Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
Over the course of many, many years I did over a couple thousand transactions on ebay. But ebay steadily became bigger and greedier and kept changing for the worse, imo. I could go on and on about the worst changes they made, but that would take forever...
So a couple years ago, I needed to find a better way to buy and sell things, especially truck and car parts, many of them for collectible musclecars. My brother told me about Craig's List, but it didn't take long to learn that CL was very limited in scope with each locale being a different 'Craig's List". There's simply no way to find buyers or sellers for rare parts when you live in a small to moderately populated area and the exposure is limited to it. It was no better than posting an ad in the local little shopper newspaper. So I had little use for Craig's List.
Then one day I discovered a search engine called Jaxed Mash which would search ALL of Craig's List and ebay (if you wanted it to) at the same time, as well as a few other lesser known sites -- all with one simple search, and then link you to their auction or item for sale. Suddenly Craig's List became useful and powerful and my far-and-away preferred buying & selling venue. I was able to dump ebay and paypal and all the nonsense and fees and other ripoffs that ebay & Paypal only claim to protect you from, but don't really.
I have been cleaning out storage sheds and my shop for several weeks lately and have sold lots of "good stuff" that, at my current age, I can now admit to myself I will never get around to using. Early 60's Corvette and Chevelle SS and first generation Camaro stuff, as well as plenty of old Chevy truck parts. I've been freeing up space and then buying parts I have an immediate need for with the money I make. Many of the items I sold were to fellow Jaxed Mash users from across the country who, like me, found Craig's List very useful once you could cover a nationwide market.
Most recently, one of our own TDR members, EJMesser, has just helped me complete a long distance transaction with a complete stranger over a 1000 miles away for a long-sought deal on some Rickson wheels and Michelin tires. That deserves an entire thread and will soon get one. Suffice it to say for now that Eric went WAY above and beyond the call of TDR cameraderie on this transaction and not only made it possible, but even saved me hundreds of dollars!
So Craig's List works, but it works FAR better when combined with Jaxed Mash's free, powerful, and ingenious search engine.
So yesterday, as I went to check for a part my son needs for his '81 K20 pickup, I was stunned to see jaxed mash come back with almost no hits; and absolutely zero from Craig's List. Looking into this closer, I found the new "FYI" bulletin posted by the good folks at Jaxed.
Craig's List had attorneys serve Jaxed Mash with a "cease & desist" order for HELPING Craig's List patrons buy and sell on Craig's List, all at zero cost to either the users or Craig's List!!! Can you believe that stupidity??!! Jaxed users were still directed right to Craigs list, but they didn't have to repeat the same tedious search a hundred individual times on a hundred diifferent Craigs List locales.
Jaxed did nothing more than a Google search would do, except it focused on searching for almost any particular item from among many online buy/sell/trade/barter websites all at one place.
Then I remembered reading how evilbay, not one to be willing to share ANY market with anyone, had supposedly purchased "shares" of Craigs List and may be, for all I know, the majority shareholder now with the express intent of ruining Craig's List to force people like me back to ebay.
I do not see how CL can get a cease and desist order against Jaxed Mash while the big search engines do the same thing, but no where near as effectively because they are too broad and big.
What a bunch of lawyer crap stifling free enterprise and information that helped consumers and sellers alike. Craig's List is indeed going to go way downhill now, just like evilbay has, as though their "personals" sections devoted to advertising and providing and showing raunchy explicit sex acts, prostitution, and drugs wasn't already bad enough.
I wrote the owners of both Jaxed Mash and Craig's List encouraging the smarter people at Jaxed to start a directly-competing online sales service and truly hurt craigs List and evilbay, while at the same time telling Craigs List how stupid I thought their lawyering was. There is no end to the greed in anything evilbay has a piece of...
So a couple years ago, I needed to find a better way to buy and sell things, especially truck and car parts, many of them for collectible musclecars. My brother told me about Craig's List, but it didn't take long to learn that CL was very limited in scope with each locale being a different 'Craig's List". There's simply no way to find buyers or sellers for rare parts when you live in a small to moderately populated area and the exposure is limited to it. It was no better than posting an ad in the local little shopper newspaper. So I had little use for Craig's List.
Then one day I discovered a search engine called Jaxed Mash which would search ALL of Craig's List and ebay (if you wanted it to) at the same time, as well as a few other lesser known sites -- all with one simple search, and then link you to their auction or item for sale. Suddenly Craig's List became useful and powerful and my far-and-away preferred buying & selling venue. I was able to dump ebay and paypal and all the nonsense and fees and other ripoffs that ebay & Paypal only claim to protect you from, but don't really.
I have been cleaning out storage sheds and my shop for several weeks lately and have sold lots of "good stuff" that, at my current age, I can now admit to myself I will never get around to using. Early 60's Corvette and Chevelle SS and first generation Camaro stuff, as well as plenty of old Chevy truck parts. I've been freeing up space and then buying parts I have an immediate need for with the money I make. Many of the items I sold were to fellow Jaxed Mash users from across the country who, like me, found Craig's List very useful once you could cover a nationwide market.
Most recently, one of our own TDR members, EJMesser, has just helped me complete a long distance transaction with a complete stranger over a 1000 miles away for a long-sought deal on some Rickson wheels and Michelin tires. That deserves an entire thread and will soon get one. Suffice it to say for now that Eric went WAY above and beyond the call of TDR cameraderie on this transaction and not only made it possible, but even saved me hundreds of dollars!
So Craig's List works, but it works FAR better when combined with Jaxed Mash's free, powerful, and ingenious search engine.
So yesterday, as I went to check for a part my son needs for his '81 K20 pickup, I was stunned to see jaxed mash come back with almost no hits; and absolutely zero from Craig's List. Looking into this closer, I found the new "FYI" bulletin posted by the good folks at Jaxed.
Craig's List had attorneys serve Jaxed Mash with a "cease & desist" order for HELPING Craig's List patrons buy and sell on Craig's List, all at zero cost to either the users or Craig's List!!! Can you believe that stupidity??!! Jaxed users were still directed right to Craigs list, but they didn't have to repeat the same tedious search a hundred individual times on a hundred diifferent Craigs List locales.
Jaxed did nothing more than a Google search would do, except it focused on searching for almost any particular item from among many online buy/sell/trade/barter websites all at one place.
Then I remembered reading how evilbay, not one to be willing to share ANY market with anyone, had supposedly purchased "shares" of Craigs List and may be, for all I know, the majority shareholder now with the express intent of ruining Craig's List to force people like me back to ebay.
I do not see how CL can get a cease and desist order against Jaxed Mash while the big search engines do the same thing, but no where near as effectively because they are too broad and big.
What a bunch of lawyer crap stifling free enterprise and information that helped consumers and sellers alike. Craig's List is indeed going to go way downhill now, just like evilbay has, as though their "personals" sections devoted to advertising and providing and showing raunchy explicit sex acts, prostitution, and drugs wasn't already bad enough.
I wrote the owners of both Jaxed Mash and Craig's List encouraging the smarter people at Jaxed to start a directly-competing online sales service and truly hurt craigs List and evilbay, while at the same time telling Craigs List how stupid I thought their lawyering was. There is no end to the greed in anything evilbay has a piece of...
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