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  • Using Classified Ad Sites For Do It Yourself Auctions

    Google Documents has a great new feature – free web forms.
    They are pretty cool. In fact, they allow you to create – do it yourself, no fee auctions!
    Here’s an example of how that was done for a local seller on a popular classified ad website.
    Because it’s local, people can actually see the product before paying. [...]

  • Frustrated Craigslist Users Start Own Sites

    Frustrated Craigslist Users Start Own Sites
    Depending on the geographical location of the site where you put the ad, there are either a host of self appointed whiners – or competitors – standing ready to eliminate any ad they find that is not to their liking.
    On the other hand there are some sites where the job [...]

  • Craigslist Requires Phone Verification

    Craigslist is a great tool for marketing small business products and services. Some businesses do ALL their advertising on Craigslist… it just depends what they offer and how well received Craigslist is in their community.
    I was recently checking out the service again as part of a periodic review and found that they are now [...]

  • Real Estate Listings At Craigslist Are Booming

    Saturday, the Senate approved a bail out for stockholders who got rich from the subprime mortgage industry. Nobody is bailing out the tax payers who have to pay for this silk stocking welfare. It remains to be seen if any actual homeowners will be helped, but we know every taxpayer is getting hosed to bail [...]

  • Cops Bust Craigslist Hoaxers

    I posted about the Craigslist hoax that cost a man most of his possessions. Police have now busted the perpetrators.
    Amber Herbert, 28, of Medford, and her husband, Brandon Herbert, 29, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit burglary and conspiracy to commit a computer crime.
    Police searched a computer that they owned and found [...]

  • House Ransacked After Craigslist Ad Hoax

    The kind, loving people who make Craigslist such a friendly place to visit online (NOT!) have now ransacked a man’s house in Oregon.
    Oregon man’s property ransacked after Craigslist hoax
    The ads popped up Saturday afternoon, saying the owner of a Jacksonville home was forced to leave the area suddenly and his belongings, including a horse, [...]

  • Craigslist Not Liable for Discriminatory Classified Ads

    This is a victory for all websites with user generated content!
    From Online Media Daily 

    In a ruling that has implications for all companies that publish consumer-generated content, a federal appeals court found Craigslist not responsible for discriminatory ads that were placed by users of the online classifieds site, and stated that the federal Communications Decency Act [...]

  • An Online Entrepreneur’s Experience Using Craigslist to Increase Website Traffic

    It is easy to get overwhelmed with all of the rapidly changing marketing strategies and online advertising schemes that seem to bounce around the Internet news sites these days and are also found in every $40 Internet business book at Borders. The typical online entrepreneur, such as an e-book author, small business owner, independent [...]

  • Skip Rosell’s Craiglist Cash May Be Just What You Need!

    This isn’t an affiliate link, I just wanted to help my pal Skip Rosell.
    He’s got a new product out called Craigslist Cash and it’s worth investigating if you’re looking for a home based business and want to tap into one of the hottest — and free — ad media’s in the US as I [...]

  • Law Student Gets Scammed From Craigslist

    I guess it’s not only uneducated people who get taken in by scams.  This fellow was a law student at a major Ivy League Law School! Again, the scam was posted on Craigslist! It’s worth reading the whole article.
    From the Washington City Paper
    An intriguing Craigslist job ad turned up on June 21 of [...]