Another complaint about craigslist users

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This time it refers to businesses using it for advertising. I usually scan st.louis and kansas city craigslist to see what games are for sale. The st. louis cl has a guy named rick that posts he's looking for pinball machines and he owns a pinball place daily.
Then there's kansas city cl where 2 places(K&M amusements and KC Gameroom Store) advertise and constantly bash each others business on a daily basis. Is it just me or does anybody else want to take a ball bat to these peoples computers to help keep them off craigslist?
 
You think that's bad? Try looking for a car on CL and NOT get bombarded by every local dealer's entire inventory.

CL needs some better filtering.
 
This time it refers to businesses using it for advertising. I usually scan st.louis and kansas city craigslist to see what games are for sale. The st. louis cl has a guy named rick that posts he's looking for pinball machines and he owns a pinball place daily.
Then there's kansas city cl where 2 places(K&M amusements and KC Gameroom Store) advertise and constantly bash each others business on a daily basis. Is it just me or does anybody else want to take a ball bat to these peoples computers to help keep them off craigslist?
I had an interesting conversation with this Rick guy. I have a couple bats and am willing to help you.
Glennon
 
They'll never do it, but I tend to think Craig's list would be vastly improved by charging 1 penny per listing. Normal human beings wouldn't be affected (even most of the twits wouldn't be affected), but the really bad offenders would find themselves out quite a chunk of change.
 
Just respond to the offending CL postings to get a real email address or phone number. Then spam the hell out of that address, or use their email/phone#/contact info and post a personal ad in the "men for men" section to send people their way.
 
I live in Kansas city and check the CL postings for arcades daily and I find them pretty annoying as well. Purely because I'm looking for a bit of a deal but I neverfind any of their machines "priced to sell". I know they are running a business and want a profit, I just wish they didn't use CL as their marketing strategy.
 
? I don't see what the problem is. I have more of a problem with people trying to police this because most people ARE BUSINESSES that work from home whether it be refurbishing/reselling/collectors that put stuff on ebay, etc.

I don't really think it is an issue because there are so few arcade and pinball games on Craig's List. People know better, just pass it if you aren't interested but the people that spam/flag everything need something better to do themselves.

Now it's one thing if these places have tons and tons of ads up, but honestly, some of us are TRYING to find stuff on Craig's List and it's not a clear case of being able to locate a "business" section with these items.
 
Now that I think about it. The reason it looks like it's only their stuff up all the time is because there are so few people posting to sell that aren't a business.
 
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