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Originally Posted by will76
i think that goes back to my thoughts that if they were the first / only free sites then the people who used it first must have thought, " ok why not, this site doesn't look like it has a lot of posts on it or a lot of people using it yet, but since it is free i will take a couple minutes to make a post and see what happens".
Sure free is better than paid, that is obvious. But if I made a free classified site today why would someone post on it for free if my site is new and doesn't look like it gets a lot of activity. That person would go post on craigslist and get 10 responses in an hour instead of posting on my site to see what happens.
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what you are talking about is first movers advantage
being first at something gives you an advantage because you are different then everything else.
Your free classified site today, has no uniqueness, it just a cheap ass copy of craigslist
and that the point
you have to buy your way to success because all you are is a copycat.
simply put if you want to blow up like craigslist you have to do something new not just copy craigslist