Comments on: wheels fall off jobster relationship with craigslist http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/08/18/craigslist-dumps-jobster/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Paul Clerkin http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/08/18/craigslist-dumps-jobster/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Paul Clerkin Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:36:32 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/08/18/craigslist-dumps-jobster/#comment-1647 When I first read of Jobster and CL on your blog, I attempted to contact CL to do something similar for our small jobs board which is targetted at the local market. I didn't receive any contact other than being accused of wanting to spam their listings - listing which are already full of low quality jobs, or spurious home-based "opportunities". When I first read of Jobster and CL on your blog, I attempted to contact CL to do something similar for our small jobs board which is targetted at the local market. I didn’t receive any contact other than being accused of wanting to spam their listings – listing which are already full of low quality jobs, or spurious home-based “opportunities”.

]]> By: petegold http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/08/18/craigslist-dumps-jobster/comment-page-1/#comment-1642 petegold Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:28:14 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/08/18/craigslist-dumps-jobster/#comment-1642 I kind of see the point of Craigslist i.e. they are a free site so why (maybe) should Jobster charge for a posting service to put a job on Craigslist. However, if the 'customer' so chooses to pay someone else (be it a service of app) to make their life easier, who are Craigslist to decide what the customer does. In the end, surely they want the jobs so THEIR users get the information they want. I reckon they are scared of the tracking data that Jobster have!! I kind of see the point of Craigslist i.e. they are a free site so why (maybe) should Jobster charge for a posting service to put a job on Craigslist.

However, if the ‘customer’ so chooses to pay someone else (be it a service of app) to make their life easier, who are Craigslist to decide what the customer does. In the end, surely they want the jobs so THEIR users get the information they want.

I reckon they are scared of the tracking data that Jobster have!!

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