Strange times we live in. I can imagine a book: The Craigslisting of America.

Craigslist has enormous power, we've given it to them, same way we gave it to Microsoft, and since most everyone who uses it doesn't pay a fee, you have no recourse to complain that you're not getting what you paid for.

One of my clients is an editor and has moved into using Skype to work with clients from around the country, occasionally other nations as well. He was doing great advertising on CL but then Newmark clamped down on people advertising outside of their home area. My client can advertise in SF and LA and nowhere else, at least until he hired a consultant to get him over the barriers. But now he's dealing with competitors (allegedly, according to his consultant) paying people in Bangladesh to flag his posts. He spends mega time every day on the computer trying to get his ads to fly. On the one hand, Craigslist has been good to him, OTOH, it's driving him crazy.

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