Marketplace searches Craigslist for you. Simple? Well yes. But it does more than that too. It remembers your searches so if you tend to do the same searches over and over again, then Marketplace makes life a lot better. Marketplace also lets you search in many regions at once so if you have many regions around you, or you don't care where the results are from, then Marketplace makes life a lot better. And then there's other stuff like filtering and favorites that Craigslist just doesn't have, all of which make life a lot better. The moral of the story: Marketplace makes life a lot better for people who use Craigslist a lot. Made for Mac - Made by a Mac user, for Mac users. It's simple, straight-forward, and fast. Everything a Mac application should be. Find anything - search across multiple regions and categories. Get all the results in one convenient window. Then narrow your search down even more with built-in filtering. Choose Favorites - Store the best results and come back to them later. Put off until tomorrow what you could do today.
This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />For me, integration with Mail is spotty and unusable.
Documentation is basically non-existent.
Preferences are bare-bones.
There is no email link to the developer for bug reports from the program interface.
It's difficult to justify the price, which seems steep for a utility, especially one so newly released. I spent the month trial period sending bug reports.
On the plus side, the developer has been responsive to suggestions & bug reports. The interface looks good, if not a little pretentious ("?without the Ugly"). Appearance is tertiary to usability and utility, I should hope!
Perhaps public beta version(s) would have been more appropriate. Still not there, in my book.
Great ap
vnavone
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I've been very happy with this software - it makes browsing Craigslist listings much faster and easier, and it integrates well with my web browser and email. My only problem is that it doesn't allow you to narrow the region (from SF Bay Area down to East Bay, for instance) nor does it let you combine regions or searches.
Not yet
spectrumo
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The interface looks nice, but the feature set isn't even close to payment-worthy. In addition to many needed features, it would be nice if ads that you've already read would not be displayed in bold anymore and nor would they appear in the number of found ads total that appears next to each saved search. It feels way too static, as if it were only a window allowing one to look but not interact. I have to say Marketplace has quite a ways to go before being worth a dollar.
Wonderful program
oresta
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Beautifully designed. Really is the a more pleasing interface than CL's website. Love ability to save searches especially across different locations. Price is a little too steep, but if post creation is added, would be well worth the $20.
Keep up the great work!
Ten Buck Chuck
MAC_1984
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Pleasant little app, but the price is askew a wee bit. Craig's List is not hard to navigate if you know how to use it. Since no sniping is necessary on Craig's List this app has to conquer much less than a fantastic app such as Auction Hunter, and the many idiosyncracies/mandates of eBay.
If it were ten bucks, I'm in, but at twenty its waaaaaaaaaaay overpriced for its market point and category.
Nicely done app.. could use a few tweaks
Doctor What
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I just bought Marketplace and it seems like a fine app.
Personally, I think the $20 price tag was a little steep, but I'm on CL enough to warrant the cost.
I think it could use one tweak though in the interface design:
When doing a search of multiple locations, the search results are stacked. So if I did a search of both Los Angeles and Orange County, Orange County would come up far down the list after LA, especially if the search term was kinda generalized. One has to then scroll until the OC area begins. In my opinion, it would have been better if another vertical view came up with only that area, side by side, almost more Excel like in fashion. This way, we can choose which city column to look in first.
Just my 2 cents.
In all, seems like a useful app.