Free alternative to Adverts.ie

lolo62

Just tried marketstall.ie having difficulty viewing anything on my phone...liking the simplicity of the categories etc, can you comment and leave feedback?

MilanPan!c

dacogawa wrote: »

Got to say I'm a bit annoyed at these Adverts.ie changes/charges, IMHO it seems to have been very badly thought out. I would have thought that a company like Distilled Media (who own adverts/daft/boards/thejournal etc) would have implemented changes like these a lot better.

I don't think people would be so angry if they had charged €5 for any ad over €100 & left everything under that amount free, also if they made paying the charge more accessible (paypal ?) & transparent, cause there is a lot of people who do offer the asking price & then disappear, having a seller who has just lost out on a sale & then trying to get 'virtual' money back is really going to turn people off quickly. I definitely wont be using the site to sell anything while these new charges are in place.

I can't really see it working out well at all, people will leave now, people will leave after being charged wrongly & their hits fall (currently no.10 in Ireland)
http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/Regional/Europe/Ireland

Hope this can be resolved before there is too much damage to the adverts brand, also hope I don't get in trouble here on boards for coming into the Distilled Media house & telling them their re-design of the sitting room is awful :eek:

Someone was recently warned for simply being quoted by someone else (me) who was making a joke about Adverts so. A warning for being quoted.


The skin is pretty thin these days. Beware.

Hootanany

lolo62 wrote: »

Just tried marketstall.ie having difficulty viewing anything on my phone...liking the simplicity of the categories etc, can you comment and leave feedback?

Will give this. Go cheers

miece16

http://www.marketstall.ie

tallaghtmick

Wont be long before boards shuts this thread down.......;)

Sitamoia

Just heard a radio ad for Adverts.ie on Corks 96fm, first one I ever heard.

Going to try Marketstall.ie and see what it's like.

Muahahaha

Sitamoia wrote: »

Just heard a radio ad for Adverts.ie on Corks 96fm, first one I ever heard.

Going to try Marketstall.ie and see what it's like.

They must be aiming to go head to head with Donedeal. Also Denis o brine just bought buyandsell.ie so I'd expect to be hearing radio ads for them on Today FM, Newstalk, Phantom, Nova and all his other radio stations fairly soon.

L1011

Muahahaha wrote: »

They must be aiming to go head to head with Donedeal. Also Denis o brine just bought buyandsell.ie so I'd expect to be hearing radio ads for them on Today FM, Newstalk, Phantom, Nova and all his other radio stations fairly soon.

Unless something's changed since yesterday he got outbid (andd he doesn't own Nova in the first place):

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/media-and-marketing/midland-bid-for-buy-and-sell-approved-1.1777903

Nova is part of a sort-of group of stations with Sunshine and 4FM, semi-shared ownership.

ozmo

Do any of the for sale sites mentioned here allow bidders to post messages/bids etc - or are they all just small adverts notices with email address -

Im going to miss that part from adverts ie

beauf

If the ad allows you to email/sms the seller then its quite similar to pms no?

What missing from adverts will be a trust rating. But in the last while there so many people with no history on adverts, you'd be lucky to get any replies from people with trust rating.

tallaghtmick

ozmo wrote: »

Do any of the for sale sites mentioned here allow bidders to post messages/bids etc - or are they all just small adverts notices with email address -

Im going to miss that part from adverts ie

I'm really going to miss the half value offers or horrible swaps :P

Although it was good for seeing someone who's commenting on a few different items usually meaning they will waste your time.

ozmo

beauf wrote: »

If the ad allows you to email/sms the seller then its quite similar to pms no?

pms / email is one thing - but the bartering and such that goes on in the public messages I havn't seen in another for-sale site.

For sellers a post is a bump - for buyers, they can see what others have offered and can see how active the seller is and can factor in to their bid price how popular the item is. Plus they might see useful answers to questions from other buyers.

beauf

True but its a double edged sword. People used to low ball which encourage others to low ball. Basically spamming ads. You even got some people offering less than the previous bid which makes no sense. So much noise was spoiling ads.

Bumping IMO had lost much of its impact due to the premium ads and also the big volume "private" sellers. Who you can't filter out.

Though you could see where someone was a messer and spamming all over. Doesn't help when you ad has 20 comments of spam. It was just noise to wade through.

