Crazy Craiglist People, wtf...?

I know that CL can be like taking a shot in the dark, but sometimes you find really cool stuff. So my sister found some teak furniture that looks really great in the pictures, so we arranged to go see it. The lady she speaks to on the phone is all, you aren't that far at all, well we google maped it and DAMN! We were like half an hour away.

So, we make the trip, and they have a gate, so we call, and no answer, leave messages, no answer. Finally, there's some dude wandering around outside the house so we like flag him down and he clicks the gate open for us. And like, seriously, he doesn't say anything, we're like uh we're here to look at the furniture... He's like 'oh, over there' and points then lights up a ciggy and disappears.

Fine, ok whatever, it's like nice furniture and all, but it reeeeeeks like fresh stain or something, I mean I didn't really think that you were supposed to stain teak, but besides that. Then, we look closer, it has like major flaws, and the stain is still kind of sticky. This lady comes out and is like, well I am selling this for my daughter, and we're like, um... ok... She won't take less than what it was posted for, even though we had asked about flexiblity on the price before going out there. We're like this is just weird, and we're still looking at the furniture at this point, and notice it's not smooth like teak should be, and some of the boards are warped. So, we're like, we're out, forget it. I can smell the CL scam now... time to depart.

Well, then she won't click the gate to let us out. We're waiting to get out and she's just doing whatever... I'm like clicky clicky... click... hello? And she's like well I can go cheaper, how about this or that? We're like no, clicky clicky... let us out, she's totally still trying to get us to buy it, I'm like CLICKY CLICKY NOW! And she's like oh whatever, and finally clicks us out.

I swear, I thought I was gonna have to dial 9-1-1 and be like, we're trapped because we went to look at furniture on CL... ugh... lesson learned, do research ahead of time about what you're buying, and #2, bring mace and running shoes or some big muscular dudes.