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This is silly -- mobile furniture or computing hardware sales? Are there really people that can't be arsed to sit down on craigslist and browse their city for a new chair, but instead randomly buy one while walking about the financial district? Is there some use for this I can't see?

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Suppose you live in New York City, you don't have a car and you want a new chair. It is difficult to go get a chair that is very far away, and if it less than, say, a mile a way and not a huge chair, you could carry it home. But when I open up Craig's List, I see chairs from around the city, and have to try hard to find one close to me. This makes it a lot easier.

You clearly don't live in nyc.

NYC craigslist is covered w/ $20 - $50 guys w/ trucks who show up and move furniture / whatever for the agreed upon price. And there's always cabs. Seriously, it's not a big deal.

i don't know if i agree with this. I see your point, and it's valid. However, living in NYC I became accustomed to getting anything I wanted within a 5 block radius. Or at least, if you can get it within a 5 block radius, the convenience factor is so so much greater than going crosstown or something and/or hiring a mover.

Yup, and when you call and schedule a couch pickup for $40, they call back and say "Is rain, I need $60 now!" And I hang up, sit down on my newly-purchased couch in the basement of the building I bought it from, and scramble to find another guy with a van.

I do live in NYC. Never bought furniture on craigslist. If the app assured me there were no bedbugs, then me might be talking.

I think it would be super nice to be able to search by specific location instead of, say, "South Brooklyn". Thanks, buddy, that's kind of a big place.

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