I work in Ann Arbor Michigan, so from there, I'm like 45 minutes or so from anywhere in metro Detroit, if I want to be. So, I'm in a area that does get a fair amount of stuff showing up on craigslist... ( still have never seen a high end pellet grill though aka FEC120 ) I did see a Yoder come up once, but that was like 3 hours from me, and I really dind't need a YS-640 with comp cart for $2000 very badly.
Recently I found a like 70's vintage upright freezer, about 16 cubic feet, the person didn't have a photo of it, but only wanted like $40, so I called. I started to figure out what I was going to need to do to go look at it and/or buy it, when the guy says... " It's in the back of my truck now, I could bring it to you". I still hadn't seen it, but he did describe it to me, so I said yeah, sure... If I would have drove to get it, it would have cost me about $10 in gas, and took about 40 minutes of my time. He was waiting in my driveway when I got home that day, helped me get it in my garage. ON that one, I had to do some cleaning, but I really like the freezer now that I got it cleaned up...
All in all, my problem with craigslist, is that if I look at it enough, I could go broke, buying good deals I see. It does help , if your able and willing to fix things yourself... Like that Subway refrigerator... If I wouldn't have been able to fix that myself, it wouldn't have been a very good deal.. other then I had other ideas about what I could use it for, even if the compressor had been completely fried on it.
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