Craigslist & Kijiji vs UGNO

(I-Newswire) March 12, 2010 - Craigslist is on track to make $100 million in revenues this year, according to a private study by the AIM Group/Classified Intelligence group. That’s about 14 times the $7 million they pulled in since the company began tracking the service in 2003.

Craigslist is not a public company, so their actual financials are not a matter of public knowledge. But there is evidence — on their own site — that the service’s annual revenues are actually a good deal more than $300 million.

Craigslist declined to comment on the AIM report or our own stab at an estimate, below. “As a closely held private company we never comment on rumors with regards to our revenue or back-of-the napkin guesstimates,” a spokesperson wrote in reply to an e-mailed query about the AIM study.This is not the only thing Craigslist declined to comment.


Everybody knows and uses Craigslist, but their tendency toward censorship in their discussion groups and even in their classifieds to be just astonishing. We’ve seen fruitful, intelligent discussions simply disappear for no good reason whatsoever, not just occasionally but on a daily basis. We wish they would take a tip from UGNO and "don't be evil". Unfortunately they are popular. Indeed everyone in the corporate media seems to be rushing to praise them and gushing with accolades. And yet, is the experience actually so great? No, it really, really sucks, quite frankly, which frustrates because it is rapidly becoming the only game in town for some things. There is a hope UGNO can follow with a new approach to classifieds and it’s about time

Main problems with Craigslist:

1. Constant inappropriate censorship in the forums, where any view that's different from moderators' is labeled "spam", and reasonable posts are deleted. UGNO solved this problem!

2. Try buying or selling something in the classifieds and you discover your inbox filled with genuine spam from Nigeria but very few actual interested parties. UGNO hunts Nigerians down.

3. Essentially it seems that ever since CL was bought out by corporations (including Ebay) they've become just downright mean. UGNO is also privately held Company and they don’t act like Jackasses.

4. For some things, unfortunately, the critical mass of people mainly goes to Craigslist because it has the most ads. They're like Ebay. UGNO is changing the rules and they might ignore it now, but soon tables will turn.

Kijiji is even worse, they act like idiots, ban regular ads for no reason, but all scam is coming through. It’s about time service like UGNO kicks corporate asses like Criagslist and Kijiji.

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Tana, Inc.
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