Originally Posted by will76

Craig is a douche and seems anti capitalist. There is a LOT he could do to make more money from that site, but I guess he just banked on keeping it almost all free so it would grow faster early on and get some one to buy him out. Didn't ebay buy a big % of the company some years back.

That site should have a paid function even if it was just $1 a month for "approved" users to cut back on spam. And like you said, a sticky post for 24 hours in some section in the bigger cities would sell for tons of money. Even google ad words on side of the page would make a lot of money. I never understood why subtle things like that weren't added, what a waste of revenue. Seems so sac-religious.

Although I can't complain about it too much. I've sold a lot of stuff on craigslist, from cars, boats to old refrigerators to sports tickets. I've sold it on craigslist before it would even get listed in a newspaper or an auction on ebay would be finished <- both of which would have cost me a decent amount of money. So you can sell something faster and free. Who can compete with that.