1. Dedicated email account (I use gmail) https://accounts.google.com/

Open a brand new free email account first. This account should be used only for your posting to your craig account. At times it will also be needed to verify you are a human when posting ads. Craig will send all notifications of new postings and deletions from flaggers to this email. Your ads will also draw a lot of spam to your email (phishing) and this can be easily managed with a dedicated email.

NEVER RESPOND TO ANY OF THE SPAMMERS... DELETE THEM! (you can read them if you like, most are stupid)

You are relying on your interested visitors clicking your image or text link and going to your offer they shouldn't be emailing you.

I like to have matching login IDs for my email and craig account. I make sure to use an ID that no one else would think of so it will be available when I open my craig account.

DO NOT USE YOUR REAL NAME! (duh)

You will need a separate email for each craig account if you decide to have more than one.



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Moll Premium
Glad I finally received a vote!

I was beginning to think I may have created some junk nobody was interested in... Thanx
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klrrider Premium
@ Peter Y, I would suggest running CCcleaner first before logging on to craigs and posting any ads. This will give you a clean slate. Then after you are done posting on craig go to the cookies in CCcleaner before running and you will see both of them. Save the post.craigslist.org and leave the other to be deleted. It is best to do all of this on a new user account this way you will not eliminate any cookies that assist you with any online banking or cc cards bill paying etc.
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Moll Premium
@ Peter Y, I would suggest running CCcleaner first before logging on to craigs and posting any ads. This will give you a clean slate. Then after you are done posting on craig go to the cookies in CCcleaner before running and you will see both of them. Save the post.craigslist.org and leave the other to be deleted. It is best to do all of this on a new user account this way you will not eliminate any cookies that assist you with any online banking or cc cards bill paying etc.
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Peter Y. Premium
This is awesome, thanx. I just tried to do this step but I can't find the cookies. I made the first ad, logged out and checked the cleaner as it says here and didn't see any craiglist cookies. should I just ignore it and go on?
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krd999 Premium
This is awesome, thanx. I just tried to do this step but I can't find the cookies. I made the first ad, logged out and checked the cleaner as it says here and didn't see any craiglist cookies. should I just ignore it and go on?
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