In Craigslist you can buy and sell stuff but it’s not like eBay where people could auction for the item. On the good side though is that Craigslist ads are free while in eBay you still need to pay for it.
Keith Teare has come up of a way to use Craigslist with a Google Docs spreadsheet so it could take bids for the item. What he did is he made hyperlinks on his ad directing the interested bidder to click on the link where he will be directed to his Google Docs Spreadsheet that is read only. Here the bidder can see what the highest bid is and what time the bidder made the bid.
At the bottom of his ad he made a form where the bidder could type in the required information such as the name, the amount of bid and the email address. This will then be directed to the spreadsheet but viewers can only see it and not edit it as it’s read-only.
That’s it! Now you can take in bids for your Craigslist ads.
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