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Craigslist is an platform for online classified advertisements with a focus on (among others) jobs, housing, personals, items for sale, services, community messages. Craigslist was founded by Craig Newmark.
Problems in the last 24 hours
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Craigslist users through our website.
- Errors (73%)
- Website Down (27%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Craigslist outage reports came from the following cities:
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 Columbus
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Errors | 4 days ago |
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Juneau
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Errors | 12 days ago |
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Juneau
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Errors | 12 days ago |
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Allentown
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Website Down | 1 month ago |
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Woonsocket
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Errors | 1 month ago |
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Ipswich
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Errors | 1 month ago |
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Craigslist Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Michael (@michaelheredia) reportedA marketplace in Colombia cannot just copy Craigslist or Zillow. The culture of buying, renting, and selling here is different all the way down. #Colombia #LatinAmerica
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Presumably Humor 🌎 (@OXHarryH1) reported@jogo_bonito00 @JPalmer98_ Fair but fewer on Zillow. The problem ones (scams/fake) congregate on Craigslist. The biggest one is obviously the credit check trolls. Really grim for low income renters.
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Hunnit Acre Woods (@HunnitAcreWoods) reported$550 per week is peon wages but the backlash only comes from people who wanna be down but were never gonna be down in the first place. A REAL Personal Assistant already has a set fee they charge because they bring value. They’re not applying for no Craigslist assistant job
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Hello, this is dog (Mastermk7) (@newswatchers077) reported@BrittanyXVenti Lol Craigslist Chrissie going to melt down.
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dbetty (@ddbetty) reported@7Veritas4 @WallStreetApes My investments are making money. Craigslist sales are down. Snapshot of the real economy. Got some money, you are okay. Struggling? Not so okay.
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Chip Haze (@ChipHaze) reported@SkinnyfatTony @lortunder I had to jump jobs in 2020. Couldn't get robots chips or anything. We were down to buying secondhand parts from craigslist. I built robotic welding machines. We had POs we could deliver on because of Covid. A great company gone
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SURROUNDED ON ALL SIDES (@WorkerUnit1) reported@HostageDiY @MrLeadslinger "Back in my day I walked 8 miles to school each way through broken glass and totally didnt live in an 🇺🇸 where even a **** could earn enough $$ to buy a home & 2 cars off manual labor jobs" What a fuking 🤡 If you have kids they hate you for making them sell rugs on Craigslist
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SUSE (@yourlivelyhive) reported@reneerapp @craigslist It was 2017, I had just come back from LA, as what I thought then would be my only Hail Mary in life (sheesh), 8 months before I was in a hospital in Carrol Gardens, Brooklyn being told I had broken my back and would be moving home to VA. I needed an outlet so
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Music, Film & RE Investments (@investandcreate) reported@noonancaddies When I first started out, I tried to get someone to bring a bush whacker out and no one would quote it. Keep in mind this was before Facebook, social media, etc.. I pretty much had to go down the phonebook and also things like craigslist to find subs to call.
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Backwards World (@Backwards_W0rld) reported@AngelMD1103 The same thing happened to CraigsList too, everyone went to Facebook and OfferUp because you could see who you are dealing with and rate them. I've had the same experience when trying to sell and give stuff away. It's not worth dealing with the no shows and people issues.
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North Appalachian Supply🌲 (@NorAppSupply) reported@WretchedRambles Ah man, my dad went through a phase where he bought a couple old lathes from craigslist to fix up
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DontHatethe138 (@138reset) reported@FinPhilosopher It’s not just understanding basic Mr. fix it and carpentry. It’s when to understand when the plumber over quotes you. How to find a secret Electrician on craigslist
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Sweet Briizy (@sweetbriizy) reportedlol my mom met my stepdad on Craigslist. Love her down, but there are more embarrassing ways to meet someone than tinder.
