If there was one thing craigslist could improve on, it would be managing the spam listings. I think we all can close our eyes and imagine how these listings look: dozens and dozens of identical listings on a single point on a map about some scam used car loan, or an apartment that doesn't actually exist, or stolen playstations.
If its so easy for us regular craiglist users to see this spam and subconsciously tune it out, then why is it such a hard problem for the craiglist developers to establish what I would guess are pretty trivial filters to set up to catch these listings that I stress again are posted dozens and dozens of times identically over the years? Seems they have tacitly acknowledge the issue with the hide duplicates checkbox, but why even have the user need to check that at all? I don't think anyone wants to see duplicate spam.
All just so when I filter by price their listing still shows up. Mine are the used car dealers that have every make and model ever created or maybe just the most popular in every description.
On cars that aren't even close. So even if you're looking for a Honda Civic, every car for sale by Bill's automotive or whoever shows up as a description containing that text. Extremely annoying. I set a minimum price and select for sale by owner and it usually filters all the dealers out. This goes the other way too. I'm moving so I'm going to send the movers with a check that includes their pay and the balance to pick up your item" scam. At least on Facebook Marketplace, I can see who the person is, do they have a rating, do they know anyone I know etc etc.
Tallain 7 months ago root parent next [โ]. Maybe interestingly, my experience has been the exact reverse of this. Craigslist is the only place I get legitimate responses to my listings, and Facebook Marketplace is where I get people who try to pull of these scams, or people who want to pay half of the price I list.
