Craigslist Foundation

Craigslist is a great idea, BUT… Craigslist does NOTHING to protect animals from harm, and worsens the situation by making things so very easy for people to cause more harm and damage to homeless animals. To this day most dogs and cats in shelters are killed for lack of space for them — I wonder what percentage of puppies and kittens who did end up finding homes on Craigslist ultimately ended up at shelters. While they say selling animals is against Craigslist policy — most postings are from breeders selling animals (and lots of these breeders have learned to disguise their posts). Yes, you can flag them for removal, but there isn’t enough time in the day to sit there and flag everybody, leaving animals very vulnerable. Plus it takes multiple people to flag and remove one post. Such a futile attempt on my part and many others. I tried to contact Craigslist more than once to offer my help, for free, to weed through and enforce Craigslist’s own policies, Craigslist’s own rules and also California STATE LAW. Craigslist does have a link where you can contact them but I never did hear back.
There are other crimes made easier no thanks to Craigslist, not only towards animals but people.
There are more trolls on Craigslist looking to hurt people for the sake of hurting, I never knew what the term «troll» meant until Craigslist. Well, it’s full of them.
I don’t expect any company to be perfect, but to not take responsibility for the harm it has is deplorable and criminal. Not seeing the harm it cause and DOING something about it (real and genuine, not a weak attempt and play ignorant while it continues).
Craigslist has a very shady reputation. Craigslist allowed that to happen by doing nothing about everything.
I did find a comfy couch in good condition once. So, I can live with having no option but to give them one star. I’m sure there are good things that come out of Craigslist’s use, but from my experience seems more harm than good. I recently started browsing Craigslist and it has become much, much worse and not worth my time and effort.
Why bother.

Unilocal Challenge 2015. ¹⁷⁰⁄₃₆₅
Dog found. More like your dog found me. She jumped into my car in a busy shopping center. She gets along well with my dog and is welcome to stay with us until she finds you. The problem is she very very lazy, refuses to get off my couch. She is very needy and needs to be right next to me, and is a heavy licker. More importantly she is also a heavy breather. I don’t think she likes my food because she refuses to eat the dog food I have. All she does is drink. If this is your girl please come and get her. She misses you very much.
True story, a dog jumped into my car during my lunch break. She was chipped, but her info was not correct. Instead of taking her to the shelter, which is a huge inconvenience I brought her home and put an add on Craigs List that night. Within 20 minutes someone claimed her by responding via email. I called her back and made her send me pictures to prove she belonged to her. The next morning before work the 2 were reunited. She offered me $ 100, but I declined.
Craigs list has also gave me an opportunity to stalk a theft, who stole something from me a few years ago. He was dumb enough to post a phone number on a previous ad, that was in the archieves. I was able to track them down and give their info to police.
When Im bored I love reading all the funny ads that people write. Especially those chance encounters when someone smiles at you in the meat department at your local meatmarket. Or the person you saw for a quick minute while waiting in line. There was also an ad about a woman who farted in the bakery. Yay, you can write a chance encounter ad and hope they read it.
I also found my job on a CraigsList post.
Craigs list is cool for lost pets, jobs and to stalk a theft.
Just use caution while writing ads. Have them respond via email and meet in public.
Review #660

Craigslist is PERFECT for CRIMINALS to find their next victim! I LOVE reading about people getting SCREWED by someone on Craigslist!
1. This lady hires a guy to deliver 4 boxes worth of merchandise worth $ 2,000.00, and the boxes NEVER shows up at the destination address!
2. A girl gets a ride share, and the guy takes off with her luggage, and other personal belongs at a rest stop!
3. A guy drives this girl, and she breaks his windshield when she got mad after talking to someone with her cellphone!
4. A guy drives this girl over 100 miles, and she bails on paying him at a 7÷11…
SUCKERS!!!

