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How is this different than craigslist? It looks nicer, but you have the same feel of how to find things. Why can't I search all of the USA? Or a region. Or search a whole state? I hate clicking around to different cities to try and find something.

Posting is easy. Making an account is easy. Managing postings is easy. http://www.abtain.com/posts/manage has a field for price but I do not see a place to enter that in the posting.

Good work.

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I have sphinx search in the backend but turned it off because the number of posts is limited.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into making browsing/searching across regions better.

Do you think it would be useful if you are visiting a category in your local city to see posts from other nearby cities (within 150 miles)?

How about arbitrary distance, which the user defines?

Oh yes, most definitely. I was recently in the market for a new (to me) dirt bike and it was a pain switching around to different local cities and performing searches. And, because I was willing to drive for 2-3 hours to pick it up, some people would say they lived near a larger city to get more hits but when I called them up it turned out they lived like 50+ miles away from said city.

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