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Craigslist is a great resource for scoring local deals but only if you’re adept at using it. Today we’re taking a look at tips and  tools you can use to go from being a casual Craigslist user to a deal-scoring ninja.

Craigslist是获取本地交易的绝佳资源，但前提是您必须熟练使用它。 今天，我们正在研究技巧和工具，您可以使用这些技巧和工具，从成为Craigslist的临时用户到获得交易评分的忍者。

Photo by Beatrice Murch.

Beatrice Murch 摄 。

You can save huge amounts of money by using Craigslist to score local deals. The site, however, is super Spartan and doesn’t lend itself to easy power use. Armed with the right tools, however, you can cull the simple text listings of Craigslist to find awesome deals. Read on to learn more.

您可以使用Craigslist为本地交易打分，从而节省大量资金。 但是，该站点是超级斯巴达人，因此不便于使用电源。 但是，有了正确的工具，您可以剔除Craigslist的简单文本列表，以找到超棒的交易。 请继续阅读以了解更多信息。

Craigslist的简要历史和一些安全的购物提示 (A Brief History of Craigslist and Some Safe Shopping Tips)

Although eBay is often lauded as being something akin to a giant garage sale, in reality Craigslist is quite a bit closer. For the unfamiliar Craigslist is a simple classified web site that began, way back in 1995, as an email distribution list created by Craig Newmark  to service the Bay Area. A year later he created a web site to centralize the listings. Since then it has grown quite a bit, but has changed very little in appearance since the early days. Craigslist is a hyper-local classified system where in people can list goods and services for sale, personal ads, job listings, apartment rentals, and more. Anything you might find in a traditional newspaper classified section (and then some!) can be found on Craigslist. We’re framing the following tools in light of you wanting to search for deals on physical goods; in most cases, though, you can just as easily adept them for rental listings or other Craigslist postings.

尽管人们经常称赞eBay与大型车库拍卖类似，但实际上Craigslist距离它更近了。 对于不熟悉的Craigslist，它是一个简单的分类网站，其历史可以追溯到1995年，最初是Craig Newmark创建的电子邮件分发列表，用于为湾区提供服务。 一年后，他创建了一个网站来集中列表。 从那以后，它有了长足的发展，但是自从早期以来，它的外观几乎没有变化。 Craigslist是一个超本地分类系统，人们可以在其中列出要出售的商品和服务，个人广告，工作清单，公寓租金等。 您可以在Craigslist上找到传统报纸分类版块中的任何内容(然后是某些！)。 鉴于您想搜索实物商品交易，我们正在构筑以下工具； 不过，在大多数情况下，您可以轻松地将它们用于出租清单或其他Craigslist帖子。

Unlike more traditional newspaper listings Craigslist is, essentially, totally unregulated. The community self-polices by flagging problem entries (scams, illegal listings), but for the most part it’s a buyer-beware market. Staying safe and not getting ripped off is pretty easy, however, if you follow some common sense guidelines.

与更传统的报纸列表不同，Craigslist本质上是完全不受监管的。 社区通过标记问题条目(诈骗，非法列表)来进行自我管理，但是在大多数情况下，这是一个要当心买家的市场。 但是，如果您遵循一些常识性准则，保持安全而不被撕破是很容易的。

If it’s too good to be true, it probably is (and it’s probably stolen). People selling $100 iPads are either selling stolen iPads or they want to club you with a tire iron and take your $100 (or both). Don’t meet potential sellers on Skid Row at 2 AM. Unless the person is selling an item that can’t easily be brought to a public place (like a hot tub currently attached to their deck), avoid going to their home. If a situation seems like it’ll end up with you getting robbed, it probably will and you should reconsider. Always be prepared to walk away from a deal; if a guy said the used bike was $200 and when you show up he insists it was actually $300, hit the road. You can read more tips directly from Craigslist in their avoiding scams and personal safety sections.

