Ahh.. It all makes sense now. After recently trying to sell my car on craigslist I received at least 20 emails of the same nature: vague, never a specific label of what they actually wanted to inquire of mine, and very interestingly using ASAP. Almost every one used that term... hm.
Anyways I knew by the broken english and vague response it was a scam but never knew how they intended on pulling it off.
They would ask for a paypal account to send funds too immediately without even seeing the car. I never did give them my paypal account as I didn't intend on wasting my time of getting faulty payments etc.
But before I permanently deleted these contacts, I wanted to see if I could actually talk to one. I gave them all my number (it was in the add anyway) and told them before I can release my paypal info they have to call me.
The responses were priceless! 7-10 of them were in the navy deployed at sea and didn't have a phone (none of them knew each other surprisingly) a few were government officials who worked in such high level jobs that they couldn't be caught on the phone(but can buy cars on craigslist interestingly enough) and the last one claimed to be deaf.(and get this didn't know how to text!)
Moral: Ask to speak with anyone who buys items off of you locally.
http://viewlo.com/
Crowdfunded internet television and movies.
We were super stoked when we came up with the idea a few months back, and even more overjoyed when we learned Ycombinator's focus this round of funding as we fit the criteria exactly. We are comprised of 3 college level engineers and still have a future ahead of us so no big deal. Really thought they we would seal the deal with our alternate ideas like Instagram for video(that doesn't suck)
http://i.imgur.com/QbS7o.jpg
Wow thank you! We are located around the Sacramento area and were looking forward to calling sf our home this summer. We are a team of 3 best friends, two of which are coders, and myself, the designer and somewhat of an inventor. Here's two of our portfolio pages.
http://kennygibbs.com/
Trying to force yourself to think of a solution to a problem your having almost always ends up disastrous, from my personal experience. The ideas might be good but I've never personally found a brilliant solution taking these methods. When an idea is sporadic and completely natural it encompasses the idea of simplicity and originality and these two ideas are an excellent platform to build products or solutions off of.
I have had so many forced ideas that I regret moving forward with a few months down the road because the original idea wasn't a strong enough base to start from.
The responses were priceless! 7-10 of them were in the navy deployed at sea and didn't have a phone (none of them knew each other surprisingly) a few were government officials who worked in such high level jobs that they couldn't be caught on the phone(but can buy cars on craigslist interestingly enough) and the last one claimed to be deaf.(and get this didn't know how to text!) Moral: Ask to speak with anyone who buys items off of you locally.