Ugh, yes, I have had too many "Sorry, it sold" emails or just no response at all. Even though I always email the second I see it, but I have had some good luck, too. I guess that's just how the CL game goes.

And I would do anything, ANYTHING for the Papa Bear chair. It's my absolute favorite piece of mid century furniture.

i am also addicted to craigslist. i have lost a $6 arc lamp ($6!?) recently. i lose out on items all the time. but two weeks ago i was able to purchase a large set of franciscan starburst dishes for $50. the set includes 12 of the super rare snack plates, along with many other plates/bowls/cups/servingware. i have seen ONE plate sell on ebay for almost $50. i kept expecting the seller to change her mind. even while i was picking it up, i expected her to say, "no, i meant $50 PER SETTING."

This is why I can't use CL or eBay. I get so angry if something gets away from me that it's dangerous.

Just yesterday, I missed the George Nelson inspired black bench here on AT. It just wasn't meant to be. :(

I once lost out on a pair of Finn Juhl Chieftain Chairs. But I made up for it by finding a Papa Bear Chair. You win some you loose some.

Ugh, my husband and I were all set to buy a mid-century wall unit with a light-up bar inside. As soon as we saw it on a Monday, we sent our e-mail willing to pay the reasonable asking price (plus take care of picking it up), the sellers accepted and told us they were moving out of town and the unit had to be picked up by Wed. We changed our work schedules so my husband could be with the "man with a van" we lined up to drive over and get it. I took the day off of work to be home for our food delivery which was scheduled for the same time (and ONLY time) these people would let us pick up the piece. Then we got an e-mail Tuesday night that they were "sorry" the piece was bought by someone else.
We were spitting nails at that point. I hope bad karma hits bad faith sellers.

ugh....

now I'm already angry just reading this post.

I've scored some good deals on CL, but I have yet to ever find a really big item that isn't priced accordingly. The most frustrating might have been finding an Austin office reseller selling HUNDREDS of eames armshells and side shells for $68 each... flat. Many were in PERFECT condition and a whole rainbow of colors- we drove up as fast as we could, but the dealers had already scoured the place- there were about 30 left. I was able to snag 1 bright yellow, 1 bright green, and 2 bright blue side shell (we were almost out of college and I wanted them for dining chairs). It turned out fine in the end (and I've added a couple more since then), but it would have been nice if I could have done the whole set in one go. I'd have loved all one color, but the multicolor has worked out well :)

It was pretty cool seeing an identical set go for $800 somewhere else lol...

I recently bought something I really wanted on a great price on craigslist. Not a jewel find like Hans Wegner... Still it's a cute Danish teak desk made by a company called Domino Mobler. The posted picture 'Danish Desk' was small and not so clear but I immediately noticed the shape and the details! I sent them an email right away and I heard back the next day. I was so happy. The sellers, a couple, said they also bought it from craigslist. I consider this fortune to be a blessing from the Danish god of furniture, whoever that might be (Sven?)

This is why I prefer eBay -- I feel like there is an impartial "moderator" in the middle, making sure all is fair. CL has no such comfort level.

I hate this post. It brings back bad memories.

He he....I lost out on a Bertoia bird chair and ottoman on craigslist....then i emailed it to my friend (also a midcentury ho...) and he told me he just picked it up...

Last fall I purchased a Danish teak armchair from two ladies who were selling off their deceased dad's belongings. The CL ad said $35, but I could tell they were really desperate to get it off their hands (they told me they had had an estate sale the previous weekend and still had a lot of things left). I was able to negotiate down to $25! The chair needs a little TLC and some new cushions, and I doubt it's worth as much as some of the things I've seen on AT, but I was thrilled with my find.

Of course, much depends on the city in which you reside. In my former small, southern hometown, I was able to score a teak Danish dining room table with removable rosewood center for $75 off of CL. In DC, however, I doubt that I would be able to find one so easily and so inexpensively.

I live near Charlotte, NC and it is rare to find anything but crap on our Craigslist. Still, I review it constantly, because one day ... ta daa ... it will happen. I did just pick up a terrifically well made Chippendale sofa - loving the curvy curves and the slimness - for which I will have a slipcover made.

