Okay, let's talk about handling the sale. So as you probably know, Craigslist requires you to give them your email address when you're posting an item. If you want to make yourself available to buyers over email, you can include an anonymized Craigslist email address, that will forward to your email address. Okay, so you pay for privacy. So if you have if you have Google for your master email address, it's really simple. Just create another one and just forwarded on to your main email address.
That way nobody has your real email address. And if he posted a hot item, get ready for an 100 slot of email in your inbox. Okay, so first things first, set up a filter in your inbox for handling your Craigslist ads. Since all of the emails will initially come to your anonymous Craigslist address, you can filter with the To field of the email. So with Gmail, for example, just filter out emails into craigslist.org and tag them with a label and you've got a good start. Okay, so you're just gonna filter out the emails into Craigslist, you can just go into Gmail And just do a little how to Google for this.
Basically just filter out those emails and then tag them with the label. And you've got to get starts now you're actually starting to organize and filter out all these email addresses. So there's not all these emails so they're not coming to your inbox and just flooding your inbox. And then since you may be handling all of email, I'd recommend setting up some text replacement macros for answering email using an application like texter for Windows or text expander for Mac. Okay, this is really if you just want to take it there, you don't have to, but I prefer to stick with email only for my initial Craigslist post. But a lot of people prefer doing things over the phone.
So I wouldn't recommend posting your phone number in the post. But instead, you can try out a service like number which creates temporary disposable phone numbers. You can safely post Craigslist, okay, so you can then make sure you stick with cash. Okay, that one this one probably goes without saying. It's like a garage sale. You really don't want to accept anything but cold hard cash for your goods.
Okay. A lot of scammers on Craigslist, but they're easy to avoid. Just do locally meet in person and stick with cash and you should be okay.