Looking for help with Craigslist

[Wake]

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:

[h=4]Partial list of items for sale and services the advertisement of which is not permitted on craigslist:[/h]

• Child pornography, obscene materials, offers or solicitation of illegal prostitution.
• Weapons and related items, including firearms, ammunition, silencers, pellet/BB guns, tear gas or stun guns.
• Items issued to United States Armed Forces that have not been disposed of in accordance with Department of Defense demilitarization policies.
• Food stamps, WIC vouchers, SNAP EBT cards, SNAP or WIC foods, infant formula, etc and other items received from governmental agencies or programs.
• Fireworks, including "safe and sane" fireworks or any destructive devices or explosives.
• Alcohol or tobacco products. Controlled substances or illegal drugs, substances and items used to manufacture controlled substances and drug paraphernalia.
• Prescription drugs and medical devices, including prescription or contact lenses, defibrillators, hypodermic needles or hearing aids. Nonprescription drugs that make false or misleading treatment claims or treatment claims that require FDA approval.
• Blood, bodily fluids or body parts.
• Household pets of any kind including dogs, cats, primates, cage birds, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fish. Re-homing with small adoption fee OK. Pet animal parts, blood, or fluids are also not permitted, including stud/breeding service.
• Restricted or regulated plants and insects, including noxious weeds, endangered plant species, or live insects or pests.
• Pesticides or hazardous substances, or items containing hazardous substances including contaminated toys, or art or craft material containing toxic substances without a warning label.
• Illegal telecommunications equipment, including access cards, signal jamming devices, password sniffers, unloopers, or cable descramblers
• Stolen property, or property with serial number removed or altered. Burglary tools, including lock-picks or motor vehicle master keys
• False identification cards, items with police insignia, citizenship documents, or birth certificates.
• Counterfeit currency, coins and stamps, tickets, as well as equipment designed to make them. Counterfeit, replica, or knock-off brand name goods. Material that infringes copyright, including software or other digital goods you are not authorized to sell, warez, bootlegs.
• Tickets you are not allowed to sell, including airline tickets that restrict transfer. Coupons or gift cards that restrict transfer or which you are not authorized to sell. Lottery tickets, sports trading card 'grab bags', raffle tickets, sweepstakes entries, slot machines, other gambling items.
• Used or rebuilt batteries, or batteries containing mercury.
• Used bedding and clothing, unless sanitized in accordance with law.
• Non-packaged food items or adulterated food.
• Bulk email or mailing lists that contain names, addresses, phone numbers, or other personal identifying information

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!

 

[Wake]

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!

 

[Fisher]

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.

 

[tessaesque]

You're probably fine. You could also try finding local farmers' markets where you might be able to sell your pickled products.

 

[Mach]

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.

Ah, good laugh at that, thank you. Hmm, hookers, pickles, hookers, pickles...

 

[Gipper]

I didn't think anyone used CL for anything other than hook-ups.

 

[wolfsgirl]

I didn't think anyone used CL for anything other than hook-ups.

I bought my pool table off of CL. A lawn mower too.

 

[NoC_T]

I thought Craigslist was a dating site.

I guess not.

 

[Superfly]

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.

:lol: :lol: Sorry, just literally laughed out loud at that one.

 

[Superfly]

I buy and sell stuff all the flipping time on Craigslist. And not just hookers.

 

[ksu_aviator]

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:


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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!

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.

 

[Wake]

I buy and sell stuff all the flipping time on Craigslist. And not just hookers.

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... .

 

[Superfly]

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.

 

[Wake]

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.

 

[Superfly]

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.

 

[Wake]

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.

 

[clownboy]

You might want to check your state's laws on the sale of cottage foods for what is permitted. Here's a good page for Washington's laws that might give you some idea.

Also, you need to pray you don't capture the notice of the FDA.

Selling food of any sort online is a risky business especially if you're unlicensed and just rolling your own. One case of botulism, or even just a food reaction and you could possibly lose everything and spend some time in jail.

 

[Wake]

You might want to check your state's laws on the sale of cottage foods for what is permitted. Here's a good page for Washington's laws that might give you some idea.

Also, you need to pray you don't capture the notice of the FDA.

Selling food of any sort online is a risky business especially if you're unlicensed and just rolling your own. One case of botulism, or even just a food reaction and you could possible lose everything and spend some time in jail.

See, this is scaring me. Just checked the Cottage Law about pickles...

• Can I produce and sell home canned foods such as salsa or pickles?

No. Home canned products do not qualify under the Cottage Food Law. Manufacturers of cooked vegetable products like salsas and tomato sauces must meet significant federal and state training and licensing requirements. Cooked vegetables, whether fresh or canned, usually are made from a combination of low acid and acidified foods, and are considered a Potentially Hazardous Food. Cooked vegetables must be held either hot (above 135°F) or cold (below 41°F). They can't be stored at room temperature, which makes them ineligible for production in a Cottage Food Operation.

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...

 

[specklebang]

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.

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...

 

[clownboy]

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...

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.

 

[Samhain]

I didn't think anyone used CL for anything other than hook-ups.

All my wife and I use it for is to laugh at missed connections and pictures of genitalia.

 

[Wake]

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).

 

[Gipper]

All my wife and I use it for is to laugh at missed connections and pictures of genitalia.

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.