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The Internet graveyard is full of the bodies of people making "Craigslist killers." I'd really like to see one, but it is a much harder task than it seems

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Very true. Actually, I've been trying to do a "craigslist killer" for quite sometime now.

Everyone complains about cl, but it seems like people don't really like other alternatives that pop-up (most probably because of the lack of sellers and buyers...)

Right. Craigslist has incredible inertia. The only thing I've seen comparable to it is homegrown. I've noticed in small towns, people will make organic garage-sale Facebook pages where people of the town utilize heavily and post a lot. That's the closest I've seen, because the other tools, although more advance, never beat the chicken-egg problem.

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