Looking for craigslist search software

[Tramaine]

Hi, I have been reading and searching the form for a while. I have been doing the craigslist flipping business and it has been going good for me. I have read all the post on here about others past experiences and its been a great help.

What I am having trouble with is I have been looking for software that can search craigslist for me and arrange everything in a excel sheet according to my key words and price. I have asked and got no responses and I have searched. any help would be appreciated

 

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[jon.a]

Hi, I have been reading and searching the form for a while. I have been doing the craigslist flipping business and it has been going good for me. I have read all the post on here about others past experiences and its been a great help.

What I am having trouble with is I have been looking for software that can search craigslist for me and arrange everything in a excel sheet according to my key words and price. I have asked and got no responses and I have searched. any help would be appreciated

Like this?
http://download.cnet.com/JimsList-Craigslist-Searcher/3000-2379_4-75322769.html

 

[SBS.95]

All of the people I know who have software like this paid for it to be made for them as a custom script. Seems like the best way to do it would be to hire someone on Freelancer.com. It shouldn't be too expensive.

Personally though I don't see too much value in software like this, and I wouldn't pay for it. Reasons:

• Being able to sort items by price does nothing for me. First, everyone on Craigslist will put "$1" as their price to get people to notice the ad. Second, I'm going to send a lowball offer anyway, so to be honest, I could care less what the asking price is.
• You can already search by keywords.
• You can already search in multiple areas (tons of Android apps do this for free.)
• I often get great deals on items I never search for. I just find them by browsing. Once I decided to browse the books section to see if there was anything worth reselling. I see a guy selling a WWII book collection for $20. Turns out this was some special collection released 1 at a time, and all of the books are like new. The collection is selling from $120-170 online. I buy it to make $100 profit. Some WWII museum in Australia buys it from me on Ebay and pays $120 for the books, and $180 for shipping it (the box was like 30 pounds, but it only cost me $130 to ship because I got an ebay powerseller discount.) I never would have found that kind of deal by searching keywords.