Author Topic: Site Mash & Craiglist (Read 229 times)

hammer · « **on:** August 31, 2011, 10:29:14 AM »

The site mash website that has done such a great job making local craigslist listings of Alembic and other manufacturers music equipment available nationally has been forced to pull all Craiglist material from their website. I can't begin to fathom how this makes any sense. It makes it all that more important for those of us looking for equipment to post on this site links to interesting local Craiglist listings of Alembic gear. I would hope that would still be considered legal.

sonicus · « **Reply #1 on:** August 31, 2011, 10:44:26 AM »

The link above tells the story.
I contacted Craigslist and wrote that the only way that they can fix this Wrong toward consumers is to offer a nation wide search option on Craigslist or reverse the cease and desist order I have not gotten any reply from them as of yet and I sent them the eMail several days ago.

wookie · « **Reply #2 on:** August 31, 2011, 10:47:18 AM »

hey brotha I feel ya on that when jaxed.com got cut off from CL it brought a tear to my eye. I got my last two alembics from there and literally 10 other guitars from there I've easily spent 6k in the last year just because of that site. the only other things I've found are 1)selling spare organs to fill my alembic GAS 2) going to vendors in china (which I'm way to scared to try).

at any rate to everyone here please post Europa 5 and 6 strings for sale here I NEED THEM. this is all residual from around '92 per Jason newsted. and BTW if he may read this why did you have to be such an inspiration and play the most expensive basses on the planet, that has led me on this 18 year quest? I'm not a fan boy anymore but I'd like to shake his hand and share a beer with the guy.

thanks guys and keep looking and posting! let me know if there is something I can do to help any of you out take care and good luck!

sonicus · « **Reply #3 on:** August 31, 2011, 11:02:45 AM »

We can contact Craigslist and complain, the more complaints the more they will realize that Their Public is not happy with their actions. .I might suggest that all complaints remain civil and professional in nature . Respect and a smile will go further then the opposite in the process of making your case.

hgregs · « **Reply #4 on:** August 31, 2011, 11:58:18 AM »

i never used site mash, but i assume it worked similarly to http://www.allofcraigs.com/ which appears to be working fine (at least until they get a cease and decist).

bsee · « **Reply #5 on:** August 31, 2011, 12:54:51 PM »

I saw this a few days ago and wrote craigslist as well. while very nice to have, I don't even need a nationwide search, even the ability to select a dozen or so regions would make it useful for the way it is supposed to be used (i.e. for local searches). I am willing to drive a couple hours for some of the items I look for, and in my area, there are at least a dozen craigslist search areas that fall within that distance. It's too much of a pain to cycle through all of them individually.

I would suspect that craigslist is getting their hardware pounded by these mega-search engines. There may even be some complaints from advertisers who don't want to risk getting scammed by someone wanting them to ship an item across the country.

Who knows what they are thinking.

sonicus · « **Reply #6 on:** August 31, 2011, 02:41:29 PM »

hgregs____ Thanks for the link.

bsee · « **Reply #7 on:** August 31, 2011, 03:44:05 PM »

That allofcraigs thing is just a touch better than using google straight up with a site:craigslist.org added to the search. Jaxed did a much better job of distilling the results. Better than nothing, I suppose.

sonicus · « **Reply #8 on:** August 31, 2011, 03:54:49 PM »

bsee____Yes I agree , I just checked it out my self.

thumbsup · « **Reply #9 on:** August 31, 2011, 07:04:56 PM »

www.my-craigs-finder.com
search all - search by state - search by region

(Message edited by thumbsup on August 31, 2011)

bsee · « **Reply #10 on:** August 31, 2011, 07:40:17 PM »

Also a google search with very little in the way of intelligence or processing. The Jaxed site actually processed the return data into showing a pic, and providing the title in one line. You could see dozens of listings easily on a screen. These other things are very basic google search front-ends that do no processing on the results. The area feature didn't seem to do much either.