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Originally Posted by javadog
What chaps my ass is the roughly 50% of inquiries where they don't read the ad and also ghost you when you reply to them.
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Bots verifying email and phone..to harvest your info for sale. Don't take it personally.
I'd suggest using a temporary for CL or whatnot.
Pushing people into the online sphere is a continuing problem.
It will only get worse with AI recording voices to spoof. An arms race with small time exchanges. Driving a wedge between seller and buyer to erode all confidence, until the only thing safe are the big websites for used sales. Even locally. Maybe some of this might be generated by them but it will never be proven.
I got at least two letters from the nextdoor site claiming personal invites from neighbors. Gossip online about other people/political issues and have it all observed from san francisco HQ. One (who I knew for a long time) denied doing that and was ticked. The other was from an 80yo man who lived ten blocks away. I looked it up out of curiosity.
I once advertised a rental on zillow but they wanted to port all email communications with applicants through their website to be logged. I smelled a potential rat, theoretically setting me up for major discrimination claims, meaning a foreclosure would be available for corporate buyers. There were some dubious ones.
And out of the blue, letters from local renter's right orgs reminding me of those laws. What timing.
Then I got an email saying the website had a renter with a signed lease ready to move in now. WTH. I never authorized that.