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  Steve Holland (@VLM7234) reported 3 minutes ago

  @i_danieall I booth a Yamaha off a guy on Craigslist for $50… intended this to be a camping guitar. Sounded terrible, action was way high… warped neck. Almost unplayable. Heard about neck reset to make it better. That’s a LOT of work. Found out about a poor man’s neck reset”. Make a thin cut along the neck grit before the body. I did this with a thin blade Japanese hand saw. Filled the gap with hide glue then clamped it for a few days. Put the strings back on it and it sounds great. That 1/16” saw kerf was all it took to work out the neck warp and bring down the action. Pro tip: only try this on a cheapo guitar that you don’t care about messing up. For a good guitar take it to a luthier and be prepared to pay several hundred $$$.

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  Rich Dunsheath (@rdunsheath) reported 6 minutes ago

  @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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  Rainer 🔜 OFFKAI 2026 (@RainovaVT) reported 7 minutes ago

  How do ppl go about getting puppies these days. Craiglist Era I get why they crackd down but I was blessed to have two healthy dogs to this day with no issue & they were half of the price. I want a Rottie but looks like official sites at base high price is only way now

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  Julius Ilg 🪸 (@juliusilg) reported 9 minutes ago

  finding the right one-liner for Shack took only years 🫠 by now we must‘ve changed it 20+ times „C2C Marketplace“ „Anything to Anyone“ „P2P trade network“ „Human protocol for trade“ „Agentic (re)commerce network“ „Silk Road is back“ „C2C fiat and crypto enabled“ „AI consumer trade app“ „C2C running on Memes & AI“ … the hard part was that I knew what we‘re not no eBay, Vinted, Facebook marketplaces, Craigslist, Uber, Amazon etc so we couldn‘t use the usual C for Y „the eBay for Collectibles“ or the „Uber for trade“ I think we‘re finally there and not sure what took me so long: „building a home for regular sellers“ why do I like this so much? a) It‘s tech agnostic. We use whatever we think is best. b) it describes the solution and the problem c) a 5yr old can understand it d) it captures our key priority: regular sellers e) it‘s not tied to a category or vertical, just the desire to sell smth f) it also clearly implies what we‘re not: for professional sellers. We don‘t want to be the next whatnot, amazon or compete against any of them g) it conveys trust and human connection (home) h) it implies continuity and a long term mission (building) the simplest way to think about Shack is a testing ground for smth you own and want to sell. atoms, bits, time compared to setting up a business first or creating a website or find the right vertical website/app you can just take/create a photo and put it up for sale on Shack for the world to explore. maybe your test turns into a business at some point and then you can do all the admin around it and switch to the unlimited professional selling options out there. Shack is aiming to be the easiest point of entry if you‘re not a business and just want to sell or explore selling, with as little friction as possible what will happen if we succeed and users around the world are putting anything they want to sell online? buyers will follow as the supply will be so uniquely differentiated to all the commoditized professional selling options and most importantly prices will undercut any professional as a regular seller has none of the overhead or is selling something that is depreciating or would have been thrown away winning will prevent waste and preserve value the eCommerce industry continues to drive regular sellers into private whatsapp buy/sell groups or offline by prioritizing pros, buyers and vertical solutions (ten apps for regular sellers compared to one) in parallel the creator economy is accelerating and technology is deflating global P2P trade costs. a solution like Shack could capture multiple secular tailwinds and the best part: connect people around the globe decreasing isolation and strengthening community.

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  $Martus (@MartusKl) reported 11 minutes ago

  @VirgisViews @SHET0SHI @Alexintosh Craigslist was covered by legal liability protections, which meant that their activities were not illegal. That changed in 2018, when congress passed FOSTA. They subsequently shut down their personals section. So, you’re right. It’s not the same. They weren’t breaking the law.

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  AY Jones 🌐 (@randomly101) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Metaverse_Arena @alritcallmesam OG can I dm you concerning this Craigslist. I sabi apartment update but I’m having issues posting, dem dey flag my post , and na even Laptop with better proxy I dey use

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  Diluc (@hsaffiliate2025) reported 17 minutes ago

  A company with 30 employees made $1 billion a year. Not Google. Not Facebook. Craigslist. At its peak, revenue per employee was 10-20x Google's. The founder did everything "wrong": rejected billions from VCs, ran zero ads, and demoted himself to customer support. Then within 6 years, revenue crashed 70%+. Here’s the real story. • Started as a simple email list in 1995 by Craig Newmark, an IBM programmer. • Friends asked to post jobs and rentals. He built a bare-bones website — intentionally ugly, like a community bulletin board. • Zero marketing spend. Network effects did all the work. • In 1999, he made it a for-profit company but kept 99% free. Charged only for some job posts in a few cities. • In 2000, he stepped down as CEO to become a customer service rep. He didn't like managing people. • The result: ~30 employees, ~$1B annual revenue (reportedly, around 2018). For comparison, Google's per-employee revenue was ~$1.2M; Facebook's ~$1.6M. Craigslist's was $20-35M. • They rejected every opportunity to make more money. Every niche they dominated was later turned into a billion-dollar company by someone else: • Jobs → LinkedIn • Housing → Zillow • Goods → eBay, Facebook Marketplace • Then crises hit: • 2004: eBay bought 30% of Craigslist without founders' consent. Legal battle followed. Craigslist converted to an LLC to avoid shareholder profit demands. • 2009: "Craigslist killer" — a medical student used the site to commit murder. The adult services section, worth $36M/year, was shut down. • Mobile revolution: Craigslist stayed ugly and desktop-only. Facebook Marketplace launched in 2016, fully mobile, with real names. It surpassed 1 billion users by 2021. • Revenue reportedly dropped from ~$1B (2018) to ~$300M (2023). A 70% decline. The irony? The same principles that built Craigslist killed it: • 99% free → no money to modernize • No investment → no strategic pivot • Anti-commercial → picked apart by specialists Craig Newmark today lives in an apartment, owns no car, keeps pigeons. He's donated over $500M to journalism — the very industry his site helped destroy. This isn't a story of failure. It's a story of choices. You can live by your values and be comfortable. But markets don't wait. Craigslist's decline was a choice. Takeaway: If you don't evolve, you get eaten. Security and growth rarely coexist. Follow for more real AI money breakdowns. #Craigslist #BusinessLessons

