Collabotrade.com Solves Craigslist's Plunder Problem

PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 08, 2008 – New York, NY - The bizarre event, at least, the second of its kind to strike Craigslist, involved a Classified Ad posting that invited individuals to "take what they wanted free of charge" from a house in Jackson County, Oregon. The ad was a hoax, but it generated a real world plundering of a man's home. Last year, a similar plundering scam struck a woman in Tacoma, Washington. In her case, windows, doors, and even the kitchen sink, were stripped out.

Collabotrade.com, a social marketplace and local community trading website, has several preventative features that reduce the risk of catastrophic abuse, such as the one recently experienced via Craigslist. "This is a social networking security vulnerability that can turn a Classified Ad service into a mob factory. It is a risk that Collabotrade.com was designed from the ground up to prevent," says Collabotrade's VP of Marketing, Lorenz Kraus.

Craigslist has been a conduit for rental scams, prostitution rings, and fraud. Hence, online users are seeking alternatives, moving from non-trustworthy sites to those such as Collabotrade.com.

Collabotrade makes use of a number of resources that give users control over their social circles, such that they are able to evolve trusted communities out of reliable relationships between individuals from the real world. The level of trust is substantially more reliable. Social networks based on real, not virtual, relationships have an inherent immunity to anonymous fraudulent schemes. By creating niche social trading networks within the site, subject to trusted user-leader administrators, individuals can substantially mitigate illegal and unscrupulous activity, such as spam ads.

Collabotrade is a small but growing social trading network that thrives as people seek trusted communities in which to trade. "Collabotrade offers new tools for next generation trading. It puts trust back into social networking and trading," says Kraus.

Unlike Craigslist, Collabotrade has a friendly and organized user interface that is suitable for anyone seeking to buy, sell, or swap items or services and build trusted communities for focused trading. Collabotrade is ideal for churches, civic groups, small companies, universities, and hospitals. Collabotrade has benefits for hobbyists, professionals, garage sales announcements, bartering, and events announcements, among numerous others.

For more information on the potential uses and benefits of Collabotrading, readers can visit the company blog at http://innoweblog.com/ To start posting Free Classified Advertisements visit http://www.collabotrade.com

Contact Information:

Lorenz Kraus, VP of Marketing.
Email: LKraus@Collabotrade.com
Phone: (518)436-5374