Comments on: 10 Ways To Avoid Getting Burned Car Shopping On Craigslist http://www.ridelust.com/10-ways-to-avoid-getting-burned-car-shopping-on-craigslist/ Cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs, skateboards and all manner of vehicles Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:29:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: tech4computer http://www.ridelust.com/10-ways-to-avoid-getting-burned-car-shopping-on-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-11948 tech4computer Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:21:27 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=13709#comment-11948 Good article. It covers all the points of buying car off craigslist or any similar web listing. Although I just come across your article but when I was shopping for car on Craigslist I followed almost all of the points you mentioned. Lot of car ads on craigslist are just scams. Out of laziness and to save me lot of time I created a Firefox Extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6142 ) for personal use and later released it for public. This extension covers some of your points: 1. Know the value of the car Gives idea of price range, provides easy links to kbb and other sites. Shows price from automotive and also on top shows what other people on craigslist are selling same model/year car for. 4. Ask about known problems, damage, noises Shows car Recall information for the particular car. Shows MSN car reliability information which tells frequent issues of the car. 5. Check all local craigslists Again it shows list of ads of same car model/year on top. 8. Watch out for signs of a scam Creates easy link on top to search for given phone number on all craigslist to see if seller is selling other stuff also. This is useful to find out if the person is reseller or is moving etc. Highlights on top if the car was in accident or is a rebuilt. 9. Research commons problems with the car Again MSN reliability info is shown. Shows owner Reviews of car. Car Reviews are very useful as that gives good idea of what to expect from that particular car. Also shows useful information from Edmunds. Basically all the information is on one page, right along side the actual ad. Saves user many clicks of research effort. I guess I made a long comment. Good article. It covers all the points of buying car off craigslist or any similar web listing.
Although I just come across your article but when I was shopping for car on Craigslist I followed almost all of the points you mentioned. Lot of car ads on craigslist are just scams. Out of laziness and to save me lot of time I created a Firefox Extension ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6142 ) for personal use and later released it for public.

This extension covers some of your points:
1. Know the value of the car
Gives idea of price range, provides easy links to kbb and other sites. Shows price from automotive and also on top shows what other people on craigslist are selling same model/year car for.

4. Ask about known problems, damage, noises
Shows car Recall information for the particular car. Shows MSN car reliability information which tells frequent issues of the car.

5. Check all local craigslists
Again it shows list of ads of same car model/year on top.

8. Watch out for signs of a scam
Creates easy link on top to search for given phone number on all craigslist to see if seller is selling other stuff also. This is useful to find out if the person is reseller or is moving etc.
Highlights on top if the car was in accident or is a rebuilt.

9. Research commons problems with the car
Again MSN reliability info is shown. Shows owner Reviews of car. Car Reviews are very useful as that gives good idea of what to expect from that particular car. Also shows useful information from Edmunds.

Basically all the information is on one page, right along side the actual ad. Saves user many clicks of research effort.
I guess I made a long comment.

]]> By: DORIS HARRINGTON http://www.ridelust.com/10-ways-to-avoid-getting-burned-car-shopping-on-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-8400 DORIS HARRINGTON Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:34:36 +0000 http://www.ridelust.com/?p=13709#comment-8400 i will try those inspection thank you i am just starting to look i will try those inspection thank you i am just starting to look

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