Many people know about Craigslist, the online classified ads site. On Craigslist, people can post jobs, items for sale, just like in your local classified ads in the newspaper all for free. When using craiglist you search by cities to view the different things people have posted. It is a great website for finding both new and used items up for sale at bargain prices.
Unfortunately, one of the biggest and most time consuming aspects of using Craigslist is its native search feature, which is quite limited. When searching for items on Craigslist, users must search each individual city separately.
Say for instance you live in a location between 3 major cities. In order to search for items on Craigslist, you must perform a individual search for each city. You can imagine, this can become frustrating for users
Fortunately, there are website and resources available to help simplify and streamline the searching process on Craiglist.
http://www.searchtempest.com/ – ( formerly known as craigshelper.com/ )
My personal favorite is searchtempest.com, but both are excellent websites for making the search process in Craigslist more efficient.
Simply type in your zip code, how many miles from your home you want to search, and what your are looking for and these site will return all the results, with the items closest to you showing up first. You can organize you results to fit your needs, such as sort by name or distance from your zip code. Best of all, it shows results from all the cities in the radius you specified.
If you would like to stick with the more manual way to search all of Craiglist you can follow the instructions posted here:
http://craigslist-tips.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-search-craigslist-multiple.html
With these tools, you now can search for your items easier and more efficiently and find the deals you are looking with justa couple clicks of the mouse.