如果太好了以至于无法做到，那就可能是(并且可能被盗了)。 卖$ 100的iPad的人要么在卖被盗的iPad，要么想用轮胎铁棍打你，然后拿走你的$ 100(或两者)。 不要在凌晨2点在Skid Row遇到潜在的卖家。 除非该人出售的物品不容易带到公共场所(例如当前挂在甲板上的热水浴缸)，否则请避免回家。 如果情况似乎最终会导致您被抢劫，那么可能会发生，您应该重新考虑。 随时准备放弃交易； 如果有人说这辆二手自行车是200美元，而当您露面时，他坚持认为这确实是300美元，那就上路了。 您可以直接从Craigslist的“ 避免欺诈和人身安全”部分中阅读更多提示。

寻找战利品 (Finding the Loot)

A brief history and some safety tips aside, it’s time to find some loot. Craigslist is packed with loot. Even the small metropolitan Craiglists have so much stuff: electronics, tools, bikes, car listings, furniture, musical instruments, and more. It’s free to list things so people have very little reason to avoid listing anything and everything they want to offload for cash.

除了简要的历史记录和一些安全提示，是时候找到一些战利品了。 Craigslist 挤满了战利品。 即使是大城市的Craiglist也有很多东西：电子产品，工具，自行车，汽车清单，家具，乐器等等。 它是免费列出的，因此人们没有什么理由避免列出任何他们想出售的东西。

The basic Craigslist interface isn’t the greatest for finding things quickly, however. You’ll spend a lot of time reading links and a lot of time clicking through them to get additional information. If you’re trying to keep an eye on multiple areas of interest on Craigslist, especially if you’re trying to look at multiple local Craigslists, you’ll get frustrated pretty quickly. Craigslist was designed for simple listings not for complex searching and tracking.

但是，基本的Craigslist界面并不是最适合快速查找事物的界面。 您将花费大量时间阅读链接，并花费大量时间单击它们以获取更多信息。 如果您试图关注Craigslist上的多个兴趣领域，尤其是当您尝试查看多个本地Craigslist时，很快就会感到沮丧。 Craigslist设计用于简单列表，而不是用于复杂的搜索和跟踪。

Fortunately various developers have jumped in to create a Craigslist experience that the base system doesn’t provide. The first thing you want to do is to supercharge your search experience. If you’re trying to keep an aggressive eye on collectible cards, vintage bikes, iPads, or game consoles you’re going to need to go beyond simple manual searches. You want one of at least three things in your Craigslist search tool: better access to photo listings, cross-Craigslist site searches, and—ideally although not all search tools have it—some notification method. Let’s take a look at some some of the power user tools you’ll want to put in your deal-hunting tool kit.

幸运的是，各种开发人员纷纷加入，以创建基本系统不提供的Craigslist体验。 您要做的第一件事就是增强您的搜索体验。 如果您想积极关注可收藏的卡片，老式自行车，iPad或游戏机，则除了简单的手动搜索外，您还需要更多。 您需要Craigslist搜索工具中的至少三件事之一：更好地访问照片列表，跨Craigslist站点搜索，以及-理想地(尽管并非所有搜索工具都具有)某种通知方法。 让我们看一下您想放入交易寻找工具套件中的一些高级用户工具。

Search Tempest: Search Tempest—seen in the screenshot above—offers a plethora of handy Craigslist search tools. You plug in a zip code, some keywords, and a search radius and it will search all the Craigslists that fall within that search radius. You can then check through the listings for not just the most local listing but for all listings that fall within your search radius. You can toggle on image thumbnails—with mouse-over enlarging–and mashup your searches against a map to see how far you’ll be driving to get the loot. You can also set up RSS feeds for any of the custom searches you create.

