Backpage.com – An Up and Comer!
With classified websites organized to provide a local service, how do you determine which free websites to use when selling your car, truck, or SUV? It’s always smart to use as many as possible. What the heck, they’re free, right? You’ll only be out the time it takes to create each post.
Which Ones to Use?
The world of online classified websites is constantly changing. Craigslist is the towering giant among current players with over 50 million visitors a month. An up and coming player in this game is backpage.
backpage is owned by the original alternative newspaper, New York’s Village Voice. Your ad may be displayed along with classified ads from the back of various local alternative newspapers including:
- SF Weekly (my local alternative choice in the San Francisco Bay Area)
- LA Weekly
- City Pages (Minneapolis)
- Seattle Weekly
The ads in backpage are free. However, you have the option of paying a fee to add your post to the local, printed newspaper, and for posting online in multiple cities.
Mud on the Wall
Remember the “mud on the wall” theory? Always throw up as much “mud” as you have time and energy for because you never know when that last post on some obscure website will generate a phone inquiry about your car. backpage is a growing player in the world of online classified websites. It could very well be the difference between your car selling or not. What the heck – it’s free, right?
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L. James Johnson’s new book, HELP! I Gotta Sell My Car NOW! New Rules for Selling Your Vehicle Online! is available for download at BayAreaCarGuy.com.
