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Before we get into today’s contest It’s time to announce last week’s winner. That would be MamaLisa for this epic comment…

Ah, CraigsList, how do I count the ways? The reasons I boycott you? At first, it was simply because it was so hard to find what I wanted, such a pain to drill down, and so many of the ads didn’t even have photos — requiring me to call them or email or something. It just looked smarmy to me. I much preferred to do my shopping on eBay, where I could see a seller’s performance rating. I loved the ability to “watch” items, and it was so much easier to find the best price. So, poor usability and no way to judge the sellers before buying were my two main reasons for never using CraigsList.

Fast forward a few years, and I started hearing so many stories about criminals using CraigsList to find their next victims. I thought, “Ewww. I always new it was creepy. I knew it smelled bad.” And then, the sex crimes and sex trafficing reports started, and quickly started snowballing. The robberies and other such reports also seem to be snowballing, while Craig and his protege do nothing but cover their own asses.

I find it serendipitous that you mention the start of “Erotic Services” coincides with Buckner’s appointment as CEO. I am not one to judge people by their looks, but when you couple Buckner’s slimy sidestepping, dodging, and blame-shifting of the child trafficking issue with his creepy, sinister appearance — well, let me say, I have a feeling that Buckner is no stranger to the Sex Trade.

I will proudly wear my t-shirt, and I will proudly point people to CraigsCrimeList.com when they ask me why I wear the shirt. I’m sure a more than a few folks will say, “but it’s free! It’s great! I don’t have to pay to sell!” To them I will say, “Ask the young girls that are sold for sex on Craig’s List how free it truly is.”

It’s craigscrimelist.org but I’ll overlook it. But what a great comment.

But now on to this week’s contest which is the same as it has been.

Today is your chance to win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt emblazoned with the motto “Friends don’t let friends use craigslist.” But…wait for it…only one is being given away this week.

As before the rules are simple. Please comment on this post why you are boycotting craigslist or why you don’t use craigslist in the first place or why you think it’s a bad idea to use craigslist.

Please use the e-mail address you would like to be contacted at in the e-mail address field.

If you have entered before and have not won you can enter on this and future posts as well.

This contest will end 8pm Eastern Time next Monday (9/6/2010) but there will be more chances to win shirts in the coming weeks.

Take a stand. Do the right thing. And you might win a shirt in the process.

It also wouldn’t hurt if you could Tweet this post or put in on Facebook.

Ok, here it is. I’ve been asking you to stay tuned until Monday and now Monday is here. Today is your chance to win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt emblazoned with the motto “Friends don’t let friends use craigslist.” But…wait for it…only one is being given away this week.

As before the rules are simple. Please comment on this post why you are boycotting craigslist or why you don’t use craigslist in the first place or why you think it’s a bad idea to use craigslist.

Please use the e-mail address you would like to be contacted at in the e-mail address field.

If you have entered before and have not won you can enter on this and future posts as well.

This contest will end 8pm Eastern Time next Monday (8/30/2010) but there will be more chances to win shirts in the coming weeks.

Take a stand. Do the right thing. And you might win a shirt in the process.

It also wouldn’t hurt if you could retweet this post or put in on Facebook.

As some of you know I had a personal matter to attend to last week so I didn’t post much except for breaking news stories so I kind of slacked on the t-shirt giveaway. But we did have winners and I am here to announce them.

Our first winner was GeoЯge ThÆ PirÅtÊ who had a short but to the point comment…

What you’ve basically got is 4Chan mixed in with EBay. Great concept. Great concept…

This comment actually made me laugh out loud. If you don’t know what 4Chan is consider yourself lucky. As the saying goes, don’t go there, it’s gross.

Our 2nd winner was Engenue97 who was a former craigslist user…

I was checking my email to see if anyone had responded to the 2 craigslist ads I placed today….and somehow after reading through some news headlines stumbled upon this site. Wow. Um…guess I’ve been pretty naive about what they allow, and actually facilitate to happen. Watching the Craig of craigslist flounder about and walk away from a reporter asking about the safety of the site he founded was very telling. So here I am, confessing my sins and seeking redemption through a free t-shirt. Gotta go post this on my facebook page.

As a lapsed Catholic I enjoyed the act of contrition.

Our next winner is Tammie who is concerned about the safety of children…

One I have a teenage child and an infant child and reading the posts on here, sickens me. How can a company or the CEO of an organization disassociate himself from crimes that are happening on his webstie? I would use CL for everything in was in need of. I even went as far as looking for an apartment/house. I never paid but there were some ads that basically said you can get this place site unseen.

Thanks for having this site. I plan on forwarding the addy to my sis (crimeologist) and boyfriend (he loves CL) and hopefully I can change his thoughts about this horrible site.

Thanks again.

No, thank you Tammie. The more that people know the more that craigslist will change their ways hopefully.

