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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.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Craigslist users through our website.
- Errors (60%)
- Sign in (20%)
- Website Down (20%)
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Craigslist Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Piyo || Comms Open (@popcorndoesnot1) reported@ailibackwards Also, at least for kgrp servers, there’s a what is basically Craigslist server that advertises all of them and new ones
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thot catalog is totally punk (@thisistotespunk) reportedI once knew a guy who had such a vendetta against Facebook that he made a sockpuppet account with a girl’s name to make Marketplace purchases with a whole story about how he was “picking up stuff for his sister.” He was also anti-Craigslist and had trust issues with everyone.
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🌿🪻⚓꧁༺ǟռƈɦօʀɛɖ ɮʏ ɢʀǟƈɛ༻꧂ 🕊🦁🌿 🇮🇱 (@GraceIsMyAnchor) reported@Exodus15_11 @Autoweltmedia Thank you! The craigslist ad is pretty comprehensive about what the deal is with this car, and as I stated I can't deliver, it has to be picked up. I don't have to sell it immediately but I do need it to be sold before the end of June. I do love the car, but it's been sitting in a garage for 20 years and I don't have the time, the money, or the experience to fix it up and get it running. I'd rather go to somebody who loves Mercedes and would want to work on it as a project car than to have it parted out and scrapped.
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Rich Dunsheath (@rdunsheath) reported@justalexoki The complicated ones that save water from Korea are pieces of crap. I live in Houston, we have more damn water than we know what to do with. But I have to buy appliances built for California because they are too stupid to manage their water. The expensive ones have computers and send you messages via WIFI and other worthless things but they don’t work well and the computers go on the fritz. I got flooded out of my house by Harvey and had FEMA insurance and bought all the fancy appliances. The dishwasher had a computer and fifty different settings but to save water and energy, it took forever to run a cycle, didn’t get the dishes clean, and ultimately just stopped working. Only appliance that is not a PIA is the dryer. And even the dryer is not as good as an old dryer that I bought off Craigslist for a pittance for a rental house that only has one control, a spring powered dial that you set by twisting the dial to the number of minutes of drying you need. When it runs down and turns off, you open the door and feel the clothes and if they aren’t dry enough, you crank it up for ten more minutes. Simple, effective, foolproof.
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N2 Rotation (@BlisteredSkies) reported@ervin_pa I guarantee you’ve never been to another country to witness atrocities. I had an 18 year-old Haitian kid escape at the end of the hurricanes 12 years ago. Taught himself English. Worked his *** off. Made him the manager of my franchise coffee shop. Started buying broke down cars on craigslist and his spare time and flipping them after fixing them. Started his own used car dealership selling 60 cars a month in Naples, Florida. Now works for Hendrick motorsports. Ask that kid if he cares about 200 years ago or feels oppressed here in America No one is more ungrateful or busy reliving past sins then present day black grifters Imagine if Jesus had everyone never forget their country’s past and blame endlessly for something they themselves never experienced. Grow up lady
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Arben Prifti (@ArbenPriftiGoat) reportedHello. I am Arben. I have a terrible track record online. Tried to sell a bunch of stuff on Craigslist. Several women offered me their body in lieu of cash. Joined a dating site. All responses were fetish chicks. I didn’t know that adult women like to pretend to be babies. It was weird. Been on x for about 1-2 years. So far, so good.
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The Automotivist (@_automotivist) reportedBought a broken Ford Escape Hybrid off Craigslist for three grand once. The previous owner swore the hybrid battery was dead and priced it like scrap. A fifty-dollar charger and twenty minutes online said otherwise. Everyone else read the headline on that listing. I ran the actual number underneath it, and that's the whole difference between what happened with the Fed today and what happens at your own dealership every time. Friday's issue breaks down this week's freshest price record next to who can actually still afford to buy it.