«Hello there whom may read this it is my regret to say that some of us including my self have miss used this services, but like some this is like a old fashion town sewer bullion board were you can fine a employment. housing and some stuff and a date if you choose to engage in activity like that but my favorite category is rat and rave has any one ever read some of those post? For they are endless to say the lest of whom sleep with whom or in general just piss off at life anyway I am a fan so people keep on posting your hart out and just maybe some good will come out of all of this bad stuff and be kina to one another»

I will never be able to understand how Craigslist’s policy. CL encourages and condones massive flagging and chose to do nothing about it but to continue encouraging this behavior. Penalizing the add that gets flagged is dumb but that seems to be their current model. I really hope that some other site comes along with a better site that replaces CL FOR EVER.

This company sucks as hell. Their website is freaking stupid… They just suddenly blocked my IP address for not doing anything that break their TOS. Because most of the people uses craigslist are scammer that does’t mean I am one. Your systems sucks for recognizing me as a spammer/​scammer.
This site are just for criminal like the creator.

I used to like this site, but it has some major issues and their automated system now leaves much to be desired.
I post dogs up for adoption and dogs needing foster homes for a SF nonprofit dog rescue that works closely with the city shelter. Everyone is a volunteer and no one gets paid. When a dog is offered to us, typically all other rescues passed on it or never replied to the shelter and the spca declined. We usually know if we do not take a dog, usually it will be slated for euthanasia. In the past, various postings would be periodically flagged and deleted. I spoke to another volunteer with a different dog rescue in SF and was told they believed backyard breeders were flagging the posts because of the competition, which was something i suspected also. Of course CL says selling of dogs is prohibited, but rehoming with small adoption fee is ok, but the CL pets section is constantly inundated with backyard breeders posting their chihuahuas, german shepherds, pit bulls for sale for hundreds of dollars and each day the shelters are inundated with pit bulls, shepherds, chihuahuas and their mixes.
More recently I again posted the nonprofit dog rescue’s dogs up for adoption and 3 – 4 dogs at risk who need foster homes before we could commit to taking them. Our rescue’s rehoming fee is also one of the lowest in the bay area. One by one, CL flagged and deleted ALL the posts, before they made it onto the community pets section, which shows it was the action of their automated system.
We do post on our rescue’s Facebook page, but in the past posting on CL helped to get more eyeballs for potential fosters for dogs at risk of euthanasia. Now the 3 – 4 dogs we need fosters for have less of a chance making it out alive.
I know CL’s Craig Newman supports the city shelter, because i’ve seen him at a shelter fundraising event at a hotel in SF, supporting dogs up for adoption from the ACC and several nonprofit rescues. But the website interface itself does the opposite of helping shelter and rescue dogs.
I also want to add one of our past top volunteers who was integral to the rescue, who saved many dogs in the past was unable to post rescue dogs or anything on CL as they would all end up being flagged by a CL employee who had a personal issue with her (i have no idea what transpired between them), not because she posted anything against any CL rules. !!! I am still aghast thinking about it because it’s the shelter and foster dogs that were affected in the end.

I dont understand. Is this a shop? Only CL i know is online. Why is there a Unilocal page for a website? I tried to read reviews n look at pics just to find myself more confused. Lol if there is an actual shop, i would like to go!

As far as rental ads are concerned: Irresponsible & Unaccountable

Don’t let the DotOrg guise of a foundation fool you. Craig Newmark and his short, balding, overweight cronies who suck down black coffee served in his living room have made a mint on this thing, pretending to look like a small foundation serving the public good.
Craigslist completely sucks. I just moved and had a bunch of items listed on the site. Craiglist deletes them every three days. Sometimes Craigslist just lets them expire. Sometimes they are completely deleted. And sometimes they are deleted by the server for no reason. Don’t post to rapidly! We wouldn’t want to move at the speed of the internet. That would look too commercial.
Craigslist has no customer service and the idiots who respond to a complaint about concert ticket listings at face value being deleted respond weeks after the show and point you to an FAQ. I’m convinced that they run a scalping agency out of the guest bathroom and delete everyone else’s listings until their own tickets are sold.
The PhP is clunky and loses your paragraph when you hit return. Baaaaa. Sorry, shoot the goat. North Korea makes progress faster than Craigslist. But they already ate their goats.
If you have only a couple items to list, it works OK. And I’m told you can always find a trans-​gender hooker posing as a massage therapist (so I’ve been told). But if you really want to clear out the house and have a couple dozen or more items listed, it stinks. There are no list management tools. Its a listing service without list management tools. It deletes listings at will. Soon you will find yourself spending so much time managing your listings on Craigslist that its just not worth selling stuff to pay for that bi-​hooker.
Time is money. Kick your stuff to the curb with Craigslist. What was useful now stinks. Goodbye Craigslist. Get on a diet Craig.

