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Re:Airbnb leverages Craigslist in a really cool way by rhizome on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @12:23AM (#1936587)
There's not enough detail and investigation in the article, but this appears to qualify as a third-party posting service, which is a no-no in Craigslistland. I don't see any other way they could offer one-click posting where the airbnb client didn't already have a Craiglist account (and not even then, either). If this is indeed what is happening, Airbnb should tread lightly lest they get the banhammer, and this is doubly true if the resulting Craiglist ads appear to be Airbnb ads, and/or the ads are posted out-of-area.
Re:Airbnb leverages Craigslist in a really cool way by c1utch on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @12:36AM (#1936608)
It auto fills in the data for the user, and the user manually submits the Craigslist listing. Nothing illegal with that...
Re:Airbnb leverages Craigslist in a really cool way by ericd on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @01:25AM (#1936675)
From a cursory look I did on this a while back, I believe it does the initial submission for you, and then redirects you to the confirmation URL. Could be wrong, but if that's correct, it's probably going to look to Craigslist like a single server is doing a lot of auto-submissions...
Re:Airbnb leverages Craigslist in a really cool way by seanlinmt on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @03:23AM (#1936843)
They could block airbnb IP's address if airbnb directly posted the listing. But since it's the user who actually does the posting...

However, craiglist could make life hard for irbnb by changing their form field names. Then again airbnb could probably detect the changes. Probably the best way for craigslist to deter airbnb would be to have a single field at the start of the listing process. :)

Re:Airbnb leverages Craigslist in a really cool way by slouch on Wednesday November 24, 2010 @12:52PM (#1938015)
craigslist's form names are unique and different on each page load