Comments on: eBay squares off with Craigslist, launches classified service

Auctioneer owns minority stake in Craigslist but that won't stop it from competing with Web's No.1 classified Web site.

[8ball629]

Free... For Now...

See, that's the kind of thing that makes people not want to use the service. Why get attached to something that you know you'll be paying for in the future when you can just use another service for free (Craigslist).

If eBay really wants to put a dent in Craigslist they're going to have to keep their service free.

[Ikcor]

They still make money

Ebay can keep the service free but allow users to use paypal, or some other ebay-owned escrow service, and make money that way.

Craig's List will be fine, however. People just like it better.

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Nobody

No one can mess with craiglist!

[ziggyzuu]

Other ways to make money

I think ebay will make their money on sponsored ad revenue, which is something craigs won't do--nice that the 25 million a year he makes gives him the choice. Although I noticed craigs is starting to charge now for their job postings in Sacramento, so let's not forget that craigs does gradually charge for certain types of postings, and most likely will continue to do that in the future. Maybe ebay will also do the charging gradually, and only in more commercial categories, like craigs.

But I agree, why pay for something when the free is already out there?

Here's a question--how 'bout getting paid for your listings? isn't that better than just free? and better than ebay insertion fees? that's what a friend of mine is trying out on www.listasaurus.com. I personally think it's a great concept, and while it may not take down craigs or ebay (for a while, lol), hopefully there's still room for a little competition.

Hey, look at what Google did when Yahoo was already the big gun...

:-)

[calox]

Kijiji's interface

Kijiji is a joke. The frontpage uses Flash, which is the most annoying technology second only to Sun's Java, which causes it to be slow (i'm using os x and firefox - latest versions of both). There is no link for San Francisco under the Cities listed below the flash map. What gives? To leave a site feedback requires registration - ***? Stupid attempt by eBay that is destined to fail.

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[LindaSmith81]

Craigslist is going down the drain anyway: 90% of their traffic is coming from the hooker section. I have started to use http://cl.radiux.com instead.

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[infozeal]

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[infozeal]

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[1tigerlivejob]

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[classifieds]

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[beatyourprice]

Here is another free classified that i worked on http://www.beatyourprice.com easy to use and no flag like criagslist

[beatyourprice]

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[aamiris]

THANKS

[zumthing_classifieds]

Does finding an item for sale really need to be as painful and teadious process as sites like Craig's make it? I would much rather cruise around a well-planned, though out, and easy-on-the-eyes classified website like Oodle.com, zumThing.com, or Vast any day.

It seems that the only reason Craig is doing so well is due to the popularity contest that he appears to be winning, not becuase the website is superior and offers great classified searching tools, but because people just know to look there... and eventually after hours of digging through posts and hastacks tend to find what they were looking for ( a needle perhaps).

I guess I'm not one to settle. Just my two cents...