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August 13, 2004
eBay's bought 25% of CraigsList.org. Craig blogs about it here, and set up a forum to talk about it here. I love CraigsList both as a service that I use and as an example of what's so damn right with the Web. And I have complete faith in Craig Newmark as someone who has put years of labor on the line to build a place that benefits the community. I have slightly mixed feelings about eBay. It, too, is a service I use all the time, and they've innovated in some really useful ways, especially with regard to reputation systems. I do, however, still hold against them their lawsuit against BiddersEdge, an auction aggregation site. But, then I balance that one assaholic legal crusade against the good that Pierre Omidyar, its founder and chairman, has done. Craig says in his blog and repeatedly in the forum that things are not going to change. There is a tone in his blog posting that the eBay relationship was forced on him, although he's ambiguous on the point. And that actually makes me feel a bit less worried about Craiglist's future: If it was against his will, we have Craig's will — and his 75% ownership — working in our favor. Plus, I'm really happy that Craig will make some money out of this. There's no reason heroes of the Web can't earn a buck, too. Posted
by D. Weinberger at August 13, 2004 03:45 PM
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Comments
Hurray for Craig! I've been a fan of his rag for many a year. I just don't understand what eBay would want with 25% of his publication?
Andrew
Posted by: Andrew John | August 13, 2004 07:27 PM
It is not clear, to me at least, that Craig did make anything. Too bad.
Posted by: Tim | August 15, 2004 04:30 AM
I think eBay wants customers.
Posted by: Gevorgian | August 17, 2004 03:03 AM
It's a bit perplexing. I mean, I bet most of the Craig's List people are already registered with eBay. Maybe just a PR move on eBay's part?
Browser Hijacker Remover
Posted by: Browser Hijacker Remover | August 17, 2004 07:19 PM
Not sure if your link to the forum for discussion is missing or not. But I am interested in the forum.
As for the ebay/craigslist and 25% deal, it's all about the bottom line, MONEY! Either way, both will stand to profit from one another.
Posted by: Kerri Baker | June 17, 2006 11:42 PM
I THINK IS GREAT THAT EBAY AND CRIGELIST ARE WORKING SIDE BY SIDE.
Posted by: VIRGINIA CORCHADO | August 11, 2006 09:55 PM
its gr8 site but jerks ruining it but some1 is doing something to clean it check this out
http://idateher.com/clblacklist.aspx
Posted by: jasmin ras | July 5, 2007 05:06 PM
After reading an article recently about how e-Bay is regretting their huge purchase of Skype, you can see why they might have only bought a 25% stake in Craigslist.
As the owner of Rental Househunter.com - (a Landlord rental listing site) , I'm glad that e-Bay did not buy a 100% share of the Craigslist site. We heavily promote to our Landlord customers to place a free rental listing on Craigslist as well, to increase their visitor count to their Rental Househunter property listing.
We've found that this increases the number of visitors that our Landlords receive to their listing by 300-500%; so it's a huge deal that e-Bay didn't buy Craigslist outright to us!
Posted by: rentalhousehunter ads | October 15, 2007 08:31 PM