Adverts.ie charging for a successful sale as of 22nd April

rolexeagle1 · 22-04-2014 2:36pm #1

From today Adverts will apply a €3 fee to items sold that are over €30. This fee will be taken from your adverts.ie credit or the mobile number that you registered with.

I think this is a terrible move by the team at adverts.ie

"Hi everyone,

My name is Odhran Ginnity, I am CEO at Adverts.ie. I would like to update you with news on our exciting growth and some changes to our advertising fees.

Adverts.ie is now Ireland's biggest classifieds website, with over 670,000 items available for sale today. In the past 3 months alone our members sold €56 Million worth of new and pre-owned items across the country.

To support the growing volume of transactions, we have been working hard to build a product where people can buy and sell items in the fastest time possible, from people they can trust. We put a huge emphasis on ensuring that this is always at the forefront of our product road map, and over the coming years we will continue to invest in developing our product and service, especially across our mobile platforms.

You will notice that our Pricing structure for new ads has changed from April 22nd 2014. We still offer that great free to list service, and now if you sell an item where the asking price is greater than €30, a small success fee will apply.

It is important to highlight that if there is no sale - there is no fee - and all items that you have currently live on the site with us will not be affected.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us at feedback@adverts.ie or check out our Help pages.

Best wishes
Odhran"

I do not welcome this move at all. They already charge crazy money for bumping an add up the listings, premium ads etc

This is going to stop a lot of people using the site.