Parag

Everything sells in USA. It all depends on creativity, marketing strategy and execution.

Huey

Heh, I know the guy who runs that site. Are you blocking it out because you don’t want to endorse it?

Chad

I am actually working with a buddy of mine at work on a local classifieds site. I did read your post about the frat boy ideas, but I don’t understand what is wrong with trying to do something local. The city I live in is 60K people, we have our crappy newspaper classifieds and a radio station has classifeds. Why not provide a place for people to sell their items? If you produce a product that looks good and has great value to the target audience why not give it a shot? Craigslist is not comming to my town any time soon.

thrillhouse

seems kinda ‘jackass’ to say this will fail, yet, we’ll never know. And it may – a large percentage of new businesses do fail.

its easy to have the right answer when you don’t state the question.

huey

Well, I actually think the creator of SUPost is at least doing something interesting in copying Craigslist’s look and feel. Most Stanford marketplaces have all tried to create a new interface, but using an interaction model that people are used to is probably a much better idea.