Last November About.com put together an awesome tutorial on how to use Yard Sale Treasure Map. The instructions are explained there more concisely than I can explain myself so if you want some pointers, check it out!
Time Saving Tutorials also put together some excellent videos of a dated version of YSTM. Part I and Part II.
It could be a wonderful resource for everybody. BUT at least half of the listings for Portland are way wrong! Portland page shows street address listings for the WRONG CITY about half of the time. Even the wrong state! SE addresses are often displayed on the SW side of Portland. Make sure that posters use a correct zip code, and that your program can handle it…………………………elsullo
Ah, if only craigslist users would write out full US postal addresses on their listings life would be so much easier for the rest of us! But alas, this is not so. If one YSTM user spends 5 minutes correcting addresses (or removing incorrect addresses) for their city, the entire YSTM community in your area will benefit.
I also did a check in Portland, but could not find sales mapped to the wrong state. Please provide examples and I will see if I can improve things. Thanks!
tried submitting a Yard Sale post, but youyr form / page would not accept any entries into the fields shown.
Also, how do you type in a URL when you don’t have one?
If its your site and creates an entry on your page, it should be able to capture that url when the post or ad is made?
Hi Don,
For this form it is my intention to gently nudge sellers to post their ad on craigslist to help their visibility. I will need to update that page to make it more clear for people what needs to happen since I’ve gotten a few comments recently. Please create an ad on craigslist, then copy the url onto the form. Once you’ve copied the url, the other fields will become usable to you.
Thanks and good luck!
How can I change the default starting location? It always starts
at Saint Louis, MO When I Don’t live there anymore!
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Any way to save my map after I delete sales I don’t want. I would like to prep on Friday for Saturday morning sales – and then just do a double check before leaving the house to have the software add any late listers for Saturday on Craigslist. Thanks!
That’s a great idea. I will add it to my todo list. I am starting to redo the site in a more user friendly way so you should start to see this type of functionality soon.