About Us

American Classifieds and the Thrifty Nickel have been a household name for more than 30 years and have published over 400 million private party classified ads, making American Classifieds and the Thrifty Nickel the LARGEST free classified newspapers in the United States.

The American Classifieds and Thrifty Nickel websites, have been online since May of 1996. In that time, we have become the Internet's foremost source for online classified advertising.

• We are the world's largest privately held online classified service on the Internet.
• We process all of our own credit card transactions and maintain a banking extranet that allows all of our affiliates to be paid on time and electronically.
• We receive over 16+ million page views per month.
• We average over 300,000 classifieds online each week.
• Our users can search our database for free and place Internet and print ads into our database for a nominal fee.
• Placing and ad is simple and takes only minutes.

The American Classifieds and Thrifty Nickel print editions are FREE to our readers and are distributed to many locations, in and out of cities, across the United States. Our paper is printed and distributed every Thursday with weekly circulation well over 2 million papers - 5.75 million with our affiliate members.

All of our classified ads and many of our commercial ads are also available online.