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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MyLittlePony" data-source="post: 1580380" data-attributes="member: 11359">I STILL refuse to sign up for Facebook. I still check listings on Craigslist from time to time. But just like with car forums, Facebook has destroyed Craigslist traffic, so not as much activity as once was. But even back then and now, Craigslist was always flooded with dealer listings. They started charging a fee in 2019, which greatly reduced the amount of dealer ads and scammers, but you still get the WTB ads where there is an SEO keyword list of vehicles at the bottom, and a willingness to trade. Most normal folk just want to sell their car because they got a new one, and they thought they could do better than a dealer trade in. They don’t want someone else’s car. But you know who does? Dealers.They’re worth the fee if you’re a small dealership who has maybe 20-50 cars on the lot, but it’s almost amusing the lengths they go through. For example, I was looking at a few kei cars, and was surprised to discover how local they were. I then discovered the same pictures when searching elsewhere online, and found out that it was a local small dinky used car dealer. In fact, I think they are two different dealerships using the same building and lot. I even discovered the nearby neighborhood they drove one of the cars to in order to take pics. They didn’t want you to think they were a dealer. Yesterday I decided to check them all out, and they had all three (they had several kei cars) all parked next to each other, making it easy to compare the three.So a few weeks ago, I discovered the listings, thought it was cool that they were local, then more recently found it suspicious that all three were in the same town with the same phone number. I also had noticed that they would pull the listing every week or two to lower the price. I bet these cars are on marketplace too. In person, they’re pretty disappointing considering the price. Hard to tell that from the pics. The one decent one has pretty DANGEROUS cracks on the sidewall of the tires. The other two were repainted, badly, looking like ricers from the Y2K era modified whatever they could, then let both sit in the Texas sun for two decades. Oh… …and no tread life left on the wheels because they be drift kings, no cap, all rizz, straight fire and bussin.</blockquote>