I envy you big city folks.

i lost out on 4 FREE burke arm chairs due to an email mix up. but i did score 12 (couldn't fit more in the car) eames side chairs that need a little tlc for $2.50 each, so i guess my luck did balance out.

i've been looking for vintage sideboards or buffets to use as a media stand lately...hours of CL searching turned up nothing interesteding...then just YESTERDAY i missed (2) knoll rosewood sideboards - $475 for the pair- i was 1 hour late in writing the email to the seller...argh...wasn't in the stars, i guess. gonna keep looking.

oh really cassielynn?? then wouldn't you have one? j/k Sorry, rhetorical peeve. ;-)

Ugh yes, I found an Adrian Pearsall sofa on Craigslist not long ago listed for $350. I responded right off and then got an email back saying the seller was going to repair a few spots and re-list it. What was relisted had been totally recovered and looked so good, however, it was then listed for way over my budget.

Craiglist is very hit or miss--most miss--because of its large readership. I have had much better luck with ebay and consignment shops, and with yard/estate sales. Even, in my graduate student days in the nineties, found a large vintage Danish teak desk in perfect condition at Goodwill for $5. My husband still uses it today.

From the perspective of a seller, I have had so many people flake out on appointments (without even calling) that I will not hold a piece unless the buyer sends a deposit via PayPal.

I also only set up appointments for times that I will be home anyway, so it's not a big inconvenience if people don't show up.

Zoee--that is so disappointing. The points in heaven you earned will not go uncounted. What goes around comes around...

I keep waiting for the post that says, "That was me. I'm the lucky one who beat you to this amazing find!"

all part of the game. it's disappointing but makes the one's that you actually get even more rewarding!

My husband and I scored a bunch of pieces of Heywood Wakefield for $600 from a man clearing out his parents' retirement home. He was feeling sentimental about the furniture he had grown up with and just wanted it to go to a good home with people who would appreciate it, not some shark who was looking to make a quick buck on resale. I promised to love it, and I do, I really do.

Totally relating to this series. Have lost out on some great stuff. Down in the southeast now and the Hilton Head/Charleston/Savannah CL posts are pretty scary. What's "beautiful" to the locals is usually beat-up chintz and Early American furniture. I miss my great NYC CL posts. But our best score was from a decent fellow in Greenville, who was selling a nearly-new John Boos butcher block (used only for 2 weeks and stored garage), which we picked up for $250. Then there was my Charleston find: 2 IKEA 6 foot Expedit cabinets *assembled* and in really good condition for $75 each? (My husband curses every time he has to deal w/IKEA instructions!) I agree with the earlier poster... Sometimes it pays to be outside the big metro areas, because folks don't always know the cool stuff they have tucked away!

I just missed out on a cabinet I wanted for my office. It was quirky but still practical--and only $20. I'm still kicking myself for not responding sooner. Argh.

i have found that i find better prices if i don't search by "mid century" or "danish." usually people using those keywords know what things are worth and sell them accordingly, especially in bigger cities. i managed to score an entire mid-century dining room set (table with two leaves, 8 chairs, and a hutch) for $50 because the woman listing it didn't know what she had (granted it wasn't any known designer, but the style and condition alone made it worth at least 10 times that in my opinion.) i felt slightly guilty but she seemed glad to have it taken off her hands and i got a very nice dining room set for less than what i would have spent at ikea! i would feel bad buying something for less than i know it's worth only if my intention was to re-sell for a profit. if you buy it and use it and it makes you happy, i think that's just good karma coming back to you.

i found a reupholstered MCM sectional for 500 bucks on CL that had already been sold by the time i got to it. I'm still smarting from that. I did find 4 original Emeco chairs for 300 bucks total. That was a big score!

http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwc/fuo/1650220078.html

Here is one of those (not such a GREAT find, but still pretty darn good).

It is a small lamp table by Duncan Phyfe - it is worth around 250, these people are selling for 75.

Yep, in fact, I'm going after a pair of powder-coat red metal "bentwood" chairs today that easily go for $200 apiece at various high-end retail stores... And I'm getting the pair for $40. Here's to hoping they look good under those god-awful cushions the owner has put on them!

Spell check for Comicgeek and zoee-

"You win some you loose some." It's LOSE.

"Loose" would better fit in this sentence,
" I just had a double martini and now I feel really loose!"

I missed out on a danish modern sideboard that a lady was selling for $50.00 - I had an appt to purchase it and pick it up, but someone else called her offering her $150 and she sold it to them. But CL has been good to me, my best buys were a leather Knoll Pollack chair for $25, a set of 4 Milo Baughman dining chairs for $100 and a vintage 1976 Knoll Wassily chair for $20. I've also picked up stuff for free that I've resold later. LOVE.