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  QtHydro (@HydroFoundry) reported 17 minutes ago

  @bobbyfijan Craigslist had a huge scam problem. Much more difficult with Facebook Marketplace.

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  The Automotivist (@_automotivist) reported 19 minutes ago

  Bought a broken 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid off Craigslist for $3,000. The seller thought the battery was dead. A $50 charger said otherwise, and I did that same trade four more times out of salvage auctions. Every one of those cars sat there because nobody ran the numbers before walking away. The auto-loan/HYSA gap sitting at 278 basis points right now is the same math, parked in plain sight. Tomorrow's newsletter walks the full spread.

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  Janice Phillips (@CatCrazyJan1) reported 20 minutes ago

  @its_The_Dr I love it. When the convid happened, I would say "I'll walk off into the woods naked before I comply". Well, there's a river that is a five minute walk from my home. I'll launch a boat first. I have two, but they're just little fishing boats. *searches craigslist for a broke down pontoon to remodel*

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  peacefulwarrior (@peacefllwarrior) reported 24 minutes ago

  @BonnettsView @DisrespectedThe figuring out how to sell stuff without crackbook is my issue, as nobody uses craigslist in my town......frustrating

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 24 minutes ago

  The best local flips go to whoever refreshes first. That's a stupid way to decide who gets what. Built Snagjaw to fix it — watches Facebook, OfferUp, Craigslist, Mercari, and estate-sale calendars around the clock, fires on match, and auto-DMs sellers before the listing goes

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  Katie-Squirrelett (@toolatekate_) reported 24 minutes ago

  @LE_Kay88 @lesstenny @purplepingers No Craigslist down under??? wtf?

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  Abandon Comfort (@abandoncomfortx) reported 27 minutes ago

  When 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. She sounded just like an old white lady. I was so impressed 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 turn, it saved me. It made me a believer again.

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  THE MINUTEMAN FILES: (@Wefactcheckedit) reported 29 minutes ago

  Sometime life has to leave so new life of a needy life can live today was one of those day a few days ago my dog died from renal kidney failure he was about 8 years old i ws devasted by this because he was the last son of my first doggo argentino however my dog was mixed with a rare extra large bully creating our own breed chewy was one of these first bloodline dogs last year i lost my doggo argintino due to old age he was 12.5 years old a absolute one of a kind dog he was my protector and best friend we went everywhere together he meant more to me than any human alive i knew and when he died i was just lost alone mortified with no hope of ever getting another dog like him in this lifetime he was the smartest dog i ever knew his son chewy was a close second in one year i lost both dogs with no hope of breeding a new friend, we it seems someone or thing was listening to my cries of pain and open the door today to the dog gods and deliver another Jake to me today one of the most beautiful doggo argintinos ive ever had the privilege to ever even have the opportunity to own i found a man a despretly broken man with a child living alone who just went thru a divorse i could tell instantly this man was broken by this lone with a 5 year old child and a massive dog he could no longer take care of because all his time was work and taking care of his child so the dog was neglected for the last 7 month and basically living alone all day in a back yard i found this man on craigslist wanting to rehome the dog when i saw the photo i was absolutely blown away by what i was seeing this man was wanting to re home a purebred worth thousand of dollars un nuder ed what shocked me the most is he was a identical twinn to my former dog Jae who died it was like looking at a ghost come to life in the real world so i instantly wanted this dog i knew i would have too cough up a small fortune my guess around 5 grand or more i knew what this man had without ever asking about the dog and i knew i would most likely have to cough up some serious cash for this doggo to my shock he said all i want is for my baby boy to find a home where someone will actually take care of him without mass breeding or abuse in anyway he is a very good boy very friendly a lover not a chewer he said he turn down man who showed up today about 8am with 2 thousand dollars he knew this guy was trouble a ******* from craigslist my offer was a promised handshake and a 100 dollars for his sons schooling needs and the promise of a great home with our other dogs chicken rabbit and the wild life that surround us i did not here back from him for 3 days after i made the offer i naturally suspected he thought i was just some kind of lunitic online and was being ignored i never dreamed he would call us and ask us to take his dog kane home we he did exactly that this morning and by noon we were on our way back home with Kane doogo argintino purebred i was overjoy the dog instantly bonded to me with jumping tail wagging and a whole bunch of licks and kissing he wanted to go with us he jumped right in the care the owner was nearly in tears so i got back out of the car again and reassured him his dog will always have a home he and his child could visit anytime he wanted and shook his hand and thanked him again and simply told him it was meant to be that god sent me to make sure his dog was ok because mine had died so his could have a life again that man was so grateful i nearly cried myself it is so amazing how these two tragedies clashed in time and reality and formed a new life bond out of thin air its as if we were absolutely meant to meet each other to save each other from there personal losses his wife and now his dog and my two dogs below are the three dogs Big jake his son chewy the brown and white dog and our new Jake his name is Kane jakes twin i guess, i truly believe these days something dies on earth to make room for the new new life about to enter our life cbraie 2026