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I feel like Facebook Marketplace was really the only way to disrupt Craigslist because it is where the users are. There were lots of products that tried over the years with varying degrees of success, but mostly failure. I'm not saying it is a better replacement either, but as far as I can tell it's effectively stolen most of Craigslists utility. I joked the other day that the only people left on Craigslist now are scammers and older people.


Disruption is still very regional. Where I live Kijiji (Ebay) is dominant, in other locales it's still Craigslist. FB Marketplace is still an "and also" player but not dominate here




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