YSaC, Vol. CI — update
Since I queued up the post for the CIth edition of You Suck at Craigslist last week, there have been more recent developments. Just a reminder: the starting asking price was $650.
First, there was an added reference to the pictures:
Extra Large Leather Recliner – $650
Extra large brown leather recliner, great shape. Has a few MINOR spots nothing major. Handels a little chewed up and theres some worn spots but other than that its in great condition. Will saddel soap it upon buying. Same chair is going for 900+ dollars. THIS IS A GREAT DEAL! Cash only.
*Only pictures I have are of my husband sitting in the chair, please no rude emails.
I can’t imagine that anyone would have said anything rude about those pictures. People are so barbaric.
Anyway, the next day the price drops $150 and it becomes “beautiful” with some “fadding”:
Beautiful leather recliner – $500
Beautiful brown leather recliner. My husband and I are redecorating and it doesn’t fit with our new stuff. Its a king size/extra large recliner. Its in great shape, has some fadding but no tears or holes. Handel is a little chewed up but nothing that can’t be fixed. Recliner sells for over $900, thats a $400 savings! Cash only please! It needs to go ASAP!
Only pictures I have are the ones with my husband, please no rude comments.
The recliner sells for over $900 when it doesn’t smell of cigarette smoke and feet. But don’t mind me.
Next it gets posted along with another piece of furniture; price has dropped again, this time a moderate price drop to $450. This time, she explicitly and hilariously states that her husband is not for sale.
Brown Leather Recliner @ Small desk/Vanity
My husband and I are redecorating and need to get rid of these two peices. The recliner is a king size brown leather recliner, good shape, no holes or tares. the handel is a little banged up but nothing major. Asking $450
The desk has 3 large drawers on the side and one above the chair, its been used as a vanity (we added a mirror) which can be left on or removed due to prefrence. Asking $120 (chair,desk & mirror if wanted)
The only pictures of the recliner I have are with my husband sitting it it. And no hes not for sale so dont ask. Theses peices need to go ASAP
You’d think by now she’d have realized that those pictures weren’t doing her any favors in the “selling the recliner” department.
And then a day later:
Leather Recliner – $300
Leather recliner its a stratolounger great shape, no holes or tears. $300 Cash and carry. Its a king size.
Only pics I have ot it are with my husband sitting in it. Please no emails about him.
comes apart into 2 sections…MUST GO ASAP, getting new stuff and I don’t have the room for it
… and that’s where we are now. From $650 to $300. I can’t imagine why it’s not selling.
Poor George Frideric! Chewed, banged up, and “nothing major”… apparently that house isn’t a good place to be a baroque composer.
If they were going to beat up a Baroque composer, they could have gone for Pachelbel. Nobody would have minded.
This comment thread is making me howl. And also recognize that we are three of the biggest nerds on earth, but, you know: worth it. Love the blog.
FTFY. 😀
I think I’m missing a joke here… I like the Canon, but don’t know much about Pachelbel beyond that.
There IS no Pachelbel beyond that.
Clearly the woman does not own a camera to take more pictures. That or she’s enjoying the ‘rude’ emails, and the emails asking if her husband is for sale.
If she wanted to take more pictures, she should have bought Pachelbel’s Canon.
Or traded for one with some wassermusik–oh wait, wrong decomposer . . . dang!
Have to blame:
As all my brain can offer up is a middle-school woodwind section cuisinart-ing up GFH, if with great gusto.
I thought that was probably the joke… but I dont’ know as much about Baroque music as I thought.
Anyway, I gotta go repair my bike. The Vivaldibar keeps coming loose.
Pachelbel Rant, by Rob Paravonian. This will explain a lot.
Oh she has the camera to take more pictures, alright. No, the point is that her husband NEVER gets up from the chair, so she can never take photos of the chair except with her husband in it. 😉
Ah, so his name will be Onslow; and hers Daisy then.
I like how they used an ‘at ( @ )’ sign in place of an ampersand. “Brown leather recliner @ small desk/vanity”
Amusing.
So is the husband for sale?
Probably by now, but where would you put him? He’s king size, after all.
I only buy chairs that come with people in them.
I only buy chairs made of people.
Not a tannery I’d want to know about.
Even if Discovery Channel already has a Dirty Jobs audition tape.
Just: NO!
I prefer chairs made of human skin, stuffed with people, that come with people sitting in them.
I have high standards.
When my sister was looking to get rid of her couch on Facebook, the picture she used was one of her infant son sitting on the couch. Several people asked if the baby came with the couch. It became a running joke.
The difference is that these people know my sister. She only friends people she knows on FB. That and my nephew is adorable.
How much did she get for him? 8)
Uh… the couch is a stationary object. I assume her husband isn’t glued to it, if she can post multiple ads for the couch would it be so hard to take another picture?
Okay, Hammy, Punchity Punch Punch. Sit! Stay! Good doggie!
G’Night, New Albany!
I’m confused. So…someone is willing to pay money for that guy? I mean, maybe if she reduced the price…maybe threw in the chair with the sale. And the vanity. But…*just him*? What is this world coming to. …
Wait.
Don’t answer that.
/me sighs.