Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2010
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The constant battle between online auction giant eBay and Craigslist has been in the news for over a couple of years now. First, eBay acquired shares of Craigslist and then a year later they launched Kijiji. Kijiji, if you weren’t aware, is a classified site very similar to Craigslist. In 2007, eBay launched Kijiji in the United States and then filed laawsuits against Craigslist for pushing them out of shares. Subsequtenly, Craigslist filed a case against eBay and their attmept at a hostile take over of Craigslist itself. (more…)
Posted in News
Tags: classifieds, Craigslist, eBay
Posted on Friday, April 16, 2010
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admin
We all need to be wary pretty much of anything on line these days. It is simple common sense to check, double check and triple check any opportunity or ‘too good to be true’ offer we see. Below you will find the Top 20 tips that a job offer or post on Craigslist could be a scam.
- It has a generic, over-used or vague job title. Admin Assistant or Customer Service Rep are popular ones.
- The jobs that indicate that “Telecommuting is Ok”. This attracts many people and gives them more responses.
- They fail to list a specific location for the job – i.e. they list no location under the city or area that you are searching.
- They list a salary or hourly wage that seems too good to be true or too specific like $13.64 – 34.23 / hour.
- They list it as a government job. (more…)
Posted in Scams
Tags: Craigslist, employment, jobs, scam