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Hmmm interesting! What would you all say is your success rate is on craigslist? For example: after you post, how many replies to you get? Of those replies, how many actually sign up? I would LIKE to try it, but I got scared off when I was trying to simply sell a dishwasher and 3/4 of the replies were scary or weird. Do you think its because if you indicate you are a woman, the freaks come out? My dishwaher ad said "husband says it needs minor repair" and that was my big mistake.....
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I have a great success rate with cragis list as well..... Bottom line is that a creep is a creep and they will find any way to do what they are going to with or without craigs list. Actually one of the weirdest people I have had was from a referal from a client. super creepy and strange.Comment
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Keep in mind that the child care listings in my area are really, really busy--50-100 new postings on an average day. That being said, sometimes I get 5-10 responses (this was a year ago) out of which I set up 2-3 interviews, of which maybe 1-2 showed up, and 0-1 signed up. I'm not dirt cheap and lose a lot people that way
. Lately it's been weeks of no responses, then 3 from one ad, and I got 1 client from those 3 interviews.
In general though, CL is the only place I advertise and in 18 months I've had 3 clients come via word of mouth and all the rest (7) came from CL. Most are good clients; one from CL and one from word-of-mouth were horrible. I'm currently serving 4 families--1 word-of-mouth and 3 from CL.Hee hee! Look, I have a signature!Comment
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I do have an ad on Craigslist, but it doesn't have my email address or my phone numbers.Comment
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Wow that's a pretty decent return. Thanks for the update.Keep in mind that the child care listings in my area are really, really busy--50-100 new postings on an average day. That being said, sometimes I get 5-10 responses (this was a year ago) out of which I set up 2-3 interviews, of which maybe 1-2 showed up, and 0-1 signed up. I'm not dirt cheap and lose a lot people that way. Lately it's been weeks of no responses, then 3 from one ad, and I got 1 client from those 3 interviews.
In general though, CL is the only place I advertise and in 18 months I've had 3 clients come via word of mouth and all the rest (7) came from CL. Most are good clients; one from CL and one from word-of-mouth were horrible. I'm currently serving 4 families--1 word-of-mouth and 3 from CL.Comment
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Friend Got this EXact Email!!
Hi! I'm so glad y'all posted this thread--my friend got this exact email and got suspicious after she'd emailed him a bit. Today things got really fishy and I found this thread and a similar one on dogwalker.com : http://www.dogwalker.com/possible-sc...o-dog-walkers/
My vote is YES! This is definitely a scam! Just my two cents
Thanks again for posting this--it confirmed our suspicions!
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Scam
I get those everyday from my ad on CL. I don't even have to open them anymore i can tell from the title and email address that its spam.Comment
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I am 99.99999999999999999999999999999999% sure it's a scam. I get these e-mails almost daily. They will ask for a ton of personal information and then say they will pay you in advance. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but once you cash the check, they will have your banking information. Be careful.Comment
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He must have found someone else, I never got another email from him.Comment
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I get them all the time to my daycare email address. I always assumed they were scams and never reply - I don't even want to give them the incentive to contact me again.Comment
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It's a scam
It's a really common scam.
They send you a check. Say you ask for a deposit of $400 to hold a spot. They send you a check for $800. You cash the check from your bank and they send an associate to pick up the extra $400, or they ask you to Western Union them the money. You don't find out til weeks later that the check is bad, the bank it's written off of is non existent, and you are out the entire $800.
They do the same thing when you have an item for sale listed on CL, particularly pets. I sell farming items and livestock on CL all the time and I've gotten the same scammy stuff over and over. Often I get the exact same email for mulitiple items that I have listed. It's ridiculous.
Never take a check from someone you don't know, and if you do take a check, make sure you can clear it before they take the item/services.Comment
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that interesting email
I was contacted as well by Mr. I'm relocating. Ran the email by a friend working for Dept. of Defense. Seemed legit but I was cautioned to only accept it as legit to the point that money became involved. Sure enough! On July 21, approx. a month after initial contact trying to scam me using a money order happened. I notified FBI and postal authorities. Mr. Relocator also went after dog walkers.com--didn't even bother to change his story except to add a dog---a PUPPY no less--how adorable!
We are trying to run a business to take care of ourselves and the children of others--now we have to watch out for these bad guys!!
Be careful is my message to others--be very careful--and spread the word to every day care provider you know!!!
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That IS a scam. 100%. I had the exact same email last year.Comment
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I got that exact same e-mail three months ago. I knew it was a scam because it asks for zipcode...we don't have those here in Canada.Comment
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