The guy that runs Craigslist is a real one. He could be charging for the whole site, but he isn't. He could put ads on it, but he isn't. He makes enough money for himself and his employees to live comfortably and keeps the website the same on principle. It really pisses me off that people abandoned it in favor the evil that is Facebook. Support the good ones, like Craigslist and Arizona ice tea, reject the evil ones. It's simple.

If anyone is interested in learning more:

https://youtu.be/N0wK_yXf7wo?is=9rKWd52rY87on9nY

There is still ebay and XMRBazaar

The scammers don't need corporate money, they are everywhere, including on facebook. All dating websites are overrun with pig butcherers run from slave compounds in South Asia, all the way to your local romance scammer.

FB is overrun with other scammers primarily though, truth scammers, influence operations, but that's another story. They are the worst of them truly though.

We should want to keep CL. I quit FB, but have the account on hold just so I can use marketplace if need be.

I've never had a Facebook account, and decided never to have one after FarmVille and the rest of the social networking game trend made Zynga and a handful of other companies very very rich at by making people very addicted.

Zuckerberg is a merciless evil bastard even as billionaires go.

I never stopped buying things on Craigslist. When I still had a Facebook account I used marketplace too, but I've always used Craigslist as a resource as well. I purchased 3 pieces of furniture and some eurorack modules in the last 4 months all on Craigslist.

So while I wouldn't say it is alive and well because it definitely isn't what it was in its heyday, people still use Craigslist. 3 of the 4 sellers I talked to said they sold on Craigslist because they hate Facebook, the 4th just didn't really seem interested in conversing with me and just wanted to sell the table.

I've found FB to be Harder to use than CL, because they don't give a shit where or what category you're looking for, whereas on CL, those are the two primary filters. Because they matter the most.

If I'm looking for end tables in florida, I really don't give a fuck about cars in hawaii. FB does not understand this.

Never thought about scams being paid for, but that makes perfect sense. Or just bots of their own to post them and not even really follow through. I wish more people still used CL, it's so much fucking better

I used Craigslist for years to buy furniture, bikes, lawn equipment, tools, etc. until I was catfished 3 times in a row when trying to buy something.

I gave up on it and opened a Facebook account for the first time just to get access to Marketplace. I’ve never had that problem since.

Sorry, but Craigslist’s inability to manage its users killed Craigslist.