搜索暴风雨 ：在上面的屏幕快照中可以看到搜索暴风雨，它提供了许多方便的Craigslist搜索工具。 您插入一个邮政编码，一些关键字和一个搜索半径，它将搜索该搜索半径内的所有Craigslist。 然后，您不仅可以查看列表中的最新列表，还可以查看搜索范围内的所有列表。 您可以通过放大鼠标悬停来打开图像缩略图，然后对地图进行混搭以查看将要获得赃物的距离。 您还可以为您创建的任何自定义搜索设置RSS feed。

Crazed List: If you want to search multiple Craigslists but not necessarily limited by a perfect radius, Crazed List allows you to cherry pick just those USA and  global locations you want to use. This is handy if the geography of your locale makes a perfect “200 miles from here” radial search impractical or if you’d like to search locations where a friend or relative of yours can pick up the item on your behalf. In addition you can set a minimum and maximum price window. You can either search on Crazed List or use Crazed List to generate RSS feeds for your searches in your target locales. The only down side to Crazed List is that you need to use a web browser, such as Firefox, which allows you to disable referrers (this limitation applies only to the web-based search, not to the generation of RSS feeds).

疯狂列表：如果您想搜索多个Craigslist，但不一定要限制一个完美的半径，可以使用疯狂列表来仅选择要使用的美国和全球位置。 如果您所在地区的地理位置无法进行完美的“距此处200英里”放射状搜索，或者您想搜索朋友或亲戚可以代您领取物品的位置，这将非常方便。 此外，您可以设置最低和最高价格窗口。 您可以在Crazed List上搜索，也可以使用Crazed List为目标区域设置中的搜索生成RSS feed。 疯狂列表的唯一缺点是您需要使用Web浏览器(例如Firefox)，该浏览器允许您禁用引荐来源网址(此限制仅适用于基于Web的搜索，不适用于RSS提要的生成)。

CraigQuery: Similar to Crazed List, CraigQuery searches multiple Craigslists from around the USA. Unlike Crazed List you don’t have to do any mucking about in your About:Config browser file to gain the full functionality of the site. You can select multiple regions, search by keyword and set a minimum and maximum price window. CraigQuery automatically thumbnails listings with images.

CraigQuery：与Crazyed List类似，CraigQuery在美国各地搜索多个Craigslist。 与“疯狂列表”不同，您无需在About：Config浏览器文件中进行任何改动即可获得站点的全部功能。 您可以选择多个区域，按关键字搜索并设置最低和最高价格窗口。 CraigQuery会自动为列表缩略图添加图像。

Craigstoolbox: Available for both Firefox and Chrome, Craigstoolbox is a tiered-price extension. The free basic package offers enhancements to the Craigslist experience such as 15 inline images per search and a favorites system, the $9.99/year version adds in unlimited inline images and Carfax and AutoCheck integration, and the $19.99/year version adds on to that with SMS and email notification tools. You can achieve the same functionality offered in Craigstoolbox for free by cobbling together additional tools but if you want an all-in-one solution, it might be worth the premium.

Craigstoolbox：Craigstoolbox是适用于Firefox和Chrome的分层价格扩展。 免费的基本软件包增强了Craigslist的体验，例如每次搜索提供15张内嵌图像和收藏夹系统，每年9.99美元的版本增加了无限的内嵌图像，并且Carfax和AutoCheck集成，并且每年19.99美元的版本通过SMS进行了补充。和电子邮件通知工具。 您可以通过组合其他工具来免费实现Craigstoolbox中提供的相同功能，但是如果您想要一个多合一的解决方案，那可能是值得的。

Typo Buddy: Typo Buddy is a one trick pony, but it’s a handy trick to have in your deal hunting toolkit. Typo Buddy searches Craigslist (and eBay too) for variations on your search term—typos. If somebody puts a listing on Craigslist for a “playstaytion”, for example, nobody searching for “playstation” will find it. If you search your local Craigslist with Typo Buddy, however, it will plug in variations of PlayStation like “playsation”, “playstaytion”, and “playstaion”. No, we didn’t need to try very had to think of those variations, those are all typos from our local Craigslist that Typo Buddy found.

