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How to search several cities (and when to use all cities)
Choose one city, your own list of cities, or all cities, and spend city slots on places you will actually review.
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How to read market prices for a search
Open a search's market prices (year ladder, usual price, range, cities) before you chase a listing. These are asking prices, not sold prices.
Open a monitor's Snapshot tab for Crawlbench's comps surface on that buy box. It reads medians, interquartile bands, observed range, weekly volume, and metro splits from Facebook Marketplace listings Crawlbench has already seen. Then you decide whether an ask is cheap, fair, or bait.
Snapshot answers "what does this monitored market look like?" Match triage answers "should I message this seller now?"
Snapshot vs sold-comp / profit tools
Some tools gate every alert on sold-comp profit math. Crawlbench does not. Market Snapshot is the honest assessment layer we ship today:
- What it is: Asking-price comps from Facebook Marketplace inventory that matches your monitor's identity filters (make/model, category, cities; price and recency ignored for the sample).
- What it is not: A sold listing archive, a SuperFlip-style profit score, or a valuation of one row.
- How to use it: Pick a model year on the ladder, check whether the ask sits below the median or inside the typical band, confirm volume is thick enough to trust, then message on Facebook yourself.
If a reviewer asks where the ROI / comps answer lives, point them here, not at a dashboard attention card.
Open Snapshot from a monitor
From Monitors, open the monitor, then choose the Snapshot tab (Overview / Matches / Buy box / Snapshot / Activity). You can also jump there from Matches or the dashboard monitor actions. The header keeps the buy box identity, coverage, and priced-comp sample count while Snapshot fills the body.
Every paid plan puts a market comp on the match row itself: the asking-price median for that listing's segment, plus how far the ask sits from it. Snapshot is the layer above that: the whole distribution for the buy box. Starter and Growth do not include it. Pro, Scale, and an active Day Pass unlock windows (Day Pass tops out at 7 days). Upgrade from Settings → Plan when the empty state says Snapshot is plan-gated.
Pick a sample window and model
Use 7 days when you care about the last few cycles. Use 30 days for a steadier desk read. Use 90 days when you want a longer band and your plan allows it. Model chips (when the buy box spans trims) focus the ladder so years do not collide across variants.
Short windows move with noise. Long windows hide a sudden price shift. Switch windows when a number feels too good to trust. Hide low-sample rows when a thin year is only noise.
Read the year ladder
Price by model and year is the desk view: each row is one model year (or model + year) with listings, median, and a shared price axis (min–max line, P25–P75 box, median tick). Pick a year to open distribution detail underneath.
Read the price analysis
For the selected year, Median ask is the center of the priced sample. Typical range is the P25–P75 band where half the listings sit. Min / max is the observed range, including outliers. Listings / week is average volume in the window. Price-cut share adds context when the sample supports it.
Low sample means the chart is thin. Do not treat a handful of listings as a national market. Share card unlocks when the sample is solid enough for a branded export.
Compare metros
Metro price bands split the window sample by metro on the same price axis, with each city's median versus the whole-sample median. Use it when coverage spans many cities and you care where the ask is cheap relative to supply.
How to use Snapshot in a deal
- Confirm the sample window and model chip match the listing you are looking at
- Select that model year on the ladder and check median plus the typical band
- Confirm volume is high enough that the band is not one seller's typo
- Glance at metro vs sample if you will only drive in one city
- Open Matches only for rows you would actually pursue
- Message on Facebook yourself. Snapshot does not contact sellers.
