Re: Classified Ads
Re: Classified Ads
- Subject: Re: Classified Ads
- From: Amaya Gergoff Bengoa <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:26:33 +0200
sorry for answer so late :p
we have a section in our website for classified Ads, it is open to
everyone and it is free, but we control it every post, there are few
rules to follow, just mac stuff or related to mac..., as services or
classes, tech support etc..
We start it as a test on 2003, and we have a fabulous feedback, people
post, and they are responsible for the all the rest.
We decided to make it free and open because that is a way people go to
our website, and make a little follow on what is happening there, and
some use it a lot, because they have resolve the issue, buy or sell.
Some have became member of our discussion list, and some have assisted
to our meetings.
Certainly it takes a little effort to control it, but this year we
received almost no spam or try to sell stuff not related, since the add
doesn't get to the web they get tired to try. At the begging (not
experience at all) was unmoderated, and moderated after it was post,
that was fast to post but not free of spam, so we decide to check first
then get post.
That also let us check those add that are allowed but they have a
little issue, like they said, "I sold an iMac full of design programs
and list of those", we know that 98% of the time those are not legal
programs so, we sent an email to the owner to resent the add,
clarifying if that was original sw or not, and if not, not including it
on the add. Now we are more practical, at the moment we check the add
for approval we edit that part, and we make that clear in the
instructions. Now we are 4 people with access to check and aprove. We
receive an email with the link approval every time an add is post, so
usually works very fast.
We have made a FAQ for the section, and people use to notify us when
they sell a product, so the add are deleted.
Time to time, depends on number, we delete all adds from the database.
Our system now is slow for search, and we should work on divide
products and services for better service, but since it is free and
open, we are just waiting for some devoted heart to work on that :)
It is our most visited section on our web.
http://www.caracasmug.org (here you see the last 4 included)
http://www.caracasmug.org/clasificados/ then here you see from 10 to
10 (we have now 236 adds)
Amaya
Caracas MUG president
On Jun 16, 2004, at 10:18 PM, Erik Garrido wrote:
Hi, I'm Erik Garrido President in MacInsider Mug Chile. We have a
Classified Ad system, is free for members, in www.macinsider.cl
Joining and Test.
Erik Garrido -President
MacInsider Mug Chile
www.macinsider.cl
email@hidden
El 16-06-2004, a las 15:53, David Harris escribis:
On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at 01:00 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Our group has always let members run low-cost classified ads in our
monthly
newsletter. But we don't advertise this benefit broadly because we
don't want
commercial people joining our group just to publish their ads.
Does anyone on this list have any experience with classified ads in
your
newsletters? Do you offer them? Are they free or paid?
The Washington Apple Pi Journal offers both paid classified ads up
to twelve lines, and ads up to three lines free for members. The
Journal editor can refuse to run ads deemed inappropriate.
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