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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 2 minutes ago

  Web design is won by whoever calls first. Prybell makes sure that's you — scanning Google, Yelp, Facebook, Reddit and Craigslist in your area for businesses with broken or missing sites, and anyone asking for a designer. Name, number, pitch angle, instant ping. Coming soon.

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  CRAZY DAYS AND NIGHTS (@CrazyDaysPoster) reported 2 minutes ago

  Thursday, August 06, 2026 Today's Blind Items A Hairy Situation A lead actor and producer for a new CBS show recently had a Craigslist purchase go awry. The actor needed a hairpiece for a specific scene of the show he's starring in, so he began looking online for local listings. He saw a free toupee advertised, and he made plans to meet up with the seller to pick it up it. Soon after returning to set, he took the toupee and placed it down on a table next to the director's salad, running off right after to film a scene. After half an hour, the director came over to the table and found the "toupee" eating his lunch. It turned out that the toupee, was, in fact, a Peruvian long-haired guinea pig. The actor tried contacting the seller, who never responded. The guinea pig ended up getting adopted by the show's co-producer (who seemed unusually enthusiastic about his new pet), and costuming ended up buying an actual hairpiece for the show—one that won't steal the crew's lunches.

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  Chris Kearney (@SiliconForested) reported 2 minutes ago

  @sivori craigslist but for swapping problems would be fun

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  Kanika Tolver (@KanikaTolver) reported 5 minutes ago

  @SymoneBeez I never had issues with buying electronics on Craigslist. Lol

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  LeftyKitty (@Lefty_Kitty) reported 6 minutes ago

  @PieterVand37940 @viking_boer This is a very solvable issue. There are cheap, still working, washers on Craigslist. We need one guy with a pickup in each city and one American who can swing a used washer for each Amerikaner family who needs one. I have a truck.

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  Jake Moffatt (@jakeonrails) reported 7 minutes ago

  @vjon Also Craigslist isn't "free". There's so much spam listings are expensive. Then you have to accurately price your listing, take good photos, field calls and requests for showings, plus all the compliance issues. This is a lot for mostly small mom n pops that dominate NYC rentals.

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  John Chang (@jchangkp) reported 7 minutes ago

  Part 2 of When technology meets traditional business. After we figured out how to generate demand, we almost destroyed the business. We built an SEO-driven website, dominated Craigslist (this was 2011), and cut quote turnaround from days to hours. Sales exploded. The problem? We had optimized customer acquisition—not operations. Orders piled up faster than we could process them. Deliveries slipped. Suppliers became frustrated. Our showroom filled with customers, but we didn't have enough salespeople to help them. Some visitors waited hours after driving across Southern California just to see us. Six months in, we did something that felt completely backwards. We shut off almost all of our marketing. For nearly two months we hired staff, rebuilt our processes, reset customer expectations, and only then turned growth back on. Luckily, the business survived, and started to re-ramp. Year 1: $750K Year 2: $1.5M Year 3: $3.5M Founders spend countless hours planning for failure. Spend some time planning for success. Your biggest risk might not be too little demand—it might be more demand than your business can deliver. #30YearsHardKnocks

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  Bob Erickson (@BobE3042) reported 10 minutes ago

  @_ClimateCraze In Florida, it is possible to find very cheap—and even free—solar panels. When existing systems are removed or upgraded, word spreads quickly and the used panels are snapped up fast. Professional installers and businesses can earn extra money by alerting friends and business associates where the discarded panels are located awaiting disposal. The removed panels are the property of the land owner. It’s cheaper to just let the public take them than to pay to have them hauled away. For example, last year the Orange County Convention Center gave 6,000 panels away. Used commercial panels are often listed on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. I have several in my yard that powers my refrigerator, microwave, USB devices and lights. When a tropical storm or hurricane hits I'm ready for when the grid to go down.

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  Michael Fischer (@Holden_Rye_) reported 11 minutes ago

  The lesson isn’t just conviction. It’s surviving the volatility long enough for that conviction to matter. But I’d add one more thing: don’t confuse an old cycle rule with a law of Bitcoin. I watched Bitcoin change in phases. I got into Bitcoin back when we used Craigslist to trade it for cash, ****, pizza, PC parts, whatever. You met people personally. Like any network, eventually you figured out where everyone hung out, where information moved and where people traded. Then exchanges came along and gave Bitcoin a real market price. Then derivatives, perp trading and DeFi showed up. By around 2016, we had enough history to map what looked like a real pattern around the halving. But the nerds watching this **** develop understood something important: The cycle was a map of Bitcoin at that stage of its life. It wasn’t doctrine. Bitcoin was still a baby. The infrastructure was still being built. Now look at it. Wall Street is here. ETFs are here. Corporations are holding it on their balance sheets. Governments that once treated Bitcoiners like criminals are accumulating it, regulating it and building policy around it. Stablecoins, institutional custody, derivatives and massive pools of capital are now connected to the same market. That’s a completely different machine. The problem is that as new people entered Bitcoin, they were taught the four-year cycle without being taught the most important part: The map can change. Over time, a useful observation became a rule. Then the rule became doctrine. I’m telling you now, after going back through the plumbing: The map is changing. The old cycle isn’t necessarily dead. But it isn’t running Bitcoin by itself anymore.

