eBay, and their deals

[_shel_ny]

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Edited September 11, 2011 by shel_bizzy_48
add the word more in the last line

[BobT-47P15]

You gotta read the fine print with their deals.

[Alaska48]

Every time i've tried to sell a car online, I always get burned using ebay or cars.com

craigslist is the way to go... its free and they always buy off of there

[greg g]

Heard e bay is rying to buy Craigslist. Surely will screw up a good thing if that happens.

[Norm's Coupe]

I heard the same thing about ebay trying to buy Craigs List. Would be ashame if they did that though.

I just start looking at Craigs List in the last couple of months. I like it because you can just look and buy the stuff locally if you want. In fact, thats where I found that cheap set of wheels and trim rings I just bought last week. Contacted the seller on a Saturday and had the wheels on Monday. He only lived about 5 or 6 miles away. But...........where he worked was only about 2 or 3 minutes away, so met him where he worked to complete the deal during lunch. Can't do that with something on ebay.

I'm now down to only 1 transaction on ebay in the last 12 months. Don't miss that mess at all.

[JerseyHarold]

I read that Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, gave 25% of the site to a former employee (or business partner) who then sold that interest to eBay. I wasn't aware that eBay was trying to gain more control of Craigslist, but that wouldn't surprise me.

eBay launched 'kijiji' a while ago, which is also a free local ads site with a slicker 'look' than Craigslist. I'm sure the busy minds at eBay are conjuring up ways to squeeze money out of both of those sites.

[Plymouthy Adams]

e-bay has been the controlling interest in Craigs for some time as I read also..and they speak bad about Microsoft...

[John Mulders]

guess that somewhere someone will start a new craiglist.

People will back away from these costly ones at some moment as they realize it is not worth it.

[eric wissing]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/technology/23ebay.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Here is one of many articles. Eric

[Mr. Belvedere]

I just recently disovered Craigslist thanks to this great forum. I love it and rarely look at ebay anymore. Bought a car, and a treadmill in the past two weeks on Craigslist and got great deals on both. Easy to use and free whats not to love? Adios Epay!

[curtiswyant]

Ebay will generate a lot more views from people all across the country, which in theory should get you a higher selling price. Craigslist is great but it's regional and isn't very useful for selling high dollar items if you live in BFE