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Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:25 am

May of been mentioned before, but anyway to get the zip code range in the search function expanded? Currently we can not look farther out than 250 miles from our "entered zip code". Would love to see a 500, 750 mile option. Still reasonable distances to travel to pick up the vehicle or rare part of our choice. Thanks

Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:28 am

No one has mentioned this before, I think they move up to searching by state or region.

Feedback from other members welcome.

What is your zip code? I would like to see what the difference is in # of ads between 250/500/750 miles in your area.

Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:58 pm

"Region" has some weird boundaries (IMO), so I usually just switch to "USA" and do some scrolling.

I wouldn't mind 500/750/1000-mile options, though.

- Scott

Sat Aug 01, 2009 11:35 pm

My zip is 22655 (Winchester, VA). Yeah I also go through state by state, using the control key to select, but it's a pain. Love the zip code option as it's so much faster/easier. Keep in mind, that from my zip, once I hit the 500 mile option, heck I start to include major cities/states like NY, PA, IA, OH, NC, SC, TN, etc... You get the point.

Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:24 am

Web Master must already be working on it. Tried the zip feature this morning and noted that now we have a 500 mile radius option. Thanks, man does it make it easier for me. Great Customer Service BTW!!!

Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:42 am

Yes, I added 500 miles. I need to look deeper at adding 750 or 1000 miles because that starts pulling A LOT of surrounding zip codes from the database, which might affect things.

I tried 750 and the difference between 500 and 750 was pretty minimal in terms of ad count from your zip code.

Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:17 pm

I'm liking the 500-mile option. Thanks Everett! :)

- Scott

Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:23 pm

hey Ev, could you add a 5 mile search option too? i live in San Diego and its a dense city, sometimes if i want to search all available near me it pulls up way too much, a 5 mile radius would be really sweet! thanks! - Bret

Tue Feb 08, 2011 5:23 pm

I'm not against it but that sort of means you wouldn't drive 10 miles to buy something? That seems weird.

I checked your zip and there are only 1000 ads total (without limited it by section) within a 10 mile radius of your zip code and only 10 new ads in the past 2 days. It's almost the same for my zip in Phoenix.