Craigslist status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Craigslist reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Craigslist users through our website.

• Errors (58%)
• Website Down (33%)
• Sign in (8%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Craigslist outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Juneau	Errors	5 days ago
Juneau	Errors	6 days ago
Allentown	Website Down	28 days ago
Woonsocket	Errors	29 days ago
Ipswich	Errors	1 month ago
Redwood City	Website Down	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

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Craigslist Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  dbetty (@ddbetty) reported 3 minutes ago

  @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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  Jackson Storm (@RacingFourJesus) reported 4 minutes ago

  @The8bitidiot The issue was so bad that Microsoft had to extend the warranty by like 3 years if I remember correctly. They couldn't figure it out...there were multiple mobo iterations. I used to pick them up with the RROD off ebay or craigslist for cheap. As long as the seal was still intact and would mail them to Microsoft, wait 4-6 weeks for the replacement, and then resell them for a decent profit. Probably did this 6 or 7 times. If memory serves correctly there was a "arcade" version you could get without a hdd that had HDMI and was the most reliable version. The cover on the disc drive was white instead of chrome.

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  Redacted (@theKageRyu) reported 5 minutes ago

  @desert_starr_57 It's the same with Offerup, Letgo, and craigslist. Though despite the same issues, I did get decent results from Letgo up until Offerup bought them out and tanked the platform I stated right in my posts "Stupid Questions and lowball offers will be ignored and users blocked."

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  cbay (@cbay_cbay_cbay) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Brooksgallery8 @AmyDiGi , a project made by lovebeing - a crypto only marketplace that is a inspired by ebay and craigslist. peer 2 peer. 🥰 working on updates, and perhaps an escrow system down the line once we have some angel investment

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  Robert Van Dusen (@RealRVanDusen) reported 10 minutes ago

  Craigslist is terrible for trying to find an apartment, imo. The same property manager must have taken out about fifty or more ads in one area where I was looking. Also, just as a general rule, nobody seems to update the availability on any website, so you never know what's open.

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  Basic Jon (@GayRealist) reported 15 minutes ago

  @DonaldMBishop @monkieboy99 @donjackoghue ****, I'd happily show **** to prove I'm male to access a site like that. Even back in grindrs height, it was a crapshoot and I always had better luck with craigslist personals, then the literal ****** had to get that shut down.

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  Messer (@hype_joshy11) reported 15 minutes ago

  @sarkonakj Righto - so a TERF freak like yourself ******* and whined because she "is afraid of men" but ONLY if they're trans? So she wanted to be away from "men" but only trans ones? If wanting "female-only" housing was the only issue, why was she not looking elsewhere? Craigslist etc..??

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  k Ⓥ (@rowdytellezbian) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Nachtel_Hussar My car is fine, it just is inefficient because it’s old. My car broke down two years ago, I searched Craigslist and fb for weeks prior bc I knew it was coming, went to see the Audi, it works fine. Are you arguing that gas is NOT too expensive?

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  Julian Malinak (@JulianMalinak) reported 16 minutes ago

  (3/3) The problem wasn’t so much that a token was launched, the problem was that in fact building the 50th new perps DEX or some new yield infra infra thing is not in fact a transformative business that impacts the real world in the way Facebook / Craigslist was.

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  Nils (@nilsfdm) reported 20 minutes ago

