No way. If the deal is good, by the time you post the seller has 10+ calls. Good deals get pounced on immediately. However, if you post and then seller gets 100 calls in addition to the origial 10+ it could very well kill the deal.

It can't help, it can only hurt.

I highly doubt this. You are saying, that a smoking deal was posted to craigslist, then posted about on pinside. Then, someone on pinside saw the deal, called and got it at the advertised price? it's damn near impossible. There is no way the pinsider was first, and after being posted to pinside the persons responses will increase at least 10 times.

When people from all over the country start trying to buy the item, the seller wises up and the deal is gone for everyone.

For every person who is registered and participating in this site, there are 100's of lurkers. You are potentially blowing a deal to help a bunch of lurkers, not pinsiders.

No man, your not lying, but your situation has nothing to do with the topic. You're friend didn't get the deal because it was posted on pinside, he got the deal because you knew the seller. So, I guess I misunderstood what you said.

What we are talking about here are smoking craigslist deals being posted to pinside. By the time it's posted, the seller already has a ton of responses. Even after it's posted, you are helping out a ton of lurkers and only a very small handful of "pinsiders". Then the seller gets messages from all around the world, people offering more money etc and nobody gets the deal.

Not true at all. In your "looking out for oneself" scenario, someone has a shot at a game for a great price. In your "looking out for others" scenario, nobody gets a game at all.

In the process of looking out for one person, you are actually screwing another.

You can keep citing the exception, that one time where posting on piside indirectly helped someone. You inferred that it happens all the time, it doesn't.

I thought that's what the thread was about. Games that are insanely cheap. If the price is fair, the ad is goofy, the game is overpriced, whatever are not what we are talking about. Post away.

What about this scenario. What about a scenario where a pinsider was the first caller and was promised a great deal on a pin, but the seller wouldn't let them pick it up for a couple days. Then, another pinsider for the good of all pinsiders posts the deal. One day after the deal is posted, and one day before the pinsider was suppose to pick up the game the seller backs out and states that around the time it was posted on pinside they got bombarded and have changed their mind.

Post, don't post, you are going to do what you want anyway. But to think for a second that your helping anyone is illogical. Of course it can happen, but the vast majority of the time you are exposing the deal to people who will kill it.

I agree. Unfortunately, it seems more and more that sellers aren't keeping to their word. I found a decent craigslist deal, and they accepted my paypal over the phone. Their word was one thing, but once you take money the deal is done. Long story short, they run a boho auction anyway and end up with a couple hundred more. My price was actually pretty fair, since their auction didn't yield much more money, the game was pretty rough, needed board work etc. I actually had to fight to get all my money back.

Just one so far, and there are always exceptions.

In the end, yes, it takes a crappy seller to screw you out of a deal. But when the phone rings non stop, they then think they are sitting on gold and that's when the silliness begins.