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Craigslist: Anything (including children) for sale! | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Go to http://mintmobile.com/CASKET to get premium wireless from just $15 a month. Go to http://hellofresh.com/casket65 and use code casket65 to get 65% off plus free shipping! Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/74hm1 Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Can I interest you in everything all of the time?

0:07.0

No, but really not that song, but could I interest you in everything? Maybe all the time. But could I interest you in everything?

0:14.0

Maybe all at the time?

0:16.0

Well, in the 90s, this was basically Craigslist offer to the emerging world of the internet.

0:21.3

You want to hop in the back of a stranger's pickup truck as an alternative to

0:24.1

Uber? Craig's L has got you. You want to buy a mean fish named Kevin and his murderous brother

0:29.0

Neil? Craig's L has got that too. Maybe a vintage wedding dress, free almonds, two dozen chinchillas,

0:35.4

20 tins of holiday popcorn, a human-sized hamster wheel, or a fox that some advertiser thinks is a dog.

0:41.8

Well, you already know what I'm going to say. Yep, Craig's list got you.

0:45.6

In fact, even to this day, their site hasn't changed all that much. Their website still looks simple,

0:54.0

like it's from the early days of the internet,

0:55.0

and it's got this bare-bones sort of aesthetic.

0:58.0

Not that this is a bad thing.

1:00.0

For Craigslist, it's quite the opposite.

1:02.0

People like that the website is stable, never changing, and minimal.

1:06.0

Finding things is supremely easy and their loyal customers know exactly what they're getting every

1:10.4

time they return. Anonimity is also a plus for people. Unlike other

1:14.8

online competitors, namely Facebook Marketplace, you have to put yourself out there.

1:18.6

Your name and face are typically available for the world to see.

1:21.8

Craig's list is one of the only places I can think of that had are typically available for the world to see.

1:22.6

Craigslist is one of the only places I can think of

1:24.8

that has everything in one place, no matter where you are.

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