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Well that's certainly how we felt too. As time goes on it's becoming more obvious why they are getting so aggressive. I believe it's because they feel threatened. People are starting to compete with them like AirBnb etc and I think their backed into a corner.

We literally told their lawyers that we would change anything they wanted about the feature so it would provide 100% benefit to Craigslist and our users instead of driving us traffic. That wasn't enough apparantely


I suppose the only real alternative, then, would be compete with them on the network effect.

Good luck.


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