Why, Some Posting Are Posted Two Or Three Times. I Can Only Post One Time, Why?

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Answer #1: Posted by Odin on March 27th, 2011 9:55 AM

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You didn't give any details, so we can only guess. Craigslist allow you to post as many times you like, providing you follow its rules.

The primary restrictions are these:

You may not post "essentially the same item" before deleting the old item. This applies even when posting in a different city or category. So if your post lends itself to more than one category, you need to alternate the categories.

Workaround: You may be able to overcome this restriction by setting up an additional account with a different email address.

You may not post the same item more than once in 48 hours. Until February of 2006, this rule wasn't strictly enforced. Now you will not be permitted to re-post until fully 2,880 minutes have elapsed.

Note that it may take about 15 minutes before a new post is accessible to users.

Hint: Bringing up your post as submitted, by clicking on its heading on your account page, will disclose the date and exact time posted, two lines below the head.

Update. As of this writing, Craigslist is requiring about 15 minutes more than 48 hours before allowing a re-post, in this quirky fashion: It will allow you to delete and resubmit (if the 2,880 minutes have elapsed), but at the end of the resubmission process it will disallow the new post as too similar to another recent post (!). To avoid this situation, add 14 or 15 minutes to the 48 hours, before reposting.

Your post may not contain a link "to a commercial website or auction." This is an example of a rule I haven't been able to find anywhere, until I was blocked for violating it! You may have to guess whether Craigslist will consider the linked site "commercial." Craigslist's current enforcement of this restriction seems to be minimal.

You'll be entirely safe if you don't link to any website, but instead invite the reader to email you for more information (very easily done--see below). This option however involves the risk that your reply may be blocked by a spam filter (even though your message isn't spam). You may always give a Web address as non-linking text, or link to a webpage without any links on it.

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It should be said that Craigslist's enforcement of its rules is unpredictable. The last rule in particular does not seem to be often applied.

For more Craigslist tips, see my Craigslist tips and tricks.

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