WTF do you guys put in the water.....

In Seattle......

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/mcy/3882592788.html

I had to flag this for best of craigslist.....

Well, that would work for the Brown County scooter drags.

I have the weirdest boner right now.

LOL. This was put together by the same guys that did the infamous Grand Am ad a year ago or so.

I never thought I needed a moped to prove my manliness...until now

Awesome. I want to know how they do that kind of formatting on Craigslist. While I have no aspirations to take my ads quite that far, I would certainly like to learn how to get some more elaborate ads.

I think its just image tags? Like [ img]http://images.com[ /img], using the URL of wherever the ad image is hosted online? I may be mistaken, but I think thats how it works...

It's funny and eye catching and all that, but I can't help but think that's a loooot of work for 50 bucks.

Best
ad
ever
!

Same guys that did this ad last year:

Mezzanine wrote: Awesome. I want to know how they do that kind of formatting on Craigslist. While I have no aspirations to take my ads quite that far, I would certainly like to learn how to get some more elaborate ads.

This appears to have been an image made up in Photoshop and posted with a link.

MadScientistMatt wrote:

Mezzanine wrote: Awesome. I want to know how they do that kind of formatting on Craigslist. While I have no aspirations to take my ads quite that far, I would certainly like to learn how to get some more elaborate ads.

This appears to have been an image made up in Photoshop and posted with a link.

So just HTML tags? Because if they just uploaded that as an image, it certainly wouldn't format that way. Here I always thought HTML was verboten on Craigslist, but I'm not sure why I've always assumed that.

You are being fooled by some strategic use of shadow and white space. That is one large picture made up to look like it has multiple parts. It's rectangular, even though it doesn't look like it. You can see the actual dimensions below (note white space border)

Certainly attention getting, but might actual scare some people away (of course those people may not be able to handle such a beast anyway...)

Yeah, I get that it is a single image... Just didn't know how to get Craigslist to post a single image full size like that, because it certainly doesn't show up that way when you upload images to their servers.

hmmm, not sure. Maybe it's a size restriction and he makes sure the .jpg is small enough (uses more compression)?

Umm...that's a scooter not a MoPed. No pedels, no MoPed.

I think if craigslist is hosting the image, meaning you upload it to them, then they restrict the size. If you are hosting the image elsewhere, like photobucket, you can make it larger.
All of the used car dealerships do it that way here. They host the "image" on their site, which looks like a big ad like that one, and just link the image on craigslist rather than uploading it.

I believe you are correct. The image looks like it's hosted on imgur.