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Do you work for Airbnb?
I operate vacation rentals and my family makes part of our living through Airbnb, and thus have an interest in their continued growth and success as a company.
I think this is likely an automatic ban for an unusual non-dictionary word/phrase, probably just another automatic tool in their arsenal against spammers. I don't think Craigslist has it in for AirBNB specifically.
I post ads every single day of the week. This is the first occurrence of the term being blocked.
Try using an URL shortener such as http://bit.ly
I bet a lot of other people do, too.
Its too bad that nobody has figured out how to move onto a better version of Craigslist. Their real estate listings in particular are a major source of pain for New Yorkers, and they even charge for postings there. Craigslist's lack of any customer support opens a black hole for any account issues you may be having.
Your company, Suitey, spams the hell out of craigslist.
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Yeah it's funny the expectations people have of long running commercial services like Craigslist. Craigslist is not a public utility.
Agreed; but listings do often link out to other external sites. CraigsList seems to draw the line between a property management company and somebody like AirBNB.
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> These guys are doing a disservice to the American public. This comment blows my mind. How quickly we take things for granted is astounding. CL is a largely FREE site – I for one have sold around $1k of stuff I didn't want on there in the last decade or so – not much, but I paid exactly $0 for that. Try that with eBay or, even better, your local newspaper classifieds. The entitlement that lurks behind comments like…
Keep in mind this was a rant. Craigslist is awesome in many ways and has provided tremendous value over the years. All I am saying is their stubbornness to not improve has left a lot of value on the table. If someone else, maybe more capitalistic, was running craigslist we would probably be benefiting from it more at this point. Their monopoly of the local marketplace allows them to be complacent. The fact that they…
I'm guessing they got blocked because of the automated "Post to Craigslist" feature on AirBnb that pushes an AirBnb user through various screens on Craigslist, filling in information automatically, and all the user has to do is hit "Submit" at the end. CL is openly against anything that isn't a human individual expressing their energy by posting ads to another human individual via manually entering text into a mid-90…
Ha. I see they've gotten around it temporarily by changing the link to airbedandbreakfast.com, as in this ad: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/vac/2983382098.html