While newspapers have always maintained a lock on local classified ads, a quiet revolution has been taking place. http://Craigslist.org has become the free, online (but still local), alternative. That’s right you can sell your boat, car or goat on Craig’s list without paying a cent either when you list it, or after the sale is complete. You can find a job there, too. When you list your item for sale, Craig’s list does not publish your email address. Rather, it forwards emails to you from interested buyers. Then, if you want, you can correspond directly with them. You can also post pictures of items for sale. All of this is paid for by the job ads (which are not free to list but are free to answer).
Since it is local, there are actually 450 sites in the US and 50 countries with 20 million people using this service each month making it the site with the 7th highest traffic in the world. The only downside is that you need to live near one of the 450 cities, but that would be most people in the US. And if you don’t, odds are Craig’s list will come to you soon; they added over 130 cites in November of 2006.
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