  You don’t understand how much “possession” is valued in secondhand goods. Every year, millions of items are stolen or lost during moves, travel, break-ins, or shipments. Insurance claims get filed, police reports sit unsolved, and replacement cycles begin. But for anyone who’s ever had something meaningful stolen — an heirloom ring, a custom bike, a rare collectible — there’s a feeling of personal defeat. They’d pay anything to get it back. That’s your market. Here’s how you own it. Build an AI-driven platform that acts as the ultimate lost-and-stolen item recovery engine. You’ll aggregate real-time public and semi-public signals across every vertical where people offload goods. Think Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, LetGo, eBay, auction houses, local classified aggregators, public **** shop inventories, and even social media marketplaces. Anywhere someone might try to move an item fast, you’re there. Key is designing the perfect intake funnel for users. On the front end: Individuals can upload their item details (pictures, serials, descriptions, prior ownership timelines, approximate value). On the back end, your classifiers are doing image matching, metadata overlap, and serial database checks on thousands of for-sale listings. You crawl for matches the second they input. Layer 1: Build basic search for free users. Low-hanging fruit like serial number database matches, stock image metadata. Maybe you offer weekly search report summaries. Layer 2: Monetize advanced signals. Users can pay a monthly fee for real-time alerts on high-probability matches in their region or category. Layer 3: Upsell redirection services. You get users to their item faster, offering concierge support, evidence packaging for local law enforcement, demand letters for coordination with sellers, or even providing a third-party retrieval network. Turns messy interaction into an end-to-end system of reassurance. Biggest potential for cash flow? Integrations with insurance companies and law enforcement. You aggregate stolen goods claims from insurers directly. Act as their automated recovery arm — at scale, your AI will recover more than human investigators ever could. Charge insurance providers per item/file matched, per monthly period, or for exclusive category data feeds (e.g. “50% of stolen bikes in 60647 zip last quarter were fenced via Marketplace”). Discounts for institutional licensing mean easier adoption and predictable revenue. For police: You bundle high-probability matches and accounts into usable case materials. You become the private-sector bridge that makes property crime solvable again in economies where law enforcement has deprioritized. Beyond stolen goods, this funnel broadens into lost valuables. High emotional ROI segment. Grandmother’s lost ruby necklace in an Uber, expensive camera mislaid during international travel, each tied to specific zones & resale paths. Final viral loop, extremely optional: Build a crowdfunded “retrace service” tier for retrieval-resistant items. Find a $10k Rolex stolen in LA now sitting in a random Arizona **** shop? Seller/host/**** asks way too much for “repurchase”? Community pledging to pitch in for a retrieval/rebuy/release simplifies your user's problem while gamifying recovery. (Name this service “Pawnshop Angels” if you want brand punch.) Legal warning: You’ll run into territorial fights on access (some countries/states regulate online secondhand item reporting), but you’re merely aggregating public records and marketplaces. You’re building an interpretation layer, not breaking in. This system wins not because it’s complex but because it acts faster than desperation. You create memory backdoors into fractured systems of possession. Users don’t want to fight a thief–they just want what’s theirs.

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  Tax Donkey (@JohnnyEwing8888) reported 22 minutes ago

  @crusadepepe Craigslist. Get something at least 20 years old. Whatever the problem is, you can fix it yourself.

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  Nathan Shobe (@NShobe) reported 22 minutes ago

  @alt_w_v_g You know what ebay needs? "eBay local". Put up a fight against Facebook marketplace and Craigslist. FB marketplace is trash, and clist died when they started to charge for posting. Pls fix. Thx.

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  LeadPilot (@tryleadpilot) reported 23 minutes ago

  @andrewchen craigslist worked because newspapers were already dying from their own economics. AI replacing jobs is different than AI undercutting a broken business model that refused to adapt.

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  Abomination (@Abomination81) reported 24 minutes ago

  @SSB_Rick Quit playing video games, quit drinking. How I started making money, that would work today. Found couches on facebook/craigslist for sale. Negotiated them down to almost free. Took them home, cleaned them, took good pictures and posted them for sale with free delivery = 3,500 a month. Yard sales on weekends. Got there at open. Use ebay, click the search for "recently sold items". Look for old video games, sports stuff, action figures... anything. Search for the real value. Offer pennies on the dollar =2,500 month Flipping items I found at Ross, Costco, Walmart, Berlington, Target etc. Look for clearance items. Same as the yard sale. Flipped those items for about =1,000 a month Get an amazon sellers account. Look for items at stores to resell on amazon. Bought Millenial monopoly for 10 dollars at walmart, sold it for 50 on amazon. Rinse and repeat. This replaced the flipping items above, jumped to 5000 a month. Quit wasting your time. The money is sitting there, go work your *** off. **** your video games. **** your alcohol. **** X. **** sports. **** everyone except your kids. You got this man. You can dm me if you want specifics with any of this.

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  Cruising with Kayfabe Podcast (@Cwkpodcast) reported 25 minutes ago

  I 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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  kimmel (@arikimmel) reported 31 minutes ago

  I wonder why no one built this. I spent some time thinking about why Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, and Craigslist still feel so broken. Before @TryCommonplace_ , nothing existed where you could actually buy a second-hand item with a credit card, get it delivered (often same-day), with only $1 down, for a fraction of the original price and without haggling, endless messaging, getting scammed, or meeting strangers in parking lots. @TryCommonplace_ makes buying used stuff feel like shopping on Amazon, but for real second-hand items at real second-hand prices. Yet somehow the old messy platforms are still the default for most people. It feels great to be building the version that just works.

