Whats Your Best Craigslist Score??

[Kevin Gregoire]

alright everyone, lets hear a few of your best Craigslist scores??


here are just a few of my best scores

Porter Cable 557 biscuit joiner LNIB - $25

Hegner scroll saw $75

Ridgid 14" band saw - traded for some ammunition

Delta 12 inch planer Mint - $40

Craftsman 17" drill press, Like New $175

Jet DC1100 New $150

[Jim Terrill]

6" Jet jointer- $50
Delta Contractor saw- $200
Dewalt Biscuit joiner (new)- $60 plus a bunch of oak that came with the above
3 honing oilstones and guide - $15
Delta midi lathe and 6 crown turning tools -$160
Laguna 16" band saw with 3 3/4" blades and 1 1/4" blade - $500

Most recent one- $300 for as much as I wanted from a barn, the woman's grandfather used to build cabinets and she wanted it gone, so there were huge piles of partially built oak cabinets as well as mahogany, cherry, oak and 8/4 by 15" wide hard maple slabs as well as piles of different cherry moldings. I took 1 sheet of 3/4" mdf but there were another 3 that I left, along with a lot of other cabinet parts that I just couldn't justify.

[John Mark Lane]

Blonde, about 5' 6", ... oh, wait, you mean tools. Sorry. I've sold much more on CL than I've bought, but I recently got a Ryobi 1 1/2 hp router, plus router table, plus a like new Delta benchtop jointer, all for $140. Not spectacular, but not bad...

[Abi Parris]

John: those blondes are expensive!

[John Mark Lane]

John: those blondes are expensive!

Doncha know it! I'm gonna try redheads. Anybody got a coupon?

Maybe Eliot Spitzer can help.

[Doug Carpenter]

Caution: Red heads are expensive too.....and emotionally taxxing.


I went down that road once.........ONCE!

[Van Huskey]

You all SUCK. My craigslist looks like an overpriced BORG clearence 99% of the time...

[Gary Hodgin]

You all SUCK. My craigslist looks like an overpriced BORG clearence 99% of the time...

We must live in the same town. I just saw a well-used Dremel 16" variable speed scroll saw listed for $300. I think they sell for about $200 brand new. I've also noticed the prices have gotten higher in the last couple of months.

[Gary Curtis]

A Festool C-12 drill for $180. Used only once on a cabinet install. The guy had 5 of them for sale. New price in 2008 was $415. I paid for shipping and got the guy to agree to it.

I'm not a computer-savvy person, but I mastered a way to sequentially search all U.S. city CL sites for a particular item. Can cover larger cities across the country in about 5 minutes. I found my Festool in Tuscon, AZ.
I live in Northern Calif.

[Chris Harry]

Caution: Red heads are expensive too.....and emotionally taxxing.


I went down that road once.........ONCE!

You're doing it wrong.

I have a thing for redheads.

And married a brunette.

[Dell Moore]

hmmm...

Practically brand new Shopsmith 510 w/ Bandsaw. $400. Runs fantastic...

Delta Uni w/ 52" Beismeyer(sp?) and 3 outfeed tables. $550 (or was it $600? cruddly alzheimers.... ). Cleaned up REAL nice...

[Steve Bagi]

Hegner Scroll Saw - $50

VacuPress - $30

MM16 - $900

[Cary Falk]

I don't buy much on craig's list because I don't have time to surf it. I did manage to snag a Grizzly 18/36 drum sander in excellent condition for $450.

[Neal Clayton]

a 12" unipoint RAS from ~1948, 300 bucks, original motor and bearings are still just fine.

[John Shuk]

I bought a pop up camper for 1500. Its a 2001 Coleman sedona in great condition. My one and only Craigslist purchase. We already spent one wonderful week in it.