That's a scam. I have seen the same EXACT post before, word for word, on Craigslist for San Francisco. There's no way that's a coincidence!

(I spent maybe 6 months trolling CL for the perfect chair.)

"a legitimate seller who was too ignorant to know what they had"

With this attitude, I'm glad the writer didn't get the chair.

Just recently I was looking for 2 mid century barrel chairs to flank my fireplace. I found THE PERFECT pair in the perfect color, gorgeous, on Craiglist for $175 (FOR THE PAIR!) and emailed them almost right away. They replied that it had been sold. A week later those chairs were in the store window of a neighborhood mid century furniture store for $1695, made my blood boil!

Sadly I seem to miss out on CL furniture due to lack of cash on hand more often than a slow response time. Every now and then I get an awesome piece though. My favorite so far was a huge salvaged black glass Valentino store sign with gold lettering and some of the hanging hardware. Not that easy to determine it's value but I thought $100 was a steal. Only trouble is that it's too heavy to hang from my walls!

I've been on both sides of this, as I buy and sell all the time. Sometimes, you lose because someone simply beats you to the post. But disconnects or other misunderstandings can be avoided with a little effort. Most craigslist sellers aren’t professionals, so you shouldn't expect them to have policies and procedures in place. If you assume this is the case and take extra efforts to communicate, you may have better luck avoiding some of the misses. Some tips for BUYERS:

First, know this: The buyer flake factor is enormous. And in my estimation, about 80% of email responses I send as a seller are ignored. I’m also inviting buyers to come to my HOME. Yes, I do screen.

Your email tells me a lot about you and your level of interest. Take a few moments and do more than simply send an email saying “call me” or “is it still available?” If I get 5 emails in response to a posting, I’ll respond first to the one who appears most interested, and who is the best communicator. I am going to respond first to the email that says:
~~~I am very interested in this, or I definitely want this (or even, can you tell me more about this?)…
~~~I have availability to see or pick up the item on these dates and times…
~~~Here is my name and phone number and the best time to reach me…

Understand that if the ad is posted on Monday, and you can't make it out to see / buy the item until Thursday... it might not be there waiting for you. Don’t expect the buyer to hold the item for you. However, if you and the seller can only work out a mutually agreeable meeting time that is 3 days out, you need to communicate with the seller clearly about your mutual expectations. For example, if someone else wants to schedule a time to see the item before you can make it out, will the seller call you to give you the first option? Maybe the seller will do so, or maybe not. But you need to be clear and know this up front.

Craigslist is first come (with cash), first served. Don’t show up to see a $300 item on Monday, say you want it, then promise to come back on Wednesday with the money. As a seller, I’m not going to hold the item for you without a deposit. Your options:
~~~Come with cash in hand and take it away
~~~Leave a deposit then return later with the full amount
~~~Show up empty handed and take your chances

I'll close by saying that I sell vintage items almost exclusively, and I have had extremely positive experiences with Los Angeles craigslist buyers and sellers. I can honestly say I've never had a negative experience -- knock on wood. I've even had people bring me baked goods (and yes, I ate them). I also think buyers of vintage and antique items are different from people shopping for used futons.

Sometimes craigslist really isn't too good to be true- I got the Hans Wegner rope rocker recently for a whopping $6.

Craigslist is an amazing resource if you have the time to be on it constantly (I'm talking the ability to sit there at work and at home and press "refresh" every minute or two). If you are not the first person to email or call a seller, you will miss out on the best furniture deals of your life.

My success story came after weeks of searching for a bed on Craigslist in Denver/Boulder. I would find an awesome Room and Board Platform bed, email the seller a few minutes after the post went up and alas, it was already sold. Then one evening at work, I was searching for the words "modern" and "canopy", pressed refresh and my dream bed was the first posting. A modern, stainless steel canopy bed originally from Desiron for $200. I emailed the person within a minute of the post going up saying I would take it (thinking in my mind that she must have left a zero off the end of the asking price). She emailed me back immediately saying it was mine and that, since I had responded so quickly, she would give it to me for $175. It was the best luck I've ever had in my entire Craigslisting life. a $2300 beautiful canopy bed for $175.

So, it really is a matter of time and obsessively refreshing the page if you want to get the deals on Craigslist.

I was the same post last night. The post was too strange, I was convinced this was a scam. Reading the comment from the person living in San Francisco, it seems like this was really a scam.

