DoneDeal now €5 per car ad!

Saw a funny thing the other day. Picked up a copy of the autotrader I use to buy it religiously and stopped about 2 years ago. Anyway the funny thing was the car section in the south was almost completely gone. The cover price was €4 hidden in small below the barcode. Now I also had a few old copies from 2008 which was double the thickness up from the current up to date one but the price on the 2008 copy was €3.80. Now that is just madness!!

mitchaul wrote: »

might seem harsh but after this news yesterday it has confirmed what i initially thought when i heard about the selling of the company. i can't help but think the shafting is only going to get worse so think i will get out now, leaving a small vote behind by unfriending them on facebook (:rolleyes:) and not placing any more ads with them. what's the alternatives then? i saw adverts and buy & sell mentioned here, does anyone here have any personal experience of selling on these? i like the idea of adverts as it is a part of boards and boards is brilliant, but i have heard bad things about being offered loads of crap in exchange for your items. i guess i will try both and see how i fare anyway

I realise my experiences are persornal, but il give two examples of experiences I have had with some selling sites in Ireland.

For one item I sell, (not a car) I have advertised them on donedeal , adverts, buy and sell and Gumtree. In April/May, I've solid about 20 units, 1 off adverts, 2 off Gumtree, 0 from buy and sell and 17 from donedeal. And another 4 reasonable leads that I might convert from DD. I didn't even get a call from the buyandsell add. When advertising on adverts yes you'll get more chancers than anywhere else, both advertisers (lookin for stupid offers) and potential buyers (giving stupid offers).

2. I stuck a van up on DD, buyandsell and cars Ireland a couple of months back. I had 5calls and 3meetings set up within 1hour of putting it up on DD and sold it to the first person for asking price with some luck. I left it up on B&S and CI just to see what the response would be, again not a dickie bird from buy and sell and one email from cars Ireland from who I'd call at the very least a very wishfull chap.

Overall from my experience there is no comparison in converting sales to donedeal, free advert sites never seem to do as well unless their severely restricted (thats how I imagine Gumtree is still around) . And although I like what adverts are trying to do, its to easy for someone to type an email/post/offer and feel no commitment or even interest in a product. When someone picks up the phone to call its much more lightly their actually interested. DD seems to encourage this. Or just attracts people actually willing to part with any money....

Eddie Smart wrote: »

Even 5 euro is not really big money, you can still advertise your car for free on carsireland.ie carsforsaleireland.ie cbg.ie, gumtree.ie etc.

Carsireland is pretty poor to be honest.

Bigus wrote: »

You don't seem to be able to pay for an advert by PHONE anymore with DD this was their USP, now you need a card,and this will put off loads of sellers.

Carsireland has come on in leaps and bounds btw

I think you can pay by mobile phone

You can definitely pay for a €3 ad on buyandsell.ie by phone, not sure about carsireland.
You'd need a phone made out of melted credit cards to pay by phone for $$carzone$$. donedeal have given up this option for a lot of phones now with their increase ad cost.

Jammy Donut wrote: »

Can't do it from landline or Meteor.

This donedeal plan is sounding more and more fatal.

puppetmaster wrote: »

It depends which you consider more greedy though, charging two more Euro on some of your advertisments, and 2 euro less on others. Still being cheaper that most your viable competition.

Or is it greedier for someone not to want to spend a fiver to sell their car.... ?



I advertise the same things on Adverts, Buyandsell , Donedeal, Gumtree and a couple of others. Donedeal sells about 6 or 7 times more than the rest of those sites Combined (if not more).. so there's no comparison for me.

Still interested in knowing what you sell if its not cars???
If you sell the stuff to the public and have advertised it on so many sites then surely its not a secret!!!
I find it hard to believe that you get a response 6/7 times greater than ALL other sites combined.
Maybe when we know what you sell it'll make a bit more sense?
What is it your selling again??

Why shouldn't they increase their price if they think it is a wise business decision? It is their site, they can set prices as they wish and they are forcing no one to advertise with them.

If you think €5 is too much, then use one of the alternatives, instead of whining about it on an internet forum.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I really don't mind a 5eu instead of 3, but I would love them to hire at least one fella who will sit down and check all car ads and take off all which use quick search bull****. It's not hard to do.

Sick of looking for Sti/wrx and getting 1.4 civics, Volvos, tdi garbage.

The real issue here is fixing the crap search they have. if it didnt rely on search words there wouldn't be a problem.

Only being able to pay for the ad through a mobile is a pain! Had to go to town today for 5 euro credit to bump up an ad.

Why fix it if its not broken!! Ive no issue with the 5 euro part just the way I must pay it :mad:

coup1917 wrote: »

Jesus, hopefully donedeal will use the extra revenue to stamp out this crap.....
You g:mad:et a great irish website which is nearly guaranteed to sell for you, and you are out to ruin it for everyone...........now thats typical ireland....

Done deal is no longer irish, Schibsted bought 50.09% of it.
There are lots of free sites to sell your stuff dealmonkey,olx,advert, to name but a few.

yes its donedeal getting greedy and i hope buy and sell and others out take advantage of the situation.
As one member stated if you dont agree with the price dont use them and i for one will not anymore, has not improved at all and has been going downhill for the past 4-5 months anyway...
you cant pay by landline anymore in the vehicle section just mobile/paypal/card so whats that about