Maybe we didn't get it right. Every time we advertise competitively on Craigslist, like you can:

- buy a Vita Mix 4500 TurboBlend Blender with sound enclosure for $ 399.95, or
- if you own a Vita Mix 5200 Blender you qualify to enter a free drawing for a $ 100 free sound enclosure for your own Vita Mix 5200 Blender
- Blendtec blenders are noisy and we offer a free sound enclosure with it when you purchase the Blendtec HP3A blender for $ 399 from us
-etc...

Somebody removes or requests the removal, or reports our adds for removal from CraigsList. Where is the complaint? As you know, eBay owns Craigslist. Craigslist is equally poorly process engineered. Anybody can simply report any competitor for whatsoever and they remove the ad.

It does not cost anything to advertise for example a Vita Mix 5200 Blender Review Comparison with The Vita Mix Vita Prep 3 hp 1005 blender, or the Vita Mix 4500 Turbo Blender. But somebody out there, an affiliate marketer for Vita Mix, or another blender dealer, or even Vita Mix themselves, of Blendtec, etc... find offense or something wrong, justifiable or not, and your hard work goes to the garbage.

It is just bothersome. Time is money. Where can we advertise effectively? It is true that times are tough. Competition is harsh and mean, rude, and Craigslist supports this behavior, just as eBay does. On eBay, if you are seller, you constantly have to fight negative or neutral feedback with customers. Customers have all the recourse, but sellers have none to make a customer give you a better feedback. So the competition buys your cheap products and gives you the worst kind of feedback. This ranks you poorly and your listings show up on the bottom instead on top. This is the kind of company, the same, Craigslist.

Is it worth advertising on Craigslist? Yes it is. Why? When you place an html-based link or URL on your listing, it will rank your listing very high, even within top-10 on Google within a 1 week's time. This is great. But it is just frustrating of having to fight the removal thing.

Thank you for listening. I hope this helps a little.