What's happened to Craigslist?

[goeduck]

Any box scraper listed around here for a reasonable price will be gone in hours. What's "reasonable"? Under $500-600 and not all worn out.

You just have to be patient, monitor CL every day, then pounce when one gets listed. No waiting for the weekend.

But assuming the price is fair :thumbsup:

 

[Jstpssng]

Here's a CL ad that is probably legit, but shows what spell check can do... Roto-tiller - farm & garden - by owner - sale

I could be mistaken but suspect that he typed "King Kutter", not "King Litter".

(Not a bad price either, if it's in good condition.)

 

[watermelon]

I think they just relaxed in coping on the market. I mean to develop a good product is not enough. Once you've created a Blue Ocean, wait for competitors. Even if you have the pioneer advantage, competitors might develop better customer service, or whatever. I've been using it for years, but when the quality started to drop considerably, I started searching for Craigslist alternative on the market. I mean, even my loyalty couldn't accept the cheap stuff and bad service anymore. Anyway, for all those in business, this is a great "Do Not" example. I am sorry for them, maybe something happened with the founders, no idea.

 

[Cougsfan]

I think it depends on your locality. Around here Craigslist is still going fairly strong. Other places I have been recently, not so at all. Competition amongst selling platforms is great but it is a little frustrating to have to constantly change the way you buy or sell things to stay up with the latest fad method.

 

[California]

Craigslist is great for me!

Over Memorial Day weekend I took a carload of stuff to a local hospice support thrift store. They loved the old Schwinn bicycle etc but won't take furniture. Second stop Goodwill, learned they don't take furniture either. So I brought home the bookcase and folding bed. Added what would have been more than a carload of stuff I know neither would want - herbicide sprayers, rusted tools, 50+ dirty plastic flowerpots, unique drawers salvaged from old furniture. A stained mildewed wood box labelled from import of several fifths of Scotch whiskey. A garden hoe with conduit handle. Lots more, indescribable and useless.

I put this pile of junk out where our lane meets the county road and posted a Free ad on CL with nice photos, and the comment 'Stock your next yard sale!'

EVERYTHING went except the gallon herbicide sprayer with tape on its hose. That was added only to resist kinks but it looked like a leak patch.

I'm pleased with the CL result!

Why make a dump run?

 

[California]

I thought I posted this here but it must have been in a different thread:

Several years ago I got a ton of absurd barter offers when I listed a small tractor on CL, $1500 Cash Only.

A "Treasured Bicycle" and "leftover vinyl siding" were among the notable barter offers.

I emailed back the Simpson cartoon 'Grandpa shouts up at the clouds and shakes his fist', to an insistent cheapskate. That shut him up.

 

[Rebeldad1]

There is a lot more competition out there; as mentioned Nextdoor is a venue, and there can be several facebook groups for every community, as someone takes offense at something and starts their own faction, and on it goes. Now someone needs to come up with a spider search that encompasses all of these groups. We've come a long way from when the only way to buy and sell was the Nickel Ads and IGA shopper.

i loved the nickel ads....

 

[ning]

CL kinda works here but recently my son posts on FBM a copy of my CL & NextDoor listings and FBM gets rapid responses and things sell for good prices before I get a hint of interest from the others.

I think it's because you're fed ads on FB from FBM (similar to a lesser extent on nextdoor) and it's more "real people" selling & buying than the total anonymity of CL.

 

[p0opstlnksal0t]

Craigslist is pretty dead I typically find stuff on Facebook marketplace nowadays.

 

[scaredychicken]

FB marketplace works pretty good for me - for buying and selling. Making it a regional area, prevents tire kickers that say they will drive 5-6 hours for a specific meeting appt ... and then never show up, never call, never reschedule = flakes

I like castanet.com in my area. Very regional, harder to mess with your neighbours, so it works well.

 

[BravoXray]

Just sold a small tool box full of tools and a lot of four CB radios on Craigs list in the last couple of days.
Some other stuff I've had posted for months and never got a call.

 

[dstig1]

Sold a mill/drill in the space of 2 days recently. Some other stuff that was less easy- like very used trailer tires/rims took a couple months to get rid of them all. And I just bought my used Bridgeport via CL...which is why I sold the mill/drill. I refuse to give FB any of my time due to their politics and censorship.

 

[FTG-05]

My biggest issue with FB market place is how they sort the ads.

I like to look in "garden" section or "tools" section under the "home and garden" category

C-list would always sort by date.....newest listings first if you didnt use "search" function. And even if you used search on C-list....default was by relevance...but you could still switch back to "date".

I just pulled up garden section in FB market place.....First 12 listings...
1. about a day ago
2. over a week ago
3. about a day ago
4. 18 hrs ago
5. 2 days ago
6. about a day ago
7. 9 hrs ago
8. 16 hrs ago
9. 10 hrs ago
10. 12 hrs ago
11. 3 days ago
12. 20 minutes ago

I hate that. I like to browse C-list daily or so. So I know when I scroll down and get back to stuff I saw yesterday, I am done and have seen all the new listings.

Why FB wont sort, or give option to sort is beyond me. As a seller.....how do you know if your ad is gonna be one of the ones less than a day old and clear at the bottom? Or why some get lucky and have posts over a week old sitting at spot #2?

I'm in FM as we speak. There is a sort tool on the left side of the screen for me: Recommended, Location, Date and Price. I don't have an account, I have to have my wife contact the seller if I'm interested in anything.