http://greenpointers.blogspot.com/2007/11/bedbugs-make-list.html

About selling furniture with risk of bedbugs: I will repeat something I posted a while ago. Before I knew I had bedbugs, I listed my futon couch on Craigslist. Someone looked at it, liked it and wrote me a check. But she couldn’t pick it up at the time because she needed to get a truck. Upon getting the bad news, I called her later in the week and said, I’ve got bedbugs, deal’s off. I later found an egg nest in the futon seam. I almost sold a piece of furniture without even knowing it had bugs.

Oh but, the initial reason I wanted to post on this: An update in Eefer’s blog says that the bedbug scare was a false alarm! Hooray for him!

IF it were an isolated problem, like a serious tornado that causes thousands of dollars (or more) damage to every home it hit, and in the case of large buildings tens of thousands, it would be taken seriously as a “disaster area.”

But it is not only a problem for those in localities it’s already hit. It’s spreading everywhere and fast.

I agree with Jess that we have a “responsability” to our neighbors to help stop the spread of the bugs. but I would call that a “moral responsibility”. the “social responsibility” belongs on our city officials who we voted for and apointed to office. I’LL NEVER TAKE THAT “SOCIAL RESOPSABILITY” AWAY FROM THEM!!!
of corse it’s just symantics, but I think you know what I mean. anyway, I still think it’s a neighborhood problem. soon to be a city wide problem. then a state problem. heck, who can say that city hall doesn’t already have bedbugs? after all, our police stations and fire houses have them. so do our jails, and schools. oh, hell, it’s not a neiborhood problem…it’s a city problem already.

buggedinbrooklyn

Last spring, a relative saw a bed bug running across the dressing room floor in a well-known (and not low-end) children’s clothing store in a well-known outlet mall in suburban Chicago. She knew what they looked like because she’d just seen one of the big news shows do a feature.

Sales of soft furniture (from designer office chairs to sofas and dining room chairs that are upholstered) and beds and mattresses should all be banned until further notice from Craigslist, freecycle, and other re-sale or re-cycle stores and boards.

Of course, you could get bed bugs from any sold or re-sold items. But the used soft furniture and bedframes are the most dangerous IMO. Oh, and used wicker.