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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.
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
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.