Lex: The Craigslist Whisperer
Society & Culture
About
Lex drives a weird van around town and picks up treasures from Craigslist.
Episodes
- LEX - TCW Episode 195: The Ariel Rider Kepler.
Lex is constantly in disbelief of his good fortune, so he helps a Pontiac Vibe owner get a chair home.
- LEX - TCW Episode 194: The unnecessary purchases.
- LEX - TCW Episode 193: The Neighborhood Freebies Again.
Lex takes and takes and takes from his neighborhood Facebook page... until he gives back to a very appreciatve neighbor.
- LEX - TCW Episode 192: The Apple Watch and Chirp wheels.
Lex gets free slushies before improving his workout routine.
- LEX - TCW Episode 191: The $200 dresser.
Lex encounters a buyer who raised all the red flags and a seller who liked to lay it on thick.
- LEX - TCW Episode 190: The living room art.
After boring everyone at a dinner, Lex gets a huge piece of art.
- LEX - TCW Episode 189: The XBox Elite Series 2 controller again.
Lex is able to sell an XBox controller without having to visit a loading dock at 11pm.
- LEX - TCW Episode 188: The Pilates machine and Nike Hyperdunks.
After a tough negotation over the sale price of used shoes, Lex throws in a West Virginia University sweatshirt.
- LEX - TCW Episode 187: The TV trade up.
Lex only has a NOT taped up, nonworking TV for a little while.
- LEX - TCW Episode 186: The white dresser set and IKEA cabinet.
Lex learns that vintage dressers and destroyed romanticized views aren't as lucrative as they used to be.
- LEX - TCW Episode 185: The apartment clean out.
After boredom gets the best of Lex, the used junk store gives him way too much for a can opener.
- LEX - TCW Episode 184: The Neighborhood Freebies.
By not being an agressive salesman, Lex probably avoids being an accesory to what was surely the illegal disposal of a pet.
- LEX - TCW Episode 183: The Yoshi Wiimote.
Before selling a Nintendo Wii U bundle in the United States, Lex frustrates a Canadian named Mike.
- LEX - TCW Episode 182: The Wii U and the Fitbit.
Lex makes a Princess Peach Wiimote as well as a Fitbit free, and you wouldn't believe what frustrating situations he encounters in the process.
- LEX - TCW Episode 181: The 12 basketballs and the GoPro.
Lex coulda recorded the sales of Wilson Evolution basketballs, but he sold the GoPro first.
- LEX - TCW Episode 180: The Dallas Mavericks flag and Los Angeles Lakers neon.
If Luca Doncic ever plays for the Charlotte Bobcats, Lex will have all of his teams covered in his logo corner.
- LEX - TCW Episode 179: The Under Armor padded compression shirt.
After crashing his Volkswagen Golf TDI, Lex impresses a child in the thrift store parking lot.
- LEX - TCW Episode 178: The $50.10 recoupment.
Before deciding not to attend a poker run, Lex sells a wood planter that was meant for bikers.
- LEX - TCW Episode 177: The IKEA Sladda bike trailer.
Lex encounters people who don't read, people who lack an understanding of scarcity value, people who shoulda tried to buy a bike trailer in men's size 10 wide and people with possible bad faith requests; all before the Robert Axle Project…
- LEX - TCW Episode 176: The 4 chairs.
Lex unsurprisingly keeps the chair that can do everything but make him a pizza.
- LEX - TCW Episode 175: The ebike, monitor and legos.
Lex doesn't buy an Aventon from two face tattoo guys, despite the fact that they had a nice dog.
- LEX - TCW Episode 174: The screen trade ups.
Had Lex asked for whale teeth as payment, a potential computer monitor buyer probably wouldn't have blocked him.
- LEX - TCW Episode 173: The 3rd Ebike.
Lex stops having to yell at pedestrians on multi-use paths.
- LEX - TCW Episode 172: The Peloton bike and Hamilton Tiger-Cats sweatshirt.