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John K (@John71K33) reportedand not only have to keep solid relations with the fired Editor after the Editors cut was rejected & the Director decided reediting work on the cut wasn't what he wanted, so "you're fired". It causes a problem because I have to set up interviews, Craigslist won't supply suitable
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🇺🇸🇻🇦🏴☠️🥖✒️ (@dailyprandium) reportedDecentralized media is a boom for factions, special interest, partisan extremism, and constructing reality to divide and conquer US Old media had 30 years to fix their houses but they never got over the Craigslist disruption to their sacred classifieds payola
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Shaf (@Shafpocalypse) reported@CoFoundersNik During Hurricane Harvey, ‘clean up crews’ descended on Houston and they stole everything not nailed down while ‘remediating’. Telling homeowners things had been destroyed by water. The glut of flat screen tvs, electronics, and high end furniture that were undamaged by water or that had minimal damage, that went on sale on Craigslist or FB marketplace or eBay It is a cottage industry of legit dirt bags
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Bryan Shankman (@BryanShankman) reportedWe started working with a mobile brake repair company in Cincinnati last year. @DanielG__83 runs it himself -Google, Facebook, and increasingly ChatGPT-driven traffic bringing in leads at all hours. The math was breaking down. He was paying for leads that were going cold because he couldn't respond fast enough. His words: "God forbid a customer texts me at 7 at night and I'm done working for the day. I'm not gonna respond, and by 8 the next morning I'm gonna forget." Plus every lead - high-value brake job or $40 Craigslist tire kicker - took the same amount of his time to qualify. Here's exactly what our AI agent does for him now: When a customer submits a form on his website, texts the business line, or comes in through Google or Facebook ads at literally any hour: - The agent responds within 60 seconds over SMS acknowledging the specific issue - brake pads, rotors, calipers, whatever the customer mentioned - Qualifies the lead: vehicle year/make/model, exact service package, address for the mobile visit, urgency - Filters out tire kickers automatically - price shoppers looking for a $40 Craigslist special never make it to the owner's desk - Books the appointment directly if the lead is ready to go - Delivers a fully-qualified, ready-to-schedule lead sitting on his desk by 8 AM - address, vehicle, package, everything What's happened since: - 25-30 additional jobs booked per month in peak season. All AI. - Start to finish At a $500 average ticket, that's up to $15,000/month in new revenue he wasn't capturing before - His receptionist now pulls a monthly report of every job closed through the AI in dollars - the number is tracked, not estimated - After-hours leads at 10 PM, 11 PM, midnight are handled the moment they come in. - No more forgetting by morning He's not answering tire-kicker texts anymore. That entire category of work is gone from his day Most home service and mobile service operators think their bottleneck is more leads. It usually isn't. It's the leads they already paid for going cold because nobody responded in the 15 minutes that mattered. AI shouldn't replace your judgment on jobs. But there's no reason a $500 brake job should sit unanswered in a text thread overnight because the owner was asleep. @leadtruffle
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Abandon Comfort (@abandoncomfortx) reportedWhen I saw this log cabin for sale on Craigslist 5 years ago I thought it was a scam. I talked to the 80-year old owner on the phone & still thought it couldn’t be real & how elaborate this hoax was. Pulling down the long driveway, I still didn’t know if it would be real then there it was. Perfectly placed on the hill like something out of a fairytale. Everyone else interested in buying the property were going to tear it down. It couldn’t be saved they said. It took me the better part of 2 years but I saved it and in turned it saved me. It made me a believer again.
