'advertise' Multiple Local Business's In A Single Craigslist Ad For A Fee?

I own an antique store, can I take (8) pictures of my antiques with dollar amount prices and put them up on craigslist as an online auction ? My neighbors a artists and she paints beautiful paintings, can I do the same for her and charge her a percentage? and I can renew the posts every 48 hours according to Craigslist regulations, and if Im already doing all that I should just make a bunch of email address's and craigslist accounts and keep my local ads active on every relevent category craigslist has. So is this allowed on craigslist? Legal? Lots of work so no one will do it? Thanks for the read

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Answer #1: Posted by Odin on June 20th, 2013 2:56 PM

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Your question is hard to follow, but I hope the following will help.

1. Paying Craigslist a fee for a free ad to relax the rules regarding multiple listings is not an option. As I suppose you know, Craigslist does not allow multiple ads (ads that are essentially the same running simultaneously). Very few ads are paid: see http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/posting_fees.

2. You can try opening multiple accounts to get around the rules, but Craigslist will probably catch on if the accounts all originate from the same IP address.

3. You used the term, "Legal." Flaunting Craigslist's rules is not illegal, and good luck if you can succeed. To this end you may want to try a Web proxy, as offered free at http://www.zend2.com/.

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