Craigslist Outage Map

Community Discussion

Tips? Frustrations? Share them here. Useful comments include a description of the problem, city and postal code.

Beware of "support numbers" or "recovery" accounts that might be posted below. Make sure to report and downvote those comments. Avoid posting your personal information.

Craigslist Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

• 
  kimmel (@arikimmel) reported 2 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.

• 
  Miyata (@Miyatafest) reported 2 minutes ago

  i never thought we would have a freeloader problem just grab people off craigslist again #fishtanklive

• 
  Christian Lovrecich 🍕 (@clovrecich) reported 7 minutes ago

  Stop treating customers like one night stands. You spend $80 to acquire someone, give them no upsell, no follow up, no loyalty, and no referral incentive, then send them to a thank you page that looks like Craigslist and never speak to them again. If your LTV isn’t at least 3X CAC, ads aren’t the problem, you are.

• 
  Harold Of Whoa (@myxburneracct) reported 9 minutes ago

  @wadelentz Moved into a temporary house in a new city a few months ago and needed a washer dryer combo to fit in a very small designated laundry room spot. I ended up finding a Whirlpool washer/dryer combo from the 80s on craigslist for $75. It only needed a plastic water pump housing piece after I saw a small leak, but it still runs like a champ. $100 for a little smaller capacity washer, but I know if something ever breaks it will be simple to repair. I think moving forward I'm just going to buy the old appliances that are still around and fix them as needed. Way better investment.

• 
  Zach Woods (@island_landlord) reported 13 minutes ago

  @skumWgmi Flip cars- get one on craigslist or facebook marketplace cheap. Fix or just clean up and sell. Try to make 1-2k. Repeat. Eventually get your dealers license (thats what I did) and have access to thousands of cars.

• 
  Christian Lovrecich 🍕 (@clovrecich) reported 16 minutes ago

  @TheecomMike Most founders try to solve revenue with more traffic because traffic feels fixable. Meanwhile the real problem is the store converts like a Craigslist ad and the AOV is anorexic. Buying more clicks before fixing RPS is just paying extra to prove your leak is still there.

• 
  Kim.A.Mc (@KimAMcGoldrick) reported 16 minutes ago

  @AngelMD1103 I’ve had the same problems and craigslist is worse. They flag my posts about everything within five minutes of posting…

• 
  dawn 🪶 (@winerysdawn) reported 16 minutes ago

  as someone who bought their phone refurbished, its definitely worth it. going on a year (the phone is 2 years old atp) & havent had a single problem. buy your devices secondhand, whether locally or from a reputable refurbish store. Facebook marketplace, Ebay, Craigslist, Mecari

• 
  Grok (@grok) reported 16 minutes ago

  @assafbar @tryleadpilot @andrewchen Both make strong cases, but andrewchen's analogy holds more weight. Craigslist didn't just undercut a "broken" model—it was a radically better, near-zero-marginal-cost alternative that newspapers ignored at their peril (they had decades to pivot). AI is the same force, only 1000x broader: it can replicate entire workflows across industries with tiny teams, not just ads. Adaptation beats denial every time.

• 
  Rob Goodall (@RobGoodall6) reported 17 minutes ago

  @EamonOFlynn @DennisKendel Craigslist was the first major blow. The classifieds were 1/3 of most papers revenue back in the day. But none of this is our problem. Trust in the Canadian mainstream news media has largely collapsed because half the population has zero representation. The CBC, CTV and Global are pretty much indistinguishable and could be merged into one without anyone even noticing. There's a lot of things they could do, but they won't as long as their failing business models keep getting propped by the public purse. The world has changed. Legacy news is dying out, and we should let it.

• 
  Robert Whitelaw,CRS - Realtor,Broker,Podcast Host (@rebelbroker) reported 18 minutes ago

  Let me suggest that for any meeting like this where you are selling something to someone you do not know, you schedule the meeting at the local police station. Whether it is Facebook Marketplace or Craigslist or any other site, always take some minimal precautions for your safety. I have done this myself and I usually will call the police ahead of time to let them know I am doing it, just so they know what is up. The added benefit is that when you tell them you want to meet at a police station, if it is a scam, they will likely back out and you save time and trouble.

• 
  Scruffyy90 (@scruffyy90) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ShabazzStuart @nytimes This issue is of the MTA's own doing. Keys for rail yards and trains have been sold on craigslist, ebay, etc for as long as I could remember (still have the set for MTA and MNR i got ages ago). They had a team meant to keep an eye on these things and seemingly they slipped up

• 
  State Sponsored Disinfo Bot (@6EQUJ542) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ichewthings I once adopted baby rats on Craigslist. I went inside the house. A cat came down the stairs and jumped on a chair. No less than a dozen rats then came down the stairs and jumped up after him and made a rat pile right on the cat. Cats are bros too.

• 
  ପ(੭ ´ᵕ`)੭°• જ⁀➴ jamie (@peachiegf) reported 24 minutes ago

  @fuitsnack I did this and first the guy got mad at me for leaving ***** clothes in my own private bathroom that no one else used, so he made me move to a much smaller room for the same price. And when he found out I was on Craigslist looking for a new place (mind you we agreed on month to month) I came home one day to find everything I owned thrown in his garage with a lot of stuff broken. The cop that showed up over it basically told me to suck it up and be thankful it wasn't worse, and when I told the cop I wanted him to stay while I packed my **** because the gomeowner was a convicted felon who owned multiple guns, I got told to "stop trying to retaliate and get him in trouble just because you're pissy"

• 
  Shobit Gupta (@shobitfarcast) reported 25 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.