Sitamoia

What sites are people using as an alternative? Gumtree, ebay, buyandsell, Done Deal?

lolo62

I like being able to barter on adverts, have gotten some great items that way and in exchange for ads that were sitting there ages.
The bump thing can go either way for the seller, I've had ads where competition between interested parties worked in my favour and ads where time wasters devalue by offering and then clearing off..so next offer will inevitably be lower.
Being able to see others activity very useful but sometimes I've wondered whether I'd be better off not being able to see that a time waster is just spending their money elsewhere and ignoring my comments to arrange a sale :mad:
These are the features that made adverts unique. Maybe marketstall.ie is heading in that direction, will be listing my ads there over the weekend, will report back on how it goes!

scholes

It's very sad what adverts have done. I couldn't be bothered using it any more. Its too awkward now with success fees e.t.c.
Why could they not have just charged 1 euro for each add?? They have just ruined a good thing in my opinion.
I have started using done deal now , which in my opinion was not a patch on adverts.
Adverts was brilliant but I feel they have just destroyed it.

Anyone listening from adverts or reading this , it's still not too late!

Things were great , Don't throw it all away! Have to go , I need to put something up on done deal it's far easier I'll just bite the bullet and pay the 1 euro to list! Less complicated.

Bye Adverts

NeVeR

Sellitireland.com sell for free.

Sitamoia

MarketStall.ie has potential, needs people to start posting ads though and giving them some feedback on the direction the site needs to go.

siuda

I'm selling on the sosellit.ie and I'm very happy. It's free and easy to use. I've sold few household items on this site.

Muahahaha

scholes wrote: »

It's very sad what adverts have done. I couldn't be bothered using it any more. Its too awkward now with success fees e.t.c.
Why could they not have just charged 1 euro for each add?? They have just ruined a good thing in my opinion.
I have started using done deal now , which in my opinion was not a patch on adverts.
Adverts was brilliant but I feel they have just destroyed it.

Anyone listening from adverts or reading this , it's still not too late!

Things were great , Don't throw it all away! Have to go , I need to put something up on done deal it's far easier I'll just bite the bullet and pay the 1 euro to list! Less complicated.

Bye Adverts

its funny its almost 8 months since you posted that and during that time I reckon Adverts has gotten more popular and Donedeal less. Some sections on Donedeal have tumbleweed blowing through them at this stage its that bad, I searched a few terms on it the other night and got 1 or 2 items for the entire country, same searches on Adverts usually got a lot more results. I know a lot of people moan about the success fee but in fairness I think its only for items over €30 and if you're making that then a 3% fee for facilitating the deal isn't exactly unreasonable IMO.

Muahahaha

siuda wrote: »

I'm selling on the sosellit.ie and I'm very happy. It's free and easy to use. I've sold few household items on this site.

had a look there and searched for TVs. Out of the whole country they have 10 results for that search and 6 of the results are not TVs but items with TV in the description. So its pretty useless and I can only presume you came here just to spread spam.

firestarter51

Muahahaha wrote: »

its funny its almost 8 months since you posted that and during that time I reckon Adverts has gotten more popular and Donedeal less. Some sections on Donedeal have tumbleweed blowing through them at this stage its that bad, I searched a few terms on it the other night and got 1 or 2 items for the entire country, same searches on Adverts usually got a lot more results. I know a lot of people moan about the success fee but in fairness I think its only for items over €30 and if you're making that then a 3% fee for facilitating the deal isn't exactly unreasonable IMO.

Done deal is a disaster imo
No feedback system
Way to many dodgy listings
I do a bit of buying and selling on adverts, at first I was avoiding the fees using the withdraw option, it's worth it €3 for a sale between 30 and I think 499, I'm open to correction on the upper limit.
The feedback system is a good indication wether your dealing with a genuine person or not

firestarter51

siuda wrote: »

I'm selling on the sosellit.ie and I'm very happy. It's free and easy to use. I've sold few household items on this site.

The sosellit.ie looks very limited

Kevin McCloud

Dungdeal has many free sections.

Hollister11

Donedeal needs a feedback system or people are in the risk of being scammed.
That's why I like adverts. I don't mind paying the small fee if my item sells.
I wouldn't of had the money if it wasn't for adverts anyway.