Craigslist ads being blocked?

I use v-flyer for my craigslist ads (yeah, I know that drives some agents nuts for some reason) - they have a modified "craigslist approved" version that they've modified once, at craigslist request I believe, since I started using it   - and I get more response to those ads than to the ones using the standard four photos and text.  

Since I regularly search for properties that are similar to my listings, I can see whether or not mine come up in the searches, and thusfar (up to 5 seconds ago, I just checked), they do, even with the HTML.  I've also used Real Estate Shows flyers on craigslist with no problem. They're showing up, too.  I'm pretty sure both companies checked with craiglist, know for a fact one of them did; perhaps that's the problem with some HTML, that the writers are using non-craiglist-approved HTML? 

I use vFlyers, too, for my Craigslist ads, and they've never been pulled because I receive calls from them. In fact, I sold a listing this summer from a Craigslist buyer. I find the quality of calls I receive from Craigslist are not always the quality I want to receive, but you never know where a buyer may come from, so I keep advertising there.

However, I have heard from other agents that their ads have been pulled. I'm not certain why but I suspect it might have something to do with their selection of advertising words. Perhaps it was too much html. I don't know. But vFlyers definitely use a lot of html code. 

Okay, here's one explanation I can think of.  There is precious little flagging going on in our area, unlike California, where people apparently flag right and left with wild abandon - sort of a sport, it would appear.  ;-) 

The three links you provided that I clicked on were not the official helpdesk, by the way, but the helpdesk sf/bay area discussion forums, where the users of craigslist can try to help each other out - something else entirely.  (Note reference above to Californians flagging with abandon.)  I got that from this when I followed the link back: " The help desk is for users to help each other with problems related to using craigslist."  So it's not the staff, and it has the same validity as our experiences as users does.  

I'd say, know your market, know what kind of response you get from the two different kinds of postings (vflyer/postlet/Real Estate Shows/Real Estate Flyers/plain vanilla/etc.)  and make your judgment based on that rather than what some folks halfway across the country think.  

I'll see if I can find a similar discussion on the Austin area discussion area helpdesk, however - thanks for the heads up, this could be useful information.  

Good information to know. I use V-flyers as well........and so far so good. I'll be watching more carefully. Thanks for the tip.

Misty,

Is this something fairly new?  Are they just now cracking down?  I get a free html code from listingdomains.com, it is in the beta stage so I assume they are working to improve it.  I haven't a problem, but I've only been using them for a short time.  I'll have to watch the three I posted yesterday very carefully.  Thanks for the info!

Just discovered this great site, lots of very interesting information.

I'm the sales manager for a classifieds website that gets great traffic, and we would love for all you hard working real estate professionals to put ads on our site. We don't have a flagging or ghosting system in place. We just appreciate that our users don't Spam, because that's not tolerated.

If interested please email me at ano-72d11764@enterto.com

I'll send you some information.

Thanks a lot! 

Wow! Was surprised to see how old this post was!  Just started having this problem and are working on the correction now.  Thanks for posting!

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