How To Find the Deals Online

[WoodWrangler]

Some of your techies will already know this little trick, so this is for the not-so-technically-inclined who want to try their hand at finding great deals online ... especially on Craigslist.

The shortcoming of Craigslist is that you can't search all Craigslist sites in one move. Craigslist is not just one website ... it's many websites all over the world. So ... that makes it messy.

In comes Google.

It's too simple, but this is what you have to do. Just pick the words you want to search for, and then in the search box also include site:craigslist.org (no spaces!). This will work with any domain you choose. The results will be a standard Google search results page, but now the results will be limited to only those with the craigslist.org domain.

GOOD LUCK! :icon_thum And don't say I never gave you anything! :gar-La;

 

[WoodWrangler]

One other thing ... it does not always know what craigslist postings are still active, so you might have to hunt thru a lot of dirt to find a gem!

 

[flatheadfisher]

I wondered how you found all of those deals! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Gotcha6]

I wondered how you found all of those deals! Thanks for sharing!

....... and wise of you to wait until all your birthday money was spent to avoid the competition!:gar-La;

 

[Outa Square]

I just found http://www.craigshelper.com it allows you to search all the craigslist with a specified radius, i believe it is the location of the city as opposed to where the ads are posted from. never the less i find it helpful.

 

[WoodWrangler]

I just found http://www.craigshelper.com it allows you to search all the craigslist with a specified radius, i believe it is the location of the city as opposed to where the ads are posted from. never the less i find it helpful.

I believe all they are doing is hooking into Google. If my memory serves me right, the Google search engine allows a programmer to hook into all of that information. I'll have to double-check on that though.

 

[russellellis]

ive used pipes.yahoo a lot. its tricky to get a hang of it, but you can search all of sites like craigslist but even more so, you can select words to filter, location/place and price as well.

 

[jeff...]

Techno Junky

 

[MikeL]

Jeremy, thank you for sharing this tip. I always wondered how people searched all over the state, country, etc. assuming that they weren't searching individual pages. Great info to have! :icon_thum

 

[Outa Square]

It basically pulls up the site for each city in one page. I googled craigslist search tools and found it. Although i just tried crazedlist.org and i think i like it better.

 

[WoodWrangler]

I believe all they are doing is hooking into Google. If my memory serves me right, the Google search engine allows a programmer to hook into all of that information. I'll have to double-check on that though.

Well, I might be wrong ... I thought for sure I had read about this in an API doc or something a while back, but no evidence of it in a quick search (on Google, of course). Not sure how they are doing that then!

I'm keeping that site bookmarked ... like it. Just another tool in the bag!:gar-La;

 

[tjgreen]

Addendum to that handy tip: you can also set a date range in Google's advanced search, from 1 wk to whenever, which helps weed out old expired ads.

Other nice thing about Google advanced - you can specify multiple combinations of the same words, since not everyone lists things the same way.

 

[Tarhead]

Thanks Jeremy!
Them Gogol fellers are mighty sharp!

 

[Bas]

Other ways to find deals on tools:

Slickdeal.net: http://forums.slickdeals.net/forumd...7&icon=0&tagid=0&sort=lastpost&order=&icon=49

Fatwallet.com: http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/tools-automotive/

Amazon search: http://www.jungle-search.com/US/?Ac...name=&from=80&to=&pr1=&pr2=&custreview=&sort=

http://www.tooliday.com/

 

[cskipper]

Hallelujah! I've been clicking on on the cities within a radius and searching. Bless you all for the guidance.

 

[TracyP]

Thanks Jeremy.

 

[Alan in Little Washington]

There is another way, use a "Crazedlist" search. It allows you to search Craig's list by clicking on a dots and searching any or all sites in NC (any state, east coast (any region), all US, any/all cities- any combination you want. Craig'slist put a fix in to discourage it by looking at a setting in your computer. Crazedlist found a way around it, but haven't tried it lately. It required you to disable a setting (referrers).

 

[blackemmons]

Alan,

Apparently this doesn't work with Explorer. Only Firefox.

Jim

 

[flatheadfisher]

Look what I found using this tip:

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/tls/1015143405.html