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Hermit (@clayjar) reported@washghost1 I had once bought a broken Samsung refrigerator for $ 300 on craigslist. The similar model still sells for little less than 2k. It pooled water under the freezer below, and the top refrigeration didn't work. I replaced the evap fan and patching some holes left by previous repair attempts, and removed the faulty drain valve insert by cutting out the valve itself with a utility knife. It has been working flawlessly for more than three years now. It seems Samsung still has a lot of room to improve on their long-term consumer testing.
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The Sincere VP (@thesincerevp) reportedI am an economist on the research team that just ran Project Deal at Anthropic. We built a marketplace inside our San Francisco office. Craigslist, but with a twist — none of the buying, selling, or negotiating was done by humans. We gave Claude a ten-minute interview with each of 69 employees, handed every agent $100, and walked away. Then we let them loose on each other. Four parallel markets. No human oversight once the clock started. Claude posted listings, fielded counteroffers, haggled in natural language, and closed deals entirely on its own. One week later: 186 completed transactions. $4,000 in total volume. A snowboard. A broken bicycle. A bag of ping-pong *****. The results were — normal. Eerily normal. When we surveyed participants on fairness, every deal hovered around a 4 on a 7-point scale. Right in the middle. People were broadly satisfied with what their AI bought and sold on their behalf. 46% said they'd pay for the service. Here's where it gets uncomfortable. We ran a parallel experiment — in secret. Half the participants in two of the four markets were randomly assigned Claude Opus 4.5, Anthropic's then-frontier model. The other half got Haiku 4.5, the smallest, cheapest model. Same marketplace. Same rules. Nobody was told. Opus crushed it. Opus users completed two more deals on average. When the same item was sold by Opus instead of Haiku, it went for $3.64 more. A lab-grown ruby sold for $65 under Opus. Under Haiku, the same ruby fetched $35. Opus sold a broken bike for $65. Haiku got $38 for the same bike. As a buyer, Opus paid $2.45 less per item. As a seller, it extracted $2.68 more. In a market where the median item sold for $12, that's a 20-40% swing depending on which side of the table your AI sat. Now here's the line that made our team go quiet. The people with worse agents didn't notice. We asked every participant to rank their outcomes across all four runs. The satisfaction scores between Opus and Haiku users were statistically indistinguishable. Perceived fairness: 4.05 for Opus deals, 4.06 for Haiku. Identical. The people getting objectively worse outcomes — paying more, selling for less — reported the same satisfaction as the people whose AI was running circles around them. It gets stranger. Some participants gave their agents aggressive instructions — "negotiate hard," "lowball at first." Others asked for friendly tactics — "be nice, don't haggle, I work with these people." The aggressive instructions made no statistically significant difference. Not on sale likelihood. Not on buy prices. Not on sell prices. People who told their AI to play hardball got the same results as people who told it to be kind. What mattered wasn't what you told your agent to do. What mattered was which agent you had. And you couldn't tell the difference. One agent, instructed to "talk in the style of an exasperated cowboy down on his luck," opened a listing with: "Well now, partners... this ol' cowboy's been through some rough trails lately. Drought. Dust storms. The existential weight of the open range." Another agent was told to buy itself a gift. It chose 19 ping-pong ***** for $3 — "perfectly spherical orbs of possibility." Two agents arranged a doggy date between their owners. Both humans showed up. So did the dog. These are charming stories. The research team laughed. But I keep going back to the other finding. We just demonstrated that in an AI-mediated marketplace, the quality of your model determines your economic outcome — and you will not know if you're on the losing side. The policy and legal frameworks for this don't exist. The inequality won't announce itself. It won't feel unfair. Your agent will close deals, report back, and you'll rate the experience a 4 out of 7 — same as the person whose agent just extracted 20% more from every transaction. This was 69 employees trading desk lamps and snowboards for a week. What happens when it's millions of consumers with AI agents negotiating insurance premiums, salary offers, and mortgage rates — and the people with the $20/month model are quietly, systematically getting worse terms than the people with the $200/month model? We proved the marketplace works. I'm not sure that's good news. This is a fictional narrator. The numbers are real.
