Craigslist Phone Verified Accounts (PVA)

At least there’s some more humor coming out of the NBC late night debacle. On this evening’s Tonight Show, Conan O’Brien joked that he’s putting the program for sale on Craigslist — while he still can.

However, it appears that the listing itself is no joke, and can be found under the for sale/wanted > collectibles category in Los Angeles. Titled “4 SALE: BARELY-USED LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW,” Conan’s looking for your best offer, but also “willing to trade for Coldplay tickets.”

Here’s the full listing, which includes some additional parting shots at NBC’s expense:

Tags: conan o’brien, craigslist, media, nbc, trending, tv

Craigslist had a wide range of classification with too many members across the globe. Craigslist is preferred mostly by small business owners to promote their business in a cost free way and also the best way to promote their product globally. Here is the guidance on sell product on craigslist. For the advertisement: If we are selling an old item you need to clean it up and make it ready to buy. Look for similar advertisement, to get a better idea about the market value. On posting your advertisement, make sure that you have provided as many details as possible and also to attach a good quality picture of your item. Most important thing is to be honest.

Make sure you have posted the truth about your product, don’t try to fool your customers. This will make you gain many customers in future. Make sure that the price is reasonable. If the price is too your product will be sold out but your profit will be too low. It the price is too high you won’t get any respond. Handling the customers: Don’t let the buyers to talk about an alternative form of payment. Unless you have a need for it. You may get many responses, but only few will show up. But don’t let them bother you. After the sale: Once you have sold the item make sure that you have removed your advertisement. For safe selling: When you first meet the customer make sure that it’s held in a public place. Try not to post your personal information. It’s good to have contact as many people craigslist for freelance work. Make sure that you have a detail contract before doing the work.

By: soniya1

What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly
beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy.
I’m not from New York. I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at
least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a
million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m
overreaching at all.

Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you
send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around 200 -
250. But that’s where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won’t get me to
central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an
investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she’s not as pretty as I am, nor
is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I get to her
level?

Here are my questions specifically:

- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars,
restaurants, gyms

-What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won’t hurt my
feelings

-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I’m 25)?

- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east side
so plain? I’ve seen really ‘plain jane’ boring types who have nothing to
offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I’ve seen drop dead gorgeous girls
in singles bars in the east village. What’s the story there?

- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows – lawyer, investment banker,
doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out?
Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?

- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE
ONLY

Please hold your insults – I’m putting myself out there in an honest way.
Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I’m being up front about it.
I wouldn’t be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn’t able to match
them – in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a nice home and
hearth

You: Cute girl at the bar.
Me: The guy you chatted with while waiting for our drinks.
The Topic: Why I didn’t buy you a drink.
The Audience: Women everywhere, please read this. I know it’s long, but I feel the length is expedient to truly illustrating and arguing my point.

I was waiting to order right as things were getting crazy. It was obvious that it would be a long wait. What can I say? I can’t compete with all the douches yelling for jager bombs. It was then that you appeared. A cute, petite, slightly hipster-ish girl standing next to me, waiting to order as well. The conversation began in the typical manner, simply relating on how frustrating it is when you spend half a night out just waiting for a drink. It then evolved into a true conversation. I spent the next twenty minutes finding out you have great taste in music, movies and literature. You laughed at my jokes, and that’s a big deal to average-looking guys like me.
Unfortunately, after we’d both finished our respective drinks, but were still immersed in discussion, you dropped a bomb that sent shrapnel into my heart.

“So are you gonna buy me a drink or what?”

I had been dreading this moment. I’ve learned from hard experience that any prolonged conversation with a girl at a club or a bar inevitably requires a fee of rum and coke, vodka tonic, or God forbid, a cosmo. As cute as you were, I felt obligated to retain my self-respect.

“Sorry, I don’t buy girls drinks. Just kind of my policy.”

You looked at me like I told you I was going to rape your dog Charlie (yes, I remember his name). Your face morphed from a beautiful smile into a twisted caricature of shock, revulsion, and utter disbelief.

“Seriously, you’re not gonna buy me a drink? What’s your problem?”

