Those shares could have been sold to anyone- we're happy that eBay has communicated that they want no part of craigslist if we're unhappy with the deal. With a 25% holding, there's no real power that can be exerted by eBay. Obviously I can't go into details, but craigslist is secure.
it's up to us to prove with actions, not words, that we're still the same old craigslist.
Basically, we work to get established in a particular region and after we hit a critical mass (posts in general, users, spam), we introduce paid job postings. There's the obvious profit for us, but also just as important is that this cuts down a lot of irreputable job posts, increasing the overall quality of that category. Like in SFO, there's a big drop of postings right after the charging starts, but it picks back up with in a couple months (and ends up significantly stronger).
You're right, the level of spam across all the boards has been increasing. On newer cities it's much more prevalent since there are fewer people actually using the board (and in turn flagging off bad posts). We're hiring more customer service people soon, but in the meantime, shoot an email with some URLs to abuse@craigslist.org
We charge employers $75 to post a job ad in San Francisco, and $25 in LA and NYC. In fact, we only started charging for NYC and LA this past week. Every day, there are hundreds of job ads just in San Francisco. It's a (very) decent chunk of change.
Sean @ CL
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Those shares could have been sold to anyone- we're happy that eBay has communicated that they want no part of craigslist if we're unhappy with the deal. With a 25% holding, there's no real power that can be exerted by eBay. Obviously I can't go into details, but craigslist is secure.
it's up to us to prove with actions, not words, that we're still the same old craigslist.
Sean @CL
We can tweak the flaggign system per category/city. Let us know at the feedback forum:
http://forums.craigslist.org/?forumID=8
Basically, we work to get established in a particular region and after we hit a critical mass (posts in general, users, spam), we introduce paid job postings. There's the obvious profit for us, but also just as important is that this cuts down a lot of irreputable job posts, increasing the overall quality of that category. Like in SFO, there's a big drop of postings right after the charging starts, but it picks back up with in a couple months (and ends up significantly stronger).
You're right, the level of spam across all the boards has been increasing. On newer cities it's much more prevalent since there are fewer people actually using the board (and in turn flagging off bad posts). We're hiring more customer service people soon, but in the meantime, shoot an email with some URLs to abuse@craigslist.org
cheers,
Sean @ CL
We charge employers $75 to post a job ad in San Francisco, and $25 in LA and NYC. In fact, we only started charging for NYC and LA this past week. Every day, there are hundreds of job ads just in San Francisco. It's a (very) decent chunk of change. Sean @ CL