1. www.craigslist.org A long time ago, in a classroom far, far away… It is a period of collaboration, Five classmates: Greta Smith, Braden Pitts, Kelonda Bland, Josh Haltom and Robert Bogardus gather information and present to you

2. Jim Buckmaster, President and CEO of Craigslist

7. Since the website was booming, founder Craig Newmark decided he needed to be a full-time addition to his website.

9. The employees worked straight out of Craig Newmark’s home in San Francisco, it was located on Cole Street.

10. It has been said that the employees that kept the site running were the reason for its growing success. The people that kept the site running were able to have a voice in the industry; thus, showing if the people can give a voice in the industry, it can grow into something great.

11. Craigslist offered integrity, honesty, and trustworthiness. These were the key factors to Craigslist. Put all these elements together with a user friendly website and you have Craigslist, an outstanding top ranking site that everybody can enjoy.From the beginning…

13. There are also forums for discussion for everything you could possibly think of.

14. Founder Craig Newmark and CEO Jim Buckmaster’s goal is to provide users with a helpful, yet noncommercial way to connect to people in their communities. The nuts and bolts of it all…

16. If you feel the need to browse the site, you just go to Craigslist.org and search away for anything you desire.

17. The site has a broad arrange of categories. Every category goes in-depth with multiple subcategories. This makes it easy to navigate to the right section quickly. For example, the for sale category will have listed: automotive, electronics, sporting, collectibles, books, etc.; these all being subcategories.The nuts and bolts of it all…

19. Every transaction is between the person who posted the ad and the person responding to it. The employees of Craigslist do not get involved unless there is a problem reported by a user.

20. However, if you would like to participate in discussions or place ads on the site, you must create a Craigslist account. The great thing about this is you only need one key thing : an email address.

21. The sign up process is very easy and painless. Once signed up, you will receive a confirmation email to verify your account and log in. Now you are officially a member of the site. The nuts and bolts of it all…

22. The users of Craigslist act as the monitors since they are constantly viewing content that gets posted. Users flag posts to draw attention to the ones that are most interesting or ones that veer away from the websites interests. The tags that users will put on posts are best of Craigslist (a funny or effective post), miscategorized (for posts placed in the wrong section of the site), spam/overpost(a generic post or one that has been used a lot) and prohibited (a post that violates the site's terms of use). Warning

24. Get a second phone line

25. Always choose anonymous

26. Insist on meeting in a neutral, public place

27. Meet during daylight hours

28. Do not respond to fake e-mails

29. CASH ONLY,please

30. Keep clear about a refund policy, or lack thereofMay the force be with you…

31. What it looks like

33. Craigslist items are usually much less expensive than EBay items.

35. It is organized by geographic areas

36. It’s a site for people to interactAnd by the way, just about every function on Craigslist is going to involve you possibly meeting in person.

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