Saturday, July 21, 2007

Competition for Craigslist

EBay recently launched it United States version of Kijiji.com. What is Kijiji.com? Well it is a site that eBay launched 2 years ago overseas, and is their own version of CraigsList. Like the more popular original, Kijiji.com allows you to post classifieds for free.

If you have something to advertise, what a great new tool to help get that ad there. If you are looking for that deal then, be sure to check out both sites. I expect Kijiji.com will grow as more people become more aware of it.
For example, I just finished posting an ad on both sites for the August 11 flea market my neighborhood improvement association is having. Check them out below.

http://topeka.kijiji.com/


http://topeka.craigslist.org/

It is obvious that the eBay one has fancier tools to do some pretty cool stuff. Maybe Craig's List will update their site soon also. However, be it known that according to the report I heard on Current TV, eBay owns a minority stake in Craig's List. Could this be another pay pal situation? Remember, eBay's crappy online payment system, then they bought PayPal and boom their crappy service was gone as it merged into the better known and bigger service that had been swallowed up by the corporate giant.

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