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How to Stop Bitcoin Spam Email. How To Unsubscribe From Match. Report Walmart Phishing Email Quickly. Real Estate Living Trust - Explained. Guess what happened? I got STD anyway. They banned my account with an obscure message. I should dig up that email. It flamed them so badly that within about 3 hours they reinstated my account. It proved they are corrupt as all HELL!!!!! But in the end there is or was at least one human being working there.
Not sure if they fired him or her after showing a glimmer of guilty conscience. Good for you. I agree that they are corrupt as hell and they show favoritism all over the place.
They crate and apply the rules of their TOS willy nilly, no consistency. They change the way their algorithm works constantly yet no one has any idea how it is truly applied. Yet with all the NAZI government that California has I see no governmental requirements anywhere asking for transparency. They also are constantly fooling people to keep them off track as top how to actually get their posts to stay live. You notice no one talks about Ghosting any more.
When people like you Flag posts they get banned or nothing happens. The Flagging system has now been coopted by the system instead of working as it was intended to by human beings readers.
I am noticing a pattern….. Weekend US Holidays…. All of my posts no matter what IP location are always flagged. Someone who works those Bank Holiday weekends, is overdoing the censorship, to the point they are flagging innocent posts. Someone was hitting on me and the interest was mutual…, did no ave a way to jot info down… So I posted.
Theyclearly are using their own rules, not the TOU we look at and copy, so we have documentation. They should just cut the shite and stop giving you an email addy to do so. Craigslist has become the epitome of idiocracy. I only wish there was a way for the government to shut it down. Craigslist is branded and so if you are banned from using the site, you in essence cannot do a job search, sell an item or advertise your services or almost anything else successfully.
Good info. If you do then it will always get the same IP again. I have to say its nerve wrecking all that i have experienced with CL in the last days, i mean all the annoying flagging, ghosting to deny of service by all means!! About 5 yrs ago i used CL for selling multiple things, some where very repetitive and all we had to do was just change lil things like the working and structure with the add and yeah if you had very alike adds it will flag it immediately. But now they strip you to your computers DNA!!
Just for an add??!??!? Its sad but idk, if everyone just was complaint to this TOS and what not.. But when you see that Hank has like 12 adds in a row and yours its just left in the limbo ghosted to tell you later that it was flagged…. I mean i get it CL.. It doesnt take much to just get on a section of the classifieds… specially the stuff for sale by dealers and the services to see that the same add its over and over and over….
And unfortunately you as me are in the wrong side of this, taking losses on business and employment, but really….. Bottom line… Get greedy. Get flagged. Ran into this site due to yes im finding was to alternate CL. CL its just the easy way and it works great but…. There is multiple classified websites.. However like everything… CL bombers are also listing on those websites but not with the same ,s of posts as on CL.
What you really need to to its to get as on many websites as possible obviously that are popular so that you can get also showed on google. Think ahead people… CL its not going to back up on their TOS and shady but clever ways to allow a post to add, ways-rules-procedures that if we all were abiding of.. These days are very different from when CL first started. There are MANY other popular websites to get good traffic from. CL has allowed itself to be populated by scammers and is slowly fading into oblivion.
Their TOS could be applied evenly and fairly by simply using some simple programing but instead they play games. Their site is a custom made site so it has not the restrictions of WordPress or Joomla or something like that. Instead of the haphazard way they go about it now.
Other sites do it and they could also. That is a very complicated question to answer with many variables. You should visit my site www. This has been covered there extensively. Your problem is that you could be getting blocked by Dating services, or HMA might not be working for you. YOu may have an account that has been blocked, etc. Many different possibilities, too many to answer here.
Hi, really liked your article here. I use HMA pro and all my ads are being ghosted and getting flagged in couple of hours.
Please help. There are many good VPN companies out there but like everything on the web their service and prices change every day. Once you find a good one at a good price it is best to lock in your terms with a one year contract. Just keep searching and you will find a good one. This is a dead giveaway to CL. I have a Linksys router that lets me change my IP easily and use multiple emails an this worked fine in the past.
However lately my ads are almost all getting Deleted before they even hit the listings on the site. I can barely get an ad through, even with a fresh CL acct. And what is the link to your CL discussion forums so can hopefully get some more tips there. Write me at the website using the contact email and tell me which link is bad and it will be fixed.
The only reason we link to that VPN on the site is because they offer a free trial period unlike other companies. We refer them for people that have no experience and want to learn what using a VPN is like or for testing out their service to see if they are to your liking. Otherwise we would not be referring them. Most other companies do not give you a trial period so you have to sign up to see what they are like. My mistake. My brain was thinking about something else when I typed that.
