What's your record for the most remote Craigslist responder?

[Torz Johnson]

I don't mean a person inquiring if you would ship the item to them. I mean somebody who is ready to drive over and pick up your guitar.

Your location is clearly shown in the ad. My previous record was a guy 300 miles away but he was at least in the same state.

Last night I had a guy ready to come over to my office (in New York's Hudson Valley) today and pick up the guitar. When I gave him the address he said he couldn't make it because he was in TEXAS.

Depending on where in Texas, it could be 2000 miles. That's my record. Beat that.

 

[Lonn]

I'm in Indiana and have a guy from Cincinnati that wants one of my guitars but that's only about 115 miles. He also wants me to drive a tad towards him though. Not sure that's going to happen.

 

[stxrus]

It wasn’t a guitar but they had to drive almost two miles to get to my house. I gave a gas stove to a young couple just starting out. It did my heart good to help someone out

it’s my only Craig’s List add. And the island is only about 27x8 miles. So, not that far

 

[teleman1]

It wasn’t a guitar but they had to drive almost two miles to get to my house. I gave a gas stove to a young couple just starting out. It did my heart good to help someone out

it’s my only Craig’s List add. And the island is only about 27x8 miles. So, not that far

Yep. now they can make a proper living cooking the crack.

 

[schmee]

Sold a Pro Reverb to a guy maybe 300 miles away in Oregon. I sent him an invoice via Paypal stating the item and the terms. In a lot of ways that's no different than selling on Ebay. We talked on the phone for a time and I think we were both confident that buyer and seller were real people who knew about the amp etc.

 

[Toto'sDad]

I don't mean a person inquiring if you would ship the item to them. I mean somebody who is ready to drive over and pick up your guitar.

Your location is clearly shown in the ad. My previous record was a guy 300 miles away but he was at least in the same state.

Last night I had a guy ready to come over to my office (in New York's Hudson Valley) today and pick up the guitar. When I gave him the address he said he couldn't make it because he was in TEXAS.

Depending on where in Texas, it could be 2000 miles. That's my record. Beat that.

I didn't drive there specifically to buy the guitar, but responded to an ad in Arkansas because I was going there anyway, from California. It was about a hundred and fifty mile round trip out of my way though. The guy when I got there sent his son in law to meet me with the guitar. The pics must have been taken when he first bought the guitar, the guitar they were showing me needed a fret job before it would be playable. Didn't really make me angry, typical CL stuff, I just enjoyed the drive back to where I got back on my route to where I was going.

 

[Rustbucket]

I drove 127 miles each way to Green Valley, AZ to buy a AV58 from @Texicaster. My furthest as a buyer.

it was a nice rainy day drive through the Sonoran Desert with my kids, and a good deal on a great lightweight Tele.

 

[dmitri]

I had a guy drive from Boston, MA, to Lancaster, PA. Now frankly, I think he was taking a vacation in Amish country while hae was here, but i still found it wild. Funny thing was that the guitar was just a Squier Classic Vibe 60s Strat.

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[Texicaster]

I drove 127 miles each way to Green Valley, AZ to buy a AV58 from @Texicaster. My furthest as a buyer.

it was a nice rainy day drive through the Sonoran Desert with my kids, and a good deal on a great lightweight Tele.

Glad you're still happy with that '58! I miss its growl!

 

[getbent]

I drove to Sac (130 miles maybe) to pick up a PA that my brother in law bought (he lives in socal) and then drove it down to him (360 miles)... it was a really good deal (for my brother in law) and I got lots of credit with my big sister who is important to me.

 

[BB]

I live about 20 miles south of Seattle. Had a fella drive from Portland, Or to buy an Ibanez Jet King. Shipped an accordion to a fella in San Diego and a guitar to a fella in Sacramento.

 

[SixStringSlinger]

I was the buyer. I drove about 150mi. each way (about 5 hours round-trip) for an '80's Korean Squier Tele with a Bigsby being sold for $150

I later turned it into this, so I'd call it a decent investment.

 

[PeterUK]

4273 miles.

I'm in Nottingham, England but was heading to Orlando on vacation and Orlando CL had a Warmoth baritone neck for sale.

I arrange to meet the guy before I left, he did have the neck and didn't kill me and I have a fabulous baritone Thinline.

Do I win?

 

[stxrus]

Yep. now they can make a proper living cooking the crack.

No, just a young couple that found a badly damaged Maria house. The roof had been repaired but thief’s had taken all the appliances.
The owner said they could live there for free for a year if they would just do some fix up. I gave them a stove, they got a small refrigerator, a small generator and the rest is history.
The owner sold them the property for $25,000.00 (owner financed for 10 years. When the owner died last year his will gave the property to the couple free and clear.

 

[P Thought]

I drove to Portland and back, 400 miles, for my Takamine F-400S. I called the guy probably 10 times on the way to let him know I was still coming, and make sure he hadn't sold it. Might have been a bit much on his end.

 

[kingofdogs1950]

I met a guy half way between Austin and Houston at a Micky Ds. I had a non-working Trace Elliot TA100 amp and he had a MIM strat. We traded straight across.
The strat was a nice guitar but I sold it later.
No idea if the amp fix was easy or not.

Markrkrk

 

[Masmus]

It wasn’t on Craigslist but I once bought an old Homa caster online for my Marshall from Scotland and had it shipped to me in California, two months earlier I had walked past that store while on vacation.

 

[mugen74]

I live in Ohio, guy somewhere in Tennessee wanted to drive up and buy an old SVT Focus I was selling. Whatever, it’s his time and money, but then it got sketchy and I pulled the plug. Sold it to a guy three miles away.

jh

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

My brother in Ottawa sometimes finds stuff on our Pittsburgh Craigslist and I go get it for him. Not quite the same as you're asking. Amps tend to be undervalued here in Pittsburgh, and pedals tend to be undervalued in Ottawa, so we both constantly check each other's Craigslist/Kijiji.

I guess the furthest I've gone was maybe an hour outside of Pittsburgh for a Marshall Mini Jubilee at a great price. I took a dirt road for several miles, then turned onto a smaller dirt road for a few more miles, then down a dirt path that served as a driveway. As I pulled up I realized it would be the perfect location to lure an unsuspecting city slicker for nefarious purposes. I didn't even get cell reception. Turns out the guy was going through a divorce and put a trailer on some land he had in the woods, and he couldn't have been nicer.