Bill Caswell is now gaining great popularity for news he let out when he won 3rd place in a World Rally Championship race with a very cheap car that he only bought for $500 from Craigslist. This guy is amazing, no real funds yet a lot of free time and a welder plus credit cards made him a 3rd placer in a competition for renowned racing pros. His $500 1991 BMW 318i beats other rally cars that are over $400,000 worth.
It really makes you think that a racer is really born and not made. This guy proved that even a D.I.Y car can beat the most expensive racing cars as long as the racer has the heart and dedication for the sport.
The rivalry between eBay and Craigslist had been in the news for over a couple of years now. First, eBay acquired shares on Craigslist then a year later launched Kijiji, a classified site very similar to Craigslist. In 2007 they launched Kijiji in the US and filed suits against Craigslist about pushing them out of shares but Craigslist filed a case against eBay with their hostile intention of taking over.
Craigslist was more on the passive side while eBay continues to push further and even changed Kijiji to eBayclassifieds.com with a mobile application. They wanted to out beat Craigslist with their “better” online classified ads site with their new ability of taking pictures and creating listings instantly through their mobile application. With the name change and better mobile application, they expected and hoped to beat Craigslist but statistics for unique visitors show otherwise. Craigslist continues to be on the 45-55M range of unique visitors while eBayclassifieds.com on the 0-1 million range. If eBay wants to beat Craigslist they really have to think of better ways to raise the competition, perhaps by reviving their good name first.
A $750 worth stroller was stolen from the front porch of Lindsay Taylor. After he noticed the stroller was stolen, this internet-savvy parent immediately checked for ads on Craigslist.
Lo’ and behold, he found an ad for a double red Phil & Ted’s stroller which is the same as the stroller stolen from them. The ad was posted around 3 in the morning just 2 hours after he heard something outside. He contacted the seller through email but the seller won’t give out his name and his number’s blocked. The seller became a bit suspicious when Taylor asked for the color of the stroller but eventually they met up on Sunday at a parking lot. Taylor brought a friend along. Then, a car pulled up and popped his trunk but stayed in the car while a woman went out and talked to Taylor. When he confirmed that the stroller was his, his friend took photos right away and Taylor started yelling at the thief couple. The police then took over when he reported the incident.
It turns out several cases were also filed for stolen Phil & Ted’s stroller so the Taylor’s are not the first victims.
Someone who calls himself Rick Obelophy posted an ad on Craigslist selling his supposed-to-be 4 year old son named Gavin for $5,000. The ad was immediately removed but a Spokane woman who spotted the ad and called the authorities was able to save a copy of the text but was not able to save the photo of the little boy.
The ad may just be a hoax or a cry for help but it could be something even more. The investigators have seized records from the site Craigslist to get more information about the ad and the person who posted it. Investigators haven’t found any record for a man named Rick Obelophy. It is a Class C felony for anyone to sell or buy a child in Washington and once proven, you can be punished for 5 years in jail and fined $10,000.
Do you want to be part of the upcoming new movie Transformers 3? For sure you’d be interested to know that they are on a lookout for some extras for the movie but you got to be in Los Angeles. They posted a Craigslist ad looking for extras for the film. The compensation is great at $200 a day and you don’t even need to have any experience. They will be conducting precasting to see if you can get the job as one of the extras.
Here’s the link for their Craigslist job posting http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/tfr/1632726060.html Try your luck! You won’t only earn $200 a day for this job, but you will get the chance of a lifetime to be part of Transformers 3 together with the oozing Megan Fox and the handsome Shia Labeouf.
The Texas gubernatorial candidates are using social media for them to win more votes. Governor Rick Perry also used Facebook, Myspace and Twitter as well as Craigslist. He personalized his presence online by posting recent pictures on these Social media sites.
Not only was Craigslist useful to them, other sites especially twitter was especially useful. Kay Bailey Hutchison and the team are tweeting while Debra Medina are retweeting the support messages from her fans to show that she is actually reading these messages.
It’s amazing how social media helps people reach more into people which costs much less than paying for commercials and ads. It’s even more personal and fans could feel much closer to these gubernatorial hopefuls.