Ok… Every single post of mine is getting ghosted. My luck is not goid. I feel they are censoring me. Nothing about the TOU is even discussed. Read above for my experience In the help forums. You can do so if it will make you feel better but I doubt that you will get anywhere. Also, attorneys wont take a case like this on contingency so do you have lots of money to blow? Guess what…. It seems that some emails nack and forth are also getting ghosted.
I was let back on, using another email and a new phone. Met one guy, which is a miracle in itself, and we both showed each other emails NOT recevieved. I did get dome of his responses, but not all, later that night and out of sent time order. I still have not gotten all emails that he sent me. It appears that ghosting is not for posts, but also for replies to posts. I consider this more troublesome than posts not showing up. Gross incompetance is an understatement.
Nor do I see why I should go to all this trouble. First and foremost, I have blogged all about this just a few weeks ago. But another problem that plagues CL….. I am totally looking for the CL alternative to be started. There is a Craigslist alternative and it is our Classifieds section. Go to our site and make your post plus get the word out. The more people know about it the better it can grow and become useful to you and everyone. I had no idea. This is something recent, it started happening in mid June.
So I have to make more e-mails and accounts using each different IP. Before this Craigslist change, I would be using the same IP and creating different e-mail accounts, and was able to post around 4 or 5 ads in the same section different ads , under 1 e-mail account with no problem.
Go to our website and use the resources that we have there. We have a Forum with lots of topics that are free to read, we have a classifieds section that you can post in for free. We have a traffic exchange system to get more traffic for your websites and social media. We have a members area with tutorials to help you learn more about ghosting and flagging.
You can spend days going through all the stuff we have to help you. Posting there seems like posting on a Marxist Socialist Occupy site, or something. It would be nice if someone started a huge alternative site with a Libertarian culture instead of Socialist like they are. We are the Craigslist Alternative. No strings, no BS to deal with, and everything posted on our site gets posted on Facebook and twitter also automatically.
HI, all good info. However, when you get a different account these nazi bastards REQUIRE a phone number verification so they can send you a code number which you must put into your first post in order to get it posted.
I have run out of phone numbers. You do need a new phone number and there are ways to get more numbers if you run out. DO NOT buy numbers from sleazy people on the web that will sell you fake numbers. I mean that you should buy them from reputable companies like Web hosts and VPS providers.
Those numbers are real and not blacklisted by Craigslist. The only time they will care is if people stopped visiting Craigslist and they lost revenue. My recommendation is to use another classified site.
You may not get as many customers reading your ad but hopefully one day people will realize Craigslist does ghost legitimate ads and cannot be trusted and people should see other sites for the legitimate ads that were ghosted by Craigslist. Good for you! Bunch of cheap bastards is what I say! So open more email accounts. Do not post more than the allowed number of ads per email account.
Do not post similar material in more than one email. I am a 81 year old lady, and trying to survive the economy with selling on Craigslist. Suddenly, not matter what, every add, and everything I am placing is being flagged flagged, I am starting to feel the loss of my little income, and if I do not find a Solution very soon, I will be on the street. My arthritis plagued fingers are becoming tired form posting and posting,, and my financial resources are dwindling.
I have one question today, if anyone human reads my plea for help, Could I find any instructor who would be able to explain to me to understand what every one trying to help, is talking about! I do not understand was pasting means, I do not understand what it means to change your URL, I just do not understand anymore all those so very helpful advises , but I am willing to pay anyone for the time to teach me, how to beat that rotten system!!!
I live in Las Vegas. You would have to pay someone to do the posting for you. There are people I have heard that are in the Philippines and hire themselves out to post on Craigslist. I cannot direct you to them since this is all hearsay. Another method you can try which is very easy is to visit our Classifieds section on our website and use that to post your ads. Your ad will stay up for the entire time its posted.
Ive joined beatcragslist. Been posting for years with almost no issues. Ive always found a work around with their updates until now. Started May 1 or so. I always usually renewed my ads. At most I might have 2 per day.. Old and New. Its been quite the battle to post an add in this section. Went from that to plain text. I managed to get 2 ads to stick after about posting I do notice some people who regularly post on rideshare are having the same issues.
They went from having usual ads to almost nothing. Any clue what I can do? I have the same issue like you said. All my ads being automatically deleted by Craigslist system 20 minutes after I posted.
Tell you truth I have 15 email account and about 7 email account is all red now. No matter how I tried to change my wording, telephone number, website link, title, my IP address, my computer, the same deleting result happens to me. Now all my posting is red in my email and no way to renew any posting.
Interestingly, I notice all the changes suddenly happens after Mid of May Then, I decide to change my email account, I opened three new emails account, however, same result happens since I did not change telephone number associated with new email account.
