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I'm looking for an apartment. Haven't had to do this in about three years. So yesterday, I'm on Craigslist and I find the Cognitive Dissonance Bargain of a lifetime: Two bedrooms, 1300 sq feet, air conditioning, parking, cat-friendly, in San Francisco's white-approved Noe Valley, for $1300.
"That's a Nigerian 419 scam," my friend at work said. "They put these dream homes up and try to sucker you into placing a holding fee or deposit."
I was crushed. I could take the relentless fakery and heartbreak of trolling for online sex in the spam-soaked CL casual encounters. But housing? Was nothing sacred? And now there is this:
Know what I hate? When they want $100K but retail price is $99,999, like I don't know it's just a dollar's difference. Please. $50,000 or I walk.
Insider Documents Apple Nintendo Merger! - $99999 (cupertino) [craigslist, likely removed by the time you click it, but thanks to Eggy]
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rofl.
You get "insider documents" about a merger.
huuuuuuuurrrrr
What good would that really be? gives you insight to buy more stock or sell your stock?
lol
thats all I can say.
*dies from laughter*
Scams. You should never buy anything on craigs list unless you are meeting in person, in a public area, and you get your item at the same time.
YES!!
waggle control coming out on iPod!!!
Wow, people are amazingly silly.
Besides, even if Nintendo was somehow to overcome their century of corporate culture that bears against this, I would hope Apple learned their lesson on pairing with Japanese game companies with the Pippin ;)
Although Bandai does kind of suck, so maybe it would go better with Nintendo....
That's probably both the dumbest and smartest thing i've seen this year beause you know some idiot is going to try and get him to lower the price...
He had me at Cupertino.
@icepick314: I drop my iPod often enough when using the accelerometer function.
insider = illegal = jail = Martha Stewart
And if you post the url for that posting in 20 different threads on Kotaku and hit F9 the name of your crush will appear on the screen and if you dont you will die and dis iz realy scary becus its tru.
OH NO WAI..THIS IS SOO COOL, INSIDER INFO!! *pays 100k*
Insider info:
Apple says, "want to merge?"
Nintendo replies, "no."
Haha, really? I like to think theres people who actually sit around and contemplate paying for this.
Also, had no idea what this could be about, no info in title, but drew me in. Hard to say if this works to get me to read more or if I miss the heads up. Enjoying Owen's writing though, thats for sure.
I will just point and laugh at the guy who buys that...i think we all are going to do the same.
"They said I'd never make it big as a courier. Well, I'll show them. I'll show them all."
If it was a scam, wouldn't they make it more affordable? You know, because it's made up?
That must mean IT'S TRUE!
@jcsunshine:
BAHHH BAHHH BAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Sorry, I only have $99,998.
Jokes on us if on April 10th Apple and Nintendo announce a merger.
Although there is as much a chance of that as Sonic in a Nintendo game.
Oh. But still: good try sale-630957096. Better luck next time.
even if you did pay up and it was real it would most likely be some stupid papers with big words in it >.> *rolls eyes*
Good ol' Craigslist.
I love it. He's got "exclusive information" for sale and the annoucement tells you exactly what that information is.
A duuuhr.
Um. What's the 'white-approved' mean?
@johnny_ultimate:
SUPRISE BRAWL, YOU OWE ME 100 GRAND.
HA, parking and 1300 sq ft in San Francisco for only $1300, you should have known it was a scam, I live in Oakland and can't even get a deal like that.
Steve Jobs has already sent his Macsassins to "silence" this courier.
Hey, I got my kids Wii on Criagslist. Totally awesome, woman bought it for her son, he didn't play it so she sold it. He was this surly angry teenager and when we turned it on to clear the memory out so it could start from scratch the kid had created all this various ethnic looking Miis and given them racist names. It was lovely.
I'll sell you my Wii for 20 bucks, just meet me in this alley on the south side, kk?
Haha. I completely feel your pain. Finding housing here in SF is such a bugger, but in the end Craigslist is the place it comes down to.
Why must I move every year? Why!
I dread finding a new place as I will have to in the next three months...
Owen, you should room with Flynn. It would be a mini-Kotaku Tower.
Although you'd never fit all your game gear in one apartment.
@Donutt007: 510 4 LIFE!
@Ignatius: I was thinking the exact same thing, is it some kind of racial thing?
99,999? I'd be a fool NOT to! I'm glad I finally have a reason to spend money on something. I've just been sitting on a cool million for so long and lo... Craigslist beckons!
@kingclip: wow....thats....disturbing....
the i-ds! I can see it now! It'll be a phone! and have a touch screen! and it'll have games!!
huh? what do you mean they already have the i-phone? WHAT?!
Noe stinks.
I'm also curious what 'white-approved' means.
@trachten: Yeah me too... it comes off as pretty racist to me.
@VAMP: @Ignatius: I was also wondering that? I can't seem to get any sense out of Google though.
I'd hope that it's something to do with having official documentation (because I like to think the best of people). But I fear it's some terrible draconian saying that people should rightly be pelted with rotten fruit for uttering.
IT WAS REMOVED? D:
"ninpple" probably got to them before i could.
and in hindsight the combined name of nintendo and apple is amazingling awsome.
What approved? I thought San Fran was synonymous
with same sex approved.
It probably means that it's not Hunters Point.
But seriously, White people are actually a minority in San Francisco. So it's really no difference than a Chinese person wanting to move into China Town in any other city.
@Donutt007: Sorry that was meant about the whole 'white-approved' thing
Once I saw a woman offering sexual services in exchange for World of Warcraft gold, everything on Craigslist ceased to surprise me. :/
@mashuu83: Well, let's just put it like this.
Brutal Legend => Rock infused adventure game about a rodie => loved by all before it's even released => white-approved
50 Cent sequel => Rap infused adventure game about rap artist => hated by all before it's even released => white-non approved
As much as I dislike 50 and his music, it's apparent that it's not white-approved. Some will argue that Tim Schafer has a good track record, but I'm sure if he was even behind a game like the latter it still would get slammed...
*Translation from hyper-ambiguous legalize to english not included
Bite;p
$1300 rent is outrageous, I'd move, though I could understand if it's your home area.
Yes, of all the classified intel he could smuggle out of Cupertino... "Nintendapple" will surely be the jackpot he can retire on.
Epic Black Turtleneck Fail.
I love me a good scammer to play games with. Nothing beats wasting that time whilst at work, overnight.
That apartment scam is EVERYWHERE craigslist is. Big variation is: sublease apartment but you have to cash a cheque they give you and send them the difference. They get like 10-20 people to give them $2-5k and in a week or so the cheque bounces and those people never see the guy again.
Sorry, I posted 99,999 or no deal... It's my favorite Final Fantasy number.
Wtf are you going to do with insider documents? If hes so damn sure then just invest in one of the stocks and then wait for t his ridiculous deal to never happen.
@Demonbird:
And verify functionality. How many times have you heard about someone buying a game console only to get a busted machine or a box of rocks?
My girlfriend and I almost got sucked ino one of those scams. When the "owner" said I had to wire her money, all the red flags went flying. 5 minutes of research later I cut off comunication with the "owner". I was just as pissed as you were man.
@Zunnoab: yeah welcome to life in a large city. i live in chicago at the moment (which isn't that expensive compared to when i lived on the east coast), but i still pay more per month for my small 1 bedroom apartment than my parents paid on the mortgage for their home, which is like 10 times bigger.