Craigslist does a lot right and is the best place to go for classified ads in the Bay Area and I’m sure many other cities. It’s relatively unpoliced and there are plenty of unscrupulous people involved but there is also the opportunity to get great deals and get to know interesting people in the process. They have made some good changes over time (e.g. getting rid of the adult section under lots of pressure) but they have failed to create consistently enforced guidelines that would prevent the obvious sex for sale ads created in other sections. At the very least there should be a strictly enforced policy preventing pornographic ads from being placed.
I realize it’s next to impossible for craigslist to moderate the site without charging for more of its services but I believe there could be a better solution to what’s become a rampant problem.
Complaints aside we are lucky to have CL and if it was easier to do better, someone would have successfully replaced them by now!

They could do so much better. The flagging system is not what they claim it to be. There is no justifiable reason that so many of my ads get flagged. The system they are using is flawed and the users are paying the price in deleted ads and waisted time. The process to repost a flagged ad is frustrating as hell. Often when posting or renewing ads I get a message that I am posting «too fast». This throttling back makes this an unacceptably laborious task. Regarding CL «customers» 99% suck and can’t write more then a one line poorly spelled and punctuated text. Almost always asking «is it still available» Can you not come up with something better then this? To any CL employee who may read this. Be clear, CL is the least profitable most loathed part of our entire online sales strategy. If it weren’t for the measly few bucks it manages to bring in we would drop it in a heartbeat.

I’m hoping this is the correct category for the mainstream «CL.»
I’ve been a CL user since 2007, and have had an okay amount of luck selling things and finding places to live on it. Whatever your purpose for coming here might be, in any given area, always be aware that there will be a few flakes, and always a few that will try to talk you down, into, or out of something. The programs people are coding to spam you through the CL is at an all time high.
However, when it comes to finding a job on the CL, consider yourself done. It’s that magical place where the boils on the ass of society congregate in a futile attempt to harm the innocent and attempt to get something for nothing! I’ve seen it happen in many cities over the past couple of years. Be wary of who you’re sending your résumé to, and think twice about posting it for public viewing here.

I have literally HUNDREDS of instances of first-​hand customer experience with this organization. Some tips:
1. Some people can post ads without an account, some they make create an account. I don’t know when it gets triggered. Even with an account, they don’t always make me post through my account. Weird.
2. Beware flakes. It’s the hallmark of selling (or buying) something on Craigslist. 50% of the people who contact you and say they’re coming, don’t.
3. Be persistent. Keep reposting your ad, eventually everything sells if you lower your price enough.
4. Get references, real names, phone numbers, real emails etc if you don’t feel safe. I’ve never had a problem and I’ve sold tons of stuff on Craigslist.
5. For a fun social experiment, read the personal ads! They’re trippy.
So, why 1 star? Because Craigslist Foundation doesn’t do enough to inform and protect people who are listing animals for adoption or for «free.» They know it’s a problem (2 psychos have killed scores of pets they got from the «free to good home» ads). They do provide a (very weak and not prominent) link with some information, but they really need to provide a big yellow banner or simply ban these ads altogether. They warn people about «avoid scams» in a much larger and prominent way than they warn about potential pet murder. In fact, Craigslist Foundation has ignored a recent petition where thousands asked them to take action to prevent more animal murders — and they never even responded to the petition organizer. Since when does a «foundation» that is supposedly *for* the community, ignore a major community organization effort? I guess since Craig Newmark lost his hair and went the Dennis Hopper route of turning conservative.
DEAR Unilocal ADMIN: I have hundreds of first-​hand customer experience contacts with this business. Do not pull citing «no customer experience» if you have any integrity. Thank you.