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  Comet (@cometwtf) reported 15 minutes ago

  A company hated a tiny newsletter. So it sent the writers live spiders and a bloody pig mask. It just cost them $55.7 MILLION to say sorry. > Ina and David Steiner ran a small trade newsletter called ECommerceBytes from their home in Natick, Massachusetts, covering eBay and other online marketplaces. > In August 2019, Ina published a story about eBay suing Amazon over poaching sellers. > Thirty minutes later, eBay's CEO Devin Wenig messaged his communications chief: "If you are ever going to take her down now is the time." > The instruction to eBay's security team was even blunter: "Whatever It Takes." > What followed was a coordinated harassment campaign > The Steiners received live spiders, live cockroaches, a bloody pig mask, a funeral wreath, and a book about surviving the death of a spouse. > Pornographic magazines were sent to their neighbors under David's name, and their house was listed on Craigslist as a nightly destination for "swingers." > That same month, eBay's security director and two employees flew from California to Natick, followed David around town, and tried to plant a GPS tracker on the couple's car. > The Steiners reported the rental van's license plate to local police, which unraveled the entire scheme and brought in the FBI. > Seven eBay employees and executives were criminally charged; all pleaded guilty, with the ringleader sentenced to 57 months in prison. > Wenig resigned in 2019 but walked away with $17 MILLION in compensation that year plus a $40 MILLION severance package. > The Steiners sued in 2021. > This week, nearly seven years after it began, eBay and several former executives agreed to a final $55.7 MILLION settlement, $48.7 MILLION to the couple, $6 MILLION to free-press charities, and a public statement admitting the conduct was "wrong" and "reprehensible." A publisher wrote one story a CEO didn't like. His team sent dead spiders and a pig mask to her house. It took nearly seven years and $55.7 million to fix.

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  shredded Denim (@denimneverdies) reported 15 minutes ago

  @laurasukas I don't give a **** what they're *saying*, I care that, for example, when the government shut down adult services on Craigslist, death was the result

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  Scenic Wanderer (@scenicwanderer) reported 19 minutes ago

  AI just tearing through my problems and tasks. It's so great to be bionic. "Write a Craigslist ad. Make a bill of sale. Price this item. Give me a chepear way to send a letter with tracking." I'm just laughing to myself.

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  peacefulwarrior (@peacefllwarrior) reported 20 minutes ago

  @BonnettsView @DisrespectedThe figuring out how to sell stuff without crackbook is my issue, as nobody uses craigslist in my town......frustrating

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  🇺🇸🇺🇸Ritch Ason🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@ElonMusky_Fish) reported 21 minutes ago

  @Neutral_OC This is what home warranty gets you. Home warranties are a ******* scam. They send out the bottom of the barrel technicians from random companies. They send out a guy from Craigslist and after he doesn't fix your problem and charges you money you will never see him again.

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  BlubberSockets (@BlubberSockets) reported 22 minutes ago

  @servincaine I've been buying and selling on craigslist/marketplace for a long time and I've learned to avoid them as much as possible. Some are okay but every time there was an issue it was with black people. Not showing up on time, not having enough money, making ridiculous demands, etc

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  johnny🪿 (@kudosdunce) reported 22 minutes ago

  an active and fulfilling love life might fix me but everyone on dating apps is being impossible to make plans with so I think I need to go back to the old drawing board (Craigslist (personals))

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  YZ-Guy (@WhyZee_Guy) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Ilegvm An oldie but goodie response to her This Article is From Mar 26, 2014 Pretty girl in search of rich husband gets reality check from 'J P Morgan CEO' New Delhi: Some years ago, a 25-year-old gold-digger in search of a rich husband stuck her neck out on Craigslist New York asking for tips on landing Mr Moneybags. Ms Pretty, as she called herself, was rewarded by a letter from someone claiming to be the CEO of J P Morgan (never verified) containing a pill so bitter that she took herself and her post off Craigslist. The internet being what it is, however, has kept Ms Pretty's plea and the businesslike deconstruction of her worth as a rich man's potential mate alive and in social media circulation. Seven years after Ms Pretty slunk away tail between legs, the supposed J P Morgan CEO's advice still holds good for others of her tribe. It's also really funny. Ms Pretty's quest to cash in: I'm going to be honest of what I'm going to say here. I'm 25 this year. I'm very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I'm greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York. My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you? Among those I've dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden(?), $250k annual income is not enough. I'm here humbly to ask a few questions: 1) Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym) 2) Which age group should I target? 3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I've met a few girls who don't have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys. 4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (my target now is to get married) Ms. Pretty The answering salvo: Dear Ms. Pretty, I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyse your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I'm not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain. Put the details aside, what you're trying to do is an exchange of "beauty" and "money" : Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there's a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can't be prettier year after year. Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It's not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later. By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a "trading position". If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term - same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or "leased". Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advice that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income.This has better chance than finding a rich fool. Hope this reply helps. signed, J.P. Morgan CEO