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masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reportedA solo dev opened Flutter, spent 3 weeks on it, and shipped a ride-hail app a casual user couldn't tell apart from Uber. Yellow branding. Live map. GoabX, GoabXL, GoabBike tiers with prices. Visa 4242 on file. Home, Work, Airport saved. "Confirm GoabX" button. The whole flow. Pause at 0:08. Look at the split screen. Simulator on the right running the sign-up screen. auth_screen.dart on the left — the actual Flutter source with _Chip extending StatelessWidget, _CircleBtn wrapping a GestureDetector, BoxDecoration in black and white, Icon at 17.sp. That's not a mockup. That's a shipped auth flow. What the clone has: → Flutter frontend, one codebase, iOS and Android at once → Google Maps + custom route rendering → Ride-tier chips (X / XL / Bike) → Card-on-file with Visa masking → Google + Apple + Facebook social login stubs What the clone doesn't have: → 5 million active drivers → Regulatory clearance in 10,000 cities → A $60 billion payout rail already routed → Insurance underwriters who approved the safety model → Every dispute-resolution playbook Uber wrote from 2012 to now That's the entire product. Here's what nobody in the "just clone it" space is saying out loud: the interface was never Uber's moat. The moat is a two-sided marketplace with 5 million drivers who show up at 3 AM when you tap a button. You can build the button in Flutter in 3 weeks. You can't build the 5 million drivers in 3 lifetimes. The old loop is dead: study successful app → clone the frontend → deploy on the App Store → wonder where the users went. The new loop: study successful app → identify the offline-supply moat → build the supply first → treat the app as the last 5%. The point worth arguing about: the hardest part of building an Uber isn't Uber. It's convincing a stranger with a car to log in on Tuesday at 3 AM when it's raining. Everything else is a Figma file. I know a founder who spent 18 months writing beautiful marketplace code and shipped to zero drivers. Meanwhile a friend of mine ran Craigslist ads for 2 weeks, found 40 house cleaners in one city, matched them with 60 buyers, took 15%. He didn't need a Flutter app. He had a Google Form. The interface is free. The supply is the whole company. Literally.
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ًًً (@thatprettydick) reportedi think body count matters when it comes to your environment. i know some men have hooked up with at least 100+ ****** off jackd, craigslist, grindr… he’s messed with majority of the city lmao that’s a problem. nobody wants you and that used up hole beyond just *******.
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BO$$ LADY YVR🪶 🇨🇦 (@asbinvancity) reported@redumbrellaclub Absolutely! Remember when craigslist and ******** got shut down, and people lost their income overnight? Well guess what that’s not happening on Facebook and Instagram they’re randomly shutting accounts down for no reason and people are losing their money.🫠
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Dhawal Yogesh Bhanushali (@imkin) reported@shiv_cybersurg This is true but also not entirely. There are people who would buy and take (like me) but cannot "find you". the apps like @OLX are full of store folks. In US this is how craigslist was born. it has its own problems but I have sold and give away so many things over there.
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🐉🌿🌸Bunny🌸🌿🐉 (@OsPidgey) reported@cutthefinalrope here the shelters fix pets you purchase from them, but a lot of pets are purchased through craigslist and FB (or just off the street) so they don't have that option. We have low-cost spay/neuter but there's cheapskates who still refuse to when it costs literally anything
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Mike Mabes (@MrMabes) reported@35yearoldfriend If you want to talk to me about how to start a successful handyman business with no skills I have been a self employed gig worker since I started posting ads on craigslist 22 years ago saying I would come chop down trees and labor for $8 an hour. By the end of year I charged $25
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ᴬᵍᵉᵒᶠᵈᵒᵍᵉ (@evilduck92) reported@Lexcalibur001 @Vyyyper @grok PC doesn't count as a current platform? I don't buy AAA games on launch, but I don't think that should be taken as an across the board statement that I don't play anything new. Some of my favorites are: Factorio <-Arguably not a game, but still the best game. Civilization V All the Creeper World games. Cyberpunk 2077 All the Serious Sam games Age of Empires II Age of Mythology Rise of Nations Deus Ex Fallout 3 / Vegas Saints Row 3 Ion Fury Portal Bioshock I'll give you a lot of those are older, but let's face it the new Civ games are crap. The RTS genera hasn't advanced since AoE2 IMO. I played the newer Deus Ex and what not, but the quality has dropped dramatically. Recently I have been playing a lot of rouge like action games. Brotato, Nova Drift, 20XX, 30XX I also do a lot of puzzle / physics stuff / real time problem solving games. I played a lot of the Steam VR stuff that was out more than 4 years ago. I have been waiting on the Steam Frame to get back into that. Quite a few arcade style games. A lot of indy games. I mostly focus on them at this point. I did pick up a Wii off craigslist just to do Mario Galaxy on the original controls.
