Craigslist comes to Wenatchee

Wenatchee joins Craigslist and it seems to be taking off pretty fast. I have glanced through Craigslist before but since it has never had a local page, I never really explored the website very much. For those who have never heard of Craigslist, it's a very popular community based classifieds website, and it's completely free!

It features everything a regular classifieds would feature and a few you won't find, such as it's Rants & Raves section. The Rants & Raves section allows people to complain or simply voice their opinion about (almost) anything they want. I find it refreshing to see people openly expressing their opinions. Sometimes it's hard to know what people really think in a smaller community where most of the media outlets could risk losing valuable sponsors if they were to speak openly about certain local issues and problems, especially with local businesses and poor customer service. Nothing personal against local media, I need advertisements as well, and have no more desire to complain about customer service or the lack there of than they do.

It's nice to know though that if I receive poor customer service somewhere that I finally have a place to vent. Hopefully local business owners will take notice and keep customer service on a respectable level. I know there are probably a few businesses out there that invest heavily in local advertising that aren't going to be to happy when dissatisfied customer voices are finally heard and not quietly muffled by the local media. Well... more typed and read than voiced and heard, but you get the idea.