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I don't understand - why should they allow AirBnB postings in the first place? When someone comes to Craigslist, I think the assumption is that you'll be doing

by athst 14y ago

I don't understand - why should they allow AirBnB postings in the first place? When someone comes to Craigslist, I think the assumption is that you'll be doing business on Craigslist and not through a third party site like AirBnB. Why should they allow another company to take advantage of their audience if they don't want to?

andrewfelix 14y ago
Yeah it's funny the expectations people have of long running commercial services like Craigslist. Craigslist is not a public utility.
- bahoo 14y ago
  Agreed; but listings do often link out to other external sites. CraigsList seems to draw the line between a property management company and somebody like AirBNB.
  - rhizome 14y ago
    You're generally prohibited from putting links in ads at all, outside of jobs and maybe a couple other categories.
foxit 14y ago
This isn't about them allowing postings via airbnb, but rather not allowing the string "airbnb.com" to appear in the ad.
- foxit 14y ago
  What in the world was this downvoted for. Seriously. I was explaining a misunderstanding. For those who don't know, Airbnb has a posting-to-Craigslist option. It is not an auto-poster; rather, it formats a post into the html that'll be accepted by Craigslist, then you have to log into your Craigslist account to post to Craigslist what Airbnb's given you. We haven't used this option since we started. It does invite you to go to Airbnb's site so the transaction is not being conducted via Craigslist's email system. It chooses "no email - see below" as the default option and does not include a phone number. You can, of course, since you are the poster and it's not being auto-posted, change anything and everything about the format and the options. Then you have our situation, the situation that has developed. We indicate our reviews on Airbnb and other services. The other services remain fine and untouched. But we can no longer show potential customers our Airbnb reviews.

by athst 14y ago

andrewfelix 14y ago

Yeah it's funny the expectations people have of long running commercial services like Craigslist. Craigslist is not a public utility.

bahoo 14y ago
Agreed; but listings do often link out to other external sites. CraigsList seems to draw the line between a property management company and somebody like AirBNB.
- rhizome 14y ago
  You're generally prohibited from putting links in ads at all, outside of jobs and maybe a couple other categories.

foxit 14y ago

This isn't about them allowing postings via airbnb, but rather not allowing the string "airbnb.com" to appear in the ad.

foxit 14y ago
What in the world was this downvoted for. Seriously. I was explaining a misunderstanding. For those who don't know, Airbnb has a posting-to-Craigslist option. It is not an auto-poster; rather, it formats a post into the html that'll be accepted by Craigslist, then you have to log into your Craigslist account to post to Craigslist what Airbnb's given you. We haven't used this option since we started. It does invite you to go to Airbnb's site so the transaction is not being conducted via Craigslist's email system. It chooses "no email - see below" as the default option and does not include a phone number. You can, of course, since you are the poster and it's not being auto-posted, change anything and everything about the format and the options. Then you have our situation, the situation that has developed. We indicate our reviews on Airbnb and other services. The other services remain fine and untouched. But we can no longer show potential customers our Airbnb reviews.