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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...
Shannon S. Christmas ’04, who helped uncover the scheme, remembers searching Craigslist for a new apartment in Cambridge last September when he came across Vaghar’s offer. His graduate school dorm at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had become too cramped. Vaghar said that she was going to be working as a paralegal in New York and wanted to rent her apartment...
...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...