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My Craig's List issues won't seem to die. I awoke this morning to several new comments in my inbox on a subject that seems to have been revived from Part 1 and Part 2 of my venting on flag happy people on Craig's List.

Last night it looked like someone decided to to bring their anti-Realtor battle to my Active Rain blog (comments in part 1), via what I call "drive by" commenting. Apparently I am too dimwitted to understand that CL is apparently only for the little guy and non-commercial people. And then there was the usual excerpt from the TOS that was meant to back up their claim.

I left my own follow up comment there, but really, I can tell them the same thing over and over about how my agents ads have never violated the TOS, blah, blah, blah. They will never really listen or understand. For someone who calls me out as dimwitted, they fail to research and understand the facts and only look foolish themselves. Quoting that same TOS passage over and over again does not help them as there are so many holes in that argument, it's not funny.

So they want to bring their battle to Active Rain?  I haven't the time to waste on this, but if Smitty is brave enough to engage the AR community, good luck with that.

Unfortunately Craig's List was not worth the harassment and time spent to keep reposting for my clients in the Santa Fe market area, and have since moved on to using only Backpage.com. We still us CL for other market areas, but Santa Fe CL is hopeless.

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Linda Tremblay
Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc, PA License #AB065488 - Doylestown, PA
Associate Broker - Bucks County, PA Real Estate Services
Craig's List is for anyone who wants to use it! There are all kind of business people using it.  You have to love how some people do not want realtors to use Craig's List but think nothing wrog with paying $195 to have their home put in the local multiple listing service.
Apr 08, 2008 03:07 AM
Laura Monroe
Inman News - San Francisco, CA
Dir. of Industry Engagement & Social Media
Hi Megan~ Just got caught up on the lovely commenter. Not to worry girlfriend, we got your back:) Everyone knows you're in the clear. 
Apr 10, 2008 05:23 PM
Renae Bolton
Marketing 4 Realtors - Garfield Heights, OH
I'm your Professional Real Estate Marketing VA!

I'm late to the party (as usual) but thought this was absolutely ridiculous. Who is responsible for selecting the CL police anyway?  Or was he self-appointed?

~Renae

Feb 11, 2009 04:07 AM
Megan Barber
Barber Virtual Assisting Solutions, LLC - Vineland, NJ

I'm sure he was self appointed. It got really ugly in the Santa Fe CL for a time.

Thank God Craig's List has since changed the real estate section to have categories for "By Owner" and "By Broker".  I had requested that they do that maybe 10000030303030 times for months!  It seems to have really helped the problem and now we're back to CL in Santa Fe.

Feb 11, 2009 04:48 AM
Renae Bolton
Marketing 4 Realtors - Garfield Heights, OH
I'm your Professional Real Estate Marketing VA!

Would that be more or less than a gazillion times?  My husband is still trying to figure out just how many digits equal a gazillion.

Glad the problem was resolved!

~Renae

Feb 11, 2009 05:25 AM