Craigslist discriminates against it’s users.
If you abide by their published rules for placing an ad, list it in the correct place do everything right they still have the «right» to not publish your ads. It’s a free site so I guess I get what I pay for right? WRONG! This has nothing to do with money. If I have an account because I post ads daily to it (for years) and one day after I complain to them that there are way too many people over posting the same ad over and over again that should not give them the right to flag my account and not allow me to post my ads. I did nothing wrong, only followed their rules and suggestions and yet for 4 days now (since I complained) they have been refusing to let me renew or post any ad. The only way I got a couple of my ads to run was to copy and paste them into someone else’s account.
I’ve read about them «ghosting» accounts that they get mad at and tracking IP addresses to block users but this is just stupid. It’s not like I’m posting anything illegal, immoral, inappropriate or anything bad, they’re just regular every day ads.
I sent email after email to them asking for an explanation and of course got nothing from them. I looked them up on BBB and see that they have an «F» rating (not surprising) even though they are not a member. I see very little on the www that is favorable and yet we all keep using their site, even me. I wish someone would come up with a site similar to Craigslist and take «popularity» out of this equation.
Their business practice is unfair, unequal and unjust.

Craigslist gets 5 stars for the concept — a free marketplace that matches up buyers and sellers, appropriately headquartered on Market Street in S.F.
Then, deduct 1 star for even having the trashy sections. Someone did a cost-​benefit analysis and figured out it’s more lucrative than just having the conventional sections (cars, parts, furniture, rentals, etc.), which would have been enough.
Then, deduct .75 star for the exhausting process to either pass over items being sold that don’t work for you and/​or a seller you wouldn’t want to deal with. Conversely, this deduction includes the exhausting process to weed out patently absurd requests, questions, and flakiness, and/​or a buyer you wouldn’t want to deal with. To their credit, the inclusion of photos mitigates deducting a full star.
So, then, I need to nab .25 star for having that ridiculous purple peace sign as the logo that accompanies their tab when on their site. It wouldn’t be THAT hard to come up with something original. There’s a lot of creative talent in the Bay Area.
Peace out.

This company is a dying breed. The pretty lousy and outdated interface, constant harassment by spam and such ineffective filter system. They have put a tremendously cumbersome and very annoyhing phone verification system which really does not work.
Asking users constantly change phone numbers, limiting the number of adds we can place and the list is pretty much endless.
Building the numerous hurdles for users, even for paying ones, to post their legitimate content on this website will not bring them any success and they will fold in a not too distant future, I’m sure.
Lousy…and very irritating.

After reading KC O.‘s review on Craigslist, I had to put my two cents in.
Moving here three years ago, we first used Craigslist buying and selling furniture that we needed/didn’t need anymore.
Tons of gym equipment for my husband has been bought and sold.
A new playstation after my son broke his, again.
The highlight would be a trailer that we bought in Ohio and pulled all of our stuff thousands of miles to sunny SoCal, sold it a week later for the same price we got it for, all on Craigslist.
Oh oh, and I updated all the appliances in my kitchen to stainless steel, sold all the old and bought new, spending barely more than I made, crazy huh?
I have saved (and made) a good amount, enough to be a huge fan.
Yes, you get weird emails (don’t answer them)
People that never show (Oh well…)
But overall, I have found everything for much cheaper here and gotten rid of everything I ever listed.
Buying and selling is FREE as well as having an awesome FREE section, you won’t believe the stuff I have gotten for free, you just gotta be quick!

Craigslist is great. I have gotten rid of so much junk: scrap metal, old faded yard junk, stuff from our garage.
I’ve also found quite a few bargains on here: furniture, area rugs, vintage lamps, clothes, purses, kids toys…
I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad connection. I realize that there are scammers out there and plenty of flakes but overall, I’d recommend it. Especially if you want to unload a bunch of stuff that can’t be donated at the thrifts!
And the «Best of» ads are HILARIOUS!

I love craigslist, I mean where else can you look for a job, buy a washing machine, sell your sofa and get laid. If you know how to multi task you can achieve this goal all on the same day.
It’s free people so stop bitching, it’s a great community connector. I’ve used it to promote my running group, told a few things and then some.
It’s under my favorites and of course I use it daily.