[aigel]

If you respond with an email to a craigslist ad and you are serious about the item, you have to include your phone number. Or if the ad has a phone number, you have to call. Otherwise you'll just come across as one in a hundred tire kickers that wants to be a pen pal.

I have had excellent success buying and selling on craigslist. I always just give my phone number, never even put the email contact. That way you can weed people out pretty quickly on the phone. Scam artists generally do not call you on the phone.

George