Comments on: Craigslist hates VoIP, Prepaid Cellular, Spammers….

By: Regina

Regina — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:11:15 +0000

What a joke…their “anti-spam” policy isn’t working…the site is filled with spam and fake ads. Probably the majority of their help-wanted ads are fake (e.g., pay a fee to get on a list to take surveys). It’s difficult to take the site seriously at this point.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:29:43 +0000

Funny, I wanted to sign up for their service (reducefraud.com), but their demo wouldn’t work and their contact form wouldn’t work either because… I have Vonage!? So I called their domain registration contact number and left a message. Are there other services besides them?

By: George Bush

George Bush — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:50:13 +0000

Anyone notice that we just let San Fran have Legal Hookers??? Ummmm oh wait Craigslists crack team of 25 hippies are located in San Fran too…. and let me see they got the biggest US based online ad site with Escorts and Hookers all over the place Can you say Kick backs?

Craigslist… shut down your Escort Pages You say you are non-profit you go on TV and the news saying you want to bring peace and love to the nation and world lets see it

We all know what areas on craigslist are the “problems” LE and FBI know it, Craigslist knows it Take Escorts Off of Craigslist and you make the internet and world a better place. fricken hippies takin their corp kick backs in san fran makes me sick you guys are suppost to stand for something

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By: Patrick and Fred

Patrick and Fred — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:44:04 +0000

If they are doing something as detailed as checking the carrier, why not (instead of alienating 14 million subscribers), offer SMS validation, take a recorded voice sample, or offer the subscriber a faxable form? There are so many easy alternatives than a black-out approach. Cory Andrews “throwing the baby out” comment is dead on. Great article by the way.

By: Cory Andrews

Cory Andrews — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:34:58 +0000

Owen – I agree 100%….the title of my post was perhaps a bit provocative….but this is the ADD generation and it takes a little oomph to grab the attention of prospective readers these days.

I see their efforts to date as band aids. I am not an expert in broad fundamental solutions like OpenID, I just saw their current methodology of voice verification to be inherently flawed.

I sympathize wholeheartedly with the folks at Craigslist. Spam is a blight, but “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” is not a long term solution.

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:28:05 +0000

I’m going to be a bit contrarian on this. Craigslist is in serious trouble about the spam and illegal posting stuff – they face lawsuits and even being shut down in some places because of the spammers. It is hard to argue that denying some percentage of users access to post ads is worse than denying all advertisers and potential buyers access.

Which is of course not the same thing as not dealing with fixing their issues with voip-using potential advertisers. They clearly are going to need to do that – but maybe you should cast this as an opportunity for a smart voip entrepreneur to come up with a verification service that works and doesn’t discriminate? The upside has to be good – craigslist is big business

By: Garrett Smith

Garrett Smith — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:56:13 +0000

@Moshe

I find it funny that a large organization (revenue and influence wise) would utilize a service that is so arbitrary.

By: Moshe Maeir

Moshe Maeir — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:46:15 +0000

It is really screwed up. I just sold to a legit advertiser a whole bunch of DIDs for one time use, it seems that my DIDs although they are VoIP are listed by them as “fixed line”. go figure!

By: Garrett Smith

Garrett Smith — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:24:31 +0000

@David:

We touched on that briefly on the Squawk box call yesterday. Honestly, it is tough to give them the benefit of the doubt on this.