Craigslist was a waste of my advertising time.

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1. Agree. It's good for selling crap or giving stuff away

but I wouldn't necessarily look for jobs there or offer services. My niece found quite a few bait and switch job offers back when she was job hunting. I looked at some and many can be downright hostile!

Sorry you found the duds.

I just remembered years ago I used CL to find one of those junk removal crews. I chose this particular one because it claimed to be eco friendly. They were supposed to sort and recycle items. The price was supposed to be based on the amount of stuff which was hard for me to estimate over the phone but the guy said he would give me an estimate before he started. When he came, he did not want to do that. Instead he wanted to fill up the truck and then tell me the cost. He also backed out of recycling certain things, told me which things required an added removal fee, etc. I felt he was tacking on all sorts of things not mentioned before. When *I* said never mind, he was irritated at having come out in the first place. I gave him my bottom line fee which I still felt was higher than what it should have been based on the ad, and he agreed to haul the stuff off. He groused the whole time and had ME sort stuff. When all was said and done, it didn't take up as much room in the truck as he thought and did not take him very much time to load, so he got a good price.

I don't look at their ads any more.