I wanted to add a thought to this quote from "brairden" above:
Not so long ago when someone posted something for sale on Craig's List...you had to post each individual item for sale one at a time, and you had to retain the e-mails you got from CL to:
- "officially" post your for sale item
- if you wanted to edit your post after it was posted
- or if you wanted to delete your posting if the item was sold (or no longer for sale)
I'm not 100% sure when it started...but now you can "sign up" for an official Craig's List account...which is supposed to help with managing your for sale items (faster posting, easier editing, easier deleting of sold items, etc.).
After doing some weekend cleaning...I found a couple items I wanted to sell (no computer stuff)
...and logged into my CL account. I noticed on my CL account page where it lists all of your items (an Excel/spreadsheet looking like document)...there are different column headings such as:
- Title
- Listing Category
- Date
- etc.
There is also an unused column at the moment with the heading "fees"...huh...what!!!
Yes...it definitely looks like Craig's List has something planned where they're going to start charging fees of some sort!
I'm not sure if this has something to do with e-Bay buying 25% of CL...or if it was something CL was planning on doing for a while now. With the 25% purchase of CL, and the column in your CL account for "fees"...this would logically also seem to indicate that Paypal (and all the fees associated with Paypal)...could soon be part of the Craig's List selling process as well.
- Nick
p.s. Currently you don't have to sign up for a CL account to sell things...you can still do it the way many folks may have been doing it for years.
The account is just supposed to make things easier.