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sctusa

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Posted: 08/30/09 05:35pm

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Les Curren wrote:

With all the people on this forum some body must have and answer.
I recently tried posting for a diesel pusher wanted and every time I post it gets flagged off. I follow all of Craigslist rules and have only the one ad running at a time. I have asked the other users what I may be doing wrong and so far no one can come up with and answer.
Craigslist says it takes more than one person to flagg you off but does not say just how many.
If any of you can come up with and answer please share. It's a bit frustrating.

Same thing happened to me trying to sell my motorcycle. I figured it was someone, either just nasty or didn't like the competition.
Changed the location to a neighboring town of where located and that helped some. Always seemed to happen at night so I place it real early in the AM after it was flagged and it would stay up all day. Finally got it sold...

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Posted: 09/02/09 08:17pm

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Not sure yet but I think it may be a new consignment lot. They just started up in business and probably don't know the rules yet.
This may give me and oportunity to teach them the way to act in the future.
My reasoning is the fact that every time I get flagged off this new lot seems to file a new wanted ad or for sale ad within 4 or 5 minutes. So I went down to their lot and into their office to talk to them about perhaps buying a trailer. Their office is in a 30' trailer, with no partitions. I could over hear all conversations and one I heard was a young employee saying to another sales person that She had just flagged another one off. They have five computers set up and being used.
Don't know for sure they are the culprit but I do know that commercial enterprizes are not allowed to use Craigslist without paying Craigslist and indentifying them selves as dealers.
They run on and average of 8 new ads every day and some of their ads are being run two or three times at once. The same ad, that is.