Conducted an experiment. Gave away a 50-inch TV for free and tracked from which channels the “clients” came.
The TV is ancient, works poorly, overall, I barely used it. It was given to us by friends who hadn’t turned it on in years. It’s a Sony KF-50XBR800 projection TV. It weighs 50 kg, doesn’t fit in a sedan, and besides the fact it’s missing a remote (fixable), it has a significant RGB beam misalignment, causing a terribly blurry picture. Moreover, it needs a new lamp; the current one is weak. The TV is 15 (fifteen) years old. Basically, it’s junk.
Disposing of things here isn’t that simple. Well… that is, if the TV works, it won’t stay out on the street for long. There’s a practice here of leaving things under the open sky. But still, I decided to do a good deed and give it to someone who needs it more.
Posted the same ad in three places “No remote. Ghosting a bit” with a picture attached to this post. Ghosting is exactly the presence of a shadow next to the image, due to the above-mentioned issues. I deliberately didn’t describe all the details to gather more “applications”. Those who needed it would google and not write.
In the end, I gave it away in a day. During that time, I received:
– from craigslist – 3 emails and 5 calls
– from letgo – 15 messages.
– from Facebook Marketplace – 17 messages. Sold it to one of them.
Conclusion: Craigslist is not that great anymore. At least, in my experiment.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 