Cleveland Plus Craigslist

I see plen­ty of those huge ban­ners down­town and bill­boards in the imme­di­ate Cleve­land vicin­i­ty pro­mot­ing Cleve­land Plus, but I’ve yet to see one any­where out­side of Cleve­land prop­er. I was under the impres­sion that this mar­ket­ing cam­paign is for folks out­side of the region, try­ing to attract them [and busi­ness] here. Has any­one actu­al­ly seen a Cleve­land Plus bill­board, TV spot, or oth­er mar­ket­ing effort out­side of Cleve­land?

I put an ad up on Craigslist for some left­over fur­ni­ture and I’ve been get­ting the most gram­mat­i­cal­ly inept and non­sen­si­cal emails I’ve ever seen in response. I know in the abstract that a vast amount of peo­ple using the inter­tubes give off the slack-jawed idiot impres­sion in their usage of all caps, no punc­tu­a­tion, mixed tens­es, abbre­vi­a­tions and such, but being inun­dat­ed with 4 dozen or so sim­i­lar yet dif­fer­ent mes­sages is a con­stant reminder that half the pop­u­la­tion is, by neces­si­ty, below aver­age intel­li­gence. My two favorites, quot­ing the entire­ty of each email ver­ba­tim:

HI I NEED THE TABLE . IS OT VERY HAVE

where are you

Those aren’t even C+ qual­i­ty.