"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
07/25/2014 at 11:58 • Filed to: daily turismo
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"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo)
07/25/2014 at 11:58 • Filed to: daily turismo | 4
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If you are anything like me, you spend a lot of time surfing Craigslist for cars, trucks & free furniture. Probably too much time, if you ask my wife, but that is an issue for me and my therapist to work out. Anyway, Craigslist browsing is an often fun distraction from other things, but recently (okay, this happened a few weeks ago, but it took a while to publish the story) things got better — much better.
Craigslist had added additional searchable input fields to the top of the search menu that include worthless options like paint color, size, and type , but they have also included a transmission , driven wheels, fuel and title status filters. Halleluiah, I can find manual transmission equipped Mini Coopers, Supra Mk IV, Land Rover Defenders and Kenworth trucks all in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! !!
Anyway, your quest to find the perfect manual transmission, diesel, brown, wagon suddenly got a whole lot easier (the above image is an example of the a search for wagon and manual trans in SF Bay area c-list). What can you find with the new optional tools in your local !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ?
Updated to include information about wildcards as suggested by Eric below. Craigslist allows the use of wildcards (*, -, |, "" ) to help find more results.
For instance you can search for Merc* and it will return Mercedes-Benz and Mercedes. You need at least two characters before the * and none following it. H* won't work and neither will Hon*a .
Use the - character to remove items, like Wagon -honda will exclude hondas from the results.
The | character can be used as and, DMC|DeLorean will return postings with the words DMC or DeLorean in the results.
The "" characters can be used to find a phrase like "ran when parked" "too much to list" "selling for a friend" "Nigerian money orders accepted."
You can read more about it directly !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on craigslist's advanced search help page.
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shenggzzz
> DailyTurismo
07/25/2014 at 12:07 |
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I believe DMC|Dolorean will return DMC OR Delorean..
https://www.craigslist.org/about/help/sea…
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DailyTurismo
> shenggzzz
07/25/2014 at 12:37 |
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Right you are — what I meant is that it will return both DMC and DeLorean results...but or might be easier to understand. Lemme fix that.
Textured Soy Protein
> DailyTurismo
07/25/2014 at 13:29 |
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The filters are nice but they still rely on your average craigslist poster filling out that field correctly. It's amazing how many times I've seen a car tagged with the wrong transmission type.
cabarne4
> DailyTurismo
07/25/2014 at 13:51 |
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They've had this feature for a couple weeks now. So happy.
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DailyTurismo
> Textured Soy Protein
07/25/2014 at 14:29 |
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I know...the average clister is so busy trying to get his capslock key tuned up that he doesn't have time to ad tags or list all the details.
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cabarne4
> DailyTurismo
07/26/2014 at 14:47 |
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So. Much. Want.