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  possum faerie 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸🔻 (@i_am_remy_bot) reported 32 minutes ago

  @flurryfrenzy it was due to SESTA/FOSTA which means websites could now be held accountable for illegal content on their sites. craigslist personal encounters shut down around the same time

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  Kain Yusanagi (@KainYusanagi) reported 34 minutes ago

  @solitaryasmr You could always set up your own personal server for cheap; it'd be much less to run than paying for Dropbox. You don't even need any special hardware; just use an old tower or laptop. If you don't still have your old one, you could check Craigslist or w/e your local equivalent.

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  Josh (@Digitalformedx) reported 34 minutes ago

  @LibOrNormal Well he needs to expand his skills and get a side job. All of us had to work weekends even if it was mowing a lawn, putting in a fence or fixing a car for extra cash to pay the bills. Plus not to mention selling anything we didn't want on craigslist if we had an extra bill to catch up on. Now for some who don't know, the bar is the best place to find some side work. If you have some side skills. People are always looking for a hand to build something, fix something or even do yard work.

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  Patrick C. Delaney (@PatrickCDelaney) reported 36 minutes ago

  @AngelMD1103 I had this same problem with Craigslist giving away free stuff. Can you help me take it downstairs? No, it’s free stupid

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  Paul Mitchell (@paulmitche11) reported 39 minutes ago

  Here is the Craigslist ad for the company that hired this petition gatherer. Note: this is a subcontractor to the firm hired by CHA/CTA/Consumer Attorneys/Uber. They hire people as independent contractors. Based on the three part test in AB 5 (@LorenaSGonzalez) this is illegal. And everyone knows it. But they still hire these firms who use an illegal employment practice, one which is fraudulent, and encourages more fraud. The AG @RobBonta should be shutting all these operations down, confiscating all the signed petitions, and creating a massive cost to any organization that collects signatures with these shady firms. Firms that hire the handful of shady / monopolistic firms should fear that all their petitions will be impounded by a legal action by the state AG or a County Prosecutor if the firms they hire are breaking the states employment law. And that’s a minimum. Preferably this gets backed up by an aggressive reform. Looking at you @isaacgbryan - LFG!!

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  PureProduct io (@PureProductIO) reported 46 minutes ago

  Most brands burn cash on flashy ads while their product pages look like 2015 Craigslist posts. Your listing copy, photos, and UX do more heavy lifting than any paid campaign ever will. Fix the foundation before you light money on fire. #ecommerce

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  Nicholas DeSuza (@nicholasdesuza) reported 46 minutes ago

  boot craigslist for me cupcake, count the number of dead smart tv's due to power supply corner cutting bullshit. those transformers are dying! - overheating - the hardest part of the chip to fix! XD

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  NaoNao (@NaoTheLocalViet) reported 47 minutes ago

  @rottenmahae ...is it bad that I can immediately tell that this is the terrible book about a girl who like, went on Craiglist and decided to rp a dog for a rich guy? The one with a stolen artwork for cover? The same book that one booktuber reviewed?

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  Evans Wroten (@Evans_Wroten) reported 52 minutes ago

