My First Craigslist Experience

In less than a month I will be moving into my first apartment.  Naturally, this means that I’ve been doing a lot of furniture shopping.  Ideally I’d be able to afford new furniture, but in reality I am a poor college student who has had to resort to craigslist.

Craigslist is…well…interesting. People post ads to sell anything from sex to cars to furniture.   I’ve been contacting sellers all week and for some reason everything just wasn’t working out.  Either the price was being jacked up, or something just seemed “shady”, or someone else had just bought it, etc.  But eventually I came across a very good ad for an extremely gently used IKEA bed set.  Brand new this set would have cost me $500, but this was listed as only $100.  Honestly this sounded too good to be true.

So I contacted the seller, and after a little back and forth, I realized I was under a time constraint.  Whoever got to the place first, and with cash would be the recipient of the set since there were about 3-4 people wanting to view it at the same time.Mind you this was at too-early-in-the-morning-o’clock.

So I got dressed as quickly as I could,  I didn’t brush my hair, or my teeth, or anything and raced off for this persons house. I arrived about 30 seconds before this other girl who decided it was okay to push pass me towards the front door of the house.  She even tried to trip me! Needless to say I wasn’t to happy about that, but I don’t go around acting childish over silly things.  The owner of the set realized we both came at the same time so we’d have to compromise.  Of course the girl wasn’t having none of that, so we ended up flipping a coin.  And guess who won? Me!!

The girl was beyond mad, she stomped her feet like a 2 year old and ran out of the house.  She was probably equally as mad to see a parking ticket on her illegaly parked vehicle as well.  Ahh, I love karma.