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Looking for help with Craigslist

Wake

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This'll sound odd, but I don't know if I'm allowed to sell homemade pickles on Craigslist. I've got 3 1-pint jars of Gingery Pickled Beets made perfectly from the book "Food in Jars," and I wanna sell them, but don't know how. So, I checked CL's regulations/prohibited items and found this:


craigslist | about > prohibited items

My food would be packaged, and I don't think pickled beets count as "adulterated," but... I don't want to get fined or some other nonsense. Just want to start gaining some capital.

Does anyone else know the truth of this? If so, please help!
 
Oh snap, I just tried seeing if others were selling food on CL and found this:

Dilly beans

Looks like I can maybe sell pickled stuff, but.... is a permit required??? If only CL made it easy to find this stuff out!
 
probably the worst that would happen is that your post would get flagged and deleted. Since hookers use the site, I doubt beet pickles will get noticed.
 
You're probably fine. You could also try finding local farmers' markets where you might be able to sell your pickled products.
 
Fisher said:
probably the worst that would happen is that your post would get flagged and deleted. Since hookers use the site, I doubt beet pickles will get noticed.
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Ah, good laugh at that, thank you. Hmm, hookers, pickles, hookers, pickles...
 
I didn't think anyone used CL for anything other than hook-ups.
 
I thought Craigslist was a dating site.

I guess not.
 

Pickled is not adulterated food. Adulterated is defined as unsafe. Pickled isn't inherently unsafe. Craigslist is basically saying, we don't allow the sell of unsafe food so that if unsafe food is sold they can deny liability in a lawsuit. Now get out there and make some money boy.
 
Superfly said:
I buy and sell stuff all the flipping time on Craigslist. And not just hookers.
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I just put my product on Craigslist, and I'm hoping I get a hit or two. $5 per 1-pint jar.





A bit anxious if I actually get a sale on here... .
 
Anxious why? I love Craigslist. The only thing I have noticed is that I have far less luck where I am now with Craigslist, than I did when I lived in Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville, though, is a progressive town, NASA, Redstone Arsenal. Literally filled to the brim with rocket scientists LOL. So Craigslist there works well. Here? More of a laid-back culture. People would rather lay out on the beach all day, drinking rum, than actually work, so the Craigslist here is alot slower, and fewer people use it. I usually CL in Jacksonville and Savannah.
 

I've heard stories of scammers... and when sellers say they want cash in hand, and the seller shows up, they get robbed point-blank. I definitely don't want any data on my address being leaked, save for my city. My area is Kenosha/Racine, Wisconsin. I'm brand-spanking new to this site, and I just want to find some ways to make supplemental money.
 

Meet them somewhere well-lit, and busy. Maybe a Target parking lot or something? That's what a lot of people do. Nobody wants to give out their personal address, unless it's for something big like furniture. My nephew furnished his entire house with furniture from CL, and it was beautiful.
 

Thanks for the good advice!

Besides selling canned goods, I'm looking to pick up a ton of free things, clean them up a bit, and then sell 'em on CL. Right now in my area there's a wooden stand-up piano, a 15-year-old treadmill, and some working dirt-bike tires. All free.
 
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See, this is scaring me. Just checked the Cottage Law about pickles...


I don't see why I can't sell pickles, since unlike basic canning, acidic vinegars are used, as well as salt and sugar. They should allow people to sell pickles... we've had fairs in Rochester and Waterford and vendors never had to use a permit/license...
 
Almost everything is illegal in one way or another in the good old USA. That's why we don't respect or follow the laws, they're overbearing and oppressive.

Just sell your pickles until they catch you - then stop.

CL is the best place for hookers BTW. Only amateurs use CL, the pros use eros.com and backpage.com. So, the prices are lower and the girls are friendlier.


 

Salt is a base that neutralizes acid (try some on your grapefruit, you'll see it makes the grapefruit sweet), But that aside, botulism is only one danger. There are a host of other bateria that can be introduced either during canning, shipping or customer use. And since you have no license or official inspection process that last likely falls on you as well.

The folks you see selling in fairs and flea markets generally operate until they are noticed by local health authorities. I know the flea markets here do require their food vendors to be licensed.
 

It just seems ridiculous, since I follow the canning instructions in the book "Food in Jars" to a "T." Even the altitude is taken into consideration when boiling. What a joke. I'm going to call these people at the Washington State depertment of Agriculture and find out exactly what is and isn't allowed... and why. Simple pickle-makers shouldn't be harassed and bothered, simply for making pickles. It's freaking $230 just to get an annual permit! It's not like I'm actually starting a big business yet... just testing the waters and working up to that point. (Not angry at you, just angry at this flood of government regulations over pickles).
 
Samhain said:
All my wife and I use it for is to laugh at missed connections and pictures of genitalia.
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I assume male genitalia. Although I've seen it, it's pretty rare to see a woman rock the beaver up on the site...and I'd wager 90% of those times, it's a dude doing it.
 
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