Well sweetheart, let me explain to you in detail my logic regarding this decision that you found so unbelievable:

1. I’ve been going to bars for a couple of years now. I enjoy meeting people when I do. I enjoy meeting attractive girls like yourself. I have, however, learned that buying girls drinks is a sucker’s game. Yes, it has developed into sharing my bed for the night a couple times, but 90% of the time, all it does is give me a higher bar tab. Now you might say I’m a prick for expecting a girl to sleep with me just because I buy her a drink. I agree an $8 cocktail does not and should not equal a sexual encounter. However, I believe spending time and money on a girl when I could be having a good night out with my friends does entitle me at least one of the following things: You reciprocating by buying me a drink, you giving me your phone number and/or going out on a date with me, where once again I will be spending time and money on you. Notice that sex is not a requirement or expectation that is coupled with any of these options. Now, of course, if I had offered to buy you a drink, and you accepted, you are not obligated to any of these things. The big distinction here is that you asked me to buy you a drink, and were shocked that I wouldn’t do so. This brings me to my second point.

2. You know exactly what you’re doing. You’re an attractive girl, and when you go out there is no shortage of guys offering to buy you drinks. You know that they are all doing so with the hope that it will lead to sex with you. You know that it’s not going to happen, but you will accept the free drinks anyway. I don’t hold this against you. If they’re dumb enough to think that buying you a drink is the key to your heart and that they are somehow different from the other Ed Hardy-wearing frat-bros then it’s their own damn fault. You’re using your god-given assets to get free alcohol, nothing wrong with that. But it is precisely because I know that you do this that I will not be another douche who thinks he can get into your pants with a mixed drink. It’s insulting to my dignity as a man and your honor as a woman. I noticed you when you first walked in. I saw you dancing with that hopeless collar-popper. I saw him go to the bar and bring a drink back to you on the dancefloor. I saw how the second the glass was in your hand, you gave him the “Thanks for the drink, it was really nice meeting you” treatment complete with the obligatory pat on the chest. I saw the pathetic, defeated look on his face as you walked away. He will enter the next round of bar hopping a little wiser I hope.

3. You took my unwillingness to fall into such a trap as an insult. You accused me of being stuck-up. You then said that I had a chance at fucking you, but that I’d ruined it by being an asshole. What exactly are you trying to tell me? That the asinine idea that getting a girl a drink will get you in her pants is actually true? That your decision of whether or not to sleep with a guy is based on him liquoring you up? We had a good conversation, and maybe you were actually interested in me. But the fact that any rapport we built was destroyed when I wouldn’t buy you a gin and tonic means that I am no longer interested in you. Not all guys are desperate sperm donors. Some of us actually value a good conversation, and we value girls who have enough respect for themselves that they don’t view sex as a transaction.

4. We established during our conversation that we are both broke-ass fine arts students. Why then would you expect that I, someone who shares your financial woes, would want to spend money on you, a girl I just met? I don’t believe that chivalry is dead. I’ll hold a door for you, I’ll pull out your chair or take your coat. I’ll help you change a flat tire, carry you over deep puddles, figure out the remote, reset your modem. I’ll even help you move when I know you a little better. Why? Because I’m a gentleman. I will not, however, buy you a drink under the pretense that it is what a gentleman does, because I simply cannot afford it. If you want a guy who can afford to buy you whatever you want, find a fifty year-old sugar daddy. There was no shortage of potentials at the bar the other night.

I hope this illustrated my thought-process clearly enough. I hope you realize that you seemed amazing at first, and that declining to buy you a drink was in no way an insult. Your reaction, however, revealed the self-entitled, game-playing she-devil that was lurking underneath. I thank god for the out that he provided at that moment though. Just after you finished your little rant on what I dick I was for not boozing you up, a group of girls emerged at the bar right behind you. Two of these girls were thin and pretty. They immediately got the attention of some bros and had free drinks within minutes. The third girl was overweight and out of place. She had clearly spent a great deal of time and effort on her appearance, but alas, she was once again forsaken by her prettier friends and left to stand by herself, looking miserable. Luckily, I know when the universe has given me a profound gift. There were two incredible moments that filled me with an elation that could not be rivaled by the orgasm I would have had while fucking you. The first was the sincere, excited smile that the chubby girl gave me when I moved past you and asked what she wanted to drink. The second was turning back and seeing the look of horror on your face. Your pathetic “have fun with the fatty” remark as you walked away was priceless. I may be broke, but I was willing to go into the red to make this girl’s night and to piss you off. I’m sure as soon as you left you got plenty of free drinks and plenty of idiots drooling over you. I just hope that I got under your skin enough to prevent any enjoyment of those things.

