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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

How to determine if your ads are flagged by Craigslist or normal people

You might wonder if it's really important to know why your ads are removed from Craigslist.

If you are working as an ad poster, you really want to find out why.

First of all, ad removal affects your phone verified account.
If you get too many flags, your account will be stopped quickly even if the account is a newer one.
So, the best thing is to know how to keep your account active and safe.


You will get notice by Craigslist if your ads are removed by the Craigslist admin., assuming they are not ghosted(which means that your ads appear to be fine, with no notice, but they don't show up on CL ad pages).
It simply says that your ads are removed from the lists.
This means, your ads are too easy to be determined as duplicates.
In this case, take great care to change your ads!!
Because shortly, Craigslist will stop your account.

If your ads are removed by normal people, you won't get a notice at all.
It'll just be removed, or flagged for removal.
But, this means, your ads will be flagged for some reason in Craigslist soon.
Those ads removed by normal people are not as important as removed ads by Craigslist, they can flag them for any reason, basically. I had a guy that I found out was flagging my ads because he was posting ads for a competing product! There are a LOT of haters and self-appointed CL cops on craigslist, beware!
However, if you get too many removed by other CL users, Craigslist will also stop your account.


Now, you see the trick.
The removal from Craigslist means, you have to change your contents soon.
The removal by other users mean that you're being warned. You need to change the contents if you get too many flags.

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