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"Regardless of its primitiveness, Craigslist serves its purpose exceptionally well."

That's just not true. Finding things on craigslist has always been a painful experience for me. External tools (e.g. Padmapper) make things better in some categories, but the combination of craigslist's dominance and its stasis have been bad for consumers, regardless of their benevolent mindset.

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I'm curious what makes your experience so painful. I've found using Craigslist to be quite painless while selling or buying (Chicago, Paris, and SF) - usability is ridiculously simple and straight forward.

IMHO, KISS is part of why Craigslist has been so successful.

Try keeping an eye out for certain models of older vehicles. I like old VW's but there is no way to easily say, "just show me Volkswagens made before 1980", it takes a query like.. (1948|1949|1950|1951|1952....|1979)

Now I have those bookmarked and saved, but for someone like my dad who also likes Volkswagens, he doesn't know thats possible so has to weed through hundreds of newer VW ads. Thus its painful.

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