Typo Buddy：Typo Buddy是一招小马，但在交易搜寻工具包中却是一个方便的技巧。 Typo Buddy在Craigslist(以及eBay)上搜索您的搜索字词typos的变体。 例如，如果有人在Craigslist上列出了“ playstaytion”列表，那么没有人会搜索“ playstation”。 但是，如果您用Typo Buddy搜索本地Craigslist，它将插入PlayStation的各种版本，例如“ playsation”，“ playstaytion”和“ playstaion”。 不，我们不需要尝试去考虑那些变化，这些都是Typo Buddy从我们本地的Craigslist中找到的错别字。

CraigsEasy: CraigsEasy is a free bookmarklet designed to enhance your on-site Craigslist searches. When you’re looking at the search results on your local Craigslist you can simply hit the “Easy” bookmarklet from CraigsEasy to convert the search listings into an image gallery. It’s fast and resistant to being shut down by Craigslist as it’s just a bookmarklet that acts upon the search results you’ve already loaded up.

CraigsEasy ：CraigsEasy是一个免费的书签，旨在增强您在现场的Craigslist搜索。 当您在本地Craigslist上查看搜索结果时，只需单击CraigsEasy的“轻松”书签即可将搜索列表转换为图库。 它是快速且不会被Craigslist关闭的，因为它只是一个书签，可根据您已经加载的搜索结果进行操作。

设置战利品通知 (Setting Up Loot Notifications)

Having good search mojo is only half the Craigslist battle. The other half is beating the rest of the deal hounds to the punch. Most people list stuff on Craigslist because they want to get rid of it and make a buck or two in the process. If you can get to them first and make them a decent offer, you can have the loot in your hands before the suckers you beat out have even sat down after work to check Craigslist. The faster you respond the more likely the person is to say yes to your offer, the faster they say yes the faster you can get the item, and the faster you get the item the less chance they have to wait for better offers and turn you down when somebody else offers more money.

拥有出色的搜索Mojo只是Craigslist战斗的一半。 另一半正在击败其余的交易猎犬。 大多数人在Craigslist上列出东西，是因为他们想摆脱它，并在此过程中赚一两美元。 如果可以先找到他们，并为他们提供一个体面的报价，则可以在战胜的傻瓜下班后坐下来检查Craigslist之前，先拿下战利品。 您响应速度越快，对方对您的报价说“是”的可能性就越大，他们越快说“是”，您就可以更快地获得商品，而您获得商品的速度就越快，他们等待更好的报价并转向您的机会就越少当别人提供更多的钱时下降。

Photo by Johan Larsson.

图片由 Johan Larsson 摄 。

There are three common ways you can receive notifications: email, SMS, and RSS. Which one you select is dependent on what kind of setup you spend most of your day with. If you have a smart phone with automatic email updates, email is a handy and information rich solution. If you have an older phone you might be stuck with SMS updates only. RSS feeds are also a viable choice for smart phones with an RSS reader—this would be a great time to use the new widget feature in Google Reader for Android. If you’re at a desk all day you can, of course, use email or RSS just as effectively; mobile solutions are superior, however,  if you really want to stay totally on top of listings. One thing to keep in mind, even if you find an email-only solution you can always set it up to email your phone using cell-provider email gateways.

您可以通过三种常见的方式接收通知：电子邮件，SMS和RSS。 选择哪种设置取决于您大部分时间都在使用哪种设置。 如果您的智能手机具有自动电子邮件更新功能，则电子邮件是一种便捷且信息丰富的解决方案。 如果您的手机较旧，则可能只停留在SMS更新上。 对于具有RSS阅读器的智能手机，RSS提要也是一个可行的选择-这是使用Android版Google阅读器中新小部件功能的绝佳时机。 当然，如果您整天坐在办公桌前，也可以同样有效地使用电子邮件或RSS。 但是，如果您真的想完全保持列表的顶部，那么移动解决方案是更好的选择。 要记住的一件事是，即使您找到了仅使用电子邮件的解决方案，也可以始终将其设置为使用小区提供者的电子邮件网关通过电子邮件发送电话 。

Previously mentioned Search Tempest and Crazed List support custom RSS searches. It’s worth noting that Craigslist has native RSS support, but third party search tools usually make it easier to grab RSS feeds for multiple custom searchers. The pay version of Craigstoolbox supports both email and SMS notifications.

