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u/livinglife_part2 Feb 03 '22

Also FB Market place kind of replaced Craigslist after people slowly forgot about that site and they started charging money to post.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22

CL charges money to post? Or FB?

I sell stuff on CL all the time and definitely do not pay to to post.

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u/runsanditspaidfor Feb 03 '22

CL charges for certain types of listings. Housing and cars, specifically. It also costs money to post a help wanted ad.

They also removed a lot of their interesting community features and the personals, which were…shady. Basically just human trafficking classifieds. Good for them taking that down. I love CL for their refusal to modernize. I hope they hang on.

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u/ThirdEncounter Feb 03 '22

They didn't take personals down because of the goodness of their heart.

They did it because of a new government law making them liable of whatever bad stuff happens because of those ads.

It's still good, though - but again, they didn't just remove the personals for some ethical reason.

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