I had a great night. I introduced the big girl to an open-minded friend, and as I write this they are across the hall having loud sex. Normally going to bed alone, subjected to the sounds of raucous lovemaking across the hall would be a serious downer. But last night, as I crawled into my lonely bed, I slept comforted by the fact that I have retained my self-respect. Having encountered more than a few spoiled bimbos, I infer that sex with you would have consisted of you lying on your back expecting me to be so grateful that I’m seeing your “hot” naked bod makes up for the fact that you are putting absolutely no effort into this sexual experience. This may just be me trying to justify going to bed alone, but hey, what can you do?

The moral: Ladies, accept drinks if they are offered. Do not expect them. And if you’re feeling particularly wild on a given night, offer to buy the guy a drink. He will be instantly smitten.

Sometime has passed since the introduction of Craigslist PVA at the Craigslist online classified website. The introduction of these PVA was done for a specific reason, that of being able to control how often people who use Craigslist could post ads. By implementing Craigslist PVAs, Craigslist now had a much greater control over who was posting and how often they could post. The implementation of these accounts has been one of many steps Craigslist has taken to try and control or limit the amount of unwanted ads/spam that is posted on the classified website.

When Craigslist was first established, it was essentially a free for all classified site. There were basically no restrictions on who could post ads and how often they could post them. While originally this did not pose a problem, since Craigslist grew into the world’s largest online classified website, many problems came about because of this. One of the many steps Craigslist took to limit the amount of ads being posted or that could be posted by individuals was through the introduction of phone verified accounts. This originally started in the erotic services section and was tested for just over one month. Once this phase of testing was completed, it was then expanded to the entire services section. Almost overnight, there was a dramatic decrease in the quantity and frequency of ads being posted in Craigslist in the services section. The reason for this being that many advertisers were using hundreds or thousands of accounts and once phone verification was introduced they simply did not have enough phone number to use to verify all the accounts. A phone number can only be used once to phone verify an account, and this was the main reason for the dramatic drop in ads being posted on Craigslist. This is good news for legit advertisers who have a product or service they want to promote and sell in their local area. Thanks to phone verification, there were less spam ads being posted and this allowed legit advertisers to have the chance of having their ad seen by a potential customer on Craigslist instead of being lost amongst the thousands of spam ads being posted. Where originally there was no limit on how often you could post an ad on Craigslist, once phone verified accounts were introduced this was changed to one ad posted every 48 hours per account. While some advertisers did manage to get around this by using multiple accounts, the difficulty in obtaining phone numbers that are compatible with Craigslist has resulted in visible decrease in spam in the services sections on Craigslist.

The use of Craigslist PVA came about due to how popular and how much unwanted spam or abuse Craigslist was receiving. If it was not for this we probably would have never seen or had the need for phone verification on Craigslist. Phone verified accounts can only be used once every 48 hours and as a result this has lead to a drop decrease in ads being posted or spammed on Craigslist, making it a better experience for users browsing Craigslist to buy or hire.

Author: Creztor Tessel

Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Craigslist PVA?

Making money on craigslist is great, making more money is even better.  Knowing who you are advertising to is vital to the success of your craigslist marketing efforts.

Each time you log into an account you get 3 posts.  These reset every 36 hours, use them sparingly.  Here is how I get the most from my marketing efforts.

If you’ve posted on Craigslist for a while you’ve probably had something like this happen for you.  Don’t worry though, this won’t happen again after you read this blog post.

There are two ways this can happen to you.  The most likely is from the posting of too many ads from one IP address in too short of a time.  The second is to have a constant stream of user deleted/flagged posts.

Craigslist PVA System

Craigslist now enforces a phone verification system, a very good one in fact.  For many this was a major problem, for others there was less competition.  I’d like to save you some time, by telling you what doesn’t work for verification.

1. VOIP (Voice Over IP)
2. Prepaid Cell Phones
3. Call Forwarding Services
4. Overseas Account Creation

After wasting around $60 dollars to get around this system I started to get very irritated at the difficulty in making accounts.  As it turns out the reason these various methods weren’t working for me was actually quite obvious.  Craigslist is examining the phone numbers looking for patterns that state the type of phone service you are using.

Let me explain this in a better way.

(586)344-2343   786 etc. Landline (Accept, Add to Blocked Numbers)
(586)236-2343 242 Call Forwarding (Reject, Add to Blocked Numbers)

This creates quite a problem!  Don’t give up though, there are people figuring this out all of the time.