Classifieds a bit of jumble since change?
Discussion
Hi
Been a fan of the site for a while and used the classifieds to both buy and sell cars. Think its great to get like minded people selling perforance cars together.
However, since the change to include premium ads, I, personally, think that the classifieds section is now a bit of a mess. If its a popular section, e.g 3-series the ads now seem all over the place, with the non-premium at the end. What makes it worse is that the various filter options don't help in this regard, i.e. filtering by price means you don't get a complete filtered list by price.
Understand you want to make money from the success of the site, so want to discourage free ads, but in doing so I believe you've made it uch harder work to find what you want.
Would a compromise not be to include free ads at the back when the section is first opened, but then at least have the filter mechanisms working on the entire list.
Failing that could you please add a button that allows you to jump to the last page of the section, i.e. to find any new, non-premium ads (getting to page 230 manually can be quite tedious).
Otherwise keep up the good work on a great site.
Been a fan of the site for a while and used the classifieds to both buy and sell cars. Think its great to get like minded people selling perforance cars together.
However, since the change to include premium ads, I, personally, think that the classifieds section is now a bit of a mess. If its a popular section, e.g 3-series the ads now seem all over the place, with the non-premium at the end. What makes it worse is that the various filter options don't help in this regard, i.e. filtering by price means you don't get a complete filtered list by price.
Understand you want to make money from the success of the site, so want to discourage free ads, but in doing so I believe you've made it uch harder work to find what you want.
Would a compromise not be to include free ads at the back when the section is first opened, but then at least have the filter mechanisms working on the entire list.
Failing that could you please add a button that allows you to jump to the last page of the section, i.e. to find any new, non-premium ads (getting to page 230 manually can be quite tedious).
Otherwise keep up the good work on a great site.
Hi Andy,
The main issue with the classifieds at the moment is that all the adverts submitted before the new system went live are being treated as premium adverts in terms of placement. As these expire over the next month, the number of adverts in front of standard adverts will reduce and more of a balance between premium and standard adverts will develop.
In the short term we also plan to change the trade/private dropdown at the top of the listings to allow people to view just premium ads, just standard ads, just trade ads or all adverts.
The main issue with the classifieds at the moment is that all the adverts submitted before the new system went live are being treated as premium adverts in terms of placement. As these expire over the next month, the number of adverts in front of standard adverts will reduce and more of a balance between premium and standard adverts will develop.
In the short term we also plan to change the trade/private dropdown at the top of the listings to allow people to view just premium ads, just standard ads, just trade ads or all adverts.
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