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How Craigslist Costs Newspapers Money
Allnighterking writes "Well you knew it would happen, Now that eBay has purchased 25% of craigslist, the news is out and suddenly newspapers are claiming that it's costing them money (50-65 million U.S. dollars a year). The original Slashdot coverage is here."
"now that eBay has purchased 25% of craigslist"
Must of got caught up in the heat of the auction, I heard they only wanted 20%.
You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline.
Any paper seriously threatened by Craigslist would have gone out of business thanks to the invention of toilet paper.
Ever since my apartment complex (cheap 'ghetto' area of arlington, va, or at least the closest you get to a ghetto in arlington) advertised its apartments on CL they have been getting some young, attractive, american females.
I no longer have to ask "hablo ingles" when someone is stealing my socks in the laundry room!!.
No wonder the newspapers are losing money... have you seen how small the comic stripe panels are? Sheesh...
Next, How Movies cost Vaudeville Money. 'nuff said.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Every American who doesn't give me a dollar right now is costing me the dollar that I'd have if only they'd given it to me.
Thus, Americans' selfishness is currently costing me over $250 million a year, and that lost revenue has a real economic impact; it's money that would otherwise be flowing into the economy when I spent it on myself.
I think it's time that congress got involved.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
In BigCompanyLand(R)(c)(tm), everyone wants to give BigCompany(R)(c)(tm) all of their money, all the time, and only the dastardly efforts of a small group of malcontent record pirates, communist open source developers, and smelly hippie web site operators are preventing this happy outcome. Thus every shared file, every download of a F/OSS app, and every posting on a free web site represents direct theft from the mouths of the hungry children of BigCompany(R)(c)(tm)'s shareholders, and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, as administered by LawCorp(R)(c)(tm), a wholly owned and operate subsidiary of BigCompany(R)(c)(tm).
Hope this clears things up.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
In Other News:
That guy who got the sysadmin job I applied for has now cost me over $60,000CDN in lost income. Bastard!
And the cow-irker who works down the hall and purchased a computer from CompuSlut instead of me cost me another $250. Bastard!
And all those people who wanted holiday photos printed, and went to a "professional printers" instead of letting me charge them $20 per page to do it on my colour laser just cost me over $600! Bastard!
I mean, what do we think we are, a capitalist society here or something? I have a right to this money, and it is inherently wrong for anyone but ME to get it!
We all need to band together to ensure that EVERYONE has to pay whatever price I set for my services, because it is just WRONG for some new paradigm to come along and get the money, just because they happen to have a cheaper method of doing things. It's WRONG, I tell you, and we must FIGHT IT. Send a message to these bastards, and give me all your money!
Sincerely;
Cerv
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.
Plus you can get free sex through their "casual encounters" section. That's really cut into my pimpin' revenue, so I'm with the newspapers on that one.
"Yeah, I use Yahoo. I'd be interested to find out more about there technology...perhaps over dinner?"
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