Craigslist has set specific dollar amounts they can sue you for if you break their rules — ranging from $1 for harvesting user data to $3,000 per day for scraping or republishing their content without permission.
Consumer impact (what this means for users)
Regular users who accidentally access too many pages (over 1,000 in a day) or attempt to copy listings could face financial liability under this clause; businesses using any form of automated access face substantial per-day financial exposure of up to $3,000.
Cross-platform context
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These pre-set fines can accumulate rapidly — a single day of automated data collection could trigger thousands of dollars in liability — and Craigslist expressly reserves the right to also pursue statutory damages and injunctive relief on top of these amounts.
View original clause language
You further agree that if you violate the TOU, or you encourage, support, benefit from, or induce others to do so, you will be jointly and severally liable to us for liquidated damages as follows for: (A) collecting/harvesting CL users' information, including personal or identifying information - $1 per violation; (B) publishing/misusing personal or identifying information of a third party in connection with your use of CL without that party's express written consent - $1,000 per violation; (C) misrepresenting your identity or affiliation to anyone in connection with your use of CL - $1,000 per violation; (D) posting or attempting to post Prohibited Content - $4 per violation; ... (K) aggregating, displaying, framing, copying, duplicating, reproducing, making derivative works from, distributing, licensing, selling, or exploiting CL content for any purpose without our express written consent - $3,000 for each day you engage in such violations; (L) requesting, viewing, or accessing more than 1,000 pages of CL in any 24-hour period - $0.25 per page during the 24 hour period after the first 1,000 pages; (M) bypassing or attempting to bypass our moderation efforts - $4 per violation.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: The liquidated damages provisions for unauthorized email and text message communications implicate CAN-SPAM (15 U.S.C. § 7701) and TCPA (47 U.S.C. § 227), with the TOU's own per-violation amounts potentially operating alongside or in lieu of statutory damages. The provision governing personal information misuse (clause B) intersects with California Civil Code § 1798.81 and potential FTC Act Section 5 enforcement. The per-page access fee (clause L) raises questions under California UCL (Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200) as a potentially unfair business practice if applied to ordinary browsing behavior. (2)
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Applicable agencies
FTC
FTC has enforcement authority over unfair or deceptive commercial practices, including unauthorized data harvesting and unsolicited commercial communications that this liquidated damages clause addresses.
California AG has jurisdiction over California UCL claims and consumer protection matters arising from contractual terms that may constitute unfair business practices, including per-page access fees applied to browsing behavior.