Fixxer's Updated Help-List for Pet Ads on Craigslist

1. Rehoming Fees Must Be Transparent and Justified
   Avoid terms like "small adoption fee" or "rehoming fee applies." State the exact fee in dollars (e.g., "$50") in the ad and justify it with specific, recent veterinary expenses (e.g., spay/neuter, vaccinations, microchipping). Fees cannot cover market value, original pet purchase price, accessories, food, or care/labor. Craigslist prohibits pet sales, and vague or unjustified fees may lead to flagging for suspected sales.
2. Clearly State Fees in the Ad
   Always include the specific rehoming fee in both the title and body of the ad. Phrases like "rehoming fee applies" are insufficient and may result in flagging due to suspicion of a disguised sale.
3. Free Pets Require Clear Language and Screening Details
   If rehoming a pet for free, include the word "Free" in both the title and body. Specify the steps you’ll take to ensure the pet goes to a good home (e.g., home visits, reference checks, or adoption questionnaires). This demonstrates responsible rehoming and reduces flagging risks.
4. Age Requirements for Puppies and Kittens
   Puppies and kittens must be at least 8 weeks old at the time of rehoming. Stating "will be 8 weeks on [date]" is not permitted, as it may suggest intent to bypass Craigslist rules or state laws (e.g., California’s pet sale age restrictions). Verify local laws, as some regions may have stricter requirements.
5. Post Pet Adoption Ads in the Correct Section
   Pet adoption/rehoming ads belong in the "Community" section under "Pets." Posting in other sections (e.g., "For Sale" or "Services") is miscategorized and may lead to flagging or removal.
6. Pet Services Go in the Services Section
   Ads for pet-related services (e.g., pet sitting, grooming, training) must be posted in the "Services" section under "Pet Services." Posting these elsewhere may result in miscategorization and flagging.
7. No Animal Parts, Blood, Fluids, or Breeding Services
   Craigslist prohibits ads for animal parts, blood, fluids, or breeding/stud services for any household pets, including dogs, cats, birds, reptiles, rodents, amphibians, or fish. Such ads will be flagged and removed.
8. No Pet Sales Allowed
   Selling household pets (e.g., dogs, cats, primates, birds, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, fish) is strictly prohibited on Craigslist. Only rehoming with reasonable, justified fees or free adoptions are allowed.
9. Rescues and Shelters Must Follow the Same Rules
   Rescue organizations and shelters must adhere to all Craigslist pet policies, including transparent fees and proper categorization. Over-posting or repetitive ads may lead to flagging for spamming. Limit posts to avoid overwhelming the platform and ensure fair use.
10. Disclaimer These helpful guidelines are my own. These are not endorsed or created by craigslist. Just like all help in flag forum 3, this is my interpretation of the rules, and my opinion on what works for pet ads. None of the help you receive in flag help forum 3 guarantees your community will accept your ad.

Man Busted For Craigslist Sex Barter Offer

MARCH 13--Meet Stan Syring.

In need of a 16-foot trailer for a flat-bottom boat, the Iowa man went on Craigslist and posted an ad proposing a barter deal in the site’s “For Sale/Wanted” section.

What Syring allegedly offered in exchange for the trailer resulted in his arrest this week, according to police.

The Craigslist post by Syring, a married, 37-year-old father, noted that the boat trailer was needed “asap,” and that the poster “will trade for sex if need be.”

After Marion Police Department officers learned of the online ad, they exchanged e-mails with the Craigslist poster discussing whether the offered act would be oral or anal sex. The parties agreed that detail would be settled when they met in person, according to police.

During a subsequent meeting with a male undercover officer, Syring “offered his services as a partner in a sex act in exchange for a boat trailer,” according to a District Court criminal complaint.

Investigators allege that Syring also agreed to give the cop $25 (in addition to the sex act, which is not further described in court papers). A used 16-foot boat trailer typically sells for several hundred dollars.  

Syring was subsequently arrested and charged with prostitution. He was booked Monday into the Linn County jail on the misdemeanor count, and was released from custody the following day. (1 page)       

Malaysian Flight 370 Plane For Sale On Craigslist, Only $70

Malaysia Airlines 777 pops up on Craigslist, and for just $70

Although it's clearly a gag, it might be worth putting together 70 bucks to try to buy this, just in case we live in a computer simulation that's just been infected with a crazy virus.

by Eric Mack

 March 16, 2014 10:30 AM PDT

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When converted from Vietnamese dong, the most sought after plane in the world is advertised on Craigslist for $70.