I found a really beautiful french settee for $50 on craigslist. I found it around 2 am and called the woman first thing in the morning. I couldn't go to pick it up till I got off work at 3 but she said I could have it. I called when I got off work, so excited for my new settee, and she said she had already sold it! Someone offered her $100 and she just had to let it go. I would have paid more if she had just given me the chance! I still think about that sofa and that was three years ago. And then just a few months ago I missed out on a pair of French Bergere chairs for $60! I really need to hone my craigslisting skills.

Craigslist is great, if your tastes have expanded beyond the 'danish/mid/mod' bubble. While you folks are clawing over each other to get at the same teak desks and ubiquitous fiberglass chairs, I can swoop in and grab a nifty one off painting or an interesting depression era commode that is in no danger of being lost to this endless and inane obsession with Wormley, Wegner et al.

all of the stuff I get on craigslist is a score! I found a Rya rug that'd been hanging on a lady's wall since 1970...$20. that's been the best thing I've gotten in Chicago. I found a taxidermied peacock that'd been kept in plastic since the neurotic-hoarder-guy bought it in the early 80's...$200.

on that note, I always try to be super fair when selling stuff on craigslist. it's first come, first served, but if someone is nice, I try to hold things for whomever emails me first. I don't mind coming down on my price and I try to never flake on people.

http://mylittleapartment.blogspot.com/

Sometimes CL is really isn't too good to be true. I scored a rosewood Cado wall unit for $25. It also sat there for a week. I didn't think I could use it, and didn't want to bother trying to sell. I got it anyway thinking I would use it for get this, toy storage. Seeing how beautiful it was I couldn't let it get beat up so I sold it on ebay for a handsome profit. The sellers truly didn't know what they had and the picture was terrible.

I also got a Dux lounge chair for $5. Not bad.

Jacksonlalonde, ha, that goes through my head a lot too when looking at AT. When I first discovered this site about a year ago, my mind was blown by how beautiful MCM furniture is. Oh my god, the Wegner rope rocker! The Eames shell chairs! Teak sideboards! Teak dining tables! I didn't know who the designers were and I hadn't seen them before, but I thought these things were amazing. But you know what? Now that I've seen 10 rope rockers, a gazillion shell chairs, and so many other 'classic' MCM pieces repeated ad infinitum, ad nauseum, in AT house tours, I'm not so fussed any more. (Kind of similar to how I feel about the Keep Calm poster.) I mean, I still think they're beautiful and I still would love to have them in my house, but their ubiquity has kind of taken the shine off a bit.

And others, remember that an item's value is only determined by what people are prepared to pay for it. There is no untouchable, platonic 'value' of an item. I know from experience how triumphant it feels to snag something for a fraction of its market value, and tell yourself how much money you 'saved', but unless you intend to resell it at a much higher price then the only value it holds is personal, not monetary. I've bought things from op-shops or picked them up from the side of the road for the sole reason that I knew its monetary value and couldn't resist, but in the end it just comes down to what you find beautiful and want to surround yourself with. If you do acquire things based mainly on the allure of trendiness and the image of owning this or that piece, well that's just so superficial and boring. But hey. Just wanted to say.

For me it isn't the ones that have been sold before I get them it is the one that I let get away because I walked away from it. My wife and I were at the one of the local thrift stores and they had a fairly well executed reproduction of a Barcelona chair. She asked if I thought I wanted it and I mulled for a second and said no. Now the cushions were red, which doesn't fit our decor, and the chrome was flaking of in a couple of small places, but it was only $5! We were halfway home when my brain FINALLY kicked in and said "what are you thinking!?!" At the time I had a working relationship with a plating company and I am capable of recovering the cushions. We couldn't get back to the store before it closed so we tried to get there as soon as they opened the next morning, but alas it was already gone. My thrift store motto is now, when in doubt, buy it.

About a year and a half ago I got a white tulip end table (maybe Burke) in pristine condition for $25. The sellers were an older couple who knew what they had and had just downsized from the house they had for 40 years to a small condo and they didn't have room for it. I called on it right away and when I went to pick it up and it was obvious that they knew what they had (they had much more REALLY cool furniture!) I asked them why they didn't try to get more $$$ for it (I have seen these go for at least $100 on ebay before) and they said they wanted to sell it to someone who loved the piece and would take care of it and they weren't out to make a buck. Wish more people were like that! They were so cool I talked to them for over an hour about mid century furniture and the guy was an architect too! I even got a hug when I left...

