Think 'N' Earn - Really? » post http://www.thinknearn.com Discover your passions! Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:03:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Craigslist or Kijiji – who wins? http://www.thinknearn.com/2008/09/08/craigslist-or-kijiji-who-wins/ http://www.thinknearn.com/2008/09/08/craigslist-or-kijiji-who-wins/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:23:45 +0000 admin http://www.thinknearn.com/blogs/?p=50 Part of online marketing includes posting ads about your products or services on free classified sites to get more exposure at no or negligible price. When I first came to know about the concept of classifieds, I also heard about Craigslist. For long, I took it as synonymous to classifieds. Then, in a small town where I lived and looking to sublet my apartment to move to another city, my search brought up Kijiji. This is where I found lots of ads, the genuine ones. Since then, I have been keeping an eye on both whenever I need to buy or sell any stuff.

Craigslist was founded in March, 1995 by Craig Newmark as an email list in San Francisco and Bay Area. It is a free local community based classifieds website that is most popular in San Francisco and other US cities. You can find tons of categories to choose from. They also have a popular forum where you can find varied discussions on different subjects. According to the latest reports, as of January 2008, they reported 26.7 million unique visitors in the US. Worldwide, they have some 27.8 million unique visitors.  

Kijiji (pronounced as kee-gee-gee) was founded in March 2005. It was launched in US in 2007. Kijiji, is also a free local community based classifieds website that is more popular outside of US. Although, it is catching up fast in the States also. As of January 2008, they had 2.3 million US visitors and 21.6 million worldwide. Seems like they are closing the gap fast with Craigslist. 

 

 

What Craigslist lacks - Kijiji is available in different languages in other countries. It makes it popular internationally. Whereas Craigslist is English only website. Other advantage of Kijiji is the colorful theme of the website. Craigslist has not changed much in the last 10 or more years. They have not been making any major changes or maybe they are but not noticeable.

What Kijiji lacks – Kijiji technical support is very hard to reach. If you have been having any problems, you have to post your issues in the discussion forums. There too you cannot find the accurate answers. Blocking criteria that Kijiji uses makes it hard for genuine users to post their ads. If the genuine posters are blocked or their ads removed, there is possibly no way to find out what happened and how they can fix their ads. They just keep you guessing as to what may have happened. Very painful experience.    

Who wins, finally - you ask? It’s the consumers, you and me. The more competition between these online giants, the better services we get.

Who do you think is better - Craigslist or Kijiji?

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