Nothing grinds my gears more on CL then having to sift through hundreds of "Sell me your broken or used arcades, top dollar paid!" posts when trying to see what's out there.

Douchebags are everywhere. Unfortunately they’re even tougher behind their keyboards.

Interesting study on CL flagging.
https://clflaggingexpert.net/how-to-avoid-craigslist-flagging-and-ghosting/

Assuming you want the games to use yourself, and prefer them in fair to good condition, then flagger = jerk. He (most likely correct pronoun) thinks Craigslist is his own personal supply of games to buy super cheap and flip.

Actually, even if you want to flip too, flagger = jerk. You'll have to continue to flag him until detente can be achieved.

Is this pinball dude a Pinsider? Is he involved with the Houston Arcade and Pinball Expo?

Yep, happens all the time. All the flippers spend all day flagging other WTB ads.

Yes, he is on PS.

This should be fun......

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Really? I've met the guy once when I bought a populated playfield from him, seemed like a real nice guy. Didn't get the feeling that he would do stuff like that.

Too many random weirdos on Craigslist...

Sucks man, not sure why people act like that. I've always wondered if those types of ads actually bear fruit.

CL chicago is just as bad. Wanted ads for a specific game, or like yours for system 11s, make sense. But a never ending barrage of general wanted ads over and over gets old.

Happens in Michigan as well. Even if you are very specific and only advertise you want a particular pin they can get flagged. Ive heard complaints from friends about nasty emails from experts and price police then their for sale ads get flagged.

Try posting an ad to sell your game for a fair price and have some asshole pirate your pics and post another ad for your machine with your pics and contact info for half of what it is worth! Got to meet a whole lot of new people! Really shitty move and I pretty much knew who it was that did it. Craig's List is full people that will do you harm and you are probably rubbing elbows with some of them. The good thing that came about was I sold the game for my asking price to one of them!

yeah and the funny thing is I met a bunch of cool people calling me. They all flagged the ad so it got taken down within hours.

I personally don't believe it is him. I had wanted ads several years and mine got flagged.

I gave up on Craigslist years ago because of flagging. And Craigslist does nothing about it

Well, he is using many of the techniques mentioned on the link in post 5 to keep his ads up. Doesn't mean he is the one flagging your ads.

Did you post an ad with your phone number? If so, try one without it.

Seriously, it may not be him. I know plenty of people that flag non-dealer wtb ads. Their feeling is they keep people from listing stuff for sale. As a buyer, it evens the playing files if people post stuff for sale instead of contacting a dealer.

Could be anyone.

Michigan has to be the CL pinball spamming and flagging center of the universe. There’s at least 5 well-known people (all of whom are active on some level here) that flag every ad they can while spamming their WTB posts. It’s juvenile and irritating.

I have to say every game I have bought, came from Craigslist. I have not had any problems buying or selling there.

Maybe just lucky I guess...

Craigslist is pretty much dying the same death Mr. Pinball has. I have far far better luck selling on other mediums...like Facebook Marketplace. CL is nearly dead these days.

Well as crazy as this may sound I do not have a Facebook account never have so if you do not have an account on Facebook can you still look around and see what's for sale there

Every want to buy pinball ad I've ever seen wanted to buy games that already exist on craigslist. People with want to buy pinball ads don't want to buy pinballs, they want to buy pinballs for a certain price and are hoping to get lucky.

Yeah this ^^ is what I have seen around here. Maybe if they would just be honest and say “ wanted to buy X machine for a fraction of what it is worth” then all of the rest of us might be forgiving.

I’m not on the fb, but my wife is

So anytime I post something on cl, I forward the ad so she can crosspost on fb

Unbelievable the amount of replies from fb over cl....and the hygiene of fb users is superior as well

The two types of ads I flag on Craigslist:

The idiot who posts the exact same ad every day, day in day out to the local area and five surrounding areas without removing the old ads.

The idiot who posts ads for items that have nothing to do with pinball but puts pinball as one of the search terms.

I think it's a matter of principle. We ALL want cheap pinball machines, if we all posted like you do, it would be stupid so most of us don't. Surely you can understand that it's underhanded to post a want to buy ad for something that is already for sale just for the hopes of luring in a sucker, right?

It's not a crime or anything, but neither is flagging the ad so...

I’ve ran want to buy ads when... I have cash to buy and nothing I want is for sale. And three or four times it has worked. Most of the time I get emails about em machines. But honestly I have never gotten an email about a game that was already for sale. So I don’t really agree with your post at all.

Getting an ad pulled from being flagged is actually hard. It's an algorithm so I'm not sure anyone knows how many people have to flag it before it gets pulled, but your add annoyed at least 5 or 6 people. One person with an axe to grind can't get an ad pulled.

Also, I know that once an ad gets pulled from flags, subsequent flags have more weight.

Been an ongoing war on my local CL

raleigh.craigslist.org link

raleigh.craigslist.org link