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I have been consumed lately with Craigslist in terms of how it has a stranglehold on the online classified marketplace, how many millions of people they serve, and how they have done little to improve the experience, in terms of protections, from that of the newspaper. Regularly, people are defrauded, products are misrepresented, and gigs/jobs turn out to be bogus.

Do these type of interactions have to occur in the existing anonymous, buyer beware, as-represented kind of world, or could craigslist still serve its invaluable purpose while protecting its users at the same time?

(I am only considering the housing, for sale, services, jobs, and gig sections in this inquiry. It’s probable that most, if not all, of the allure in the personals section is the uncertainty and anonymity of the interaction. However, I don’t think this is true of the sections to be considered above.)