A Craig’s list user was able to use the site to unleash a mob on a woman’s house inviting people to take what they wanted free of charge. They stripped the home clean of everything including such fixtures as windows and sinks. The ransacked home was a shell of itself.
This is a devastating fall for the credibility of Craig’s List. This event has brought out other such problems with the Craig’s List website, including prostitution rings, rental scams, and other types of fraud. What is even more outrageous is that Craig’s List is protecting the perpetrator to the crime by refusing to help the woman find out who did it, as if such the perpetrator has a right to privacy. Craig’s list obviously isn’t looking out for the public on this one. As light shines on Craig’s list, people will seek new approaches to ensure trusted trading.
As fate would have it, Collabotrade.com is a trusted trading network that does meet people’s need for trust. By creating niche social trading networks within the site, that are subject to localized administrators, individuals cans substantially mitigate illegal and unscrupulous activity.
Collabotrade is the next generation of social trading networks. It puts trust back into social trading.LK
Filed under: Social Trading, Trusted Communities | Tagged: craig's list, fraud, prostitution, illegal, plunder, "come and take what you want"
I try and maintain a professional and levelheaded voice on my website, but I’m really itching to just RANT about this. If you guys offer a solution / alternative to these possibilities, you have my full support.