It's not from Craiglist, but my best score is a DUX sofa I got from the Goodwill for $49.99. Saw it on-line at 1st Dibs and also at a on-line auction for as much as $4999. And yes, I would be interested in selling it.

arroyo, I agree with all your points. I am selling stuff right now and I've found that emails which 1. do not mention the item, and 2. say just "is it available" or something, are nearly always spammers.

So the first email the buyer sends is *crucial*. It must mention the item in detail, and suggest a couple of dates and times. The first email I send in return will confirm the time and dates suggested, or suggest alternate ones. It will not provide my address or phone number, because it's the second email you get from a buyer that proves they aren't a spammer.

If the person doesn't mention time/date in their first email, or is vague about what they want to buy, then we must exchange more email, and the buyer is increasingly likely to miss out on the item. I do not mind if someone does not provide their phone number in the first email to me; I consider that smart. Besides, spammers frequently provide a phone number in the first email.

If the person doesn't mention the item, or is otherwise vague, I do not respond to the email at all. 75% of the replies I get are spam. I get emails like this, "i could rly use this where do U live." Ding! Deleted.

As a buyer/seller, I am certain any ad with what I call "pretend ignorance," such as "I do not know the type of wood my wife thinks it's mahogany" is some type of scam -- maybe a mild scam, such as a dealer pretending to be an owner, but a scam nevertheless. It's amazing how often these "ignorant" sellers mention the crucial detail you need, isn't it? ;) The phrase "I do not know X but my Y thinks it's Z" should set off an alarm bell; you'll see it over and over.

Some of the dealers (who pretend to be owners) work at thrift stores, and skim stuff off and re-sell it. They are small time dealers, but still dealers. Without this "perk," thrift stores would have a hard time finding employees. There are other small time dealers who comb garage sales. As far as I'm concerned, the small time dealers ARE working for their money -- they have to look at tons of junk to find a jewel -- so I don't really begrudge them this.

The chair that got away - for me it was a french wingback chair with a perfectly carved shell on the top. The upholstery had issues but the shape, the wood, and the carvings were perfect! It was priced high at $500 (my CL limit is $250) and was gone pretty quick. Lol, I still imagine it in my room.
Let the hipsters battle it out for the ubiquitous danish stuff, because it frees up what i like.

my recent loss is a vintage broyhill brasilia coffeetable in walnut. i have the entire bedroom suite and this would have been perfect!
my best find has been a set of 6 kai kristiansen chairs for just $25 each. a set of 4 recently sold on ebay for almost $2,000.

My win was last summer, when I was attempting to furnish my new apartment on a tight budget: a simple, walnut chest of drawers, bow-front, clean lines. No idea who the maker was, but its classic and the perfect size for my small bedroom. Guy wanted $80... totally worth it, and he helped load it into my CRV, followed me to my apartment, and helped me get it up the stairs! ... but yeah, it took watching CL everyday at work (thank goodness for data-entry).

it is comforting to know there are others out there like me! most of my friends and family think i am slightly crazy for my obsessive scouring of CL.

My weirdest experience (CL Boston) wasn't really a "loss," per se. There was an ad for some stacking chairs I liked - it was kind of a pretentious ad and sounded a bit scam-ish, so I did a little online research and offered what seemed a fair price (but at least a third less than the CL lister was asking). I figured the best case was that he'd need to sell them quick and we could negotiate, and the worst case was that I'd be ignored. Actually, that wasn't the worst case scenario: I soon received hostile emails from the owner - like more than one - berating me up and down for not being good enough for his chairs. I mean, he put a lot of energy and time into those emails. Thank God I didn't ever meet the guy.

There have been a number of things that I've really wanted at the time and have sold or I haven't gotten a response. Other times though I have been sure that the seller has already been inundated with responses for such a great item, and I have ended up buying it. And this goes for anyplace where things aren't mass produced, not just craigslist. Ebay is unpredictable too - you never know when someone will swoop in at the last minute and outbid you even though you placed a max bid OR when the thing that you thought was so great doesn't have anyone else bid on it. I have gotten my fair share of great bargains, so it levels out. :)

Not craigslist, but twice recently on ebay. A vintage george nelson daybed (herman miller label attached) for a buy-it-now price of $900. I saw the listing shortly after it went up. After I sent an email about shipping, it was gone. All within 1 hour.

More recently, someone near where i live had listed a Saarinen Womb chair for $900. I kept debating whether to purchase it, wondering if it was a non-liccensed (i.e., non-Knoll) repro. By the time I decided it was the real deal, it was gone.

