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Comment by em-bee

2 years ago

the reseller could have been honest:

"why don't you post it on craigslist?"

"don't want to deal with the scum there."

"mind if i buy it off you and then post it?"

"go ahead, and good luck."

Exactly. Maybe the top-level poster says something like "Oh if you're going to clean it and re-sell it for a profit, I'd rather hold out to see if another coworker actually needs the car, because I also like the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing it's helping them.

"Oh, well what if I told you the $500-1000 I think I can get from taking that work off your hands and re-selling it would really help me out"

"That makes sense. Sold"

See how easy this is without the sleaziness of lying?