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While pricing the Craigslist ad last night, I left a zero off the end of the price.

Well, one can imagine how many people are willing to jump on ANY Pantera for $7,300.

Well, I just found out the hard way just how many people are, because an hour later I had like 40 emails, and luckily someone flagged the ad for me. I made a new ad with a correction and an apology.

As a side note, my friend has always said if you really want to get someone back, or piss them off, put an ad on CL for free blue-nosed pitbull puppies with their phone number in the ad. LOL

Same result, all hell breaks loose, and whoever the unfortunate recipient of the revenge move is slammed with millions of calls and emails until he figures out where the ad came from and it gets flagged, but the damage is done by then. MAJOR hassle with no real damage done. Brilliant IMO
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Ha! When I was in college a friend of mine placed a For Sale ad on a bulletin board in the University Center for my 66 Shelby GT350 (only a clone) for $1500. My phone was ringing off the hook for days! And a lot of callers got really upset when I told them it was a joke by a "friend." Many still tried to buy the car and insisted on making offers, but were disappointed when I refused.

By the same token as a revenge prank, my brother had received crappy service or a rude sales clerk at a store years ago. A local radio station was having a contest in which they'd call local business or people who mailed in their phone numbers, and if you knew "the phrase that pays!" you'd win $1,500. So late in the evening my brother calls the store and the targeted sales clerk answers; he says "Hi! This is [DJ name]. Do you know the phrase that pays?" The clerk answered correctly, to which he said "Congratulations! You're today's $1,500 winner!" and gets the clerk's contact info to send out the check as if he had actually won. He then let the clerk have about an hour to tell all his friends and co-workers he won and give him time to spend it in his head, then he called back, again impersonating the radio DJ, got the clerk on phone and told him "there's just one problem with the prize; you're an a$$hole!" and hung up!
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