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Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster seems perturbed in this blog post on the official craigslist blog about a Facebook group. The Facebook group is entitled Stop Craigslist Human Trafficking – Choose Ebay Classifieds.

Before I get to Jimmy B I have to address this Facebook group. While eBay Classifieds (the former Kijiji in the US) has a pretty good human trafficking record I can’t endorse this group as the typical scams that plague craigslist also run rampant on eBay Classifieds.

Now back to Jimmy. In his blog post Jimmy basically says that since eBay Classifieds also has ads for prostitution that it’s ok for craigslist to have them too. Except it’s not eBay Classifieds that Mr. Buckmaster actually cites. The links that he provides are to a classifieds site called Loquo that is basically a craigslist like site based in Spain. eBay did not develop Loquo, they bought it in 2005.

As usual Mr. Buckmaster leaves some details out such as the fact that while eBay has a possibly rogue site in Spain that has prostitution ads craigslist has prostitution ads all over the world.

Not to mention the fact that according to Wikipedia eBay owns a 25% stake in craigslist. So even if you use eBay classifieds you’re still indirectly supporting craigslist.

Thanks to Suzanne for the tip.

By now you should know which classifieds site I personally endorse and that is Geebo.com. Not only do they have a human trafficking free site but they have no stake in craigslist.

Stay tuned next week for the next chance to win your own craigscrimelist t-shirt.

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Prostitution/Human Trafficking post #581