| Author | Message | ||
     Blake |
My feedback to craigslist... I've tried twice, been "published" twice for my home for rent ad. Current ad URL follows: | ||
| Blake |
I've been hearing about craigslist for years now. Never used it until a few weeks ago. What a waste of time. I've never seen such a poorly documented, designed, and administered web site before. It is horrible. When you look at their "help desk" forum you find it chock full of folks who are unable to get their ads to actually show up, this despite the fact that craigslist informs them that their ads are "published." Craigslist is a liar. | ||
| Davegess |
You get what you pay for. I have used it and it is very clumsy but the price is right. I think part of the appeal is the 1990 internet BBS look and feel of it. | ||
| Blake |
Clumsy or just basic/simple is one thing. Deceitful and useless is another. | ||
| Uncbuell |
What exactly is the problem? I have sold cars, motorcycles, computer equipment, musical instruments and rented out a condo on craigslist with no problems over the past 10 years. I can help you out if you want - just pm me the details and which cities you need it published under. | ||
| Blake |
I have one response after two queries on the help forum there. Blake.. some thoughts about your ad.. <-> 12/21 13:22:44 Nothing anywhere on the site advises about any of the above. And I've seen too many ads that include symbols in the title for that to be the issue. I have to wait two days? Good grief. My ad text... Title: Exceptionally Nice 3-2-2 Brick Home Near I-20 & 360 I removed street number and telephone number from above. (Message edited by Blake on December 21, 2010) | ||
| Pwnzor |
Well, I'm not sure about the source of your troubles Blake... My experience with CL has been quite the opposite. I have posted literally hundreds of ads for drivers, and I can usually count on the lobby being filled with applicants within just a couple of hours. No joke, I place the ad at 9:15am and there are about 20 people in our lobby by 11:00am. Other than the overall length of your ad text, I see no reason why CL would not publish it or get it stuck in a filter. I use symbols and stuff in the titles all the time. You know what I blame this on the breakdown of? Society. | ||
| Blake |
You pay for your employment ads though, yes? I'd happily pay for my home for rent ad if it would post. Stupid idealists. Yet another example proving how essential it is to have a profit motive. The for-profit portion of craigslist works great. The free part, horrible. | ||
| Brinnutz |
So, after getting the email after initially posting the the ad, you went to link in email and clicked Publish right? I had the same problem a couple years ago when trying to sell stuff, and found out later why. Just a thought. It happened to me that way, so figured I'd mention it lol | ||
| Blake |
I think the email took me to a craigslist page where I then clicked on "publish". I then received a confirmation email stating that my ad had indeed been "published" and providing a direct link to it. That made me think that it was listed. What else would one think? I later found that it wasn't. | ||
| Guell |
i posted something up a couple of weeks ago and had the same issues, it was ghosted, but they claimed it was published. | ||
| Trbulnt |
I have also used Craigslist for numerous items with great results both selling and buying. I did have one item (a Nintendo Wii) never show up which albeit was frustrating, the bottom line was it is a FREE service that is viewed by lots of people which is very hard to come by this day and age. The other solution is to print a flier and post it at your local supermarket!! | ||
| Ourdee |
Sorry to hear you are having troubles. I have had quite a bit of success with the free part. It is how I paid for all the maintenance items for the Buell last year, Including the money for HC2010. It sounds like you have done everything right. When I get the published email and link it still takes a while before the ad actually is posted on CL. You may try posting it again then searching for it the next day. Not much help here.  | ||
| Blackm2 |
Exceptionally Nice 3-2-2 Brick Home Near I-20 & 360 Like what the recommendation said above, too many hyphens, numbers, abbreviations in the title. Should read: "House for rent" Any other detail can be done in the body of the text. Craigslist is great, you just have to watch out for scammers. | ||
| Pwnzor |
Yes, in California we pay for our employment ads. In Las Vegas they're free. I've sold a few motorcycles and cars through the free part of CL with no issues though. | ||
| Raceautobody |
Ask for a refund | ||
| Whatever |
I had that happen to me a few days ago... I got around it by posting "Madison" so it actually went up on the Madison page... then I could edit it to Waunakee, Springfield Corners, or whatever... I thought it was just me, but, it did generate a spammer... the add specifically says to call the landlady's number or to e-mail her at her address... I think there are a lot of spammers on craigslist... | ||
| Blake |
>>> Ask for a refund Lack of fee excuses neither deceit, nor egregiously poor management, nor incompetence, nor the significant time wasted. | ||
| Damnut |
I've used Craigslist to buy and sell multiple items. No problems as of yet. Blake, once you "publish" your ad, go into craigslist and do a search for what you want to sell. Sometimes it helps if you are not logged in for some reason. Also it takes an hour or so to actually get you item up on the site from when you press the "publish" button. If you need a hand send me a pm. The only problem I've had with Craigslist is folks bailing out on me. Buyer/Seller beware is all I can say about using Craigslist, it is free after all. | ||
| Prof_stack |
Craigslist has worked wonderfully for me, both buying and selling. A few spammers have answered my ads, but the delete button works well. I sold both Moto Guzzis and the XB9S on CL, as well as other stuff. No home invasions either. It has happened to some. That would make for another topic. | ||
| Mls1 |
I have sold and bought quite a bit from CL and make a nice second living selling stuff from CL on EBay, I saw a show about the owner and thought it was cool he refused to sell ad space or the company to major corporations like Time Warner who wanted to buy and profit off of the ads, the show said he only makes enough money to pay his staff and make a fair salary. His reason for the low-tech look was so anyone even those on slow PC's could surf quickly and easily (have you seen how long EBay ads take to load now)... | ||
| Iman501 |
I'm good with craigslist, I sold/parted out all three of my wranglers about a year ago, i found my buell through craigslist, I found my Dads Truck on Craigslist, along with other random electronics items. I have yet to have any real trouble with the site... | ||
| Seanp |
It's not right that they, as the most valuable repository of Internet classified ads, should be able to squelch an individual like they've done. Although it is their site, and I guess they should be able to run it however they want to run it. And if people don't like how Craigslist runs their site, people can go to other sites... | ||
| Raceautobody |
<<<It's not right that they, as the most valuable repository of Internet classified ads, should be able to squelch an individual like they've done. Although it is their site, and I guess they should be able to run it however they want to run it. And if people don't like how Craigslist runs their site, people can go to other sites... sounds like BadWeb | ||
| 12x9sl |
+1 Seanp | ||
| Firemanjim |
Wow,never had a problem like that, bought and sold countless items. Did you set up an account? I can try from here with my account. | ||
| Drkside79 |
Shit 1050 a month I may have to move to TX. For that here i would be living in a war zone. | ||
| Fahren |
Yeah, Blake - you should have posted the ad on Badweb first! But maybe having a biker as tenant would be bad LOL :-) | ||
| Blake |
The ad finally showed up today! Thanks to all who offered thoughtful advice and offers of assistance. I really appreciate that. Thank you Fire Man! Nice to see your name show up on my missed calls list.  | ||
| Speedfreaks101 |
Maybe its a sponsorship issue.  |
