If you have trolled Craigslist furniture section in the past 24 hours you might have run across a person with a very limited vocabulary that has posted repetitive, harsh and negative words towards a seller in Island Park.
Upon closer inspection, it seems that there is a small rebellious chat room springing up within the furniture listings that involves a feud between antique dealers who dominate the listings and the regular folk who are trying to clean out their garages. Here are some of the highlights:
I think running professional sellers off Craig's List is a slippery slope...
Wow, now THAT'S what I call a negative vibe. I think the person should just get off his lazy butt and consolidate his/her furniture into one listing. That is what Nate's Jewels looks as if he is doing, and it is a smart move. I hope the next stage in his operation is to just post one ad directing people to the newest offerings on his website...
(and to be technical, the guy posting complaints about somebody else, within the furniture for sale section, is indeed more miscategorized than the selelr he rants about, and technically should be flagged as such...)
I've been looking for a bike on CL, and there seem to be even more vigilantes who lurk in that area and get extremely worked up about overpriced bikes and other things:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/103829380.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/103721582.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/103720856.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/103704814.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/bik/103677464.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/103539124.html
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/103091073.html
I agree with Patrick, the people who object clutter the site, too. It becomes a snowball effect. I end up skimming the ads and probably missing something good in between the bulk postings and the rants.
I think this eventually happens everywhere on craigslist... I used to get their design job postings, and there were always professional photographers and graphic designers getting mad about all of the "internships", $50 jobs and free work ads. I saw these sorts of things and just ignored them. A lot of people would get really worked up about it, and would talk about how the posters were taking advantage of young artists, or bringing down the industry by not paying a reasonable wage... Most of the postings they were railing against were not postings by a business that could afford to hire a graphic designer to go through a big ol' design process. If all you want is a logo for your band so you can put it on your flyers, you're not going to hire Pentagram.
Yeesh! Have seldom used craig's list, and after looking at some of these links I can't say Im eager to try. (Although I do look at links provided by AT -- muchas gracias!)
I must say that this is where eBay has an advantage -- certainly searching on it is a breeze -- and none of this nasty rotten spam!
I wish "Craig" would crack down on these people. The ads section should be ads, not chat, and especially not bitter chat that ruins the community atmosphere of the List.
(P.S. Is the world going to hell? Patrick made a typo!)
Hey! I'm allowed ONE every 1000 posts! ;)
Actually, it's so cold in this office today, I can barley tell if my fingers are touching the keyboard.
ohdeargod.
"BARELY."
I think all the craziness that happens on craigslist is what makes it craigslist! It's not the most efficient way to get used goods, but it sure is the most amusing! God bless America...and craigslist! :)
there are also wacky rants on the pet listings at craig's. i realize it's an open forum, but the sometimes these postings are a distracttion.
everything i need i buy at craig's list everyone has being nice but ican't stand the furniture stores that take so much space with their shit they should be flag or charge