Those of you that use or browse Craigslist looking for that machine you never knew you needed until you saw it I have a question. I frequently search those same ads in case something is to good to pass up. It RARELY is but that's not the question. My question is do you avoid any ad that doesn't give a phone number as a contact method? One time I answered an email only ad and within hours I was getting bombarded with scam emails. And they never replied so I knew I had been had. So even when the deal looks legit when there is no way to contact by any means except email I keep scrolling. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Anyway short of creating an email just for this purpose do you also avoid such ads? Just seems to me that listings without a phone number scream bogus. Does anyone have suggestions or methods they use or am I just over paranoid?