craigslist gave me a big sloppy kiss last week.

i had made the mistake of buying the wrong type of RAM for my work computer on my own dime a couple weeks ago. newegg wouldn’t let me return it (whoops), so Plan A involved me checking out all the computers at work to see if any of them could use it. (cpu-z works great for this; a shame i hadn’t used it on my machine in the first place!). When that failed, I switched to Plan B: pretend you didn’t buy the RAM in the first place. What’s $25 anyway? That plan failed too when I noticed the two unused sticks out of the corner of my eye one friday afternoon. Plan C: try to sell it on craigslist. Who’s going to want to buy almost-out-of-date RAM for $15, I wondered?

5 Emails later, I was struggling to separate the wheat from the chaff, prospective-purchaser wise. Candidate #1 expressed interest but wasn’t responsive when it came to setting up a time and place for purchase. Candidate #2 wanted to drive up from Auburn because he was rebuilding a friend’s system. He’d pay $20 but understood he was second on the list. (first come first serve, right?) Candidate #3 wanted to pick it up RIGHT NOW. And offered $25. And was planning on driving down from Everett on Friday night. I resisted the urge to tell everyone that this RAM was available online, new, for $25 including shipping. Seriously, who are these people? I suggested Saturday morning instead.

So that got me thinking. How many other things that I own but don’t use would turn a profit on craigslist? The rollerblades Sean likes to tease me about? The RAID array that isn’t even plugged in? My old Carleton sweatshirt? Just kidding. There’s no way i’m getting rid of that.

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