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If The New Craigslist App Had Come Any Sooner My Life Would Be In Shambles
If The New Craigslist App Had Come Any Sooner My Life Would Be In Shambles-February 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:09:39

Screenshot: Apple App Store

For the last 10 years or so, I’ve spent most of my life browsing two websites: Jalopnik and . Read about cars, buy cars, wrench on cars—that’s my life’s motto, and it’s been serving me damn well (). Right now, I own 11-ish automobiles, which, you could argue, is too many, but I’d own far, far more had the come a few years sooner. I thank the heavens it didn’t.

I purchased my back in 2010, having spotted the 1992 Jeep Cherokee with 215,000 miles on the clock for sale on Craigslist near Charlottesville, Virginia. I paid $1,400 for it, or about $500 under the asking price. After all, Craigslist etiquette, as we all know, requires that the purchase price be markedly lower than the asking price.

Like everyone, I started surfing Craigslist because I wanted to snag sweet deals. Though I was…

All through college, and even when I entered the workforce in 2013, I spent hours each day on my laptop browsing the internet for sweet old automobiles. I even bought a few, and . But when a laptop wasn’t nearby, I rarely bothered trying to access the website from my cell phone. This, I’ve come to realize, was a blessing, as my impulse control when it comes to certain automobiles (manual transmission Jeeps, namely) is basically .

Here’s a bit more about the app from our sister-site, :

Like the website, the mobile app is extremely simple—no frills, bells, or whistles. The app’s overall design mimics the website as well, meaning its mostly just text and a clean interface. As you’d imagine, that makes the app extremely fast and easy to load. There’s also a post tab that streamlines posting straight from your phone. Not that making a Craigslist post was ever hard, but the app does make the process a lot smoother.

Now that the app is out, am I worried that I’ll wind up filling my yard with automobiles like Michigan’s Ron Dauzet—the man whose township forced him to sell all of his cars—did? Nope. Craigslist is pretty much dead in my eyes. Between the they charge to list an automobile, and the existence of Facebook Marketplace, it seems there are fewer and fewer cool cars on the site, and while I bet this app will yield some improvements on that front, I don’t think I’ll be returning. At least, not as often as I once did.

Facebook Marketplace has its own share of problems, but as of now, it’s my go-to. Is it as good as a solid Craigslist app would have been about five or six years ago? I don’t think so, but that’s probably a good thing. For me, at least.

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