craigslist 12+

CL is where I hire employees, find rentals, buy washing machines and sell tools. Wonderful improvement in our lives, although I miss newspaper journalism that CL helped kill by eliminating print ad sales. But somebody would eventually anyway, so it’s a better world for business but a weaker democracy.

Somehow here in the States there are no scams or fraud going on, CL is fantastically reliable and strong. But in Europe unfortunately no one uses it, as rental scams and items for sale are often scams. With CL worldwide, if you pay cash for something you can haul away, it works well. Or if you are looking for employees, you can talk to them when they respond to your detailed free ad. Yay details! But the application suffers in rentals and purchases for anything but cash. Rentals are problematic, don’t pay with a credit card ever. Your payment for that apartment in Amsterdam to the owner who is in a different country, that’s why it’s allegedly for rent, goes straight into my personal bank account. Thank you!

But CL is an important institution, thank you CL staff for the constant work on the app.

This app favorably compared to OfferUp is actually more intuitive and faster to use as well as share to fb. The 20+ pictures I uploaded were done nearly at a fraction of the speed of light. My only complaint was just recently finding out about this app and feeling like an out of touch grandpa, but don’t worry I’m sure my psychiatrist will prescribe me something that will make me think it’s the medicine making me feel forgetful, and unable to solve the simplest technical challenges. Little does he know I have a real confirmation bias against the so called “placebo effect”. Even sugar pills have sugar in them , hardly a healthy choice. These are the jokes folks. I’ll be here for another hour at least. Tip your servers.🥸

Used CPlus for years. Glad they finally put out an official app.

-1 star for what's always been an issue with Craigslist, regardless of platform. Abuse and lax enforcement. Most people on there are fine, but occasionally you run into unhinged people, and there is no help or recourse. I understand it's a small (and often free!) operation, but there are solutions. At the very least, they should be scanning for ads which are substantially the same and not allowing them. The most recent abuser I got didn't like that I took 45 min to respond to his text and got it in his mind that I was a scammer. So he copied my entire ad, including pictures, and added "this is a scam" to it, in multiple places. The pics at the very least, particularly in the same city, should be enough to flag based off some hash and prevent them from posting. I emailed the contact us for faked ads and never heard back. I didn't get any responses to my ad for a week until I could flag it enough times from different connections and devices to have it removed. Not cool. Imagine for people who have their contact info revenge posted.