A website that makes people inherently dumber. Used as a way to post advertisements for the selling of items and services, it is now overrun with the stupid. Any description of an item is completely ignored, and subsequent idiotic questioning follows. In the off-chance that someone actually gets to the point of making an offer for an item, any listed price is ignored and a low-ball offer is made. A trade may also be offered, whether or not this has been mentioned as an alternative
to cash payment. The idiocy is not entirely limited to the
buyer, as there are many occasions where a
seller is contacted and then has no idea what they are selling. Because there are so many stupid people on Craigslist, many scams have been set up to take advantage of this. There are multiple types of
schemes in place to try to take these people's money, often successfully. Despite
Craigslist's best efforts and numerous warnings against these scams, most users are often too dense to realize that they are about to be
financially raped, and possibly physically as well as there are many listings for sexual encounters.