Not the biggest deal but I bought four Umbra Oh Chairs by Karim Rashid for $10 each last summer on CL Vancouver.

I always see great stuff on Craigslist that ends up at a local vintage store with a great (and overpriced) furniture selection. These are pieces that need some TLC, and the vintage store overprices like whoa - sofas with light-colored upholstery that has greyed selling for $600. It's absurb, because the fabric is in such bad condition that the pieces will have to be reupholstered. It always make me so mad that I missed out on it when it was $75 on Craigs.

If an individual on CL is totally oblivious to what they have, I'll sometimes tell them (like listing a $10,000 painting for $40...really happened). If I'm the lucky person getting the "deal," I'll often give them more than what they're asking for just so they don't kick themselves or curse me later when they figure it out.

I've gotten the best deals at second hand stores and flea markets. A set of 6 pristine pleather Eames side shell chairs and a Burke table for $139. A set of 4 Bertoia white wire chairs for $20 and a smallish arc lamp for $6. I can't complain :)

I got a Roomba vacuum on the CL free section. Some lady had decided to get one that was a beefier model than the one she owned. And apparently her dog had an accident that it had ran over and she just decided to get a new one rather than clean it. She posted it around midnight the day before April Fools Day. I figured it had to be an early joke. So very glad I was wrong. Took less than 5 minutes to clean and I had a perfectly good vacuum.

I spent many nights trolling around CL looking for a simple sideboard/credenza for our dining room. I would've gladly spent about $300 for something nice. Seemed like there were weeks where every listing was already sold by the time they replied to my email.

Then I went to Value Village - lo and behold I got a very cute teak credenza for $19.99. Made in Denmark. Its veneer, but its got a lovely shape and fits perfect in my dining room.

Value Village usually has total crap furniture, but its never priced high.

I also found an oil painting there about 10 years ago. Paid $19.99 and recently had it valuated by Sotheby's for $6K. True story!

If you're dying to find a particular item, add a Craigslist keyword search to your Google Reader. So easy and efficient--that is, if you use Google Reader regularly and would rather have it auto-update than hit "refresh" on CL. Although either way involves staring at your computer screen constantly!

A few years ago I passed on a vintage Broyhill Brasilia buffet and hutch at my local thrift store for about $25. Not particularly a furniture aficionado, I thought the name sounded familiar but wasn't sure. I liked the look of it but decided I didn't have room for it. Later I kicked myself for not buying it.

I buy and sell on Craigslist often (often re-selling for a profit what I find at thrift shops) and follow the same rules many have written about here. If you really want to buy an item, be courteous and specific. Definitely don't ask to bring the price down on your first e-mail. And as a seller, I think it's perfectly fair to follow "first come with cash, first served," with the occasional holding or price-dropping for a sincere buyer, or at least seemingly sincere.

As a buyer, if I really want an item I'll offer more, or ask to be notified by cell phone if I've set a time to get it but another buyer offers more and swoops in. So many flaky sellers (and flaky buyers) but if we can come to a mutual understanding, I feel like my chances of getting an item are greater.

Also, I think it's perfectly fair to scoop up big-ticket used items for a song, whether at a garage sale, thrift store, or CL--if the seller hasn't done the research to find out what they have, too bad for them. I guess that sounds harsh but it still seems fair to me.

Another rule I have as a seller is that I always post pictures. If a post doesn't have a picture, I will rarely even look at it. People who say, "E-mail me for pictures" aren't at all desperate to sell if they won't take 3 minutes to upload something.

My Craigslist finds:
Eames elliptical table, $300
Four Eames shell chairs, matching from 1957 with labels, $300
Two Eames DKR chairs upholstered, $90
Two Eames arm chairs with yellow fibreglass shells and mathcing upholstery, $125 (delivered)
One Eames PSC swivel base chair, $60
One Eames Loose-Cushion armchair, $50
One Saarinen Womb Chair, $1000
Two Saarinen Arm Chairs, $100
You win some you lose some. The NYC area where I'm from it's tricky to be the first AND to negotiate the best deals. I look in NJ and PA for the deals. It's been fun and a challenge to find the perfect items. If you've seen the show 'American Pickers' it's that kind of rush.

I love this post - is there a way we can collect pictures of the finds along with the stories?

I just found an amazing vintage persian rug (9 by 12) for $35. I arranged a time to pick it up, but the seller called me later to say someone bought it before me. ERRR. I should have asked for time off work and just driven to get it then.