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From: Queens, NY
Yeah, CL is full of spammers and people posting "jobs" where they want you to work for free, esp. acting, modeling and film production crew jobs. A site that charges for people to post would weed out most of the pikers.
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From: Lost in the mountains
Originally Posted by quiksilverS2K,Sep 12 2009, 09:33 AM
When I was trying to sell my last car, I posted it both on CL and on AutoTrader.... I didn't get 1 response from my ad on AutoTrader (I always asked where people saw the ad when they called)... I would have signed up for the "run until it sells" but it was a ridiculous price for that option. So IMO if you want a chance to be successful you should have a policy that ads will run until the item sells. I will never use another classified that doesn't offer this from the get go, or at least at a reasonable cost. Just my 2 cents. Best of luck to you! 
Its been about 4 months since ive sold that car and I still get weekly calls from telemarker type people asking to "help me sell your vehicle."
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From: Chicago
Originally Posted by Mark355,Sep 12 2009, 11:08 AM
Uh, I dislike paying. Why pay when there's high-traffic sites that let you post for free? 
so you charge the sellers or the buyers too? if only the sellers, you'll still have scammers trying to do the whole "i pay you $500 extra by check and you give me the difference in cash." if the buyer too...well, why use your site when i can use free ones?
the bs that comes w/craigslist for the time being isn't that bad for me. i would need a good reason to switch over to a paying site. i would imagine it would be hard to have a high-traffic paying site. as a paying seller, why not use ebay where you have an immensely huge market?
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What craigslists lack is catering to the non-savvy internet users. I will offer packages to put up ads over the phone and fax lines and an option to have pictures sent or taken by us.
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