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  JRP (@joeparado) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SubxNews Maxwell Street was like Craigslist on the west side. You can get anything you want there. City closed this down because the only money they were making is from permits & license fees. They hated the fact that it was cash-based and decentralized.

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  PokeDon (@Pokedoncards) reported 29 minutes ago

  @BanesABucket @MK5Cards Yardsale treasures app, Craigslist, Facebook marketplace is a good place to start looking, my tip, drive down all the main roads Saturday morning at 6am and look for signs on telephone poles, uf it says starts at 8am, drive by, and ask for pokemon cards while they are setting up.

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  Dr.MitchKumsteinEsq. (@DrMitchKumstein) reported 30 minutes ago

  @TheAlphaThought Buy a used car from a private individual who listed on Craigslist or marketplace in the last 2 weeks to ensure you're getting a deal. Beat them up on the price. Cool if it's needs a detail or has a little scratch you can fix for cheap. Then you resell for same price in 2 years.

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  Marcus M. Long (@Ol_Marcus) reported 34 minutes ago

  Also finally threw out an old TV set that I bought over 20 years ago off Craigslist. In my mid 30's I carried it into the house with no problem. At 57, I almost gave out carrying it to the curb.

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 38 minutes ago

  eBay's CEO shared an article a newsletter writer published about his pay. His comms chief replied "We are going to crush this lady." A month later the CEO texted "Take her down." Then eBay's security team mailed her live cockroaches, a preserved fetal pig, and a book about surviving the death of a spouse. Ina and David Steiner ran EcommerceBytes from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. A small trade publication for online sellers. What enraged executives was the comment section, where sellers vented about the company. The campaign went far beyond packages. eBay employees sent pornographic magazines in David's name to his neighbors. They listed the couple's home on Craigslist as a nightly destination for swingers. They flew to Boston, tailed the Steiners in rented vehicles, and planned to break into their garage to plant a GPS tracker on their car. The Steiners began sleeping in separate bedrooms so that if someone broke in at night, one of them could escape and call police. A Natick detective traced one rental van back to an eBay employee. That single trace unraveled the whole operation. Seven employees pled guilty to federal charges. James Baugh, the security director who ran it, got nearly five years in prison. Now read the final ledger. Baugh, who executed the texts, went to federal prison. Devin Wenig, who sent "take her down," was never charged, denies knowing about the campaign, and left eBay in 2019 with a $57 million exit package. This week he settled for $2 million plus a $1 million donation to a First Amendment charity in Ina Steiner's name. Steve Wymer, the comms chief who texted "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes," is paying $50,000. The Steiners fought for seven years and got $48.7 million. The CEO's severance was bigger than their settlement.

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  casey (@Casey_AF) reported 38 minutes ago

  FB marketplace just isn’t built like Craigslist was 10-15 years ago. Mfs be like I’ll get back to you if this deal doesn’t work out. Brother it’s first to show up with cash answer my questions this mf didn’t put down a deposit.

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  Alex Ceskavich (@ACeskavich) reported 40 minutes ago

