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Joe,


I can't discuss things when the other site flat out doesn't tell the truth or what they say doesn't add up.


I'm talking to a guy that claims wrote his own piece of software that breaks thru any and all Craigslist safety/security systems, let me tell you what is wrong with that.


Read this:


"Then I take my hand-developed auto software which takes the online ad, copies, it, deletes it, re posts it, does the capcacha, etc. So the first batch of ads, I'm doing all myself and 3 hours to start sounds about right. But after they are posted, it's all automatic from there.. "


For all dealers: Breaking the captcha is breaking thru a security measure therefore known as hacking. Any person reading this that posts/works with CL know that fully automated software gets blown/ghosted by CL pretty quick not to mention the possible legal problems from screwing with their system. All lawsuits that CL has fought to this matter have been against automated systems that went around their software. For the record: Everything that I do for example and everything that I tell people to do is manual entry (auto create the templates but post them by hand).


Another non-truth that he writes is the "takes the online ad, copies, it, deletes it, re posts it"  it sounds like a great process but you see, CL doesn't care that the ad has been posted or not as every ad is a new entry unless you are just logging in the PVA and hitting re-post. The problem with that is that you have to manually update in the code of each ad any changes such as price or comments.