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NotifyWire.com

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on December 20, 2009

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If you find yourself hunting and pecking through Craigslist, scouring multiple locations, and checking again every fifteen minutes, you tend to get frustrated. That’s what happened to Ian Drake, an IT consultant and web entrepreneur who travels all over New England, so he decided to do something about it.

“About four years ago I started a NotifyWire.com to alert people via email and SMS when out of stock items like the Xbox360, PS3, and Wii where in stock at online retailers” Ian started to explain. “After the fever for these products died down, I wasn’t sure what to do with NotifyWire until I started frequenting Craigslist and realized the same type of problem existed.”

That’s when he decided to re-launch NotifyWire.com as service to monitor Craigslist for people just like him. Now in its third version, the software has grown from just a monitoring service to a complete toolset for discriminating Craigslist buyers.

Currently, Ian is on the hunt for a vintage surfboard and shared a screenshot to show how simple NotifyWire is to create searches with multiple locations and categories.

“There were three things I hated about Craigslist“, Ian continued, “the inefficiency of searching and re-searching multiple locations and categories, being the second person to respond to an ad, and scammers and spammers“.

NotifyWire solved the first two problems by using a unique peer 2 peer technology for monitoring Craigslist. Unlike other Craigslist monitoring software, NotifyWire’s p2p software doesn’t require the user’s computer to be running, which is great for laptop users.
“When your computer is off, NotifyWire uses other connected computers to run your search. The peer 2 peer aspect of NotifyWire allows us to monitor more of Craigslist at a higher frequency than anyone else.” In fact, Ian says the seller is often shocked at how fast he responds to their ad.

Another feature Ian really likes is the ability to view search results as image thumbnails.

A new feature in version 3.0 to combat scammers and spammers is the ability to reply to ads using NotifyWire as an intermediary. This not only hides your email address from spammers, but it allows NotifyWire to geo-locate the seller based on their IP address.

“When a seller replies to your message on NotifyWire.com, we forward the message with the city, state, country, and ISP the seller used to connect to the Internet.” This feature makes it easy to spot foreign scammers a mile away.

You can download NotifyWire at http://www.notifywire.com/download/. The free version is limited to searching five locations at once and you can only save one search, however there is no time limit to the trial. A pro version can be purchased for 29.95/yr which allows you to search and monitor up to 500 locations and save up to 50 searches.

How to be notified of posts on Craigslist

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on August 30, 2009

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How many times have you experienced missing out on a great buy simply because you saw the ad a little bit too late? A lot of people had experienced this and you can’t do anything but kick yourself for not checking Craigslist at the time when the great buy was just posted. Well, it’s not always possible unless you’re a psychic and for that reason, we need the help of a post notification utility that alerts us of a new post that may interest us. This new post notification utility is CLHelper.

CLHelper is really a Godsent for us. Why? Because you no longer should feel sorry for ourselves every time we pass on a great buy that we missed. When a great bargain price has been posted for an item, it’s almost always a first come first serve basis and the first person to have seen the post would most likely get the transaction. If you missed it by a day or two then you surely won’t stand a chance. It’s with this reason that CLHelper could aid you with your online search.

Here’s how it works. Upon installing CLHelper, you would simply just select a category then the location you prefer and the search terms that you would be looking for and you also choose how often CLHelper should search for these terms on Craigslist. During searches, CLHelper would alert you of new post matchings via pop-up or via email. Once you received the alert, just click on the link and you’ll get to the Craigslist post right away. It’s that easy and it’s that great!

Tips from Craigslist Experts for better buy and sell ways

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on July 23, 2009

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Craigslist reader

Craigslist would surely make life a bit easier for you in many different ways. Practically, almost anything can be found from this site from stuff to jobs and dates and you can even sell anything you fancy on selling. But in order for you to reap more from the site, you must add more to your knowledge about what the site can offer you and what is available for you to use as well as an idea as to how and when you should sell your stuff on the site.

There are tools you can use to help you with that such as the Craigslist Reader which is a windows application that search Craigslist in its entirety in just one go.

Another rule is to take pictures and post it together with your ad for the item you wish to sell on Craigslist. That means you’re a better seller than most people as people want to see the item before they even think of buying it. Also, be more detailed with your specifications for the item. This way your ad is self explanatory and you won’t be bugged by inquiries from interested buyers.

Checking for apartments on Craigslist is Easy!

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on March 5, 2009

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When you need to look for an apartment by browsing Craigslist ads, what you need to look for is really the location and its price. The price is usually posted together with the ad but the location can be somewhat confusing especially if you are not from the area. Now, Craigslist utilizes PadMapper maps where you can easily find Craigslist apartment listings on the Google Maps so you can quickly find the apartment’s location and other information.

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Before PadMapper, there was MapsKrieg that does the same thing but PadMapper is not only giving you their locations but you can actually do some filtering on your search so you can find apartments based on the price, number of bathrooms or bedrooms, locations and if pets are allowed.

On Google Maps, each apartment is tagged with a pushpin. When you click on these pushpins you will find more details such as photos, address and price for the apartments. It makes apartment searching a lot more easy and fun.

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