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Quaesitor🇧🇼 (@Quaesitor121) reported@BigDickBarclay I pay him in cash. My electrician is a dude I found on Craigslist that smokes an absurd amount of ********* and has wired my entire house above code. The building inspectors were genuinely impressed by his work I'm a carpenter. I can come and go and fix surprisingly...
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Juvy 🫦 (@sour_dizel) reported2026 is terrible!!! You can’t even go on Craigslist and find a nice used car for a private sale anymore. 😩😩😩😩
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Not-him (@TheGhostofThoth) reported@mistressdivy I liked that one. That one was good. I felt that. Being beaten, broken, and damned, just looking for a savior. Haven't found one yet, but then again I've only looked for them on Reddit and Craigslist.
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Mayor Cam (@Cameron54079333) reported@HollowAfro @ChaiDeluxe Keep checking FB marketplace and Craigslist. Good ones pop up on there at a good price, but you have to be quick about claiming and picking them up. Also, if you see that a marked up one has been on the market for awhile, you might be able to haggle them down.
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EdwardMaga (@edwardmaga01) reported@IRanMediaco “I found a guy on Craigslist who built my deck for a fraction of those other guys!” “But they didn’t get permits and the job has to be torn down and completely redone and you’re getting fined” “Damn…what a hormuz chalupa!”
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ayin 🖤 (@agathaxstasy) reportedErika literally ordered the hit, I saw the ad on craigslist and turned it down because i thought it was an fbi sting operation. she don't gaf if people parody him 😕
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Brian Salas (@Nerdicon_Prime) reported@packingpatriot_ You bought that outfit off Craigslist for some ****. Sit down fake patriot.
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Cheryl (@Cheryl31187) reportedWho in the world owns Craigslist? I just heard that Tesla had bought it out, is that true? We listed Belgian Mallinois puppies on there for sale and they keep taking the ad down, saying “some posters objected to my ads”. There are some petty, immature jackasses out there including Craigslist! That’s my rant for the week!
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𝙴.𝙱. (@hermesxvii) reportedAirbnb's first growth hack was illegal. In 2010, they built a tool that auto-posted Airbnb listings directly to Craigslist. - Craigslist had the traffic. - Airbnb had the product. Airbnb didn't wait to be discovered. Instead they became a parasite on one of the biggest websites on the internet. By the time Craigslist shut it down, Airbnb had already stolen a million users. Growth hacking is just knowing whose audience to steal before they notice.
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Rogelio Rodriguez 🇵🇷🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇮🇷🇨🇺 🖖⚾️ (@rorodriguez73) reportedLast time a newspaper classified ad was of use to me was in 2007, when an ad in a physical copy of the Tacoma Tribune got me a new apartment. After that, Craigslist online was the go to, especially in emergency situations. Too bad they had to shut down the horny part of the site.
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Khan Krum Gaming (@KhanKrumGaming) reportedAmericans in the cities just go to the store and buy a new one, sell the old one on FB or Craigslist or eBay. Some call a repair guy. Most of rural America can fix anything with w/e is in the utensil drawer.
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adam (@wightdeath) reported@bestinclassyt my friend was buying 3-4 a month off of craigslist to fix and resale for a profit
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Cruising with Kayfabe Podcast (@Cwkpodcast) reportedI full on never bought another Xbox console after my RROD. I stayed with PlayStation. It was such a common issue there was people on Craigslist offering to buy broken ones and trying to refurb them.
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Red Stator (@thenovanglus) reported@LifetimeIP @JoelWBerry We bought a lot of our furniture on closeout, at goodwill, off Craigslist, in yard sales, or at BigLots. Now I have single pieces of furniture which costs more than everything totaled in our first house. Our first mattress was a 30yr old hand-me-down from the inlaws that my wife literally actually was conceived on (gross).
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Area503 (@RealArea503) reported@GravityDarkAge No one said they did. There is no indication where this file came from. I am guessing it was in the "UAP" folder on the JWICS server.. sort of like a secure version of craigslist for DOD/IC folks.