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1. Facebook Marketplace: In my country, the radius is max 500 *kilometers*.

   I am located in Germany and here we have Facebook Marketplace as well. However, we do not use miles but kilometers. Why ever, Facebook detects that and gives a maximum of 500 kilometers not 500 miles. Consequently, I am not able to cover the whole US with the cities provides.

   For example, Southwest is centered in Mercury (NV) currently. My favorite and perfect-match car is located in Salinas (CA). Because I have a maximum of 500 kilometers that car is not covered. Not kidding, happened to me yesterday, found it by using another car and its California city as center of the radius.

   What I tried to get miles: Fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Mozilla Firefox configured to US-English, without any cookies, not logged in to Facebook ever. Facebook gives me not miles but kilometers. I guess, they determine this up by IP address. I changed the URL and included the parameter ‘radius’ (and ‘radiusKM’) to broaden beyond 500, but the maximum is 500.

   I know this is an exceptional case, searching from a foreign country nationwide in the US. However, my car model is rare. And I am not sure if this affects SearchTempest as well. And I am not sure if this affects other metric based countries like Canada or Mexico already.

   Therefore, I am reporting. My workaround is to setup my own list of cities covering whole US. :)

   I am located in Germany and here we have Facebook Marketplace as well. However, we do not use miles but kilometers. Why ever, Facebook detects that and gives a maximum of 500 kilometers not 500 miles. Consequently, I am not able to cover the whole US with the cities provides.

   For example, Southwest is centered in Mercury (NV) currently. My favorite and perfect-match car is located in Salinas (CA). Because I have a maximum of 500 kilometers that car is not covered. Not kidding, happened to me yesterday, found it by using another car and its California city as center… more

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   under review  ·  AdminNathan Stretch (CEO / Founder, AutoTempest.com) responded

   There are so many frustrating issues like this with marketplace! I can't promise a timeline, but we'll look into whether we can work around this, or if not, maybe create an alternate set of cities for 500 km radius searches of the US. (Which do you use?)