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Win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt

It’s been way too long since we last gave away a free CCL t-shirt but we get to give one away today It goes to Pamela for the following comment

I do not use Craigslist because of all the terrible things that have happened from using it, as for the backpage they need to remove it. It is so sad when these girls are in this kind of situation and everyone who uses this page is just as guilty as the ones hurting these girls!It could be your wife or daughter. Thank you for everything you do to inform use of CL crime.

Thank you Pamela for being such a great reader. I’ll be contacting you to have the shirt sent out to you.

Speaking of the shirts there is going to be a slight delay in having them sent out in the next couple of weeks due to personal reasons but the contests continue.

Today is your chance to win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt emblazoned with the motto “Friends don’t let friends use craigslist.”

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

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 6/13/2011 or later if comments are light, 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 please Tweet this post or post it on Facebook

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Win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt

For the 3rd week in a row I didn’t have to extend the contest for a lack of comments. It seems business is actually picking up now.

This week’s winning comments comes to us from Cheryl

I don’t trust Craigslist because there is no oversight – so many people have been killed or hurt or ripped off responding to CL postings. When you call the newspaper to place an ad, they ask questions before accepting your ad, which makes me feel like it’s a much safer way to conduct business. Of course, CL is free – but you get what you pay for – and there appears to be no one looking out for the integrity of the site. Thanks for all you do to inform the public of Craigslist crime.

Thank you Cheryl for being an active participant in the discussion. I’ll be contacting you to have the shirt sent out to you.

Speaking of the shirts there is going to be a slight delay in having them sent out in the next couple of weeks due to personal reasons but the contests continue.

Today is your chance to win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt emblazoned with the motto “Friends don’t let friends use craigslist.”

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

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 3/29/2011 or later if comments are light, 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.

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Win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt

It seems that business is picking up again as we had another winning comment for two weeks in a row now for the free craigscrimelist t-shirt.

This week’s comment comes to us from Tiffany

CL is disgusting. How can people know if they are looking at something genuine? I mean, some people are selling sex on there. DISGUSTING. Geebo is the real deal. I feel so much safer using it and I know I am not being duped.

Now remember kids, you don’t have to mention Trench’s favorite classifieds site in Geebo.com but it doesn’t hurt.

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.”

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

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 3/22/2011 or later if comments are light, 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.

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Win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt

It only took us a day this time to get a winning comment. It was the only comment we got but it’s a great comment. This week’s winning comment is from Morse_the_horse

I was a volunteer for a number of years helping people with questions and problems on craigslist. I finally just gave up. CL had no apparent interest in getting rid of the real spammers and scammers but let “community moderation” get rid of the small troublemaking advertiser. They also did nothing about those harassing the helpers.

CL is a profit-making company but I volunteered because I liked their concept of local advertising. Also as someone who bought and sold a few items at no cost, I felt I owed something back for that opportunity. However, not getting rid of the real spammers and the obvious non-locals and not fixing their rules and FAQs to make it clear to the small poster what was acceptable or not and not even communicating to the helpers what was their official interpretations of their rules just got to be too much.

They seem to be smoking too many of those “funny little cigarettes” for “medical” purposes to really care. I gave up and don’t help nor use it any more.

So there it is from someone who volunteered their own time and effort in order to help craigslist but it seems that craigslist didn’t really want the help.

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.”

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

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 3/14/2011 or later if comments are light, 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.

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Win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt

After receiving some comments from spammers and astroturfers we did have a winning comment from a real person and again it was a great comment. This time from a commenter named grissey bear

As a property owner/manager, I thoroughly screen prospective residents by doing credit, court, and police background checks. To save everyone time and trouble I USED to state this in my ad. Well, CL readers don’t like the fact that I “screen” (which I am legally entitled to do) so they “flag” or delete my ad. I can only place a very generic ad and as a result get calls from the local penitentiary, and from misfits from sordid walks of life. I’m AMAZED at how many degenerates call…they must all be using Craigslist.

I am angry that CL ALLOWS these misfits to control their advertising. Their policy of “anyone can ‘flag’ an ad” just because they don’t like it allows misfits to control what could be a service to people in need of goods and services.

As I’ve pointed out before the flagging of ads is not the vaunted community policing that craigslist claims that it is. Instead it’s used by those who want to block the ads of legitimate business people.

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.”

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

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 3/07/2011 or later if comments are light, 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.

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Last night CraigsCrimeList and myself were briefly featured on KHOU TV in Houston, Texas about scams and robberies that have been happening on craigslist.

The article can also be read here.

Thanks to Jeff McShan for not only featuring the site but for also the great report on the dangers of craigslist.

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Win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt

I only received one comment for the last t-shirt giveaway but what a comment it was. This is from Phyllie417…

As I child I was dragged state to state by an abusive father. The degenerates always found us. Everytime the authorities would start asking questions we moved on. When I turned 12, and got too old for his entertainment, he threw me out. I lived with one abuser after another before getting married at 15.
I wrote my college thesis on human trafficking, from the first person. It was one of the hardest thing I ever did besides testifying against my father. He spent a mere 15 years in prison for everything he did to dozens if not hundreds of children.

Today, I tell people why I HATE Craigslist. I hate it, because it gives these bastards a place to set up shop. It’s all too easy for them to practice their filth, without help from a mainstream webpage.

And it is still going on within craigslist’s pages in some of the unmoderated sections such as casual encounters.

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.”

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

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 1/31/2011 or later if comments are light, 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.

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Win a free craigscrimelist t-shirt

Well it only took us 2 weeks this time to give away a free craigscrimelist t-shirt but nevertheless we have in fact given one away. Today it’s from Courtney with her comment

I also am not a fan. There is not enough regulation or privacy with that site. I have purchased things before and had my money stolen. After what happened to Heather (I only knew her through her stepmother Kristie) and the “Cragslist Killer” I don’t understand why it is still operating.

Or why it hasn’t moderated its own site at least.

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.”

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

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 1/24/2011 or later if comments are light, 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.

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Craigslist ‘robberies by appointment’ turn violent:

I wanted to thank Bob Sullivan of The Red Tape Chronicles on MSNBC.com for featuring the site briefly in his article about craigslist robberies that turn violent. We had a brief e-mail exchange in which Mr. Sullivan asked me why I thought craigslist robberies were on the rise. My response to him was that they’ve actually remained constant over the years…

Reynolds said robberies that originate with a Craigslist contact have remained fairly constant during the past several years, but are only now attracting media attention.

“They don’t always result in someone getting shot in the face like in Ohio, but they are fairly frequent,” he said.

The thing is with my new day job and schedule I can’t focus on every craigslist robbery that happens. That would be a herculean task that would require several bloggers at this site. However now with Mr. Sullivan’s unintentional prodding I have opened a sister site to CCL called CraigsCrimeList Extra. It’s a Tumblr site where I’ve been posting links to the stories that I don’t have the time to get too. Those stories are also being posted on the CCL Facebook Page as well. You can also subscribe to the CCL Twitter feed as well to get all the CCL goodness you can handle.

And again I want to thank Mr. Sullivan for bringing more readers to the site and have hopefully educated some people on what’s really going on at sites like Craigslist and Backpage.

And if you want to see why I tout Geebo.com as my classifieds site of choice I can show you no better reason than Geebo’s Commitment to Social Responsibility.

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