How Craigslist Costs Newspapers Money

Allnighterking writes "Well you knew it would happen, Now that eBay has purchased 25% of craigslist, the news is out and suddenly newspapers are claiming that it's costing them money (50-65 million U.S. dollars a year). The original Slashdot coverage is here."

ebay... beh

[RealBeanDip]

"now that eBay has purchased 25% of craigslist"

Must of got caught up in the heat of the auction, I heard they only wanted 20%.

Notice Music Industry

[jlaxson]

Newspapers aren't trying to sue the smitherines out of Craigslist.

Bah

[44BSD]

Any paper seriously threatened by Craigslist would have gone out of business thanks to the invention of toilet paper.

I like craigslist

[slungsolow]

Ever since my apartment complex (cheap 'ghetto' area of arlington, va, or at least the closest you get to a ghetto in arlington) advertised its apartments on CL they have been getting some young, attractive, american females.

I no longer have to ask "hablo ingles" when someone is stealing my socks in the laundry room!!.

Check out the comics...

[__aaclcg7560]

No wonder the newspapers are losing money... have you seen how small the comic stripe panels are? Sheesh...

Re:Apples and Steamships

[ravenspear]

There's nothing I've put on craigslist that I would have put in a newspaper.

Ah, so that was you who put the add up saying he wanted a hairy old man to pound his ass now.

I think the newspapers should lobby Congress...

[Newer Guy]

The newspaper lobby needs to pay off Congress to enact special legislation making Craigslist illegal. They could call it the NMCA (Newspaper Millennium Copyright Act).

Next, How Movies cost Vaudeville Money

[istartedi]

Next, How Movies cost Vaudeville Money. 'nuff said.

Re:ebay... beh

[Subm]

First it was 1/5.

Then it was 1/4.

Then it was 1/37.

Now it's down to 1/56,000.

Check again in 2029.

Re:Here's a newsflash for all you dipshit MBAs

[Anonym0us Cow Herd]

When I spend my money on your competition, it doesn't COST you money.

Comrad, do I detect a subversive thought here?

Microsoft is Losing Money due to Linux and OpenOffice.org.
The RIAA is Losing Money due to fewer people buying CD's.
When you skip television commercials, you are stealing.


Don't you get it? Not spending money in the way that our God given Corporations want you to endangers the very fabric of upper society. All RightThinking(tm) people understand this; or, are at least too busy consuming to have idle time to consider such subversive thoughts.

Re:and in other news...

[Gzip Christ]

Hmm...this Internet thing seems to be a disruptive technology...whoda thunk it.

Al Gore.

I love this new corporate math.

[aussersterne]

Every American who doesn't give me a dollar right now is costing me the dollar that I'd have if only they'd given it to me.

Thus, Americans' selfishness is currently costing me over $250 million a year, and that lost revenue has a real economic impact; it's money that would otherwise be flowing into the economy when I spent it on myself.

I think it's time that congress got involved.

Re:News Papers are here to stay

[SYFer]

In the Bay Area, we like to use the Examiner for wrapping mercury-tainted fish.

Re:Cost the Newspapers?

[Daniel Dvorkin]

In BigCompanyLand(R)(c)(tm), everyone wants to give BigCompany(R)(c)(tm) all of their money, all the time, and only the dastardly efforts of a small group of malcontent record pirates, communist open source developers, and smelly hippie web site operators are preventing this happy outcome. Thus every shared file, every download of a F/OSS app, and every posting on a free web site represents direct theft from the mouths of the hungry children of BigCompany(R)(c)(tm)'s shareholders, and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, as administered by LawCorp(R)(c)(tm), a wholly owned and operate subsidiary of BigCompany(R)(c)(tm).

Hope this clears things up.

In Other News...

[Cervantes]

In Other News:
That guy who got the sysadmin job I applied for has now cost me over $60,000CDN in lost income. Bastard!

And the cow-irker who works down the hall and purchased a computer from CompuSlut instead of me cost me another $250. Bastard!

And all those people who wanted holiday photos printed, and went to a "professional printers" instead of letting me charge them $20 per page to do it on my colour laser just cost me over $600! Bastard!

I mean, what do we think we are, a capitalist society here or something? I have a right to this money, and it is inherently wrong for anyone but ME to get it!

We all need to band together to ensure that EVERYONE has to pay whatever price I set for my services, because it is just WRONG for some new paradigm to come along and get the money, just because they happen to have a cheaper method of doing things. It's WRONG, I tell you, and we must FIGHT IT. Send a message to these bastards, and give me all your money!

Sincerely;
Cerv

Re:My expiriences

[gwoodrow]

Plus you can get free sex through their "casual encounters" section. That's really cut into my pimpin' revenue, so I'm with the newspapers on that one.

Re:I love this new corporate math.

[Anonymous Coward]

And that whooshing sound is the joke going straight over your head, McFly.

Re:As someone in the business...

[Spacejock]

We're still seeing positive growth in our traffic, so they just aren't going to budge.

Haven't they realised 90% of their 'registered' readers have the same name but a zillion different IP addresses?

Re:News Papers are here to stay

[TClevenger]

That's funny; I thought the Mercury News would be the most appopriate for that.

Missed opportunities

[geekoid]

"Yeah, I use Yahoo. I'd be interested to find out more about there technology...perhaps over dinner?"

Re:Irony is[n't plugged in]

[ALpaca2500]

the the "what's your shoe size" is a reference to monty python...

Mervyn Hello, hello, operator? Yes we're trying to get the fire brigade ... No, the fire brigade. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, what? ... (he takes one of his shoes off and looks in it) Size eight. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, no of course not, Yes... ...

Mrs Little (into the phone) Hello, I'm sorry to keep you waiting, It's just that... (she takes her shoe off and looks inside) size three, yes it's just - we've lost a dear one and my son was ... yes, that's right, size eight, yes and... Oh I see... yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I see, yes, yes, I, I ... Yes, yes. No ... no... yes, I see. They can't get the fire brigade Mervyn - will the Boys' Brigade do?

http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode31.htm [ibras.dk]