Word: craigslisters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...scam went like this, according to police reports and interviews with victims: Vaghar lured people on Craigslist by offering an apartment for rent in Harvard Square—in most cases, her apartment at 20 Prescott Street—at an extremely low price, ranging from $300 to $500 a month...
Newmark, a paunchy 51-year-old programmer with a fondness for science fiction, started Craigslist in 1995 as an informal list of Bay Area social events. He waxes poetic about Craigslist's unusual business mission to create a commons that the company maintains rather than a product that it sells. Buckmaster, an intense, analytical Spock to Newmark's Captain Kirk, is the implementer of that vision. He and Newmark use the word customer to describe Craigslist's users, but no one has ever paid a dime to use the site. Craigslist's only revenue, projected to be as much...
...successful is Craigslist that the site has inspired several copycats and drawn the attention of the biggest online giants. Earlier this year, eBay, which has its roots as an online community, bought a 25% stake in Craigslist from a former Craigslist employee for an undisclosed amount (after getting the blessing of the company's founders). eBay says the purpose of its investment is to learn more about online classifieds, a business that neither eBay nor Yahoo has successfully cracked. For Newmark, who insists that eBay will not change Craigslist, the deal gives his company access to eBay's experience...
...Craigslisters are pleased by the hookup. They fear the deal is a death knell for the site's independent ethos. "Say it isn't so, Craig!!!" pleaded one post to the site's message board. Others are worried that the deal will lead to censorship of Craigslist's explicit personal ads and will end with eBay's buying the whole shebang...
...worry, reply Newmark and Buckmaster: the Craigslist ethos is here to stay. While Newmark admits he was wounded by some of the personal attacks in the wake of the eBay deal, the criticism in some ways was reassuring: "It's good to be reminded of what you're about...