Two teens were placed in custody while other suspects are still at large. They are connected to the armed robbery where victims have been lured through a Craigslist ad. A couple ages 20 and 21 had been lured to the South Side street when they responded to an ad on Craigslist that offer several iPhones for just $4,000. They agreed to meet up with the seller on South Ashland Ave.
Upon arriving, their car were approached by several men with handguns pointing at them and demands for money. They were not satisfied and they beat up the guy while stealing the lady’s purse and some cash.
The police investigated and found out that another ad for CTA card was also posted on Craigslist with the same contact info as the ad for iPhones. The undercover police transacted with the 17 year old seller and arrested him and charged for 2 counts of robbery with firearms.
Polic investigators advise shoppers on the popular site, Craigslist, that they should insist on meeting with buyers or sellers on a public place and they should bring company to be safer. Make sure you let friends or family know where you are going and who you’ll be meeting as well.
The FTC or the Federal Trade Commision launched their new crackdown for con artists that prey on Americans that are currently in need of jobs.
These con artists would use the job placement and WAH scams to promote their false promises of helping people get jobs in the government as well in movies as extras. Some even offer mystery shopping jobs as well as Work-At-Home jobs.
The Operation Bottom Dollar is FTC’s new operation and they have so far filed 7 cases against these scammers. 43 criminal actions had also been filed by the justice department.
The agency had announced that they are partners with sites such as Bing, Craigslist and Monster.com to help job seekers out there to be aware and recognize which job posts are scams so they can avoid getting victimized. These sites will display the material from FTC on their sites to inform their visitors and raise awareness with the issue.
Steve Norris figured his family would need a cute lap dog so he bought his wife, Marcia, a little Chihuahua for Christmas back in 2007. His wife named the little dog Willy. 3 months later, her husband Steve died of heart attack.
Marcia Norris said that she believes Steve had an intuition and knew that she’d need somebody to get her by and that dog was it. She had a tough time after the death of her husband and so she moved, together with Willy, to Texas from Florida hoping to start fresh.
She found a job and the two moved to a Mesquite apartment on a Sunday. Two days later, she found Willy was let out of his crate. Well, Willy was missing, so is his crate and so was their TV, jewelry, computer and their wedding band. She was robbed but what pained her the most was not with losing her belongings but because Willy was gone too.
She asked for help from the police and animal control. She described her dog has a red collar. It’s the same dog that was spotted in north of Oak Cliff whose pictures were posted through Craigslist. The Mesquite shelter was alerted by somebody who saw the ad and saw the emails circulating from the animal control and Norris was informed about it.
Norris then knew her dog was found and a day later, the two were reunited. Thanks to Craigslist for making it easier to spot ads such as this one that helps reunite people and animals when it could have been a lot harder without.
Kelly Street, a mother and wife from Meridian had posted last January 1 an ad on Craigslist requesting for good Samaritans to give her some clothes for her four kids. Her family relies on the husband’s income and is having a hard time getting by with the day to day expenses and bills.
A week after her posting, she received a single reply and it came from a woman in Pearl offering her help. Kelly Street said that the woman had responded to her ad saying that she also has kids of almost the same age as Kelly’s kids and that she’d be happy to see if she has some clothes to give her. The two ladies talked for hours on the phone and the woman had really lifted the spirit of Kelly Street that she feels like someone truly cared for her and understands what she is going through.
A few days later, they spoke once more and had agreed to meet in a parking lot in Forest’s Wal-Mart. She was expected to receive some clothes from this Good Samaritan but she got so much more than she was expecting.
When she arrived at the parking lot, she was surprised to see not only a few set of clothes but outfit for each of her kids, some warm jackets, toys, books, board games and canned goods plus a purse each for her daughters.
In one of the purse, a check was found and the Streets felt like it wasn’t left there intentionally so they tried to find the Good Samaritan again through Craigslist but found lots of scammers pretending to be the woman. Though, Kelly knows better and she can remember the lady. On February 5th, she found her. Her name is Diamond Dearman.
Dearman confirmed she misplaced the check. With all the exchanges of help and doing what’s right by not keeping the money, the two ladies became friends.
Now that’s a wonderful story to tell the world about.
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