2020's Craigslist Story:CRAP

I scheduled Shark Tank on my cell, so I wouldn't miss watching it, as often I do, being I generally do not watch network television. I watch Netflix and Amazon. It was a great show, and I really liked that they had the GoPro founder Nick Woodman as one of the sharks. I learned a little something to add to my founders knowledge.

After Shark Tank ABC's 2020 show was on. They had a few teasers as to what they were going to have on the show and I decided to watch it instead of heading to my go to platforms. The Bill Cosby segment just made my stomach churn. The Craigslist segment made me angry. Why did 2020 decide they should attack Craigslist? What a biased assault on a startup that has helped millions of people. 2020's point was that Craigslist sells recalled products and those products hurt children and adults.

Is Craigslist selling dangerous products? Nope! People like you and I are selling dangerous products. When we are done using a product that worked for us, we decide to post it on Craigslist. Do we go online and check to see if the product was recalled? Nope! All we know is, that it worked for us, and we no longer need it, so we sell it to someone who does. 

Of course there is risk with anything you purchase at a garage sale, or from Craigslist. Anyone with common sense knows that. The 2020 segment seemed to imply that Craigslist was not using enough protection protocols like Ebay, Amazon and other resellers of used goods. Maybe that is true. Yet when I go on Craigslist I see all kinds of warnings all over the place. I am fully aware that there is risk. I can tell you not one of us who sells something on Craigslist would sell it knowingly if we knew it would hurt someone. 

This is not the first time 2020 has made me angry. You know what they do? If they have a product they want to get in bed with to bolster their ratings they run a raving positive story on it. Many years ago they had some story about a miracle pill. I can't remember the name of this pill, but a year ago I lost a friend because she fell into multi-level marketing scam, all because of the 2020 show. The multi-level marketing company uses the 2020 story to get suckers to buy and sell a pill that does absolutely nothing. Because 2020 had a positive spin on this miracle pill, this company uses that segment over and over to make millions of dollars off of people. They are stealing peoples hard earned money. 

Craigslist is an amazing place that all of us have used over and over for many different reasons. 2020 is a biased show that slants stories in all the wrong directions for their own self seeking sensationalism. I'll be watching Shark Tank but never again sticking around for 2020's stupid crap. Oh yeah, and I'll be using Craigslist, to buy, sell, seek, find and take risk!