  Why you should "waste" 100 hours writing an ad for your business... Listen. We all know Claude can write, design, and upload ads. And for many brands, Claude ads work: * They're so cheap you can test widely and luck into a good audience. * They're the baseline most advertisers use, so you won't stand out for the wrong reasons. * They can produce images and video at a scale and cost you can't match manually. But every brand needs at least one ad that someone spent 100+ hours writing. Here's why: ... It takes 100 hours to crack a transformative Big Idea. I earned my stripes as a copywriter starting in 2008. $10,000–$30,000 for a single VSL, with clients waiting three months for delivery - unhappily. I probably abused that wait time - I was never good with deadlines - but I used every minute of it: Deep research. Customer surveys. ... Not AI scraping internet posts: I talked to real customers, posting Craigslist ads offering people $30 to talk about their experience with a problem or product. I listened to hundreds of sales calls, watched heat maps, studied past test data... ... Watched REAL customers on the site LIVE. I coded surveys, studied competitors, and pulled ideas from other niches. But most important, I wrote thousands of headlines. Yes, thousands. For a single project, I'd write at least 500 bullets and 500 headlines. And that's when I felt rushed. Was it always worth it? Sometimes, no. But my hit rate was high - most of my VSLs earned my clients 10x, 20x, 100x my fee. I haven't written freelance copy since 2019, but I still have packages running in direct mail - including at least two promotions still doing more than $500k a month. I've written three packages that built an industry from the ground up, or rewrote its marketing language. And while I've written some stinkers, the same process has sold more than $1B worth of product online. ... Even though I've taught it to only a handful of people - four or five, at this point. Why? Because a Big Idea is a Big Idea is a Big Idea. You only get a Big, transformative idea by sitting down and grinding it out for 100+ hours. Thousands of bullets. Thousands of headlines. Hundreds of rejected ideas. Every business needs one ad - VSL or otherwise - built with this level of depth. Used right, it gives your team a sales and marketing vocabulary they can use to sell better. Your ads will get higher CTRs. Your new products will be more likely to launch. Even your agency creative will have a higher hit rate, if that's how you buy your ads. I know AI is the future. I use it in my own business daily. But someone who knows how to sell needs to sit down with you, your company, and your product - at least once... ... And figure out how to sell the ever-loving hell out of it.

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  Celine (@Celinetruths01) reported 42 minutes ago

  @rich_toronto It’s a mess, she bought the house two years ago and the builder buried a substandard plastic pipe in the basement. It developed a crack and pressure from the incoming city main eventually burst it. They lost their carrier AC and everything else stored down there. They are living in an apartment till this gets sorted out. The builder is being sued and the children have to be driven miles to go to school now. My son-in-law owns an underwriter firm and he’s having trouble with the insurance company. Be careful your insurance doesn’t send some character off of Craigslist to fix your flood damage.

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  Chloe Santiago (@chloe_uncut) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Queendollas24 AND YOU ABOUT TO HAVE A SCARY ENCOUNTER WITH ME NEXT! I asked you before and I’ll ask one more time. Take my photos down off Craigslist. I’m not asking again. I’m showing up next time. Sick of it!!!

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  Hope (@hopeXmeta) reported 51 minutes ago

  @EscambiaFLMan When I was in Florida, I had to escape in abusive relationship. Because of the 2019 DV scandal in Florida, there were no beds available or relocation funds. I had to find a place to stay on craigslist because I was stuck in complete Lawfare. I ended up in Hillsborough, staying with the daughter of an attorney and her boyfriend. I rented a bedroom. The other roommate rented the couch. The woman who was renting the apartment out was also doing OF with her boyfriend and getting food stamps and other benefits from the state. The boyfriend stole my car and drove under a red light camera. I was tracked down by an attorney and I had to pay $400 even though I wasn’t the one driving the car during the time in question. The crazy bipolar person renting out the apartment had plans to sell my dog and cat. She was also going to sell the girl renting the couch for $1200 and keep the money, considering it her rent. When they realized that we were not going to just allow ourselves to be abused in such a way, she started taking lightbulbs out of the lights and keeping the bathroom door locked so we could not use the restroom. I was forced to leave and take her with me. By then I had a UTI. And the only place to go was back to my ex-boyfriend‘s who abused me severely. I thought maybe if we went together things might be OK. They weren’t. My ex did what he always did and lied about me hitting him. He told my friend that if she ever told the truth about what happened that night he would find her. It’s a legitimate threat because he’s a realtor. He forced her to do things in return for having a roof over her head. I tried to save her. But I only brought her to another devil. I don’t know how I can ever forgive myself. All I can do is continue talking about the failure of the system where the police believed that they gave us a packet of information with a solution that will keep us safe. The packet was a false promise. I hope you run for office. We need honest people in the government. We need people who care about humanity. We need people who tell the truth. You are brave and I truly hope good things come your way.

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  CoinDealer (@CoinDealerDCL) reported 52 minutes ago

  @CodySR96 @realKellyKnight @Carvana Or, just buy off craiglist or marketplace. You’ll spend less and get a more reliable car. The used cars dealerships get are the ones that had problems and the dealer offered the previous owner credit on a trade. They then put lipstick on a pig, “certify” it, and then re-sell it.

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  yoni rechtman (@yrechtman) reported 54 minutes ago

  @manishsinhaha @JustJake craigslist still exists! these things can stagnate but it seems like they die extremely slowly and keep being valuable on the way down...

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  Matt King (@mattkingatx) reported 56 minutes ago

  2/ For me, The Baseline happened in my garage at the ranch. The sun hadn’t come up. I was sitting on a bike I bought off Craigslist. The seat was wrong. My pedal stroke was terrible. And I was literally going nowhere.