Craigslist- Would this make you feel weird?

newmom2londyn

I posted DD's exersaucer on Craigslist for $30. Some lady responded. We emailed back and forth for a few days until she finally called last night asking to come see it. We gave her the address and she never showed, didnt call back, nothing. Now I know this happens a lot on CG but for some reason my husband said he got the heebie jeebies from talking to her and now I am feeling a tad uncomfortable that this lady has my address, knows there is a baby in the house and just disappeared after seeming so genuinely interested in the exersaucer. I dont want to overreact and me THAT mom, but this is why I told DH to put extra security locks on DD's windows once we transitioned her to her crib. Would you be concerned? For those of you who have sold on CG before, how did you carry out the transaction??

sophabelle

that is a bit creepy, but i'm sure it's just one of those spacey buyers who has no manners and backed out or didn't show for whatever reason.

 

we try to if at all possible, meet in a neutral location rather than have people come to our house when we sell stuff on craiglist.  i just get creeped out having strangers in my house.  its even worse now that we have a baby lol.  

 

i would just make sure to be aware of your surroundings, keep your doors locked, and just try not to go crazy worrying.  

mommytobe2009

That is happened to me also but I would still be extra cautious.  Call her back.

JOEBunny

Your son has about an equal chance of being attacked by a shark as kidnapped by a random stranger.  Only 200 kids are kidnapped by strangers each year, almost none of them babies.  I would not worry about that.  I meet people who want craigslist things at starbucks or another busy place.  I don't have them to my house, but that kind of thing happens to my neighbor all the time.  She sells lots of stuff on CL.

fairychick77

I answered you on 3-6 as well....

I would have met in a neutral place instead of having her come over to the house. You just never know with people these days.

Did you try to call her back? Maybe something happened?

moonfaerie

Most likely it's what FI and I call window shoppers. We deal with CL a lot, and have both had people flake out on getting stuff from us and we flake out on getting stuff from people all the time. It's just the nature of doing business on CL. We have the intention of getting whatever it is, but then we spend too much on groceries, or L is fussy so we don't feel like taking her out in public, or any number of things causes people to flake out.

That being said, FI is also very paranoid about baby-stealers (there were a couple of big stories in the news about pg women being murdered for their babies right after I got pg the first time) so we don't have people come to our home anymore. He has people call when they're on the way to the meeting location and then he leaves to meet them. We usually do the parking lot at the mall by our house.

NewFamily09

Did she say something specific that sounded creepy?  If not, I wouldn't read too much into it.  She probably found another exersaucer or decided she wasn't interested and didn't have the courtesy to call and tell you.  Definitely a rude thing to do, but not suspicious in and of itself.  If she wanted to find someone with a baby to kidnap, she doesn't need to go on craigslist.  She could drive my lots of houses and tell which ones have kids (cars in driveway with carseats in them, toys in yard, etc.) Of course, extra locks can't hurt.