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Craigslist Issues Reports

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  brunson burner (@Tallox_25) reported 12 seconds ago

  I'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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  l,alma (@lalma67) reported 4 minutes ago

  craigslist free section is 90% broken printers and someone's entire VHS collection of recorded golf tournaments from 1998

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  Dianne 🌻 (@soaked2thebone) reported 4 minutes ago

  @EricLDaugh How was he gonna burn her house down from Turkey? Via a help wanted, experienced arsonist ad on her area's Craigslist?

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  John Mac (@JohnMcCart87216) reported 5 minutes ago

  @StefanMolyneux My car was broken into, my wallet and music gear was stolen, and listed on craigslist and the seller included his address (across the street from me), and I had two gas station videos of him using my credit card --- the cops said THEY WILL NOT FOLLOW UP.

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  ًًً (@thatprettydick) reported 10 minutes ago

  i 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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  Alex Kruger (@KrugerSays) reported 15 minutes ago

  I was 26 and I thought I was a failure. I’d just shut down a funeral company. Before that, we were a different funeral company lol. Before that, I ran sales for a parking app. Before that, I was 22, living in Austin, renting a house on Craigslist that became another company’s headquarters because someone at that company told me to “go launch the city.” And so it was 4-5 years of not having any amount of cohesion/synergy/insert_boringcorporatewordhere. So I flew to Guatemala by myself and read a self-help book my aunt had given me. The book told me to write down what mattered to me. I wrote: making people happier. Not ending world hunger. Not curing disease. Not having "impact" Just happier. Which was nice but also useless. The book then had me map out what kind of career could allow me to run the fruits of my labor through this filter of: does this make someone happier. The content world seemed like a good starter direction. Make people laugh. Make them think. Maybe make them less bored. Then I started looking for something that helped people level up. Something that made people smarter, figuring that smarter would probably make happier moreso than something like porn, though maybe I was/am wrong. So I found a YouTube channel in LA that prided itself on making smart + funny content for millennial men. It was a B-minus business model. But I loved every second of it. And the team was exceptional. And then another friend asked if I could help him hire a head of marketing. I’d never recruited anyone, but: would helping someone get a better job make them happier? Obviously yes. So I stole an engagement letter from a friend who ran a recruiting firm, pretended I did this all the time, and three months later placed someone and got paid $30,000. Again, the filter held. Not because I had found my calling while sitting on a mountain in Guatemala but because the next thing in front of me fit the thing I had written down. Shortly after, I started taking on clients who wanted help with marketing. This wasn't fun, but I needed an income and didn’t want another boss, and, soon after our clients started asking if they could hire our international talent directly. Woah. This recruiting thing again. This thing I very much liked and was weirdly good at. Now, that’s Scale Army. It wasn’t happiness + content + leveling up + jobs magically becoming one company. It was more like: I wrote down one vague thing I cared about, and then I kept saying yes to the next thing that seemed to pass. Figure out a thing you care about. Make that your filter. Say no to everything that doesn't make the cut.

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  Blister (@Blisterdose) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AlfTheAlpha67 Bro **** hewey I hope down the lake gets a horrible DDOS and his entire credentials are up for sale in a ****** Craigslist but for data brokers websites resulting in him losing everything from identity fraud

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  TravelPants (@PantsToTravel) reported 17 minutes ago

  @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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  PASSIVE INCOME ANNA (@PassiveAnna) reported 17 minutes ago

  20 Unhinged things to try, it gets more unhinged down the line: 1. Read Negative Reviews 2. The "Grandma" Test: Explain your industry to a 70-year-old. 3. Infiltrate Private FB Groups: Join groups for stressed-out professionals (nurses, lawyers, etc.). 4. Scroll Reddit "Help" Subs: Search "How do I" or "I hate it when" in niche subreddits. 5. Find projects that reached 100% funding but failed to deliver. 6. The "Boredom" Method: Sit in a room for 2 hours with no phone, no music, and no pen. Your brain will start hallucinating ideas just to escape the silence. 7. Look for tutorials with 1M+ views but terrible audio. Remake them with high quality and better SEO 8. Audit Your Bank Statement: Look at what you've paid for every month for 2 years. If you’re paying for it, thousands of others are too. Can you do it better/cheaper? 9. Sit in a high-end hotel lobby or airport lounge. Listen to what wealthy people complain about, their "rich people problems" pay the most. 10. Reverse Engineer Your DMs: What is the one thing people always ask you for advice on? 11. Scan Job Postings: Look for companies hiring 5+ people for one role. It means they have a problem. Build a software or agency that solves that specific bottleneck. 12. The "Argue" Method: Go on Twitter and post a slightly wrong take about a niche. The experts who come to correct you will give you all the high-level info you need for free. 13. Check Craigslist "Gigs": See what random, weird tasks people are desperate to outsource. If it’s recurring, it’s a business model. 14. The "Expired Domain" Hunt: Search for popular websites that died. They still have traffic and backlinks; you just need to put a new offer on the old "land." 15. Stalk "App Store" Search Trends: See what people are searching for but can't find. If there's no app for a high-volume search, you just found a gap you can fill. 16. The "Annoyance" Journal: For one week, write down every single thing that mildly irritates you. 17. Analyze Foreign Markets: Look at what’s blowing up in Brazil or China that hasn't hit your country yet. Be the one who imports the trend. 18. The "Refund" Inquiry: Call a big company’s customer service and ask what people most frequently ask for refunds on. 19. Search "Hacks" on TikTok: Find "life hacks" with millions of views. Most hacks are just manual versions of products that should exist. Build the product. 20. The "Delete Everything" Mental Model:If you lost your job and your house today, what’s the first thing you’d do to make $100? That’s your most viable business.

