I paid $5 to post a used truck for sale ad on craigslist. The only responses I got was from scammers. I posted for free on facebook market place with copy pasta text + pictures. 10+ inquiries and sold it in 2 days for my asking price. craigslist is going down the tubes and they are just cynically capitalizing on every bit of revenue they can before it fades into obscurity.
Except you need a FB account. Craiglist isn't going to track you all over the web and include your sales and purchases in your advertising and whatever other profiles.
There's a lot of funny business on any public want-ad board. I appreciate one that doesn't want to know the intimate details of my life for their financial benefit. I have to laugh at calling Craigslist the cynical ones in this case...
> and they are just cynically capitalizing on every bit of revenue they can before it fades into obscurity.
What? Did you want your money back for your first ad? Oh right it was free and completely un monetized. Can you say the same for your fb marketplace ad? I bet you saw ads at every step in the process.
I’ve found in my travels that local buy/sell tools are very localized. I.e. in some cities craigslist is the only game in town. In others, it’s barely used. It sounds like you live somewhere where cl is not the best way to sell. I live somewhere where it is definitely still the best way to sell. I worry about fb fragmenting the market, but for now cl is still king here.
Meanwhile I posted my car for $5 and got multiple offers within 2 hours. In fact, the ad was so successful with selling my car that I actually couldn't keep up with it and basically ended up selling to the first person I clicked reply to.
Maybe your product was bad? Do you live in an area devoid of people? I'm sure I also got about 10% of people trying to scam me somehow, like convincing me to come out and then claiming they didn't bring the money, but eh, I didn't feel like going through the trouble of putting it on eBay
