![]() That’s a frequency of roughly two checks per day, which is within my Craigslist hunting needs at the moment. You can do up to 65 free searches per month with a limit of two separate pages per day (each time the servers open the page to see whether there is an update, this is considered a “check”). Once you’ve completed this step, you’re finished setting up an account and your search is ready to go! Just sit back and check for updates at your leisure using your email. This will send you back to the Visualping website and prompt you to select a password. ![]() Make sure to check your spam folder if it doesn’t come through within a minute or two to your inbox. This will prompt you to verify your email address. ![]() Step 3: Confirm your email and wait for notifications to roll inįor a basic search, click “Start free monitoring”. Thule Chariots often move within a day or two when they’re priced to sell, so I selected “every day”. Enter your email address directly below and select how often you’d like the system to check for updates. For me, this involved catching the Craigslist search bar in the image, and several of the posts directly underneath. Crop the image so that it covers the full section you’d like to track. Note that the URL will contain all the search parameters (item description, category, price range, etc.) so make sure to copy the entire URL.Ī screenshot of your Craigslist search, exactly as it appears to Visualping’s servers, will pop up in the box underneath the bar where you just pasted the URL. Once you’ve landed on a list of posts in Craigslist, copy the URL from your web browser, paste it into the search bar on the Visualping website and click “GO”. Step 2: Set up an account by doing a monitoring task Unlike many free online services, which seem to require all your personal information, Visualping just needs your email, as that’s where you’ll receive notifications. If you’ve never done Visualping site monitoring before, you can set up your account just by creating your first monitoring task. Next, open a new tab and head to visualping.io. Type your keywords into the search bar and hit enter. I considered going further into the “baby + kid” subcategory, but since I was looking for a specific brand name item in a search that turns up relatively few posts in my area, I thought I may get more hits by searching the For Sale section more generally. For me, this was the For Sale section on Craigslist: Vancouver. Start by pulling up the Craigslist website in your region, and navigate to the section you want to track. Step 1: Pull up Visualping and Craigslist Let me walk you through my search for the Thule Chariot. It will alert you through your email when a change is detected, so that you can go about your day without worrying about missing a post. Whatever the need, Visualping can monitor updates to Craigslist searches by tracking visual changes to the web page. Though, it could really be used for any Craigslist search, whether you need a printer for the office, used auto parts, a piece of camping equipment or are looking for work or housing. But, they move quickly on Craigslist, and my schedule as a working mom wouldn’t allow me to keep on top of it on my own.Ī colleague of mine brought Visualping to my attention, which is free to use, and may be my best weapon yet in my battle against the baby tax. Might inspire me to rekindle my relationship with exercise. Specifically, I’d been on the prowl for one of those Thule Chariot strollers, in hopes that the turn of the New Year You know-that giant fee retailers put on clothes, furniture and other supplies when the intended user is tiny and cute.Ī full year of baby tax is a hit to the wallet and I found myself looking for ways to get back on the Craigslist train without having to sacrifice too much of my limited free time. So, despite the fact that baby-related expenses were piling up higher than my laundry, my husband and I found ourselves paying the “baby tax” on new items. ![]() Craigslist wasn’t going anywhere, but amidst the onslaught of daily life, I no longer had the time to use it. Nine times out of 10, I’d be able to sell these items for more than I paid for them when I was ready for something new.Īnd then I became a new mom, and all that went out the window. Over the years, I walked away with plenty of scores - a velvet rocking chair from the Art Nouveau era, a set of gold-framed paintings from the 1920s, you name it. During most of my 20s, for example, I did a daily scour of Craigslist before bedtime for vintage furniture to decorate my 350-square-foot apartment. There’s something uniquely satisfying about getting the things you need (and maybe a few things you don’t) for less than market value. You can easily use Visualping as a Craigslist notifier for all the best deals. Sometimes you just aren’t checking at the right time and end up missing out on a great deal. New items are posted to Craigslist everyday.
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