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Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - Carnos Jax - 05-12-2008
Not sure if any of y'all have heard of this, bit it looks promising:
www.wigix.com
Seems like it's more tailored for commonly sold items with a fixed price rather than unique one off type stuff that are more suited for an auction type format. Was setup by a guy who created the computer system for some large online stock trading company (can't remember which).
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - blusubaru - 05-12-2008
I love CL. Just bought the 'Bus from there.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - thermarest - 05-12-2008
[quote chipste®]I am looking for a musical instrument. Each time I search CL it only searches a particular area. Any way to search all of CL?
Google does a great job of searching craigslist. include "craigslist.org" in your search term and it will pull up results from all areas.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - IronMac - 05-12-2008
[quote PeterB][quote IronMac]That was almost four years ago, though.
Yes, but will not be long before they've bought majority stake.
Doubt it...the only reason eBay got a stake was because one of the early insiders sold out. The rest are adamant that that won't happen. In any case, I think eBay has a similar system set up called kijiji(?)
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - vision63 - 05-12-2008
Craigslist "ain't" Ebay. Ebay is so frustrated with it's meaningless stake that they're suing Craigslist as we speak. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/23/145255&from=rss
People who sell products in the fashion that they're sold on Ebay are immediately suspected as scammers.
Buy "only" locally. Anyone trying to sell a product from out of the area "is" a scammer. When I sell products on Craigslist, the first people that call are cheating jokers.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - PeterB - 05-12-2008
[quote IronMac][quote PeterB][quote IronMac]That was almost four years ago, though.
Yes, but will not be long before they've bought majority stake.
Doubt it...the only reason eBay got a stake was because one of the early insiders sold out. The rest are adamant that that won't happen. In any case, I think eBay has a similar system set up called kijiji(?)
Adamant is only a matter of money. Offer enough, adamant becomes compliant.
The fact that CL already has a fee option set up should give you some sense of which way the wind is blowing.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - ka jowct - 05-12-2008
That's depressing news. I have no desire to use Paypal on the majority of stuff I sell.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - OWC Jamie - 05-12-2008
eBay seems to be shooting itself in the foot often lately.
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - karsen - 05-12-2008
[quote chipste®]I am looking for a musical instrument. Each time I search CL it only searches a particular area. Any way to search all of CL?
http://www.craigshelper.com/
(Didn't used to work well in Safari but fine in other browsers, they may have fixed Safari issues.)
Re: After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL - hal - 05-12-2008
I LOVE selling on ebay - CL just isn't big enough in my area...
or I just LOVE seeing prices go through the roof. When I can sell a 2.16 24" imac with an external drive for $1700 on CL I'm there, but in the mean time. Ebay/ paypal has been wonderful for me.