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ViviTheMage

ViviTheMage

Lifer
Dec 12, 2002
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madgenius.com
no external pictures ... I know that is also a nono too.... yeah I agree, I am not going to give it to some kid who can barely keep up with his life as it is, LOL.
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
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1,600
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You must be competing against some asshole who's flagging your shit.

Me and my friend both sold our cars on CL, sold within a day. Either the market for your car sucks or you're pricing it way too high.
 
zinfamous

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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ViviTheMage said:
I do see 2 other cars from dealers for sale .. my guess is it is them... they're priced about 4-5k more then me. granted it is a dealer.
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yeah, my first thought is competition flagging you.Probably would be a dealer, because I think you need a certain number of flags to get it removed. They can enlist all their cronies in the flagging.

And I wouldn't be surprised if all local dealers tend to do this for any non-dealer ads on CL. Pretty much an unspoken pact to maintain a local price-fixing scheme. jerks.
 
slag

slag

Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
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jpiniero said:
Really the only things you should be selling on Craigslist is apartments and hookers.
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Sold my titan on CL a couple months ago with no problems. 2nd person who came to look at it bought it.

No flagged posts, no serious spammers.. it was nice.
 
Ns1

Ns1

No Lifer
Jun 17, 2001
55,420
1,600
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ViviTheMage said:
I do see 2 other cars from dealers for sale .. my guess is it is them... they're priced about 4-5k more then me. granted it is a dealer.
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Fight fire with fire and flag everyone else too.

#ScorchedEarthMotherFuckers
 
OutHouse

OutHouse

Lifer
Jun 5, 2000
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616
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ViviTheMage said:
I do see 2 other cars from dealers for sale .. my guess is it is them... they're priced about 4-5k more then me. granted it is a dealer.
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lol yea they did it. post the link to their ads, we will take care of the problem.
 
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holden j caufield

Diamond Member
Dec 30, 1999
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doesn't it take many flags to be removed? It can't just be the dealer flagging it and then it get's removed unless he has some script with many virtual machines, or an army of users flagging it for him I don't know the number
 
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holden j caufield

Diamond Member
Dec 30, 1999
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ok well then like some previous poster said, I say you fight some fire with fire. My guess would be they only allow 1 flag from 1 ip address but I could be wrong. Try leaving out some spacing or word change. Something in the ad is trigger it and maybe just put a few simple words in it just to test out.
 
alkemyst

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Ns1 said:
You must be competing against some asshole who's flagging your shit.

Me and my friend both sold our cars on CL, sold within a day. Either the market for your car sucks or you're pricing it way too high.
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/this is the answer.
 
Triumph

Triumph

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
15,031
14
81
there are TONS of people on CL who include completely non-relevant key words in their ads, so their items come up no matter what you search for. i would flag one guy repeatedly on the musical instrument forum for this, and his posts were never removed. there's probably some second tier paying customer CL member status that nobody knows about.
 
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Zee

Diamond Member
Nov 27, 1999
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you also may have been blacklisted.

Create a new account hopefully from a new ip.

Even if craigslist doesnt delete it, alot of posts never get published either. You can edit it and see it in its own specific link but it will never go up on the main page.
 
ViviTheMage

ViviTheMage

Lifer
Dec 12, 2002
36,189
87
91
madgenius.com
Zee said:
you also may have been blacklisted.

Create a new account hopefully from a new ip.

Even if craigslist doesnt delete it, alot of posts never get published either. You can edit it and see it in its own specific link but it will never go up on the main page.
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I actually did this, same issue flagged and removed in about 2 hours.

looks like the listing is staying up now, I can even search it!
 
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Squeetard

Senior member
Nov 13, 2004
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Are you posting the asking price? I'll flag the shit out of anything that does not have a price. Annoying as fuck.
 
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Zee

Diamond Member
Nov 27, 1999
5,171
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76
if it stays up this time around, you were blacklisted. Dont use your old account again
 
Mermaidman

Mermaidman

Diamond Member
Sep 4, 2003
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I found your ad, and I flagged it. :p

Zee said:
you also may have been blacklisted.

Create a new account hopefully from a new ip.
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What account? :confused:
(I didn't know accounts were needed for CL)
 
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ViviTheMage

ViviTheMage

Lifer
Dec 12, 2002
36,189
87
91
madgenius.com
Zee said:
if it stays up this time around, you were blacklisted. Dont use your old account again
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nono, I am using my old account again @ home where I have been getting flags every few hours, I was auto denied on a new account as well. With a new email/domain/IP...same issue, 2 hours or so and it was flagged for removal.

But I tried again, only difference is new pictures, same angles, just gave hte car a bath and retook pictures and it's staying up and is searchable now.

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/hnp/cto/4539236734.html

17 hours so far... maybe the bot bastards went to sleep?
 
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