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Craigslist Issues Reports

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  PureProduct io (@PureProductIO) reported 4 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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  Zach (@zsgott) reported 6 minutes ago

  @anumness And the irony that even with its Craigslist-esque theme it’s soooo slow.

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  Red Stator (@thenovanglus) reported 7 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).

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  Buckie58 (@Buckie5886) reported 8 minutes ago

  > attempt to sell an old bar car I've had sitting around on Craigslist > get a few offers, all fall through > "motivated buyer" contacts me wanting to buy immediately > red flags go off naturally > Talk to a "DaQuarius Xxxxx" via text and phone call > keeps wanting address > tell him a parking lot > "no worries! I'll come to you!" > tell him no and have a good day > yesterday find MY car I'm selling for sale on Facebook marketplace > they won't take his post down > look online to find out who to contact with the police > website says to go into the station and give an in person report > go to the police station > "sorry sir, you have to file these sort of reports online" > show the fat lady the police website saying to come in person for situations such as mine > her brain explodes and she gets flustered and tells me to fill out a completely unrelated online form and someone should get back to me within a few weeks I'm so ******* sick and tired of criminals AND police just doing whatever to **** they want while regular Joe 2-Tallboy gets their **** packed in then stolen by criminals then their moneyforcibly taken from the government under threat of force.

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  DontHatethe138 (@138reset) reported 9 minutes ago

  @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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  Psychotic Technique (@CyQoTek) reported 9 minutes ago

  @kakashiii111 Funny how watching all these people talk about shortages and high prices- and the work of @GamersNexus, no hate just referencing- say the memory issue. Maybe check out the Craigslist and FB marketplace ads by me- 4090s, 5090s, 32 to 128g ram builds cant bring $1600-1800....

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  The Artist Formerly Known (@aresteanu) reported 10 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.

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  Joseph (@SirSenolytic) reported 10 minutes ago

  @sciencegirl She gonna have the feds at her door with cuffs. ****** retard doesn’t understand the law that shut Craigslist down holds site owners responsible for tutes on their site…

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  The Sincere VP (@thesincerevp) reported 14 minutes ago

  I 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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  Wiz888999 (@ODB123) reported 15 minutes ago

  🤔💭People forgetting $eBay already had one of the nastiest corporate PR scandals in tech history. Federal case.DOJ involvement. Former employees pleading guilty over harassment campaigns against critics in Massachusetts. Surveillance. Threats. Creepy deliveries. Fake Craigslist posts. Whole thing sounded unreal. So now RC starts publicly cooking management, trolling seller experience, mocking culture, gets suspended… and internet immediately starts reposting old headlines again. 😭 Bad timing doesn’t even begin covering it. Narrative went from: “haha meme CEO posting socks” to: “why does every new controversy keep connecting back to older culture problems?” Online momentum moves FAST once people start linking patterns together. 👀

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  Shobit Gupta (@shobitfarcast) reported 22 minutes ago

  Everyone talks about Airbnb's Craigslist hack. The real lesson is the opposite of a hack. They flew to meet 24 users. They knocked on doors. They took photos themselves. The founders who find product-market fit fastest are the ones willing to do unscalable things until they understand exactly what's broken. Scale the insight. Not the hustle.

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  United Fireworks (@unitedfireworks) reported 25 minutes ago

  Buy Right, Avoid Fireworks Scams Fireworks sales scams often spike around the Fourth of July, featuring fake websites, illegitimate online marketplaces (Facebook, Craigslist), and fraudulent "clearance" deals. Scammers often demand cryptocurrency, gift cards, or apps like Zelle/Venmo, providing no contact info. Inspect products for fake "safe and sane" seals and avoid unlicensed roadside stands. Common Fireworks Sales Scams: Fake Social Media: Scammers create social media posts advertising cheap fireworks or "after-holiday" clearances, specifically stealing payment information. Illegal Online Marketplaces: Fraudulent sellers operate on platforms like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, often selling illegal or nonexistent products. Misleading Product Packaging: Products may be disguised, such as canister shells packaged to look like different, or sometimes, lower-quality items. Counterfeit "Safe and Sane" Seals: Sellers may use fake, non-genuine safety seals, particularly on fireworks that are illegal in certain areas. Unlicensed Roadside Stands: Temporary, un-permitted stands may sell illegal or dangerous products. How to Avoid Scams Verify Sellers: Only buy from reputable, known fireworks retailers. Secure Payment Methods: Avoid paying with cryptocurrency, gift cards, or apps like Zelle, which offer little protection for fraud. Check Local Laws: Ensure the fireworks are legal in your area; illegal fireworks are often sold via illicit channels. Avoid "Too Good To Be True" Deals: Extremely low prices or "exclusive" sales are red flags. Inspect Before Buying: Check for legitimate packaging and seals. Further insight into potential scams associated with larger vendors, consumers have reported issues with high minimum spend requirements for discounts as under covered by Ed Haury of United Fireworks.

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  Abomination (@Abomination81) reported 26 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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  Rapture Ready (@txspitfire) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Milajoy Craigslist needs to be SHUT DOWN!!

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  Henry Akeley 🇺🇸 (@henry_akeley71) reported 28 minutes ago

  @SlumRNA_Dog VB Knives: “Can’t believe anyone would have a problem with this. Some real losers on this site. Making White kids sell peepee rugs to random violent nonwhites on Craigslist is a great way to build character and save up for code school.”