This is pretty much just a rant about the pieces of crap that walk this earth...
I have been shopping for a winter beater pickup truck, last night one popped up a craigslist, a '98 Ford Ranger, 130k miles, $1800. I called less than 30 minutes after he posted it and asked if I could check it out last night, he let me know he wouldn't be home but I could stop by and check it out.
I checked it out and it looked about as clean as an $1800 truck can be, especially in NH. For $1800 here they usually need frame repairs and or they don't have rocker panels. This thing was mint, very little rust, paint was beat, but no rust, clean interior.
Called less than an hour after my original call and told him contingent on a test drive I would like to buy it, he says he'll hold it until the next evening when I get out of work, as I was the first person to contact him and I already looked at it.
He calls me today at 11:45am and asks if I can look at it during lunch instead (told him I work about 5 minutes away), and I let him know it was too short notice, but I would definitely be there after work at 5:00. He again let me know that the truck had a lot of interest, but he would hold it for me since I was the first to contact him/initially check out the truck.
He calls me at 4:45, and tells me he sold the truck. WTF. So p1ss3d, I have been looking at trucks for 3 weeks and this was by far the best one I had seen for under $3k. I simply said "thank you" and hung up.
How can people put that little stock in their own word? Is this normal craigslist behavior?
Other one, I went to go look at a truck over the weekend that was claimed "150k miles, rust free Florida truck in north for one year, engine and transmission rebuilt 50k miles ago." I am told it is all solid, everything works, and it is in okay to good condition inside and out (guy was a senior citizen with a crappy camera, so i couldn't get any more pictures out of him). I drive an hour to look at it, car has an actual 271k miles, half the buttons on the interior don't work, every panel/cloth surface on the interior needed to be replaced, tailgate lever doesn't work, undercarriage is covered in rust, and rocker panels are completely gone? Did he think I wouldn't notice anything? Additionally, there was so much dirt, grime, and oil on the motor no way it was rebuilt 50k miles ago, unless someone shoveled a load of soil under the hood instead of into the bed.
Headed to Texas for a week, the search will continue when I get back! If I had enough vacation time I would look for a Truck down there and drive it back home.