What people are selling on Craigslist

I've started a new series of posts on the Invantory blog about what people are selling on Craigslist. The first post, "Craigslist Boston: What are people selling?" lists the top 20 categories for Craigslist Boston and generally give a good summary of what people are selling elsewhere in the state.

Not surprisingly, cars make it to the top of the list, and furniture, too, as well as computers, electronics, and cell phones. With the exception of phones, I've been using Craigslist (and before that, newspaper classifieds and the Want Ads) to buy and sell items in the other categories for many years.

In fact, one of the triggers for Invantory was my frustrating Craigslist experience selling an old Mac mini my parents gave me earlier this year. I wasn't the only one who had experienced similar hassles -- my partner, Sam Chow, was also familiar with Craigslist problems, after moving overseas and needing to sell all the stuff in his apartment.

Anyway, check out the blog post. I will be sharing more information in the months to come about how people use online classifieds, and then we plan to launch our own mobile classifieds service and build a solid Mass Craigslist alternative. Stay tuned!