Have you had the opportunity to check out Kijiji yet? Owned by eBay, it’s their “new & improved” version of Craigslist. You didn’t think the world would let them continue without much competition for too long, did you?
Kijiji is named after the Swahili word for “village”, which eBay probably gave some guy a million dollars to come up with. So far, Kijiji offers free classified ads for individuals categorized in 220 different cities around the United States as well as some Canadian listings.
Like Craigslist, Kijiji offers free classified ads for individuals to conduct business amongst themselves- without the middleman. The humorous part of all this is that eBay actually owns 25% of Craigslist; so in essence, they are competing against themselves in efforts to dominate the Internet’s free classified ads websites.Have you posted anything on Kijiji yet? If so, what was your experience like with it? Should we all stick with Craigslist, or is it time to broaden our horizons and look for opportunities to move on to bigger and better things?Â
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Article posted by: Neon on August 25th, 2007
ebay will most likely be using content or listings, etc from craigslist to help build out or “fill in” for kijiji.
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What a messed up domain they choose. They think its easy? I can’t remember it because theres too many dotted items in a row and I’m really not sure whats going on with it. So far from what I can tell it is is just as normal ebay listings but now listed as an classified instead without the buy now button. We shall see!
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I thought that it was a very difficult name to get used to as well. You’ve got to look at it twice in order to see how to spell it.
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What a ridiculous name! Also I am guessing there must be plenty of other free classifieds competitors in the US?
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Both kijijijij and craigslist will end up at the bottom of the bottomless internet pit.
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Interesting. I’m going to explore Kijiji in the morning. Time for sleep now
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I’ve now chosen smaller and local sites like ( www.vehixcars.info ) nice little site and they even answer your auto questions, and right the first time > I think with proper management this free site could rival these monsters.
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Hi, Nice Post ! ! Thanks for the info. But i want more details about this info…
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That’s really the only way someone could give you information on where to start. If you have never done anything like that then you need to start with the basics . . HTML and CSS . . if you have, then it would help to specify what you know.
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I am abroad in Australia and I just broke my digital camera. I was looking at cameras in stores in Australia and every single one is expensive. They’re expensive compared to the ones they sell in the USA. So I was wondering if there is an Australian version of Amazon or Ebay, just because it’s cheaper that way. I could order a camera from Amazon from the US but shipping is going to be expensive.
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I don’t know any site like that, sorry, but I do know if you set the language on Google to Spanish, and then type in craigslist you could have Google translate it to Spanish for you.
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I am studying abroad right now in tokyo and would like to find a native speaker to have conversations in Japanese with, however I don’t think that Craigslist tokyo is the most accessible place to place an ad for Japanese natives because they don’t speak English.
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