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Wait, so I know people on Craigslist aren't linking an eBay Buy-It-Now w/ offer listings to sell their stuff -- I'm assuming CL gets unhappy about that.

What's the differentiator between BidKat and that option?

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First of all, we work with any service (Twitter, Facebook, even bulletin boards) so it isn't just CL - though admittedly it works well there. BidKat just provides additional information about an auction like many people already add to the CL listings.

We don't do payment processing between parties and people don't pay us to create an auction. We also are not a competing listing service, we offer no ability to search our auctions - they have to be advertised separately. Hopefully these things differentiate us enough.

>so it isn't just CL, though admittedly it works well there.

Just out of curiosity, have you tested this or is this just supposition? It was the first thought that came to mind when I read about bidkat (posting it on CL, that is). I would just wonder whether people viewing the posts on CL actually click to go to another site?

The magic line is 'for more pictures and information visit bidkat.com...' :) People love pictures.

Is there trully more pictures? (I mean, except the cats)

That's generally how we've set up our auctions since pictures look nicer on BidKat than on CL.

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