Lex buys himself a Hamilton Tiger-Cats sweatshirt he didn't need and while potentially recouping the money he spent on it, is happy to see a wheelchair lift.
- LEX - TCW Episode 171: The Aimé Leon Dore jersey.
While shipping an Aimé Leon Dore jersey, Lex doens't know if the University of Tufts Jumbos basketball team made the NCAA tournament.
- LEX - TCW Episode 170: The Nintendo Wii and computer monitors.
Lex DOESN'T encounter an obvious advance payment scam after getting stuck behind a train.
- LEX - TCW Episode 169: The Volkswagen Fox stuff.
Lex applies lessons learned at tag sales to what remained of his Volkswagen Fox stuff, but not before bothering his number neighbor.
- LEX - TCW Episode 168: The two ebikes.
Though turbo boost on the Aventon is a reference to Knight Rider, Lex still sells his counterfiet, Greek, Dukes of Hazzard shirt.
- LEX - TCW Episode 167: The microwaves again.
Lex knew he could trust a guy who wanted to make a tire trade in the hardware store parking lot.
- LEX - TCW Episode 166: The vintage speakers and piano.
Lex learns that losing a wallet isn't the obvious hint it seemed to be.
- LEX - TCW Episode 165: The Charlotte Bobcats sign.
Lex is pretty sure asking Becky to make pillows also woulda ended the friendship, but he can't be sure.
- LEX - TCW Episode 164: The New Orleans Pelicans shirt.
Lex doesn't want a Houston Rockets shirt after finding out the New Orleans Pelicans shirt gets all linty.
- LEX - TCW Episode 163: The vanity and the soccer chair.
Lex doesn't have to check with his husband before getting a vanity or a soccer chair.
- LEX - TCW Episode 162: The Harman Kardon Onyx speaker.
Certain to encounter only tolerance and expanded horizons, Lex shares the Turnpike Troubadours and Allison Russell with friends.
- LEX - TCW Episode 161: The Sony PS5s.
Lex gets sent to a lot of far away addresses, but doesn't go to a local one.
- LEX - TCW Episode 160: The Trek Wahoo.
The Admiral and the Lime are joined by a Wahoo.
- LEX - TCW Episode 159: The garage clean out again.
After dealing with thrift store based derision, Lex makes it possible for his wife to continue to park on the driveway.
- LEX - TCW Episode 158: The North Carolina State University Wolfpack shorts.
Lex is called brother, bro, boss, man and buddy by someone who thinks his shorts are dope.
- LEX - TCW Episode 157: The University of Georgia Bulldogs football rug.
Despite what a rug and a shirt would lead people to believe, Lex did NOT go to the University of Georgia OR Southeastern University.
- LEX - TCW Episode 156: The 3 bikes.
Lex finds 4 bikes that seem too good to be true, and learns that only 1 actually was.
- LEX - TCW Episode 155: The OLED Nintendo Switch from Temu... probably.
- LEX - TCW Episode 154: The Nintendo Switch trade up.
Lex accepts a lower cash offer in a grocery store parking lot midnight.
- LEX - TCW Episode 153: The Palliser theater recliners.
- LEX - TCW Episode 152: The solid cherry bed.
After breaking a light, Lex finally sells a fancy bed.
- LEX - TCW Episode 151: The Windows 7 computer.
Lex finds a computer by the side of the road just in time to complete a Mariokart Wii project.
- LEX - TCW Episode 150: The Xbox Elite Series 2 controller.
Lex meets a guy at dock near midnight to sell some controllers.
- LEX - TCW Episode 149: The antique maple dresser.
Lex doesn't get a dresser for a friend OR pay someone that helped him load the weird van.
- LEX - TCW Episode 148: The garden wagon and wine.
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- LEX - TCW Episode 147: The yellow tricycle.
Because of Lex, a blind child's desire to drive a go cart remains unfulfilled.
- LEX - TCW Episode 146: The 3 free couches.
Lex tries to claim 3 different couches from someone whose father loved couches.