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   COD, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 1:10pm

   
   

   My local paper runs free classifieds every Wed for items you want to sell for less than $50. The downside is people respond by calling - and some people don't let the fact that it is 6 AM get in the way of their quest for a $20 kids playhouse.
   
   I turned off my cell phone, turned it back on at 8 AM, and sold it to the person that called at 8:01. I had about 20 voice mails from people that called prior to 8 AM.

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   Landon, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 2:43pm

   
   

   I never got how craiglist worked anyhow. Too Complicated to me.

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   Lutomes, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 2:44pm

   
   

   We have had this in our weekend paper for years now. All items under $500 have can be listed free, if you want extra logos, or bolding etc you pay a small extra fee.
   
   They also have an insert to this section full of paid advertisments from all the local computer stores, so its a huge cataloge thats nice to read every saturday morning. It even got so popular they started adding articles to the IT section.

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   jdragon, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 3:09pm

   
   

   The newspapers companies are a bunch of scammers just like the RIAA. Craiglists loosened the strangle hold they had on merchants for many decades. God bless the internet!

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   Anything is better than craigslist

   

   dorpus, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 3:09pm

   
   

   Who wants the generic forms that don't fit a community's needs, the terrible unthreaded low-tech forums with no location specificity?
   

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   Anonymous Coward, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 4:31pm

   
   

   I prefer to use the recycler

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   GetVendors.com approach

   

   Keith, Dec 15th, 2005 @ 5:22pm

   
   

   How about instead of user going to advertisers in classified space (if it is paid then there are not that many of them and if it is free there is more garbage than useful ones..not to mention duplicates) interested vendors/service providers contact users..In this setting user gets better deal also in terms of both cost and quality..It removes the inefficiency in the process because there is conversation between only interested parties.. I think referral service approach from http://www.GetVendors.com approach is much more appealing

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   News and Review

   

   Brian, Jan 31st, 2006 @ 4:02pm

   
   

   The local News and Review offers free online ads like Craigs.
   http://www.newsreview.com/gyrobase/Entry

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   how newspaper companies can beat craigslist

   

   Mr H Khalid, Feb 6th, 2007 @ 6:28am

   
   

   Dear Users: We just created a new classified software section on our website, which could be customized for newspapers. If any Newspaper company out there would like to use our software base for there newspaper web, please contact us with details as soon as possible so that we can schedule a business appointment as soon as possible.
   nyc.chaimex.com Thank You Mr H Khalid

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    Why everyone flocked to the internet with their advertisements.

    

    Tia, Aug 21st, 2008 @ 5:51am

    
    

    Consider this. Do you think that ceo's and business owners would have flocked tot craigs list and other sites if newspaper advertisements had worked? If owners had been getting 20 or nore leads from thier classified and display ads, many would have stayed with newspapers. There is room for everything in today's society if it does what it suppose to do. But if you get only 2 leads out of an ad when you paid an outrageous amount of money for this ad, I ask you, what would you do? Newspapers became to big for their britches. They became mononopolies buying up everything in their path,catoring to their investors instead of their customers. When they became too big.Newspapers raised their prices too much too much. t example is the Chicago Tribune. Freedom of speech is a thing of the past too. Newspapers have deservingly been knocked down a couple of pegs. Now let's see if they can learn from their mistakes and become more competitive taking their customers into consideration.

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