Marketplace1.2.6

The author has abandoned the application and open-sourced the code: * Unfortunately, I don't have the time to maintain and support it * anymore. *But* there's still a group of people using the app, and * goodness knows, Craigslist still has the ugly. … * I won't be accepting pull requests, but I will happily link to any * interesting forks that are. Just let me know. https://github.com/joshaber/Marketplace

Up until recently, this was a very good and easy to use app. However, it has not been working for the last several months and the developer seems to have gone AWOL and is unresponsive to any contacts. I suspect Craigslist changed something, but with no support at this time results in a poor grade.

I surely enjoyed this app when it was under development, but now that it has fallen by the wayside it likely best that it be sandbagged and the developer's link cut. Developer does not respond to queries. He's alive and well on Twitter if others want to try and contact him...maybe you'll be lucky enough to get a response, but I doubt it: http://twitter.com/joshaber

After 16 years as a Macintosh user, I must say that the reviews of product here are unfair. It's a very good mac search tool. The best I can find. Anytime a developer/designer can install an application and make money with it on the same day they have found gold. 19 bucks earned me a $2,800 project today right here in Orlando. No, it didn't close the sale for me, but it made sure I was the first person to email that lead. So not only do I highly reccomend Marketplace, I would like to thank the developer for creating it and pricing it so that anyone can purchase it. Good job! So just to be fair, I found 1 minor issue. If you have it checking craigslist very minute it will use some resources, nothing close to say Dreamweaver but it will use 35-40 of your ram. No problem, ram is cheap! P.S. MacUpdate's Rating stars code is buggy. I give it a 5 for VALUE maybe a 6!

Never ever updates. Never ever, ever, ever, ever updates the software!!! Stops responding to emails. For $20, you should at least be able to get a response. It's funny that his site says "tell me how to make it better." I've told him, told him, and told him as I'm sure plenty of others have. Yet it's been around 2 yrs. since any update at all???? I'm actually begging other users to not buy this. Please don't buy it! If you do, you're just rewarding his non-responsiveness and unwillingness to actually stand behind his product. Don't do it! Seriously. Please. Please, please don't. It should be $5 at the most. I want a refund!

v1.2.6 Not ready for prime time. The program frequently crashes and is buggy. Developer support is not prompt and then inadequate.

Very useful software!

This is an awesome little app! It does one thing and does it very well, and the Developer is constantly working on upgrades and improvements. he even replies when you e-mail him with suggestions, and how cool is that! I use CraigsList a LOT, and before Marketplace, I;d do a search in one area - no results. Repeat the search in another area - one result - and so on. Now, I can specify multiple search areas, entire states, even the whole country - and Zip! Marketplace does all the heavy lifting. Most of the limitations of the app come from CraigsList itself in my experience, so is it perfect? No, but what is? If you like CraigsList, you'll love Marketplace! As for it costing $20 - it saved me that the first time I used it - everything else is gravy!

Some would wonder why they'd want to pay for an application to access a free online service... Generally, for the added value that it provides and the time that it saves. I used to save my craigslist searches as bookmarks and then open items that I found interesting in new tabs in my browser so that I didn't have to keep bouncing back and forth from the list and the items. Then I'd save items that I was interested in as additional bookmarks. All of this worked to a point, but ended up with a somewhat confusing jumble of bookmarks and the possibility of sometimes missing new items. Marketplace allows you to save your searches and save items that you are interested in as favorites in a separate list. Three panels across your display show your saved searches and favorites in the first, the list of items in the currently selected search in the second, and a currently selected item in the third. No more jumping back and forth. Further, after creating a search you can filter those results at any time. There are three different craigslist areas close to me that I search through and a combination of searches for specific words and general category searches that I use. But at any time I can use the "filter" to add specific constraints to my search. This can be especially helpful if I saw something a couple days ago and didn't add it to my favorites at the time but further thought has made me want to check it out again. Finally, Josh is an incredibly responsive developer. If you e-mail him with a question, possible improvement, or comment he is most often going to reply within 48 hours and usually within 12 hours. When I first started using Marketplace I was impressed, but sent him an e-mail with some ideas of what would make it "perfect" for my use. Within months all of the suggestions that I made were implemented! I have no idea how many other people may have suggested similar improvements to mine, but it shows that Josh responds to his user base. A clean, simple program that definitely delivers!

Nice. Fast. Doesn't work with the new "adult services."

This works for someone who has multiple searches going constantly, but I have accomplished the same thing with LaunchBar search scripts.

Worked well for me but I think that $20 is way too much for it. It's a $5 or $10 app imho.

Decent App. I actually finally upgraded because of this app. I had been putting 10.5 off for weeks, but I finally did it, just so I could try this thing out (in need a work recently). Makes redundant searching wicked easy. Very stable, and very straight forward. Few things though... While I does some things very easily and straight forward, I am left a little awkward... The app menu bar (up at the top of the screen) has unused items that just make the program seem sloppy. The "File" option is largely unnecessary, save for "Close" and "Print," yet it has New (what?), Open, Open Recent, Save, Save As, Revert to Saved and Page Setup, all of which grayed out and unused. The "Edit" menu has a full assortment of options, all of them grayed out, as does the "View" menu and the "Format" menu (save for "Colors" in the format menu... which... is used? no?). Then there is the absence of a help file. If options are useless, they should not be included. Simple as that. That's my only gripe though, and it is very minor. Other than that. It does what it says, and it is rock solid in my experience. Things I wish it had? A way to limit the number of returned listings: Certain number from each state; Only so many days old; Certain number per search. The third option brings in my other desire, order options: Ordered by state (current), Ordered by date (and limit the number in this list either by how many days old, or ow many per state). The limit and order options could be by search, which brings me to my third and final request. Naming of searches, other than what it is searching for (although that works to auto populate it). If you need any help, I would be more than willing to assist for free...

Just tried it despite the reviews and it works great for american cities 2 great things - - saves your search, so youc an periodiclly check them all - search multiple cities it's free, it works

Yet another app that really has no excuse for being 10.5 only.

I am not sure what the other guy was talking about but I had no problem at all using this product. It takes the knowledge of clicking your search in the upper right to view your results. The only issue I had is if you search multiple areas for a broad keyword such as "boat" you will see the result titles but can not see the result detail until the search has been completed. In my instance it took about 2 minutes to come back with 3400 results for "boat" in 4 regions.

um... this app doesn't seem to do anything. There is no help for it.... and its not the least bit intuitive. I couldn't figure out how to do anything with it... or ever what its supposed to do. Even the description is bad. IS this simply a nicer front end UI for craigslist? where are all the features? How can i post something? HOw come when i create a search nothing happens. I guess thats why its beta. Should be sub- alpha still. If anyone can even figure out how to to a simple search or make the app do ANYTHING at all... let me know. Seems like it has potential to be nice.