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  Jennifer (@Jennifer75089) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Jason2bartlett There are Americans who will pay premium money for “reclaimed wood.” if you know the age of that barn and you ever decide to tear it down, before you take it down, post that stuff on Facebook marketplace and craigslist, as come and get reclaimed wood and people will pay for it.

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  Parit (@KjdParit) reported 24 minutes ago

  I posted an ad on Craigslist last month looking for a roommate to split the rent on my downtown apartment. A quiet, polite guy named Leo moved in three weeks ago. Yesterday, while he was out, a process server knocked on our door and handed me a summons for a $200,000 defaulted business loan. The loan was in my name. The co-signer? My new roommate. My hands shook as I read the court documents. I had only known Leo for twenty-one days! I ran into his bedroom and started searching his desk for answers. Hidden behind his closet organizer was a locked briefcase. I forced the latch open with a screwdriver. Inside were five different state IDs, all with Leo's photo—but under five different names. Including my dead brother's name.

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  Chip Haze (@ChipHaze) reported 24 minutes ago

  @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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  Bryan Shankman (@BryanShankman) reported 25 minutes ago

  We 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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  Raunak (@stratwright) reported 25 minutes ago

  In 1957, an 18-year-old named Yvon Chouinard went to a junkyard, bought some scrap metal, and taught himself to blacksmith so he could make better climbing gear. He sold pitons out of his car for $1.50 each. He ate cat food on climbing trips to save money. He had no investors, no business plan, no MBA. Just a product he believed in and customers who needed it. That company became Patagonia. It now does $1.5 billion in annual revenue. He never took outside investment. Not once, in 50 years. The idea that you need to move fast to win is one of the most expensive lies in business. An Inc. study tracking more than 100,000 midsize US businesses over 20 years found something most founders don't want to hear: the faster a company grew in one period, the less likely it was to grow again in the future, and the more likely it was to fail. The companies that grew consistently, year after year at moderate rates, were the ones still standing two decades later. Mailchimp bootstrapped for 20 years before Intuit acquired it for $12 billion in 2021. Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius owned 100% of it. No dilution. No board telling them what to do. They just kept reinvesting profits, fixing what didn't work, and not rushing. Basecamp has been around since 1999. Same product, roughly the same team, never needed outside money. Jason Fried turned down every VC offer and wrote a book about it. Their annual revenue hasn't been disclosed but it's been consistently profitable for over 25 years. They turned down a $100M acquisition offer in the early 2000s. Craigslist is still one of the most visited websites in America. It has roughly 50 employees. It generates hundreds of millions in revenue per year. Craig Newmark started it in 1995 as an email list. The pattern across all of them is the same. They stayed small long enough to figure out what actually worked. They didn't raise money to paper over bad decisions with marketing spend. They survived downturns because they weren't burning cash they didn't have. And they kept 100% of the thing they built. Fast growth feels like winning. What it actually does is compress your learning curve while multiplying your costs, hire people before you know what to do with them, and optimize for metrics that look good in a pitch deck but don't necessarily mean the business works. The S&P 500 average company lifespan was around 30 years when Patagonia was founded in 1973. Today it's less than 18. Companies are being hollowed out faster than ever. The ones that last keep doing roughly what Chouinard did: build something real, charge a fair price for it, don't spend more than you make, and stay long enough to get good at it. Slow feels wrong when everyone around you is announcing funding rounds and growth hacks and hockey stick projections. It's supposed to feel that way. That's how you know you're doing it right.

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  Red Stator (@thenovanglus) reported 30 minutes ago

  @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).