前面提到的“ 搜索暴风雨”和“疯狂列表”支持自定义RSS搜索。 值得注意的是，Craigslist具有本机RSS支持 ，但是第三方搜索工具通常可以更轻松地为多个自定义搜索者获取RSS feed。 Craigstoolbox的付费版本支持电子邮件和SMS通知。

In addition to the aforementioned solutions, you can set up notifications using the following tools:

除了上述解决方案之外，您还可以使用以下工具设置通知：

HEYCRAIG: HEYCRAIG is a simple search-to-email notification tool. Visit the site, plug in your search terms, your email, and the city you want to actively search in, and HEYCRAIG will send you an email every time a match for your search terms is listed on that local Craigslist.

HEYCRAIG：HEYCRAIG是一个简单的搜索到电子邮件通知工具。 访问该网站，插入您的搜索字词，您的电子邮件以及您要积极搜索的城市，并且每次在该本地Craigslist上列出与您的搜索字词匹配的内容时，HEYCRAIG都会向您发送一封电子邮件。

NotiFinder: Like HEYCRAIG, it enables email notifications. Unlike HEYCRAIG, it supports variables like which category you want to search, minimum and maximum price, and how often you want to be notified (instantly, daily, weekly).

NotiFinder ：与HEYCRAIG一样，它启用电子邮件通知。 与HEYCRAIG不同，它支持变量，例如您要搜索的类别，最低和最高价格，以及您要多久收到一次通知(即时，每日，每周)。

CraigsNotifica: A free Android-based solution that actively monitor Craigslist with custom search parameters and than alerts you via audible ring, vibration,  and/or flashing LEDs when a match is found.

CraigsNotifica：一种基于Android的免费解决方案，可主动监控具有自定义搜索参数的Craigslist，并在发现匹配项时通过声音，振动和/或闪烁的LED提醒您。

CraigsPro+: For iOS users, CraigsPro is an inexpensive ($1.99) solution that makes searching Craigslist and setting up notifications a breeze. Custom searches can be converted into search agents with customized notifications (sound, vibration, and push-style icon updates).

CraigsPro +：对于iOS用户而言，CraigsPro是一种廉价的解决方案(1.99美元)，可轻松搜索Craigslist和设置通知。 可以将自定义搜索转换为具有自定义通知(声音，振动和推送式图标更新)的搜索代理。

Armed with the above tools to provide blanket coverage via email, SMS—remember to use the email-to-SMS trick if need be—and RSS, you’ll be first in line to respond to new Craigslist postings. Even if you don’t end up scoring every deal that the notifications alert you to you still benefit—because you’ve got an active eye on the price of things in your area you’ll become better at spotting excellent deals and making offers that will be accepted quickly.

有了上述工具，您便可以通过电子邮件，SMS进行全面覆盖-请记住在需要时使用Email-to-SMS技巧 -和RSS，您将成为第一批响应Craigslist新帖子的人。 即使您最终没有为每笔交易都打分，通知也会提醒您您仍然受益，因为您会密切关注您所在地区的物价，因此您会更好地发现出色的交易并提供将很快被接受。

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Have a tip, trick, or tool for scoring deals on Craigslist that we didn’t cover here? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

有没有在Craigslist上为交易打分的技巧，窍门或工具，而我们在这里没有介绍？ 让我们在评论中听到它。

翻译自: https://www.howtogeek.com/59458/how-to-harness-technology-to-score-amazing-craigslist-deals/

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