Alrighty~so I had over 400 albums listed on craigslist for $150 (yes....I know I could have piecemealed 'em out and made more, but who has time for that?). Ran the ad....nothing. Ran it again and Butch called me. I knew immediately I was gonna like this guy, deal or no. I had listed the ad so as not to mislead and I told him some of the albums (and covers) were trashed and others were mint. He replied "yep. I'll bet the Pablo Cruise and Herb Alperts are mint, as those of us who grew up with rock tended to be stoned and didn't much care how we treated our vinyl!"
Anyway the guy gets here this morning (he lives about 80 miles away) and immediately shook hands and said he got a good vibe from us. We talked about how we acquired the bulk of the albums and he got real excited and said 'I'm your vinyl guy! any you get, you call me and I'll buy!' We continued talking auctions, drugs & vintage vinyl, of which he partakes in two and I two, though not the same ones. He finally said the deal was done. Never tried to haggle, although I would have come down a bit, just to move them. And voila! a great new contact has been made!
You know, with all the flakes that craigslist attracts, for every ten you get one Butch and that makes it all worth while!