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fasteddie31003
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How to Make It on Craigslist
I made a tool that does something a lot like this that uses machine learning algorithms. I gave up on it a while back, but give it a look.
http://ec2-184-72-247-63.compute-1.amazonaws.com
I called it Eds-list
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The predicted numbers seem way off to me based on spot-checks. For example, I searched for "chair" in NYC, and for a number of normal office chairs listed at $30-50, the "Ed's list" price predicts that they're really worth $180-500!
JOnAgain
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Seems to find all the fraud listings pretty well
fasteddie31003
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Yea I found that fact too. I imagine that the fraud values are outliers which my algorithms think are good values.
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I called it Eds-list