* Be aware of fake cashier checks & money orders. * Never send payment in advance via bank wire or western union, moneygram or any other service before receiving the goods.
And see whether any negative comments on the net are found against them. * Search the internet with the name and phone number, email or address of the person or company with whom you are going to deal. This way you can avoid most the craigs list scams. Sometimes the sellers also get scammed by the dishonest buyers.įollowing are some tips to avoid scams of craiglist: As a result, the buyers are frequently cheated by the fraud sellers. Unfortunately it doesn't provide any protection for the buyers or the sellers. This shows the modern thinking of the CL authority.Ĭraigslist is a great online market place. Recently, Craigslist has launched its mobile app for iPhone and Android platforms. Still, this is a good position for a website like craigslist which runs with very minimum resources and depends heavily on the community volunteers. Now, the Craigslist ranks within the top fifty popular websites of the USA and within the top 200 popular websites worldwide. Once CL was within the ten most popular websites of the USA as per Alexa ranking. Sites like which was very popular in Spain had to go away.Ĭraigslist has also lost some traffic in the competition with social media and other similar services. As a result, most of the free classified sites lost traffic over the years. Social media like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest have become great competitors of the online free classified websites.
Although eBay is still running its classified sites, the other giants shut down their free classified sections. While many of its competitors had to shut down, CL is still running with huge popularity in the USA as well as Canada.īeing inspired by the success of Craigslist, the giants like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay tried to copy the model with no great success. New regulations have come into effect making it more difficult to run a website with user-generated contents. During this long time, the internet world has changed a lot. Since then CL got popularity all over the USA quickly. Craig Newmark began the Craigslist service in 1995 as an email distribution list. Craigslist has still been able to keep its popularity in the USA.
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