Our next winner is michi….

When I first started looking at Craigslist a few years ago (for rentals for a friend) i noticed that so many of the homes for rent did not match the price (homes were way to nice to rent for that low), so I stopped looking there for serious inquiries on things. I’m not sure how long after that, I started to hear more and more things on the news that happened because of postings on Craigslist.

Some people that I know, go on to Craigslist for anonymous “hook ups” and that is just gross.

Mostly because of the above reasons, and also because of what I have learned on your site keeps me away from Craigslist and I try to tell everyone I know why it is not the place to be.

No, it is not the place to be. The real place to be is Geebo.com the classifieds site that doesn’t have these issues. Really, you should have seen that coming.

Our last but certainly not least winner is LadyLeopard who brings up the real way of getting to Craig and Jim…

Craigslist is a fertile haven for criminals of all stripes because the owners refuse to filter who can post ads, and to filter the content of those ads. Not only can those who prey on others lure their victims to an isolated place to rob, rape, and/or kill them through the use of this service, it also gives the perverted, vile users and purveyors of children and kidnapped women a safe haven for contacting each other.

Those who own craigslist should be charged as aiding and abetting every crime that comes about as a result of their greedy and selfish refusal to police their ads. Since common decency and appeals to their humanity have failed (since they apparently don’t have any) the cost to pay for lawyers for the thousands of crimes they’d get charged with might hit their bank accounts hard enough to get them to do the decent thing.

Of course, we can hit them in the bank account as citizens – don’t use craigslist! Tell everyone you know who has or might use it why they shouldn’t! Send them here to read the stories. And tell them to pass it on to their friends.

Even though it’s a ‘free’ website it still has expenses and revenues and if they take a substantial hit in the wallet they might change their ways.

Your t-shirts are on their way.

The next t-shirt giveaway will start next week.

Here we go again kids. Four FREE CraigsCrimeList T-SHIRTS to be given away and all you have to do is leave a comment on this very post.

As before the rules are simple. Please comment on this post why you are boycotting craigslist or why you don’t use craigslist in the first place or why you think it’s a bad idea to use craigslist.

Since this is the weekend post I will be picking 4 winners for Friday through Monday.

Please use the e-mail address you would like to be contacted at in the e-mail address field.

If you have entered before and have not won you can enter on this and future posts as well.

This contest will end 6pm Eastern Time Monday but there will be more chances to win shirts in the coming days.

Take a stand. Do the right thing. And you might win a shirt in the process.

It also wouldn’t hurt if you could retweet this post or put in on Facebook.

Here we go again kids. Another FREE CraigsCrimeList T-SHIRT to be given away and all you have to do is leave a comment on this very post.

As before the rules are simple. Please comment on this post why you are boycotting craigslist or why you don’t use craigslist in the first place or why you think it’s a bad idea to use craigslist.

The best comment will be chosen by me.

Please use the e-mail address you would like to be contacted at in the e-mail address field.

If you have entered before and have not won you can enter on this and future posts as well.

This contest will end 6pm Eastern Time Thursday but there will be more chances to win shirts in the coming days.

Take a stand. Do the right thing. And you might win a shirt in the process.

It also wouldn’t hurt if you could retweet this post or put in on Facebook.

Ok guys. In the past 4 days there was only one commenter for a free t-shirt when there should have been at least four. I know you guys can do better than that. I mean who doesn’t want a free t-shirt? To encourage you let me tell you a little story.

Today I wore my craigscrimelist t-shirt out for the first time. Only because it’s white and today was the first day in a while that I wouldn’t drench it in sweat. Anyway I wore it out to my local supermarket and the two kids, early 20s I’m guessing, asked me about it and asked why they shouldn’t use craigslist. I didn’t want to hold up the line so I mostly mentioned the child prostitution and human trafficking. The one kid said to me that he was selling something on craigslist and he asked what I recommended he should do. First I told him that if he receives a check for larger than the amount asked not to cash it because it’s probably fake and the second thing I told him was to use Geebo.com.

I mean that’s all it takes. I told two people today and they could go on to tell their friends and so on. If you won’t wear the shirt to promote the site at least wear it to promote awareness for the plight of those being trafficked in our very own country.

As before the rules are simple. Please comment on this post why you are boycotting craigslist or why you don’t use craigslist in the first place or why you think it’s a bad idea to use craigslist.

The best comment will be chosen by me.

Please use the e-mail address you would like to be contacted at in the e-mail address field.

If you have entered before and have not won you can enter on this and future posts as well.

This contest will end 6pm Eastern Time Tuesday but there will be more chances to win shirts in the coming days.

Last week’s winners were:

JJ
Sabrina
Sarah
DodiaFae
Alyric
bogustoo
ZappaCrappa
Kelle Belle
kd9280

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