I'm from Australia, but when I enter text into the "Near" box it says "Please match the requested format.".
What format was requested? I tried a postcode, and suburb, neither work.
Confusing as :(
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#72my gripe with 90% of car searches.
i'm not after one specific car. i'm buying a used car.
i have a fixed budget and a some cars that I would avoid. everything else is fair game.
craigslist is the only one that get's it correct.
1. put your price.
2. get a bunch of crap you don't like
3. add -crap1 to the search
4. repeat 2 and 3 until you get things you like
5. select a few, call, inspect, buy.
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#73my gripe with 90% of car searches. i'm not after one specific car. i'm buying a used car. i have a fixed budget and a some cars that I would avoid. everything else is fair game. craigslist is the only one that get's it correct. 1. put your price. 2. get a bunch of crap you don't like 3. add -crap1 to the search 4. repeat 2 and 3 until you get things you like 5. select a few, call, inspect, buy. limiting by brand/mode…
hm, not sure how we'd add exclusion to the search. do you find any of the price/mileage filters useful or do you really just want to be able to say "No Hyundai" (or whatever)?
I think we'd also like to add some basic recommendation engine type stuff soon - my last car was a $500 tercel so feel you on the ubercheap classification. If we had a "Sort by Cheapest Reliable" option would that be useful?
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search
#74my gripe with 90% of car searches. i'm not after one specific car. i'm buying a used car. i have a fixed budget and a some cars that I would avoid. everything else is fair game. craigslist is the only one that get's it correct. 1. put your price. 2. get a bunch of crap you don't like 3. add -crap1 to the search 4. repeat 2 and 3 until you get things you like 5. select a few, call, inspect, buy. limiting by brand/mode…
I've felt this same way for a while, I've been running a used car site since 1995 (http://www.ausedcar.com). The sad thing is I've experimented with all sorts of other ways to search for cars over the years like what you are recommending (in the past I've let you search by fuel economy, etc...) but nothing seems to convert (ie work) as well as the same convention everyone else uses of Make and Model :\.
Also Craigslist will probably shut down the linked site soon, it's quite unfortunate how Craigslist essentially took the entire FSBO car market, but won't innovate in the way that this site shows it could.
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#75my gripe with 90% of car searches. i'm not after one specific car. i'm buying a used car. i have a fixed budget and a some cars that I would avoid. everything else is fair game. craigslist is the only one that get's it correct. 1. put your price. 2. get a bunch of crap you don't like 3. add -crap1 to the search 4. repeat 2 and 3 until you get things you like 5. select a few, call, inspect, buy. limiting by brand/mode…
hm, not sure how we'd add exclusion to the search. do you find any of the price/mileage filters useful or do you really just want to be able to say "No Hyundai" (or whatever)? I think we'd also like to add some basic recommendation engine type stuff soon - my last car was a $500 tercel so feel you on the ubercheap classification. If we had a "Sort by Cheapest Reliable" option would that be useful? Thanks!
For starters just let people browse all used cars near them, you can even geo-located using ip.
Then provide a keyword, mileage and price filter on left--may be use range sliders?
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#76According to the Craigslist Terms Of Use ( http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use ) 7. CONDUCT You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content: ... u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by craigslist; I am wondering if you already have permission from craigslist?
What he said.
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#77I don't see a selection for Saturn's S series. One of the best lines they ever had.
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/search/cto?query=saturn+sc2...
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#78Nice interface. A few thoughts: * There is no way to get back to the home screen. If I want a blank slate I have to manually clear out the fields. * I can't bookmark searches, send them to friends or search for multiple models at the same time because everything is cookie based. Having my search from my last session come up when I enter http://www.carsabi.com/ is also a bit creepy. * Clearing the "max price" field is…
Ah yes, looks like we need to set some kind of sensible default for the maximum price. Would you prefer to just bookmark searches, or login and be able to "save" them? (have them show up as separate tabs next to Saved Listings, or something like that)
Saved searches are usually more trouble than they're worth; sensible URLs are far more flexible.
The problem with the maximum price is not that I'm entering "$0" it's that I literally can't reset the input to a null state.
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#79According to the Craigslist Terms Of Use ( http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use ) 7. CONDUCT You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content: ... u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by craigslist; I am wondering if you already have permission from craigslist?
I make a point of flagging the various companies that occasionally appear here with scheme for violating craiglist TOS.
In this instance, all the ads that I tried to click-through to had been removed already - which shows one good reason for Craiglist not allowing this stuff.
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#80According to the Craigslist Terms Of Use ( http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use ) 7. CONDUCT You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content: ... u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by craigslist; I am wondering if you already have permission from craigslist?
They have RSS feeds. This, for instance, is Nissans around NYC: