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Not sure if this is just a Michigan thing or what, but my CL feed (via Snarfer) has been seeing a ton of spam from these discount ticket websites (for concert tickets, sporting event tickets, etc). Anyone else outside of MI seeing this?
 
StL too and it f'n sucks! I usually search "arcade" on CL and it all filled up with scalper ads. It's because Arcade Fire is touring. St. Louis arcade searchers are going to have to put up with this till April 21st.
 
I hate seeing those ads too...Isn't there some way to have CL track down who is doing it since it's so constant? It seems like as soon as it's flagged it comes right back.
 
StL too and it f'n sucks! I usually search "arcade" on CL and it all filled up with scalper ads. It's because Arcade Fire is touring. St. Louis arcade searchers are going to have to put up with this till April 21st.

I usually search "arcade" on my craigslist too...unfortunately for me the the next town over is called Arcade and all my results are for the location :( So I have to deal with erroneous listings all the time.
 
They're also using some kind of "invisible" keywords. If you drag click over the large blank areas at the ends of these ads, you'll see a surprisingly large amount of random keywords.
 
I've been seeing them forever down here lately, but figured it was local due to the SXSW and Rodeo we got going on down here.

I finally had to add -tix and -tickets to my filters, and now I don't see them anymore.

Some local used car places have been adding the invisible keywords, too, and I've been flagging them when I get them....
 
try this for a search

arcade -xbox -wii -playstation -ticket -tickets

They have been showing up in the Milwaukee area for a bit too this seems to help.
 
Good one
http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/ele/2281227196.html

In case it gets flagged

arcade tickets ass kicking - $11 (detroit)

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Date: 2011-03-23, 2:23AM EDT
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the only ticket you are gonna sell is the one of you getting your ass kicked if you dont get off the arcade add jerk i 800 kick your ass


•Location: detroit
•it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests



PostingID: 2281227196
 
Good one
http://detroit.craigslist.org/wyn/ele/2281227196.html

In case it gets flagged

arcade tickets ass kicking - $11 (detroit)

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Date: 2011-03-23, 2:23AM EDT
Reply to: see below

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the only ticket you are gonna sell is the one of you getting your ass kicked if you dont get off the arcade add jerk i 800 kick your ass


•Location: detroit
•it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests



PostingID: 2281227196
LMAO saw that one this morning. I'm surprised it took this long to get someone to post something like that. :D
 
yes its all over my craigslist over here, i keep flagging they keep reposting...
insane, its burying any other arcade ads
 
try this for a search

arcade -xbox -wii -playstation -ticket -tickets

They have been showing up in the Milwaukee area for a bit too this seems to help.

That works good too...also add -fire to weed out "arcade fire"...although you might miss an ad stating a game is having problems with a fire button ;)
 
What about somebody selling an Atari Fire Truck machine? :D

I guess you'll just have to wait for someone selling a Smokey Joe instead :D I thought about that, I guess it's a trade-off. There's a few games with "fire" in them, as long as you aren't searching for one of them, it'll work :)
 
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