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I used to give away good free stuff, but it's just not woth the hassle(going to the wrong people, people not showing up, the spam, over agressive Flaggers--you people need to get a life, etc.)

While I'm here. What's with the begging to lower an already low price on a service, or item. I used to price an item realistically, then knock off 40 percent. People still want to Haggle over the price. I now just double the price I think it's worth.

There's a huge need for another Craigslist. The site has gotten too Ghetto.



Yeah, I am going to work on it once I am done launching my main product. My main product is for in-person customer acquisition, so I should be able to seed this properly.

I am thinking:

* Schedule pickup (I made a scheduling product a few years ago with a nice algorithm)

* [Innovative revenue source that is the secret sauce, not involving ads or subscriptions]

* Request hold on the item (with ability to flag no shows)

* Hyper-detailed categories (I have a very interesting plan for that)

Open API, but anyone including us is free to clone what you build :)


all that would remove the one killer feature of CL... no logins.

what you describe is just a ebay clone with pickup instead of delivery.




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