Craigslist Tips

What do you do if someone copies your Craigslist ad and reposts it? Can they get in trouble?

The quick answer is, unfortunately, no.

Since Craigslist is a free classified website where the ads expire after a certain period of time, the ad you post will not fall under any copyright laws.

You can’t legally copyright your ad.

I briefly touched on the subject of pricing items for sale on Craigslist in my eBook, however, I will go into a little more detail in this blog post.

Craigslist buyers love to find a bargain and they love to negotiate prices.

This can become annoying if you are selling a lot or plan to sell a lot on Craigslist, but it just comes with the territory.

When you leave the option open to be contacted by potential buyers through email on Craigslist, you also leave the option open to receive spam.

Usually the spam emails are porn related, and usually they just have a sentence or two with a link to a website.

My favorite spam email that comes from Craigslist is one that asks if you want to hook up with a tranny.

I am not going to promise you that you will find a job using Craigslist.

I am just a regular guy that has found a couple of jobs using the site, so I am going to give you my real world and honest advice. With that said, here is my experience.

I don’t know why, but one of the easiest items to sell on Craigslist is an air compressor.

I have sold many different types of items on Craigslist, but I have noticed that air compressors always sell if I can price it cheap enough.

I am sure a common question among Craigslist sellers is: Why do Craigslist buyers never contact me?

I will try to help and explain Craigslist buyers the best I can in this post.

One day I was searching for concert tickets on Craigslist. It was a hot ticket and I was searching the day before and the day of the concert (my fault for procrastinating).

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I had a reminder today about “older” Craigslist buyers. And by “older”, I mean age. I do not mean any disrespect.

This is just a helpful tip for other Craigslist sellers that may wind up in this situation. It is up to the seller how they want to handle it.

We all know that Craigslist is a great way to get rid of unwanted items.

You can post whatever you want and quickly sell it to a local buyer if you post it cheap enough and include a great description with photos.

Over the past few years I have noticed people posting on different websites that it is too hard to sell something on Craigslist.

They complain that no one responds to their ads and the buyers are too flaky and never show up to actually buy the item.

Here is a very simple trick that can help you highlight a sentence or two in your Craigslist ad by making the text bold or putting it in italics.

All you will need to do is add some very simple HTML coding before and after the text you want highlighted.

I know that it can sometimes be frustrating trying to sell on Craigslist because buyers can be slow to respond, flaky and forgetful.

This post will teach you the ABCs of Craigslist ghosting so you can figure out why your ad is not showing up on the website.

If you ever browse the Craigslist help forums, there are always people upset that their ads were flagged or never posted.

I’m not sure why, but Craigslist decided to change the way item photos are shown on the ads. Personally, I liked the simple display at the bottom of each ad.

Since I post a lot of stuff for sale on Craigslist, I receive a lot of spam email.

I think people that are trying to promote products or websites use software that scans ads posted on Craigslist and it automatically responds to the anonymous emails on the ads.

Ever since Craigslist began, it has been a free website for regular people to use so they can sell items to other people locally. And as far as I can remember, the “for sale” section has been very anti-business.

I have posted about this scam before, but now it is back. The ol’ Jim Buckmaster CEO of Craigslist.org scam.

This email will most likely show up in your spam folder if you post an item for sale on Craigslist. And it will look like this:

Unfortunately spammers have flooded job boards with fake jobs meant to farm your email address so they can send you unwanted emails or other junk.

You would think that spammers would have a little bit of decency to leave those of us looking for work alone.

Craigslist is the most popular and dominant free classifieds website online. However, there are a lot of sites like Craigslist that are free to use.

Here are the top three other websites like Craigslist to use. They include eBay Classifieds, Oodle and Backpage.

Everyone knows that Craigslist is a great place to find cheap things for sale in your area.

If you are looking to buy used items to save some cash and you want to find the best deal possible and don’t want to wait around for something to be shipped from eBay or Amazon, check out the products listed in your local area.

If you are going to be posting multiple items for sale on Craigslist, it is a good idea to use a unique tag in your ads so they can be found easier. Since Craigslist returns exact search result queries, make sure you include a tag that would not be in anyone else’s ads so your ads are the only ones that will show up.

I have a simple tip for people that are looking to buy an item posted on Craigslist: Make sure you know what item you are calling or emailing about before you call or send that email.

My website is mostly about selling on Craigslist, but I have recently been browsing other areas of the website. I have recently started browsing through the gigs section, and some of the posts are hilarious.

If you are looking to sell something on Craigslist, but you aren’t sure how to price your item, this article will give a few tips… Read More »How to Price an Item for Craigslist

If you are going to post an item for sale on Craigslist, make sure you are available to communicate and meet with a potential buyer.

This article will teach you how to get Craigslist buyers to actually show up to buy your item. I know CL gets a lot of negative discussion because people complain that people are flaky and don’t show up to buy something.

Signing up for a Craigslist account is very simple. All you need is a valid email address and a phone number. This article will teach you how to do it in only a few minutes.

I have sold hundreds of items on Craigslist, but those hundreds of transactions have come with some annoyances. At times, you really need to have thick skin if you are going to list things for sale on CL.

If you are looking to buy an item using Craigslist, I have a very simple, two-word tip: Don’t wait. Buyers that wait on buying an item usually don’t get a chance to buy it because someone else will be ready to buy within a couple of hours.

I know a lot of sellers on Craigslist get upset and think it is a joke to deal with the people that use the website. I will admit, sometimes you need thick skin when trying to get rid of an item on CL.

Read More »Craigslist is a Joke

Over the last few years, I have sold all kinds of different items online. I have sold popular products such as the iPad, flat-screen TVs, laptops, PS3s, Wiis, and XBox 360s.

When I was signed in to my Craigslist account today, I noticed a new tab on the My Account page called Drafts. Craigslist now lets you save an item description as a draft, which is a great new feature.

I decided to browse through different cities for odd items posted for sale on Craigslist. I did this in an earlier post and found some odd things for sale, so it wasn’t very difficult to find more. Here are a few of my favorites…

I have been posting items for sale on Craigslist for about three years now. Most of the sales come from phone calls, but I like to keep the email option open for those that don’t feel comfortable calling a stranger from the internet.

I usually keep my account logged in all day as I post and re-post items for sale on Craigslist.

Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed that CL has automatically been signing my account out, which can be frustrating if you are in the middle of a post.

If you receive an email that is claiming to be from Craigslist telling you that your account is going to expire, do not click the link in the email. It is a scam.

It is a phishing scam to get your email address with your Craigslist account password.

The email will look something like this:

Subject: Info about your account REF498066

I saw a news story about people getting scammed using Craigslist to buy tickets.

Here is a simple tip:  If you are planning to buy tickets to a sporting event or concert through Craigslist, use common sense.