pimpm3
Reader
11/22/13 4:46 p.m.
As of December 2nd craigslist will charge $5.00 to list a vehicle as a dealer. Ads last 30 days before they expire. It costs $5.00 every time you renew. Existing ads will cost $5.00 to renew starting the 2nd. For now private sellers can list for free. I am sure eventually they will be charged as well.
This means the private seller section will be even more overrun with dealers masquerading as private sellers.
I list my cars as a dealer since I use my buddy's license to buy and sell them. Hopefully it will clear out a lot of the dealer BS on craigslist. I am fine with paying $5.00 but I am afraid craigslist will become less used once it begins to cost money.
Discuss...
Sounds like just enough money to keep the local buy-here-pay-here from making 600 duplicate ads for the same 1998 Chevy Blazer. +1
JThw8
PowerDork
11/22/13 4:58 p.m.
I'd rather they just fined the dealers who post in private sales $5 per ad.
ransom
UberDork
11/22/13 5:03 p.m.
JThw8 wrote:
I'd rather they just fined the dealers who post in private sales $500 per ad.
FTFY, IMHO. Yeah, totally unenforceable, I know...
Jerry
Dork
11/22/13 5:29 p.m.
Maybe that will clear out the dealer ads that get reposted every day for the same damn car? Go look for MR2's, see how many Spyders get listed by dealers & how it's every day.
This ought to stop that idiotic tire store in Detroit that posts a couple of hundred tire ads every day. Actually, I hope he doesn't notice the cost until he's forced into bankruptcy.
One dollar dealer and owner would have been enough to deter. Would likely put a stop to "selling for my son, cousin, brother who is in the Army" type scam and other phishing scams.
I suspect that dealer reloads are specific salespeople trying to drive action to themselves. Why not, its free. One dollar would stop that. Tying listings to a credit/debit card would also deter scams.
In reply to JohnRW1621:
except they would just use stolen credit cards and paypal accounts, because they are already crooked, so what's wrong with spending someone else's money?
DrBoost
PowerDork
11/22/13 6:47 p.m.
If I'm paying, I expect them to police it then.
Jerry wrote:
Maybe that will clear out the dealer ads that get reposted every day for the same damn car? Go look for MR2's, see how many Spyders get listed by dealers & how it's every day.
Damn you I went and looked and there is a legal swapped 2zz manual Mr2 about a block away from my house.
I curse you from afar. CURSE YOUUUUUU!
DeadSkunk wrote:
This ought to stop that idiotic tire store in Detroit that posts a couple of hundred tire ads every day. Actually, I hope he doesn't notice the cost until he's forced into bankruptcy.
WE CAN ONLY HOPE.
I'm honestly surprised every day that goes by, that nobody has tossed a road flare into their outdoor tire storage.
And... uh... source of this news about CL charging?
pimpm3
Reader
11/22/13 9:43 p.m.
pimpm3
HalfDork
11/22/13 9:44 p.m.
It is on their site if you post a new ad
I think the idea behind it is good but the price is high. It doesn't directly affect me yet because I'm not a car dealer but it seems like $5 per insertion for something with such a low response rate is too much.
One thing I noticed in the new rules: no more external images, no hyperlinks to external web pages! That's actually really nice. Right now what a lot of the local dealers do is they host a big image on their web site that is the car ad so it's not searchable except by the title, and rather than take down the Craigslist ad they just delete the image from their server. So you have all these blank ads with no info cluttering up the search results.
It's an interesting move to be sure. They don't have any financial risk in it since they lose money on the cars for sale section right now. (Costs them something to run it, I'm sure, and yet has no income.)
It will help make CL more useful. I wish they had tried it with $1 per ad first or something, but maybe $1 transactions cost too much to process to be profitable.
I think CL has been charging for some listings, like Apartments in major markets, for years now.
idk if this is a good or bad thing. At least it will remove annoying ad spam.
patgizz
UberDork
11/23/13 8:29 a.m.
it'll just litter the by owner section with all the little 10 cars on a lot with illegal immigrant "mechanics" fixing them ads like when i bought my blazer. it was in the by owner section, i showed up and it was a little dealer............. he was also a notary so he was taking title, stamping the notary, and never taking ownership as a dealer of the car. he was just bypassing himself making it look like i bought the car from whoever he got it from.
patgizz wrote:
like when i bought my blazer. it was in the by owner section, i showed up and it was a little dealer............. he was also a notary so he was taking title, stamping the notary, and never taking ownership as a dealer of the car. he was just bypassing himself making it look like i bought the car from whoever he got it from.
I'm not exactly sure what you're complaining about. I mean, if you were so bothered by this, why didn't you just not buy the Blazer? Don't you encourage him by completing the deal?
DeadSkunk wrote:
This ought to stop that idiotic tire store in Detroit that posts a couple of hundred tire ads every day. Actually, I hope he doesn't notice the cost until he's forced into bankruptcy.
Yes i find it hard to find used tires myself. Kind of want to just flag them all.as spam now that i think of it
In reply to fidelity101:
I considered spending a day (I'm retired and have the time) and phone that dufus once for each ad he posted.
