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Craigs list help

16 years ago

I would like to post an ad along with a picture of my item on Craigslist. I am not at all familiar with the process. I've never done anything with Craigslist.

can anyone tell me the pros and cons. I was just reading about spammers collecting email addresses from posters. How can you avoid this.

Can you tell me how to post a picture. My photos are already on Photobucket. do you do it the same way you post pictures on these forums?

Do you recommend Craigslist for sellers or just buyers. I see on the home dec forum, many people buy things.

thanks for the advice.

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zep516
16 years ago
Use a different E- Mail address, sign up with g- mail or Yahoo something like that.

See link for posting photos on CraigsList.

Here is a link that might be useful: post-great-photos-craigslist
kathielo
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks for the help. I was hoping it was going to be tha easy since I've done it on GW forums.

Now how do I create a new email address. I am really not good at these types of things. My son ususally sets me up with anything technology related and I just go with that.
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zep516
16 years ago
It's really simple I'll give you a link for free Yahoo Mail sign up. Choose the free one. You could use this for Craigslist.

You will need to choose a user name and password. The user name you choose will be the one the receiver sees when you send an E-Mail.

On mine I use zep516 as my user name, and have a simple password so I can remember it.

Here is a link that might be useful: Yahoo Mail free.
mike_kaiser_gw
16 years ago
Craig's List hides your email address by default. Now if you respond to an email, your address will show. I do a lot of advertising on Craig's List and there is some spam but it's generally pretty easy to identify and delete. Actually my Mom was just trying to sell something and got some story from a guy who wanted to send her a cashier's check for the full price of the item (sight unseen) and then send movers to pick it up. Uh huh. /delete/

As for posting pictures, it's pretty easy to do. Craig's List uses a fairly basic, abbreviated form of HTML. You just use the HTML image tag (just use Google for plenty of examples). Craig's List also has a list of the HTML tags it does support on their help pages.

You can use any online hosting service or upload them directly to Craig's List. With the latter method the images are pretty small and you are limited to 4.

Good luck!
susieq07
16 years ago
I highly recommend using CL for either option, I have sold quite a few items, and the last one we sold on CL was our motor home, only about 3 weeks ago...it is an easy process, and best of all you are selling to people in your own area. I sold my old dryer in 1 day, and my old DW in 3 days.
owbist
16 years ago
Susie you are not necessarily selling just locally. Google can find items on Craigslist. I advertised some Doulton and had a reply from California yet I live in the east.
kathielo
Original Author
16 years ago
zep516, thanks for the yahoo link. I did it...and it was easy. Now I am trying to post my ad on Craigslist and include a picture. The actual posting went fine, posting the picture ....not so. Do I insert the HTLM directly in the ad as you do in these forum postings? I clicked ADD IMAGE and inserted the htlm from my photobucket account in one area but for the second picture I clicked "browse" and got that one from my hard drive. When I clicked "continue" nothing happened. Does it ususally take a long time to insert the pictures. Or would it work better if I just inserted the HTLM in the body of the ad.

Thanks everyone for you help
zep516
16 years ago
You just use the HTML image tag post it to the add. Like Mike Kaiser said. I am sure you could also browse the hard drive also.
kathielo
Original Author
16 years ago
OK...I inserted the HTLM in the body of the ad. It appears as a little box not a picture. I hope readers know to double click to open the photo. Is this normal or did I do it incorrectly? Should I redo it and browse the hard drive? It was taking a really long time to upload, so I cancelled and redid the ad. Now I have it at the point where I have to continue or edit. What to to?

Thanks
kathielo
Original Author
16 years ago
SUCCESS!!! I finally got it to work. Thank you all for the lessons and your patience. Hope I can remember it all for the next time and I hope I can find the posting to follow it. Then I'm on to e-bay

Thanks, KathieO
zep516
16 years ago
Cool! And Good luck. E-Bay is simple too.

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