(Credit: Craigslist / Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET)

Leave it to the Internet to yet again capitalize on a mysterious tragedy for the sake of a scam, a punchline, or both. Reporting on the bizarre disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 has bounced all over the place over the course of the past several days, with theories on the fate of the Boeing 777 airliner ranging from a hijacking or terrorism to pilot error and an even wider range of conspiratorial hypotheses.

Fortunately, Crave has tracked down the plane. It's currently for sale on the VietnamCraigslist for $15 million.

Actually, it should go without saying that the "Slightly used Boeing 777-300" offered with "not much fuel" and including "all the snacks in the plane" is just a rather insensitive joke. If you don't think that's immediately obvious, I'd also point out that the poster didn't seem to realize that there's a difference between US dollars and Vietnam's currency, the Dong. The listing headline asks for just 1.5 million dong for the plane. That's about $70.

Then again, maybe it would be worth putting together 70 bucks for the one in a billion chance that it gets us the most sought-after plane in the world. After all, there's a chance we're all just part of a computer simulation anyway, and what if that simulation has a serious bug in it centered somewhere in southeast Asia?

Related stories

• Site lets people search satellite images for lost Malaysian plane
• Web collects 650K clues in satellite-image search for missing plane
• Are we in the Matrix? Science looks for signs we're not real

Alas, a phone number is omitted from the ad.

But it does highlight the rather ridiculous media treatment this story has been getting, with mainstream outlets jumping all over each and every thin hypothesis put forward by supposed experts or officials, only to be rebuked time and again.

This is what happens with a big story that keeps rotating through the 24-hour news cycle within a near total fact vacuum.

I've heard normally reputable journalists discussing the possibility that the plane landedseveral days ago, without addressing the clear lack of contact that the hundreds of passengers on board have had with the wider world for the past week, or how an isolated island big enough for a 777 to land on it has been missed amid all the search efforts.

As the old saying goes, if you'll believe that story, I've got a Boeing 777 in Vietnam I can sell you.

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Crave freelancer Eric Mack is a writer, radio producer, and podcaster based in Taos, N.M., but he lives in Google+. He has written e-books on both Alaska and Android. E-mail Eric.

Craigslist In The News Again

Craigslist Murder Suspect Says She Killed 22 Others

The Associated Press

Feb 15, 2014, 11:14 PM

PennLive.com, Christine Baker/AP Photo

A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her newlywed husband in the murder of a man they met through Craigslist admitted to the slaying in a jailhouse interview with a newspaper and said she has killed more than 20 others across the country, claims police said they are investigating.
In an interview with The Daily Item in Sunbury, 19-year-old Miranda Barbour said she wants to plead guilty to killing Troy LaFerrara in November. She also said in the interview that she has killed at least 22 other people from Alaska to North Carolina in the last six years as part of her involvement in a satanic cult.
"I feel it is time to get all of this out. I don't care if people believe me. I just want to get it out," Barbour told the newspaper for a story published Saturday night (http://bit.ly/1f7fvOH).
Sunbury police Chief Steve Mazzeo told the newspaper that investigators have been in contact with the FBI and law enforcement in several other states.
"From information we gathered and from information gathered from her interview we are seriously concerned and have been in contact with the proper authorities," Mazzeo said.
Lawyers for the couple did not immediately return messages from The Associated Press left at their offices Saturday night. Mazzeo and an FBI spokeswoman in Philadelphia did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment Sunday.
Attorneys for Barbour and her husband, 22-year-old Elytte Barbour, have both sought psychiatric evaluations for their clients.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for both defendants in LaFerrara's killing. Authorities said Miranda Barbour, a petite woman with long brown hair, told investigators she met the 6-foot-2, 278-pound victim after he responded to her Craigslist ad offering companionship for money.
Police allege in court papers that Elytte Barbour told investigators they committed the crime because they wanted to kill someone together. The couple, who were married in North Carolina and moved to Pennsylvania about three weeks before the crime, told police Miranda Barbour stabbed LaFerrara in the front seat of her car while her husband held a cord around his neck.
Miranda Barbour said in the interview that she doesn't want to get out of jail and that she would kill again if she were released. She said she had no remorse and only killed "bad people."
Miranda Barbour offered little detail on the murders she claimed to have participated in in Alaska, Texas, North Carolina and California. She claims she joined a satanic cult in Alaska when she was 13 before moving to North Carolina. Online records for the woman that the newspaper identified as Barbour's mother show her as having lived in both Alaska and North Carolina.

The most sexist "strictly platonic" craigslist ad ever.

CL > los angeles > san gabriel valley > all personals > strictly platonic

 dszgh-3661672848@pers.craigslist.org 

flag ^[?] : miscategorized prohibited spam best of 

Posted: 2013-03-05, 5:00PM PST

To my Fellow C-listers - m4w - 28 (Hacienda Heights)

Are you looking for a friend? Are you looking for an experience? Are you looking for something 

that isn't a damn bot?

