Somewhat off topic--Neat Craigslist Trick

Hello All--

This isn't really a prospect research tip, but I thought it was neat anyway.

I've been looking for a car on Craig's List.

I've wanted to buy an inexpensive car from a private seller. I prefer a car that has been with a person for a while.

One of the problems of buying a (not very expensive) car on Craigslist is that there are a lot of people who purchase cars from auctions, or salvage cars from junkyards and launder the title.

These people don't identify as dealers, and they often lie about the cars they do sell. Using Carfax can help show when a car has been sold, etc, but it doesn't tell anywhere near the whole story.

I discovered that you can use the Craig's List to search for phone numbers. So for example, if someone has a car you might want to buy you can search the number, in quotes, to see if they have any other cars available. You can also search the number in Google to see if there are any cached car ads, because Google does index most of Craigslist.

I think there may be other interesting uses for phone number searching, besides reverse phone number/address searching.