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My mom's flip phone story about a sketchy buyer in 2009 got me thinking about how weird selling stuff used to be
She called me last week after finding her old flip phone in a junk drawer, and she read me the text messages from some guy who wanted to meet her in a parking lot in Cleveland to buy a $40 DVD player. He kept saying he would pay extra if she held it past midnight, and she said the whole thing felt off in a way she couldn't explain back then. What got me was her line: "We just met strangers and hoped for the best, and now you kids check a profile first." It made me realize how much we traded the wild west for a paper trail, and honestly I'm not sure younger me would have handled the old way well. Has anyone here ever gone through with a meetup that felt wrong from the first message?
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