eBay attempting its own Craigslist
eBay, which actually owns a 25% stake in Craigslist, has quietly rolled out their own version of the classified site. Called Kajiji (Swahili for "village"), it offers classified ads in 220 cities, and will have the usual cars, real estate, antiques, adult section, and pets. Craigslist, though, is not worried: Says chief executive Jim Buckmaster, “One of the beauties of viewing our world through public service goggles is that there is no need to worry about what other companies are doing."
Its actually kijiji and its been up and running for at least a year.
Kajiji? That site has been running for months, if not over a year already. I guess their “quiet” rollout was very quiet, indeed.
Ok, so it seems that at least kijiji.ca has going for a while. The copyright at the bottom of the page says from 2005. Strange that it took so long to get to the US…
Actually Kijiji has been available for a LONG time…
All it said that they quietly rolled out the site, not when they rolled it out, wow.
For the majority of the things I sell, I use Craigslist. I have 8+ million customers here in NYC and I get cash right away. Plus, I don’t have to pay anyone fees.
Kijiji started in Quebec awhile ago. I’ve been using the site for at least 16 months now. They blew up due to a very effective SEO strategy. They started independently and were purchased by eBay afterwards.
Kijiji has indeed been out for a long time. As far as I can tell it’s a direct Craigslist clone with a few added graphical niceties.
So you end up with Craigslist without the huge audience. Doesn’t make sense to me.