Removal of non-car classifieds from PistonHeads

[Ben Lowden]

We’ve been busy making significant changes this year to our premium used car search experience, making it easier for you to find your dream car on PH.

However, as part of this rebuild with a renewed focus on car listings and general decline in traffic to our non-car classifieds, we’re removing the ability to list all private non-car listings from PistonHeads from 1 December. Any existing listings will run until they expire.

Any adverts that were previously shown under Motorbikes, Motorsport, Parts & Plates and Non-Motoring will be removed from the website and will no longer be supported.

This has not been an easy decision but will allow us to focus on continuing to improve the core of our business.

If you have an advert live in our non-car classifieds, there’s nothing you need to do and it’ll be removed in due course.

[Ben Lowden]

Mezzanine said:

Does this open up the chance of relaxing the moderation/rules around mentioning a non-car related item being potentially for sale during thread discussions?

For instance those of us who frequent the watch forums would find it useful to be able to more freely discuss the selling of watches between other posters who we trust.

Either a dedicated ‘sales’ thread or just letting posters mention a certain item is for sale within the natural flow of thread and letting people talk via PM without their comments being removed?

Apologies for the delay here, I was off last week and just playing catch up. We're in the process of setting up new Marketplace forums for:

• Motorbikes
• Parts and plates
• Non-motoring

While these categories were rarely used in the classifieds, we recognise there may be demand in the forums for members to sell amongst each other, so these forums will be launching soon.

With regards to the watch forum, I have no issue with having a single sticky thread at the top of the Watches forum for watches for sale/wanted in the same way we do for Le Mans/ Goodwood. As with these threads, we don't want posts spreading into other threads with people trying to promote something for sale. Happy to set this up – just let me know!

[Ben Lowden]

Done