r double-n Rin! Happy New Year and cheers to the double letters! 🙂