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Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

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No Datsun?!? For "car guys" you need to allow searching by the platform code. Way more important and specific than the decade-spanning model names. For example "e30" should return '83-91 BMW 3 Series. Love that you can specify Slushbox/Manual and exclude salvage titles. Very annoying that middle-clicking car posting titles on the 'grid view' page does not open the cars in new tabs. I want to scan through the list and…

I've noticed that the kind of listings for "e30 m3" versus "1989 m3" is going to end up being from a different kind of owner...

Sounds pretty insane and hard to maintain to me. I would leave it to the buyer to know what year of car he's interested and set the date range appropriately. I feel it's too much to ask sites like this to do this behind the scenes.

Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

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dw5ight - Let me show you your future (http://notifywire.com)

You created a really nice site. Unfortunately, if you have any success CL will make legal moves to shut you down as they did with NotifyWire (which I created).

My software actually reduced server load on CL's servers when compared to the alternative (everyone using an RSS reader to do the same thing). So don't believe the BS about server load, they want complete control.

If you want to talk about what happened, send me an email ian@notifywire.com

Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to enter a zipcode, sorry that's not clear.

Please add support for Canada. Heck, while you're in there, make it work world-wide.. CL is, so you may as well be.

Agreed! If you are using the RSS feeds, there should be an easy way to include us Canadians :)

Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

no idea what kind of car you were looking, but my last experience I took 1.5 mo to find a decent one. and then negotiation took another couple weeks. in all that time i was still "searching" craigslist, and I could see the same cars over and over. A few were fast, of course.

wasn't looking for a specific car, just wanted a good deal on a car that matched my criteria ended up getting the car 30% below the KBB value

ah ok, you were looking for the killer deals.

I was just looking for any car in my budget that was in perfect shape. So, not unfair to pair almost the book value.

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