I thought CL could get some flakes.
Holy cow, Letgo creates them, including me, and I pride myself in not being a flake.
I was doing some music production and collected a bunch of nice/expensive stuff. Stopped producing and wanted to liquidate. I *love* how easy it is to post stuff. I was running around the studio taking pictures and posting and picking very aggressive (low) prices just so I could quickly clean house. The replies I *should* have received (and what I would have done when I was looking for this gear) should have been like, "I'll take it! Where are you, I have cash and I'll come right now to pick it up?"
Instead, I got inundated with "Is the item still available." and "Are you negotiable." Probably 100 in less than an hour. I scrolled through to see if anyone said, "I'll take it." and not a one.
I kept getting those ridiculous canned messages so much that I just tuned-out even though I finally did get some that said they wanted it. I was so overwhelmed and put off that I never responded.
I eventually put them on CL and had everything sold in one day.
I am still getting those stupid messages on Letgo but I wont even bother to figure out how to delete the posts so it just made me a flake seller. I feel a little bad about that, but not much.
If they get rid of the canned responses, it might actually start to work but it is just too easy for people to hit a button and it doesn't move the sales process along but in fact retards it.