  PRAIRIEVILLE, LA MAN ARRESTED AFTER TRYING TO TRADE HIS WIFE FOR A USED BOAT, $400 CASH AND A BAG OF FROZEN CATFISH GONZALES, LA — Because apparently Craigslist was down, a 54-year-old man from Prairieville, LA wandered into a Bass Pro Shop yesterday morning and attempted to negotiate what he confidently described as a 'reasonable trade.' The store associate stated the man wanted to trade his wife of 23 years for a slightly questionable 14-foot aluminum fishing boat and $400 cash. Authorities say Rodney Thibodeau approached the boat counter at exactly, pointed at a boat priced at $4,200, and asked, 'What would it take to walk outta here with that one?' When the associate gave him the price, Ronnie countered with a package deal that included: His wife, Denise. $400 cash, and a bag of frozen catfish. Bold strategy. Shockingly, the employee did not immediately ring it up. Rodney then presented a printed document titled 'WIFE-FOR-BOAT TRANSFER AGREEMENT' (yes, in all caps, to ensure the legality of the contract). Highlights from the document include: A 3-day return policy. A notarization by his cousin who authorities stated is absolutely not a notary. A 'best features' section listing 'doesn’t snore very often, can clean a bass & siphon gas from a truck.' An 'as-is condition disclosure,' because he wanted to 'keep things honest.' Meanwhile, Denise was sitting in the truck outside, completely unaware she had been bundled into a clearance deal next to a boat with a hole in the hull. The Bass Pro employee did what any reasonable human would do: pretended to 'check with a manager' and immediately called law enforcement. When deputies arrived, things only got better: Denise reportedly responded with a deeply philosophical, 'Where the hell is he', followed by 'I'm going to kill him' Rodney insisted the trade was 'fair market value as the boat, again, did have a hole in it.' Both were taken into custody. Rodney for attempting to sell a human being and Denise for threatening ****** injury against Rodney and 7 other Bass Pro Shop associates. Denise has since filed for divorce, citing what legal experts are now calling 'the boat thing.' When asked for comment, Rodney stood by his decision, stating, 'Look man, it came with a trolling motor mount.' Denise, however, offered a slightly different perspective: 'I have a job. I have a home. I did not sign up to be traded like a dented canoe.' I have to believe there's a lesson somewhere in there, but I've not been able to suspend my disbelief long enough to figure out what it might be.

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  Sohail Iqbal (@siqbal22) reported 52 minutes ago

  Sell home goods, furniture, and electronics locally 2–4 weeks before listing by using platforms like Facebook Marketplace, Nextdoor, or Craigslist for quick, high-volume sales. For high-value, high-end items or extensive collections, hire an estate sale professional. Prioritize creating a neutral, decluttered, and bright home environment to appeal to buyers. [1, 2, 3, 4] Top Local Sales Strategies: Facebook Marketplace (Recommended): Best for furniture, electronics, and large household items. Good for rapid transactions. Craigslist: Efficient for furniture and tech, attracting local, direct-sale buyers. Nextdoor: Excellent for reaching neighbors who can easily pick up items. OfferUp: Another user-friendly app for local furniture and electronics, say. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Tips for Maximizing Value & Efficiency: Bundle Items: Group small kitchen tools, office supplies, or decorative items to sell them faster. Pricing: Check "completed listings" on sites like eBay to set realistic, competitive prices. Clearance: Consider hosting a garage sale for a one-day purge, suggests. Safety: Meet in public places if possible, or ensure someone is home during local pickups. Donate/Junk Removal: Use charities like Goodwill for donations, and hire services for junk removal to handle items not sold, says. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] Preparing the Home for Sale: Depersonalize: Remove personal items, religious items, and specific, distracting decorations. Don't Fix Everything: Avoid massive renovations; focus on cleaning and minor repairs. Lighting: Ensure the home is bright and clean, which appeals to a broader audience

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  Dappy (@MilkDappy) reported 53 minutes ago

  @ohgoshimsam @pokimanelol @bigmonkeong 1. Why you respond to this so late? I didnt' even remember this conversation LOOL 2. Still no. If I try to haggle the price of the bike I found on craigslist down 20 bucks I'm being manipulative by definition but I'm not a predator. Manipulating people does not inherently make you a predator. Nobody uses the word like that

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  Rashford Eyo of Jeje Group (@rashfordeyo) reported 54 minutes ago

  1. You don’t need thousands of followers to get your first customer. Airbnb’s first users came from Craigslist. Focus on finding one real person with a problem you can solve.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Charles07788205 @RubiRubidoooo KSL (not KSE—likely a typo) is KSL Classifieds, Utah's big online marketplace (like Craigslist) run by Deseret News. The guy in the video is from the Kingston clan ("The Order"), a polygamist group based in Davis County, Utah. Polygamy is illegal under US/UT law (bigamy felony), but these groups often use one legal marriage + "spiritual" unions to skirt enforcement unless abuse/fraud/child issues arise. They've been investigated for decades but operate in plain sight there.

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  The Artist Formerly Known (@aresteanu) reported 58 minutes ago

  @DeivonDrago I've legit considered putting up craigslist ads for ghostbuster services. I show up to the "haunted" house and just explain ghosts ain't real and demand my hard-earned pay. Then I realised this is a funny metaphor for dispelling the mystery of the Hard Problem.