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Posted by NuERA on Sep-08-2008 23:34:

how does craigslist make money?

there are no ads, and they don't charge...

can anyone enlighten me?

Posted by Vivid Boy on Sep-08-2008 23:34:

personals

Posted by exstasie on Sep-08-2008 23:41:

They're partly owned by eBay..

they don't need to make money..

Posted by Vivid Boy on Sep-08-2008 23:43:

they have stock options in potatoes

Posted by exstasie on Sep-08-2008 23:48:

Taken from their website:

quote:

Q: How does craigslist support its operations?
A: By charging below-market fees for job ads in 10 cities, and for brokered apartment listings in NYC.

Q: How much are job ads?
A: $25 in Chicago, NYC, LA, DC, Boston, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, and San Diego, and $75 in SF.

Posted by geroin on Sep-08-2008 23:52:

"Its sole source of revenue is paid job ads in select cities ($75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area; $25 per ad for New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Seattle, Washington D.C., Chicago and recently Portland, Oregon) and paid broker apartment listings in New York City ($10 per ad)."

Posted by Vivid Boy on Sep-08-2008 23:53:

sub contracting out squeege kids.

Posted by zoogla on Sep-09-2008 02:39:

quote:
Originally posted by Vivid Boy
sub contracting out squeege kids.

getting weaker

Posted by Swamper on Sep-09-2008 02:50:

btw, Craigslist apparently takes in over $20 mil/year revenue just from job ads in New York / California. I read that in Wikinomics -- impressive figure if accurate.

Posted by VERTiG0 on Sep-09-2008 03:22:

Horse porn sales

Posted by I_Am_Vince on Sep-09-2008 03:51:

quote:
Originally posted by exstasie
They're partly owned by eBay..

they don't need to make money..

You mean Kijiji is owned by eBay... :P I think..

Posted by Orko on Sep-09-2008 04:03:

quote:
Originally posted by Invasionmix
You mean Kijiji is owned by eBay... :P I think..

Craigslist is partly owned by Ebay. Kijiji was started by Ebay.