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CL posters are in need of a reality check

taylormarie923taylormarie923 member
in October 2013 Moms

Painting a wooden piece of furniture off-white and sanding the edges a bit then calling it "shabby chic" does not make you piece of crap furniture worth $500! 

Short and sweet rant over.

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  • reneeandbillreneeandbill
    I hate when they put something up for sell for $10 under retail price and have way more than $10 worth of wear and tear on the product.
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  • taylormarie923taylormarie923 member
    I hate the ones that post a really low amount in the title and then you read the post and they want an exorbitant amount for it.  It is like they want you to pay them for the hard work they put into painting it even though I know full well I am going
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  • tmccord21tmccord21 member
    I was looking for an old dresser to refinish myself. Living in NY people think everything is god damn antique and they put a crappy old dresser up on CL for $250. I've decided to just get one from ikea and put some nice anthropologie knobs on it and call
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  • taylormarie923taylormarie923 member

    Yep, I think I am going with an Ikea dresser as well.  I will check out goodwill first to see if they have anything, but I refuse to spend more than $50 on a DIY project or it just isn't worth my time.  Plus DH has already started complaining

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  • norbert5norbert5 member
    My most recent experience CL was renting a house. Never been so aggravated in my life.

    There was one place we really liked it was 500 dollars more a month then anything else comparable in the area. We tried to talk her down to something more
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  • yesthisiskim0401yesthisiskim0401 member
    imageNRyan55:

    I love when people are trying to sell expensive furniture on CL:

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  • sleepy33sleepy33 member
    imagetaylormarie923:

    Yep, I think I am going with an Ikea dresser as well.  I will check out goodwill first to see if they hav

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  • taylormarie923taylormarie923 member
    imagesleepy33:

    Ugh, my IKEA envy knows no bounds. We are getting one in Kansas City, but not until 2014. Christmas before last, whe

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  • BeachMama7693BeachMama7693 member

    I know someone who literally does this for a living. She buys ten dollar dressers at garage sales and other places, distresses them and sells them for hundreds of dollars. They don't even look that wonderful... But people actually buy it.

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