Craigslist is now charging $5 per
listing for Services and Gigs, and the listing lasts 30 days. I had been listing
transcription services there and had to let my posts lapse for a while.
Went to re-post and found out today that the charge has been in effect since mid-March. I don't know whether the charges extend to the Community
section or not. No obvious money to be made there, so probably not.
I read a complaint from several people in another site's online forum that the Personals had been removed. One disappointed person said he had enjoyed this section for some time and had found a wife there.
I did not renew my listings today. While $5 does not seem like much to some, I have to rethink the value of posting services there, especially with so-so results and stiff competition. Many others feel that this new fee is too steep. I have to agree, especially for posts that last only 30 days.
The best thing about the new requirement is that it will weed out the spammers, scammers and robots. I wouldn't call it a ghost town and I didn't hear crickets, but the difference was obvious. In some categories I could read all of the postings on 1 page instead of 4.
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I read a complaint from several people in another site's online forum that the Personals had been removed. One disappointed person said he had enjoyed this section for some time and had found a wife there.
I did not renew my listings today. While $5 does not seem like much to some, I have to rethink the value of posting services there, especially with so-so results and stiff competition. Many others feel that this new fee is too steep. I have to agree, especially for posts that last only 30 days.
The best thing about the new requirement is that it will weed out the spammers, scammers and robots. I wouldn't call it a ghost town and I didn't hear crickets, but the difference was obvious. In some categories I could read all of the postings on 1 page instead of 4.
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