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Old 11-13-2011, 05:49 AM
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I believe there is only a staff of 30 people working at craigslist so I think it's almost impossible to interchange with them.
OK. thanks for the info.

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Old 11-13-2011, 07:33 AM
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My experience is that you meet the flakiest people and get the flakiest service with craigslist. But the price is right and you do get results. The freak show is free entertainment.

Let us know how you resolve this, we are all in the same boat on this one.

One thing I saw was that a group of scammers love prices around $2700 so if you try to legitimately sell something around that price you get flagged incessantly.
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Old 11-13-2011, 09:06 AM
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Twitchkitty,
One thing I saw was that a group of scammers love prices around $2700 so if you try to legitimately sell something around that price you get flagged incessantly.

Could you give more detail about this please?
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Old 11-13-2011, 02:49 PM
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I wish i had seen your post a few minutes earlier. I just flagged an ad on CL like I referred to and when I looked again it was already deleted. I would have posted a link for you to see one.

Usually the ad is not text, it is an image. In the image is an email address, usually gmail or one of the other "throw away" email providers, no phone. Most of the ads I see are cars, I like cars. The price is very often in the $2400-$2700 range and pretty ridiculously underpriced. I saw a post on a hacker website about the group one time and didn't pay any attention to it, should have.

I sold a truck on CL a few years ago that was in that price range. My ad kept getting flagged and deleted. I posted a plea in the ad to quit flagging my ad, call me, it's a legitimate deal. It finally stuck and I sold it. I was searching for the rational behind the flagging and deleting when I read the hacker post.
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Old 11-13-2011, 03:15 PM
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Thanks!

So anybody can flag and delete an ad thought to be a scam?
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Old 11-13-2011, 03:21 PM
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Thanks!

So anybody can flag and delete an ad thought to be a scam?
Nope, it needs several (guessing in the range of five) flags by different people to be deleted.
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Old 11-17-2011, 08:59 AM
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If you ever want to read up on this just search: craigslist black hat

It's another world that most of us never see.

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