After Nearly Ten Years Of eBay, I Am Off To CL

[Carnos Jax]

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).

[blusubaru]

I love CL. Just bought the 'Bus from there.

[thermarest]

[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.

[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(?)

[vision63]

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.

[PeterB]

[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.

[ka jowct]

That's depressing news. I have no desire to use Paypal on the majority of stuff I sell.

[OWC Jamie]

eBay seems to be shooting itself in the foot often lately.

[karsen]

[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.)

[hal]

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.