India's Craigslist?
India's Craigslist?
Shouldn't have that happened long before, but even today there is no good site for accessing local listings except the newspaper Or you are left to the mercy of agents charging huge money atleast for property rents!
From last one year I have been tired going to property dealers looking for both office spaces, residential places in and around Delhi. I have changed places five times (3 times office and 2 times residence) and a year has not yet completed!
And next week, I need to make a move again and I am in no mood to go to a property dealer. Charging one month rent as a fees is I guess too high for rent. And then the agent's services are of no use. They just try to lure you and get you to sign up a deal. If not online listings, I would rather prefer corporatization of Property Dealing and would like to see a company that sets up propery dealing offices all over India and provides a direct service to the consumer just like banks do. You walk in, the company takes a fixed fees, they have their margins, provide a service and keeps everyone happy.
Any takers!!
10 Comments:
Sunil,
I just observed that Craigslist has started operations for few indian cities too. Its been there for a while in Banglore but now also serves Delhi. Although going by the number of listings it has shows that the service still hasn't picked up much yet.
Sunil,
Loved your post "Is Joining Startup really a RISK?", I recently quit my so called "secure" job to start a venture on my own, I myself wanted to write on the "Risk" aspect in my blog but I couldn't have said it any better. I agree with you on your latest post about criaglist. It is not just property related stuff, I think a whole lot can be done on the net that can make entrepreneurs life easy. More on this at http://thelesstraveledroad.com/?p=12
Well, obviously you dont know my dot com story http://www.newdelhitimes.org/archives/2005/06/my_dotcom_story.html
:)
as lomesh says - craigslist is already there for india. All one has to do is publicise it. what about telling that its available at - http://mumbai.craigslist.org/
or bangalore or chennai or delhi??
the only difference - there are 1 million in the bayarea and less than one thousand in bombay! aargh. Having just moved from the bayarea => I feel I have lost a hand ...
Gentlemen
We have been are devoted craigslist users for years and now
We are trying to make something like craigs here in mumbai.
We admire what he has done- we just think we are here and can take the idea a step further.
take a look http://we-exchange.com
comments and suggestions , advice, critisism, all welcome
Naresh
feedback@we-exchange.com
Thanks Naresh for your initiative. I've visited we-exchange.com and think its really useful. How do i add my area to the site?
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We have brought ailing industries back to life and we back good business ideas by providing funds for their upstart. We have a network of Investors that < DIV>are willing to provide funds of whatever amount discreetly to individuals and organizations to start business and operations.
We also recruit Agents to assist our client companies to receive payments for their goods and services. In our bid to be useful to you, please tell us which area that you wish us to be of service to you.
Kindly respond immediately to this email:coaxetfundcompany@financier.com
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I went through craigslistindia, indiacraigslist but looks like its more of sponsored links than having user generated content. As the usage of internet is going up in India, I believe craigslist like site has huge potential in India.
Sunil i would like you to inform you about the online Indian classified sites. Except one in Question there are some more equally good websites: they are...
clickindia.com
sysindia.com
and many more........I am personally using these sites for more a year.
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