I put my ad on iList, promoted it to twitter, had a friend RT my promo, got to someone on his Twitter who I don’t even know and wham! 900 dollars, easy money. I really dig these guys, I’m hoping they go far.

It’s offensive and obtrusive marketing, and they certainly ignored my request not to send unsolicited emails. I’ll be making sure I never use iList, and will be telling all my friends to do the same.

We are also a CL competitor working a slightly different angle than you guys listbite.com.

Best of luck.

Jippidy.com – Video Yellow Pages

I run a site called Listasaurus.com where we’re different because we offer video classifieds and video auctions, and we’re also the first classifieds and auctions site to pay users simply for listing their ads.

We’re not hoping to “take over” CL or ebay, just offer something that they don’t, which might be useful for folks.

Of course I wish we had 1.5 million to spend on advertising, it would make things a lot easier!

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> The civility of you two is nauseating
> CL needs competition.
> I need better search:

One word: Oodle.

> Example 1, I want to find housing in “springfield”,
> but b/c asshat from “shelbyville” mentions “20 minutes
> from “springfield” it comes up in my results.

Easy. Single family homes, only in Springfield, IL:
http://springfi...il:springfield/

Drill down on number of bedrooms / bathrooms, specific amenities, even what specific *neighborhood* you want. No crap, no spam.

> Example 2, I want to find a “toyota camry”, but b/c
> asshat from selling some beat up 1979 mustang mentions
> “will trade for camry” it comes up in my results.

Toyota Camrys within 50 miles of Springfield:
http://springfi...pringfield/+50/

Drill down on color, mileage, even whether the car has automatic or manual transmission, even what kind of trim you’re looking for (Camry LE vs. Camry SE). You name it.

Full disclosure: I’m an engineer at Oodle. I don’t speak for the company here, only myself, but …

Oodle’s original mission was simply to embrace the fact that classifieds are *all* over the web – not just at Craigslist – and that folks really needed a site that would allow them to find all of those. That’s why we developed all the search functionality I listed above.

Lately, though, we’ve broadened that mission out to simply make classifieds *smarter*, period.

That means things like email alerts. Sure, you can hit Refresh over and over and over on a Craigslist results page to find what you want … but the smart thing to do is take 15 seconds to set up an email alert at Oodle and we’ll notify you as soon as someone sells what you’re looking for.

Making classifieds smarter also means making classifieds social. For example, we power classifieds for MySpace now (http://classifieds.myspace.com), and users there can easily see what other MySpace users are selling, with links to their profile to learn more about the person on the other end of the transaction.

You get the point. There are alternatives to Craigslist and some of them are doing some really great stuff. Check them out.

Good luck to iList as they join that crowd!

http://www.Kijiji spent over 150 Million and in Canada they just took over craigslist Canada.

http://www.shopandsave.com is coming to the USA in 2008/9. I think they will take the older market share and the younger market will stick to craiglist.com

kijiji owned by ebay will contunie wasting money on advertising.

me: So what are you doing this weekend?
creepy old guy: Oh selling stuff, what are you doing?
me: buying stuff and maybe hanging out at the mall thinking about what I should sell or maybe buy.

GET A F*CKING LIFE! lol

They should of made it more of a niche buy and sell and not try and compete with craigslist. Craigslist isn’t perfect but the functionality of –sell widget get money– is almost perfect and doesn’t need bells and whistles.

The website has over 50,000 listings just in Toronto. How do you know that shopandsave does not pay for advertising? How can I view there traffic?

if ilist.com got 1.5 Million in funding and already calling out craigslist then the person that invested 1.5 Million should write off that money now before he gets disapionted.

OLX.com got 26.5 Million and they are still not even close in the ranking.

Trying to be like craigslist will not get you anywhere in a very selective market place.

Look at kijiji 3 Million dollare advertising budget. Who can ever spend so much and and compete.

http://www.shopandsave.com Canada 3rd Largest free local classifieds spends no money on marketing.

If your site can do what craigslist.com and http://www.shopandsave.com can do then you can make your site huge. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising.