Craigslist

For a long time, apparently, Craigslist has had problems with replying to ads. My problems just started several weeks ago.

They have locked down their forums, however (my email address is apparently not good enough for them), and so, I can't echo other people who have also been recently locked out of replying.

People, if you want to post something, please put the contact info in the body of the post.

The blame for this problem has been laid on the innocent users, with comments in the forum blaming users as abusers and that's why they are getting this mysterious "something went wrong" message. I am not an abuser or a scanner. In fact, I hardly ever use Craigslist.

In my investigations, I also read that users were being arbitrarily punished if they looked like they weren't local. This matched my experiments. With much struggle, I got another, distant internet address. I had the same error when I tried near my locale (with a distant internet protocol address) but the foreign local neighborhoods actually were reply-able (with the new address).

Since this problem has been an issue for so many years, and there is a pattern of blaming the victims, silencing the victims, and arbitrarily punishing random users who look out of line, I cannot recommend this website. To Craigslist, apparently, the users are not the customers or even the products, they are the enemy, to be fought and denied service to. This insane level of hostility to its customers should be enough to put Craigslist out of business.

If you are a lawyer, I encourage you to pursue legal action against Craigslist, for their discriminatory practices. If you were wronged by Craigslist, you should seek justice.

If you know of an alternative website, please use it instead.

Good platform but it has some fake scam jobs. It helped me to complete some writing samples for my portfolio

Craigslist is a huge haven for thieves, scams and crooks. I tried to purchase several different cargo trailers but each time it ended in an attempted scam. Once you have given your personal information and shipping address and acknowledge that you wish to purchase the trailer, car, etc, you will receive a reply email stating that you will receive an eBay Buyer Protection agreement. It will state in the agreement that you must pay the purchase price only in ecards and that the price is non-negotiable. The agreement also states ecard amounts will be deposited into an escrow account until you have approved and accepted the item within 7 days of delivery. FIRST LIE... ebay has no affiliation at all with Craigslist, SECOND LIE. Ebay does not have an escrow account, THIRD LIE eBay does not have a secure warehouse where the item is being held until delivery within 3 days of purchase. FOURTH LIEeBay does not provide handling and shipping of any items. Most people in this scam will tell you they have just gone through a divorce, shipping out in the military within 2 weeks, or only used the item a few times. BUYER BEWARE! RULES TO FOLLOW WITH CRAIGSLIST. 1. Always buy local with only the seller. 2. Never send money or any form of payment before the transaction. 3. Anything with eBay has NOTHING to do with Craigslist.

Just like many of us, I am home a lot, so decided to completely unclutter my home and get rid of years of "stuff." I figured craigslist would be perfect.

Although there are a few minor issues, my complaint is about their listing removal and their help forum

Removal of listing - The site removes your listing without warming and without providing an explanation - with only a link to the general information about their policies and what is not allowed. However, even after reading (and re-reading) the information, it is not easy to figure out the reason why. I am not sure if it is people or bots that do the removal, but even the slightest reason for the removal (or better yet, a suggestion on how to make the listing compliant) would be very much appreciated.

Help - There is a help forum and one specific thread that is supposed to provide help for sellers that are trying to figure out whey their listings are removed. You have to list on the thread in a specific way (they give you a bunch of questions to answer). Then you wait for people to respond. Although all I wanted to know why my listing was taken down, these individuals, not so nicely went on to tell me how my listings (not just the one I had removed) were basically junk and would not sell, etc. Through some of their ramblings I did figure out the answer. However, I will say that there was one responder that did provide some useful feedback - but it was not an experience I was expecting from a business website. I am not sure if craigslist has actual moderators that review the responses, but it would go a long way to ensuring that the proper help is provided (I was not the only seller to that tried to get help and met with the same responses).

It is just very frustrating after spending time to create the listing, then getting this type of "help", and then since there is no way to just correct the listing, I need to re-create the listing from scratch.

The big plus to craigslist is that it is free, but I guess I get what I pay for.

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I tried to get two houses for rent in the Tampa, Fl area and both times they was a scam. Craigslist have a bunch! I mean a bunch of people scamming

I am looking forward to seeing other place's of living so I will look forward to seeing this site hope it work I heard good things so far

Where should I being? I have never reviewed a website before but I feel its necessary for craigslist. For off Craigslist should be completely moved or should have some type of way to warn its users of scam and or fraudulent things. I was looking for a job a few months back and my friend referred me to Craigslist and I didn't want to believe them because I had a feeling something wasn't right. I agreed to just go and search and found something that said personal assistant for "Andy Rouse" which is a famous photographer found that out after I did my research so I go and proceed with the job posting and the person (Andy Rouse) sends me a check I took it straight to the bank it turns out the check was fake and the job was a SCAM! A website like this shouldn't be up because its not right and people are actually do look for homes and or jobs and do not have time to be getting SCAMMED. The person over Craigslist can not even help its users and its not their faults because you want to believe everyone is going to be truthful but they are not