In my latest quest to find out how the garage sale search engine “market” works, I’ve been searching for posts on blogs about garage sales. It’s been an interesting adventure. I’m finding things like GARAGE SALE —— Bonita | Bonita, CA, which was nothing more than an RSS feed from craiglist. Granted, RSS feeds have their place in data aggregation, but it wasn’t even a real garage sale listing, it looked like perhaps a thrift store got hold of a bunch of shutters, couldn’t really tell, just that the only thing they had was shutters in various sizes. Hmmph!

Having said that, I’ll admit first hand that I have no way to go through the thousands of craigslist listings that my bot gathers each week for Garage Sale Finder. Now and then a dud slips through. On the plus side, it’s only Monday night and there area almost 800 sales “scraped” for next weekend already.