Well congratulations friend, because you found me!

What's that you say? Everyone on Craigslist wants to be your friend?

Hey, shut up for a second because that's not true. Most guys on Craigslist want their dick to be 

friends with your pussy and that's about it. While this guy right here absolutely adores sex you 

will have little if any problems with pressure from me. For one: This is strictly platonic so that

 shouldn't even be a worry for you. Two: I have recently been dumped. It was bad too. I won't

 go into the details, but the short-version is I am not looking for any kind of intimate relationship

 and I can guarantee you won't be getting anything out of my pants unless it's a dollar for the 

vending machine. Speaking of a dollar! The other reason you won't need to worry about me 

trying to take you out is because I'm broke as fuck. I ain't got no job, my car is in desperate 

need of repairs, and I got enough change in my pocket to buy a snack from the vending....oh

 wait, no I don't; I gave you that dollar.

What's that you say? Well if you're broke... what's in it for me?

Well, you see, you get:
-Intellectual conversation
-Laughter (especially if you're fan of Simpson's wit)
-A freindzone friendly "listen-to-your-bitching-all-day" ear
-Insight and advice (if requested) complete nodding and silence (if not)
-Fucking Awesome! (Free) Adventures!
-A guy who is honest about looking at your cleavage, not because he's a pervert, but because

 you're beautiful!
-And don't forget about that dollar!

You've made it halfway! Check point like a motherfucker! So I've spent the first half going 

through what's wrong with me. What's right with me?!

I'm fucking awesome! Not only do I have an amazing creative repertoire! I'm smart as fuck! 

I use words like repertoire! However, I don't have to be all in your face about it! I will humble 

the shit out of myself, because I'm not here to make you feel inferior, I'm here to compliment 

you. That's what good friends do! See? Creative, smart, humble, and kind! Being broke don't 

seem like such a death sentence now, does it? You want to talk about some righteous political 

debauchery battle? You want to joke about the good ol' days? You want to tell me about that 

awesome squirrel you saw?! All of that sounds awesome! I can't wait to talk about any and 

(hopefully) all of that with you. Tired of talking?! Ready for action!? Let's get off our asses 

and go for a hike! I know this awesome park! You don't want to hike because that takes 

walking? Well, why the fuck didn't you say so? I have this comfy ass couch in front of this 

nice TV that will make movies, cartoons, dramas, documentaries, news, and/or snow appear!

So that's me, what about you?

Well you see, I asked if you wanted a friend. That means, by default it doesn't matter 

what/who/when/why/how you are! If you want a friend, all you have to do is hit that fancy

 little reply button and shoot me one of them new-fangled electronic mails. With that being said,

 I am no different from any human in the world and I do have tastes and preferences, so while

 I am not looking for any of these traits in any particular person if you do have the following, 

we may just connect that quicker. My hobbies include playing videogames. I adore girls who 

play games (as opposed to girl gamers, who I don't adore), writing, watching anime

 (and studying Japanese culture in general), creating (games, ideas, and scenarios), I love the 

Simpsons and I love to quote them even more. I love to joke around wittingly. I love to act, 

I love to project, I love to be seen. I love fast music (nightcore, happy hardcore, and 8-bit mash).

 I love people who can draw, write, or bounce brainstorming ideas. I love zombies!!!

So I've read it all, what now?

Now, it's up to you. Do we become friends? Or do you just pass me up and never meet with me?

 Do I become just another of those billions of people you'll never meet or do I get a special place 

of friendship with you? I'm curious to see which path you'll take. Also, congratulations if you

 read it all the way through, I love people who pay attention to me and people who can read,

 so that's a double bonus for you.

Whoa Whoa Whoa buddy. This is a repost. I read it yesterday.

And it's still awesome isn't it!? Look, I'm gonna level with you, most posts on Craigslist are three

 to five lines of "Hey, give me pic." Then you write a few emails and bam! Never talk again!

 That's fucking lame! Not me! I've decided that I'm gonna make a game out of this ad! From 

today on I will post this ad again sometime past noon for the rest of the week. (monday-sunday)

 There will be different titles, ages, and locations every week to make it tougher to find, but if you

 do find it, message me and I'll give you a friendship token! The person who responds to me with 

the most friendship tokens at the end of the week wins an awesome prize that I haven't decided

 on yet!

• Location: Hacienda Heights
• it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Posting ID: 3661672848

 

Posted: 2013-03-05, 5:00PM PST

 

Edited: 2013-03-05, 5:00PM PST

 

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