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Apollo 61 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 769 | Noticed a severe drop in cars for sale! https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/posting_fees Edited by Apollo 61 2019-04-23 1:25 AM | ||
Myke |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 1110 Location: Tulare Ca | Might also explain the sudden spike ive seen in other apps like letgo, offerup and FB marketplace | ||
mikes2nd |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5006 | hopefully this will slow the amount of total bullsh*t on craigslist. I think Facebook marketplaces are hurting more. Car sale sites are getting crushed though. | ||
ronbo97 |
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Expert Posts: 4036 Location: Connecticut | You're selling a car for thousands or even tens of thousands and you're complaining about a $5 fee to list to reach a global audience ? Really ??? Ron | ||
Powerflite |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 9663 Location: So. Cal | Craigslist isn't very global. It's a pain to search every single city for something you are looking for. Other sites that search craigslist for you made it easier, but craigslist forced them to break up their searches into regions. It's not that easy to reach a global consumer as you say, unless I am missing something. But I agree that $5 isn't excessive. Hopefully it really does eliminate the frivolous & duplicate ads on there, but I tend to doubt it. They'll just find a way around it. Edited by Powerflite 2019-04-23 5:49 PM | ||
Apollo 61 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 769 | Last week,When I would search say LA Craig's area under 1961 owner, I would get about 150ish cars of all makes to view. Almost overnight,you will get about 7-10. :o. If there are no cars for sale ????? Then what | ||
mikes2nd |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5006 | Apollo 61 - 2019-04-23 4:38 PM Last week,When I would search say LA Craig's area under 1961 owner, I would get about 150ish cars of all makes to view. Almost overnight,you will get about 7-10. :o. If there are no cars for sale ????? Then what
to many dips**t used car sellers are using Craigslist bots now and finally craigslist is going to solve the problem.
That one moron has been posting his junkyard cars in every stupid city for months... and you get local corner lot car salesman posting all over the country or posting a 2005 Dodge with 1957 dodge in the desc... good move Craigslist... make it 10$ | ||
drosera88 |
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Expert Posts: 1267 Location: San Antonio TX | I use Autotempest to search all Craigslist at once, and there is literally about a tenth of the results now as I used to get. Yes, it cuts down on scammers, and it certainly cuts down on people flooding the site with ads for the same car, but it seems to have killed off a lot of legitimate ads as well. Just goes to show we can't have nice things because there's always a few people out there ready to ruin it for the rest of us. | ||
Apollo 61 |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 769 | This video explains what's going on at CL well. What do you guys think will happen? Will CL survive the $5 charge or did it just self destruct? I https://youtu.be/acKFqKHH1Qo | ||
mikes2nd |
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5006 | craigslist needs some income... | ||
Paul Hettick |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 705 Location: California | I tried to list a car with the 5$ charge several times and craigslist would not accept my credit card. | ||
58Jackie |
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Veteran Posts: 123 Location: Southern Idaho, USA | To me, it seems that they have gotten money hungry. | ||
Mike McCandless |
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Expert Posts: 1886 | They are running a business, not a non profit. | ||
tailfins |
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Expert Posts: 1782 Location: calif | they make millions now from real estate and jobs listing charges | ||
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