How to use craigslist more efficiently

[Optanium]

Whenever I do a task, I like to find ways to do it efficiently. I know a lot of people here use craigslist to find things so I would like to show you how I use craigslist to speed up my searching.

How many times have you gone to craigslist and looked at an item, then you have to click on the link to see the pic of the item (if there is one) and when you're done you go back to the main listing?

Well here is a neat little utility you can use to view the main listing with the pics. This method is for Firefox, if you're not using Firefox, I suggest you switch to it promptly!

PLEASE NOTE I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU MESS UP YOUR COMPUTER DOING THIS.

1. Go to this link https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 and click on Add to Firefox. This will install the greasemonkey script that you need.

2. Now go here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24089 and click on "install". This will install the thumbnail preview.

3. Once installed, restart your browser and go to craiglist and check it out.

It should look something like this

http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt253/optanium/firefox.jpg

A picture is worth a thousand words! Let me know if this helps any of you!

[Gabe]

Alex, my wife thanks you! She's always scoping out Craigslist for things for the kid. :)

[Optanium]

Alex, my wife thanks you! She's always scoping out Craigslist for things for the kid. :)

Cool Gabe! Now she can scope through all the junk quicker! Did the instructions work for you?

Now let's break this brick open and grab a star so we can power it up even more!

You can add this script also which lets you see the contents of the ad by putting your mouse over the link:

Go here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33283

http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt253/optanium/firefox2.jpg

[Gabe]

Double sweetness! I haven't run the scripts yet since I'm still at work, but I'll be doing it when I'm home...whenever that will be. :D

[Optanium]

yea, you're hitting the clack after work right? Man good luck!

[Gabe]

yea, you're hitting the clack after work right? Man good luck!

Yup, dropping the dog off at a friends for the weekend and he lives across the street from Riverside. :) His 6 kids will be a lot more company than I will.

[stephan009l]

http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/spo/1467325702.html

Looks to be pretty good for the deal, I dont live in oregon so maybe 1 of you guys/galls would be interested?