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by bluGill 535 days ago
Craigslist is still there. They only way to keep it around is make sure you use it.
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You can use it, but you're swimming upstream if you do. Fewer buyers, fewer sellers of things you might want to buy.
Sure, but if you don't use it you just make that worse. Of course if Craigslist had died where you are then there is no choice. However where I live Craigslist is still active enough that I can afford to ignore anyone who isn't there.
In some regions (mine) Craigslist never took off, and now is a ghost town.

I would estimate it gets less than 1% of the traffic of FB Marketplace, in terms of number of vehicles posted. And nearly all of them are car lots, not individuals.

In Seattle FB marketplace for cars is almost entirely dealer spam and totally useless. It totally depends on location.

Craigslist died for cars because you have to pay to post now

As a seller u don’t use it but as a buyer I go where the sellers are