Should I buy this used camera (link included)?

The seller won't even tell you the model of the camera. With those lousy pictures, he should ditch the phone and keep the camera :)

it looks like an EX-S10 which sold for about $180 last February and newer (better) models go for about $150 or less.

He didn't say the newer camera is better, just easier. And yeah, he's shooting with a crappy phone cam now. It's very hard to tell what kind of camera it is, based on the picture. And he was vague enough to leave out that information. It would be like buying "something" from a paper bag, but you don't know what you're buying until you make the deal and open the bag. Might be a good surprise or a bad one. Caveat emptor.

Pentax Optio A30 is a respectable digital camera, yet you additionally should evaluate right here that seem on your budget and alternatives: SD800IS approximately $3 hundred, image stabilization, huge perspective lens, 7.a million mega pixel Pentax Optio M40, $199, little at the cheap side, yet solid high quality extremely compact, scratch resistant liquid crystal show, 8 mega pixel Canon PowerShot A570 IS, approximately $200, image stabilization, maximum bang on your greenback, yet it does run off 2 AA batteries, 7.a million Megapixel submit to in concepts don't get fooled by capacity of extreme megapixel, a good number of cameras are bragging on that certainty, yet whilst it does not have a respectable digital processer it could desire to be crap. till you're a professional photographer, you will no longer choose something greater than 6 megapixels tops. (yet once you have been a professional, you will seem at SLRs first)

that is a Kodak camera... my girlfriend had that... whenever she'd take the camera with us somewhere, half the time we would spend trying to get it not to break, the other half the time we were yelling at it cause it was THAT terrible... Kodak definitely is the worst camera brand, no discussion about it... a few weeks ago it just gave up completely and she got a Canon SD1200... nice camera, but a very questionable auto mode if you ask me... at $220 is it a completely ridiculous rip-off attempt... that camera is not worth 1/3rd of his asking price... you can get new Kodaks for around $100-$130... the real price of that camera is about $50 tops... it's an old, used, bad camera...

Clearly, the newer camera isn't very good.

I wouldn't buy such a cheap camera used. CERTAINLY not for the amount he's asking.

If you can't afford $300 for a new point and shoot camera, you don't need a new camera.

I wouldn't. I'd never buy anything like that off of craigslist. You're better off going to a place like Best Buy or Walmart. You can return it if it doesn't work,and they all come with a warranty.Or look on a site like Amazon.