Same deleting issue happens to newly opend email account. I used to stay on the top of the listing by using 15 different email account with 15 different wording and images. But now after I posting 8 hours, only 2 or 3 posting go life.
The income from my trades job is supporting my family and kids. Now I use a spreadsheet to record my posting behaviour and the results of each posting. I find an interesting pattern of how the system delete me. If this email account get too much deleting before, then any new posting will be automatically deleted and have no chance to show up at all. The same posting if issued by a good email account with very few reddness, and this posting would likely to show up. Now what I have to do is behaving like different person posting for different companies.
I am going to abadon those email account with too much red. I will let your guys know my results. Investing my money to purchase some temporary phone number and HMA software now. Also I notice my posting is keeping flagged by competitiors. Previouly, I ignore them but now I can post only 2 ads a day and no incoming calls from customers for the whole day.
The problem is, many of my postings were deleted by Craigslist. I keep changing IP and new account, still get flagged. So I have some questions:. Does Craigslist track the computer? If I change a completely new account and IP, how should I avoid in the ads title and ads content so that I will not be flagged by Craigslist? Yes, Peter. If you want more detailed info you can visit my blog which is updated much more often than here.
You need to make a new account and use a new IP. The IP must be good quality. Check out hidemyass VPN. OH my gosh — thank you so much for the wealth of information! We are NOT Spammers… we just want to show what is available at various locations… and limit our posts to once per day for each property. It boggled our mind, why we were being flagged and removed!
I am excited to try some of your suggestions and hopefully be up and running again soon! You wont get ghosted there. Hi,I have a bunch of accounts I use to post on CL. I have about 5 different email accounts with 5 different phone numbers most of them are VOIP numbers from Google talk. Every time I try to post a brand new ad or to repost an old ad from one of my accounts my ad gets auto-flagged within 2 or 3 minutes.
This happens on all 5 accounts that I have. My question is has Craigslist blocked my IP address or has Craigslist blocked all 5 of my phone numbers? Any help as to why all of my 5 accounts are being auto-flagged would be greatly appreciated. I explain this in great detail in my website and forum. There are changes at Craigslist that very few people have caught onto yet. We have been doing testing and have identified what is going on.
Your experience is not alone in this. Go to our website Forum and see the posts that I have made related to this. I will be updating that with more info. What is the name of the specific thread it is listed under? Read the Ghosting and Flagging sections. If you find that the answers are not clear enough for you, then feel free to post your question there. Its free to join so go ahead and use it.
I have had the very same experience with CL. It ruined my business. I delivered furniture for CL buyers for 3 years, and I was getting calls per day until they started ghosting ads. Is there a site like CL that panders to all of us small business people in the same way?
Just reading all of these post makes me think that there is a demand for it. Do you think that we could pool our resources to create a movement on the same scale? We took your words seriously and did that very same thing. Our website now has a Classifieds section. The site is monitored and regulated by ourselves, so only good posts are allowed to run while spam and garbage is deleted.
Go to our site and run your ad for free. You can make suggestions for improvements in our forum as well. Get the word out and tell people about our site and maybe we can put a dent in Craigslist Classifieds business. I guess that your 5 account have same IP. You have to invest money to stay in this business. WE, are the ones in control, not Craigslist, yet we give Craig all of the power. All of this is ridiculous, and honestly, the only ones in power are the cowards, i would never hinder anyone from earning a legit living by flagging their ads using a bot.
If we all went to Backpage as example and ditched craigslist, then what would craigslist be then? Go to our website and post your ads for FREE. No Ghosting and No Flagging. All legitimate ads will stay up for the duration. It will be all staff moderated so everyone will have an equal chance at posting and getting seen. Go there now and post for FREE. If a URL of any type is in the ad, Craigslist is deleting it within minutes.
Are you certain that no one else is able to post URL in their ads either? They are testing monetizing sections of CL or maybe all of CL in limited demographics. In the near future that may be what you will find. Of course I doubt that this will eliminate the spammers or fraud since there is spam and fraud in other pay sites anyway.
Thanks for the great info! I use cl to do lead generation for my clients. I had a pretty good run but now my ads are being flagged.
You can try than but proxies are not working very well any more. Most of the time CL can detect them. This could be why you have been having problems. In our tutorials we teach you about VPS and how to use it.
Go to our website www. How else can I view them? They are hosted online so they are probably converted to a flash format. You may need to get flash installed on your computer or updated. I do have the latest flash installed. Anywhere else to view the videos? If you have any problems there I can always try to change the format and re-upload it for you in a more compatible format.
You can also go to our website and join the new Forum we just created. Its free to join and post. That way you can ask as many questions as you like and get answer to your problems. I think it may be craigslist. I am having the same problem. Please accept my attached resume and letter as an application for this position.
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