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Dan from Spotted Model: Cars & Tech (@spotted_model) reported@CajunCybertruck @28delayslater @SpringdaleRobo Shipping is the biggest issue as either Tim or my son will tell you. So find a seat out of a Tesla locally on marketplace or craigslist. The Amazon parts are $60-$80 to make it into a chair with wheels. My son‘s kit is $399 to electrify it. That will enable anything the seat originally had like heating, cooling, lumbar, etc. to be used all the time in the seat. We have a video showing how to install and it takes about an hour. The seat without power is cool. With all of the functions it’s magical. DM me for more info or clarity.
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FeelGoodTales (@feelgoodtale) reportedAlmost five years ago, I started searching for a dog. I found a Craigslist post from a family rehoming their late father’s German Shepherds. He’d been a *******. The dogs needed homes. I went there for a specific female. But she was already gone. They introduced me to her sister — Sabrina. Thin, shut down, unsure of everything. Still, I couldn’t walk away. Something in her still reached for connection, even through fear. She came home with me that day. Now, she’s ten years old — but still acts like a pup. Loves the river. Hikes. Long naps in the sun. She’s everything I didn’t know I needed. I didn’t just rescue her. She met me where I was and pulled me forward.
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JezebellePNW (@JezebellePNW) reportedCongress isn’t broken—it’s straight-up for sale on Craigslist with “senior discount” pricing. Time for a full forensic audit on every member in Congress. Left, right, or fossil—doesn’t matter. You’ve been squatting in DC for 20+ years, blocking voter ID and common sense while Big Pharma, defense bros, and tech overlords wire you suitcases of cash? We need to know exactly who’s buying these dinosaurs before they auction off the Republic for lobbyist cookies and a golden parachute. Spill the donor receipts, Congress “principles” are expired.
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brunson burner (@Tallox_25) reportedI've made a considerable amount of money on craigslist idk what I'd ever do if craigslist went down. Might be the most legit and useful site of its kind.
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Sarah 📟 (@sarahlol1863603) reported@pegobry_en You just know whatever women they found on Craigslist for the TOTALLY REAL bar scenes were waiting for nods from the producers as to if they were supposed to be into or not into what this Indian computer programmer wearing a leopard print blouse was puttin' down
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TravelPants (@PantsToTravel) reported@mattressguy_ In college I bought a bed off craigslist, got the mattress down the stairs but the box spring couldn’t make the turn. So I took a hammer and and broke the runners and bent it around the turn and duct taped them back together once in the room
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Michael (@Holden_Rye_) reported@OfficialVivek01 Here’s a cleaned-up version with your voice intact, but tighter and more defensible: I just read the rest. You are correct: BTC is widely traded now. But I grew up with it before this version existed. We used to trade Bitcoin through Craigslist, meet miners in parks, parking lots, wherever both sides agreed, and do the exchange like that. I quit trading in 2023. From 2008 to 2023, I never once heard of Michael Saylor being some master guru or “King of Bitcoin.” I barely heard his name at all in the circles I came from. Then last week I started paying attention. And once I did, patterns started firing off. Some of those patterns connected back to odd BTC behavior from around 2022–2023. I have rapid pattern recognition and a nonlinear mind. Some of that comes from early trauma. Some of it comes from combat trauma. When a pattern keeps hitting me, it does not leave me alone until I look at it. That is also why I was a scalp trader. Early crypto traders like me helped map the cycles everyone trades now. We watched this market grow from nothing. So I understand BTC very well. I can even build a blockchain. What I saw last week was odd. Brokers, TV financial analysts, and even BlackRock’s CEO are now openly talking about Bitcoin cycles like they discovered them. That is insane to me. Brokers used to get fired for even mentioning Bitcoin. They used to call us criminals for owning it. Now they act like they found it first. We have known for a long time that the $16k–$18k zone is a major protected structure layer. When BTC dominance drops hard toward the 40% area and the market breaks down, that lower BTC layer becomes the level everyone watches. That is where you fill bags. So when Saylor sold BTC around that zone and people called it tax strategy, fine. Maybe it was. But that also means he understood exactly where he was selling. That was not some random level. That was the deep structure layer. So now the question becomes fair: Was it just tax-loss harvesting? Or did he, and possibly others, understand the protected layer better than retail realized? Because if someone knows where the deepest liquidity sits, knows where retail gets liquidated, and has enough influence to move sentiment, then every “strategy” becomes a signal. Then a year later, we see another unusual dominance cycle while ETFs are being approved. That does not feel like normal old-cycle behavior. Maybe I am wrong. But if you knew ETFs were coming, and you wanted clients, friends, institutions, and treasury players positioned near the deepest BTC layer before the Wall Street wrapper arrived, that would be a very convenient time for it. Then BTC gets wrapped into the stock market through ETFs, treasury companies, preferred shares, leverage, and institutional products. At that point Bitcoin may still be decentralized at the protocol layer, but the market layer becomes a farm. That is what I am watching. What moved before the wick Whale manipulation was never some secret to the old BTC traders. We all knew it was happening. We just learned the game, mapped the traps, and traded around the predators instead of pretending Bitcoin was some clean little free market.
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Mike (@numberonemike) reported@sheuf34832 @TheRealKitty019 And a not insignificant portion of the "clunkers" weren't on the road anyway. They were the $700 craigslist ads with a "needs a brake job and a fuel pump, bring a trailer" titles, that young people got to fix, or dad bought and fixed to give to their 16 year old.
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bash (@mellamobash) reportedCraigslist needs to be shut down or sold. It used to be such a good spot to find cheap cars or apartment rentals, now it’s just all fake posts.
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Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) reportedIn 2013, a croissant-donut sold for up to $100 on the black market. Costco now sells twenty in a box for $9.99. A French pastry chef named Dominique Ansel invented it. He spent two months and about ten failed recipes trying to fry the butter-layered dough used for croissants without it collapsing, then filled the middle with cream and glazed the top. He called it the Cronut. It went on sale at his small SoHo bakery in New York on May 10, 2013. Within a week the shop was making 200 a day and still selling out minutes after opening. Then the lines started. People showed up before 6am, two hours before the doors opened, and the line wrapped around the block. Ansel capped it at two per customer. Scalpers moved in anyway, reselling a $5 pastry for $40 to $100 through Craigslist and one delivery service that charged $100 for a single one. Anderson Cooper got turned down when he tried to order a batch for his birthday. Hugh Jackman waited in line like everyone else. Nine days after the first sale, Ansel filed to trademark the name. By his own count, 27 other people tried to register the same word within days. His went through. That one legal move is why you are reading "Mini Croissant Donuts" on a Costco box instead of "Cronuts," and why the tweet says "inspired by." US law lets anyone copy the recipe, because a way of combining ingredients cannot be owned. The name can be. Ansel owns it. He never put it in a grocery store. The original still sells only at his shops in New York and Las Vegas, one flavor a month that never repeats, about nine dollars each, made over three days, with a shelf life of six to eight hours. Costco's version comes from CT Bakery, a Canadian supplier, twenty mini pastries to a box, half cinnamon sugar and half glazed. It works out to about fifty cents apiece. The same croissant-donut that once needed a dawn line and a two-per-person cap now sits in a warehouse fridge, stacked twenty deep, for less than the sales tax on one original.
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Cheng Liu (@Cliu122Liu) reported@AntiWokeMemes Craigslist was my friend, the only issue was transporting the stuff since myself and most of my friends were too poor to own a car.