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In December I decided to try a little experiment by listing a posting for my business: Party Time Productions Exceptional Disc Jockey Entertainment, to see who really shops on craigslist and if I could attract any potential clients to hire my service.

I understood that those shopping craigslist tends to be people who are looking to purchase something for little to nothing with no real concern of the quality of that service or product. It’s all about the cheap price. Since I am one of the more expensive Entertainers in the state I thought I would try it out anyways to see if people would consider booking a quality DJ over the low, low rate DJ.

The first couple postings went exactly the way I expected, no phone calls, no e-mails and no takers.

Then suddenly I was up against a wall. My postings were being flagged and removed from the site with in hours of posting them.

If you’re not familiar with how craigslist works, every posting has the option of being “Flagged” by anyone who reads the posting. What this means is that Craigslist has pages and pages of rules about what can and can not be written in the posts. It is a way to control people posting horrible things, inaccurate lies, causing controversy and stopping hatred or other bad items from appearing on the web site.

When a posting is flagged it goes to a computer that will automatically remove the posting and send the person an automated e-mail saying it was flagged and removed.

The problem with this is that no human actually reads the posting or has any idea why it was flagged. Everything just happens automatically.

This is where the trouble comes in. Every time I would try to make a posting another DJ (who will remain nameless, but I know who it is) would then flag my posting and it would automatically be removed.

At first I thought maybe I had something in it that was against the rules, so I read the rules over and over but could not find anything that would call for it to be removed.

Then I figured out that it was another DJ who was lurking in the background and with in hours of my posting had it flagged and removed.

In two months I had ten postings flagged and removed by this jealous, spiteful DJ. I can’t get a posting to stay on the site for more than a few hours no matter what time of day or middle of the night I make the posting.

The funny thing is that some of the posts that were flagged were postings that had appeared on the site months ago that he didn’t see and flag. Some were written to ensure that there wasn’t anything anyone could find controversial or threatening to anyone. Some were as Politically Correct and boring as they could be but yet he still flagged it.

This person just has it in for me (and possibly other DJs) and wants to make my life troublesome. That’s just too bad that he doesn’t spend that kind of time working his business and tiring to be the best that he can be instead of holding back the real competition by FALSLEY ACCUSING others of impropriates.

Sometimes the TRUTH hurts and they don’t want potential brides to know there is a real difference in the skills, talents, experience and professionalism in Disc Jockeys. If Brides knew, those DJs would be out of business!

Here is the latest posting that he had flagged with in one hour after I put it on craigslist. See if you can see any reason to remove this from the site. (listed under Events)

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See the Difference for yourself. Disc Jockey - DJ (Minnesota - MN)

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Reply to: see below
Date: 2008-03-04, 11:52AM CST

http://www.PartyTimeproductions.biz

Thank you.

Jeff Richards

Location: Minnesota - MN
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

PostingID: 595275597

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My experiment really worked.

This person is purposely flagging my posts with the intent to harm, cause loss to business and control the DJ industry on this site and the metro area. He has broken so many laws that it would be hard to count.

Jeff Richards: Party Time Productions Exceptional Disc Jockey Entertainment

http://www.PartyTimeProductions.biz

Latest Update: 3/6/08

This person who has been causing so many problems and creating a hostile environment on craigslist continues to post on the site and continues to write complete lies, misquotes and misinformation in order to try and discredit my business.

One posting was all in capital letters (against craigslist rules) several lists my personal as well as business initials and all are completely misguided and misunderstood by this sorry, pitiful fool.

The very things he accuses me of, (which are not true) is exactly what he is doing to me. He even went as far as accusing me of putting down DJs who don't attend Bridal shows and went on to say he doesn’t attended Bridal shows by choice and for me to go ahead and spend two grand working one.

This is hilarious, because I never mentioned one word about Bridal Shows on craigslist, (for or against them) as a matter of fact; I haven't been a part of a Bridal show in over eight years, why would I say anything against DJs who don't attend a bridal show when I don’t.

I guess according to him, educating Bridal couples about the difference between button pushing, non talented DJs who call themselves professional in order to fool clients into hiring them at a less then adequate rate for the work being done, is against the rules. It’s so obvious that he really doesn’t know what the word "Professional" means or how to be one.

It's funny how informing Bridal Couples what is right, wrong, legal, non legal, good and bad really hurts his feelings so at five in the morning he is making posts accusing me of outlandish untruths.

The best part is that this person isn't mature enough to put his name on his posts or even to take the time to phone me to talk about his problems he has with me.

It’s just a shame that telling and showing potential clients how one person stands out, operates a business and offers quality service angers those who deep down inside know that what I inform Bridal couples is true and it discredits who they are.