Articles about craigslist

As stolen bikes are hawked online, cyclists call out digital marketplaces and run crime-fighting efforts

On a fall day in 2021, Erin Dallin locked his cherished baby blue bicycle to a rack near the University… Read More

Heads up, OfferUp: Craigslist finally releases an official app to attract mobile-minded shoppers

Looks like Craigslist finally found an app developer on Craigslist. The longtime internet classifieds site, which launched in 1995, has… Read More

TLDR: Play Impossible’s deals with Apple & NFLPA, Chrome extension for Craigslist scams, U.S. immigration policy & tech

Today’s featured stories Smart gameball startup Play Impossible inks retail deal with Apple, partners with NFL players, raises cash Seattle… Read More

Seattle engineer creates Cluck, a Chrome extension to identify scams in Craigslist apartment listings

After spending a couple years working at Zillow as a software development engineer, Joyce Wu thought she had a grasp… Read More

New OfferUp features aim to up trust in mobile marketplace as it tackles safety concerns

OfferUp today announced several new features for its buying and selling app designed to make transactions safer and more transparent,… Read More

Facebook officially launches ‘Marketplace,’ taking aim at Craigslist and OfferUp

Facebook officially launched its Marketplace on Monday, once again attempting to carve out a piece of peer-to-peer local sales. The feature,… Read More

Once down to its last $350, this fast-growing startup is now reportedly valued at more than $1B

OfferUp has more than doubled its employee count in the last year and is reportedly set to raise $120 million in… Read More

Craigslist challenger OfferUp set to raise another $120M at $1.2B valuation, new report says

Craigslist competitor OfferUp is set to raise $120 million in a round that would give the Bellevue, Wash.-based company a valuation… Read More

For sale on Craigslist: Used but restorable Yahoo for $8 billion

A “one-of-a-kind Internet original” is for sale in the antiques section of Craigslist as a spoof ad has appeared offering the… Read More

Craigslist rival OfferUp tests mobile payments in Seattle, letting buyers pay sellers inside its app

OfferUp is quietly testing mobile payments for users of its community marketplace in Seattle, giving buyers the option to pay sellers through its app… Read More

Generation App: Why do we still use Craigslist? The surprising longevity of the web’s most awful and useful online marketplace

Over the past two decades, Craigslist has maintained its market share in the online classified space, despite neglecting to make any… Read More

StuffHopper helps people sell stuff online, operating as ‘a mirror image to Amazon’

The ranks of would-be Craigslist killers continues to grow, but one young Seattle startup is taking a different approach in… Read More

Gone brings its on-demand selling marketplace for used electronics to Seattle

There’s a new way for Seattleites to get rid of their old electronics. San Francisco-based Gone is launching today in Seattle, bringing… Read More

Fast-growing OfferUp breaks silence with $90M in funding, goes after Craigslist

OfferUp — one of the Seattle area’s most valuable, secretive and fastest growing startups — announced more than $90 million… Read More

If you use ‘Netflix and chill’ to hook up, you might want to get some new game

If your post to “Netflix and chill” on Craigslist isn’t getting any responses, you might want to see this. Newsweek… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Sayist focuses on safety and design with new video classifieds site

Update, Thursday Aug. 6: Sayist has taken down its website after GeekWire readers pointed out the large volume of content… Read More

Bootstrapping Tacoma startup seeking ‘Busty/Sexy’ spokesperson

If you’re a struggling startup in Tacoma, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, what are you to do? Take out… Read More

Facebook adds Craigslist-esque classified ad tools to ‘for sale’ groups

Members of “for sale” groups on Facebook now have some new tools for hawking their wares on the social networking… Read More

Seattle Times owner scoffs at Craigslist founder’s journalism advocacy efforts

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, has taken part of his online classified ads money and gotten involved in advocating… Read More

A non-creepy Craigslist: CampusWall rolls out a safer marketplace for college students

We’ve all encountered those questionable Craigslist ads: one person looking for an “R. Kelly Impersonator,” another selling a portable stripper… Read More

Why this Seattle startup ‘Punk’d’ unsuspecting Craigslist sellers

This seems like a great way to get yourself killed, or at least seriously injured. Replyboard founder Steinar Skipsnes and friend… Read More

Microsoft Store ‘fans’ scalping free passes to Seattle concerts

We knew that most of the people waiting for the Microsoft Store grand opening in Seattle this week weren’t actually… Read More