Is Gumtree Accomodation section finished?

nickora · Joined: 24 Jun 2009 Posts: 18

wow thats a lot! how do you tell if they are spam or genuine? is the cost of living in london simply just more than they advertise or what?

montyzuma · Community Moderator Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 7536

I dont know london prices tho they seem cheap

mr x will give us his definition

certainly when you contact them they will mention western union as proof you have the money

jonin60seconds · Gumtree Admin Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 1286

I've been away in a few meetings but I noticed that most of those have been removed. It was probably 10 minutes after you flagged them which is not bad considering the verification that the mod team has to go through.

Further proof that mods are doing a better job than they get credit for!

Mr_X · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 207

No problem.

I do that everyday. Browse through the ads and report all the scams .

jonin60seconds · Gumtree Admin Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 1286

You are a legend in your own time!

Mr_X · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 207

Thanks joinin

To answer the above yes, it is easy to spot the scams

They post flats in very desirable areas, mostly central London. Knightsbridge, South Kensington, Islington, etc.

They post pictures of beautiful flats and they advertise extremley cheap.

£150 for a 1 bed, £200 for 2 bed, or £200 pw 1 bed in Chelsea, etc

jonin60seconds · Gumtree Admin Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 1286

Hey Mr_X, that kind of info would be useful to forum users on the new gumtree tips forum. Would you like to share your knowledge of flat scams in a new thread there?

http://forums.gumtree.com/viewforum.php?f=25

Mr_X · Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 207

No worries I'll head over there in a sec

jonin60seconds · Gumtree Admin Joined: 18 Mar 2009 Posts: 1286

Much appreciated!

loopy2006 · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 20 Location: Feltham, TW14

the problem with Gumtree at the moment is that the ads are all over the place and sometimes you need to report an ad a cuople of times before it is removed.

i believe this has put people off looking at Gumtree, the increase in users is probably the scam artists??

the other thing with Gumtree is that it doesnt monitor the ads, so they just leave it to us to report the ads.

their posting rules state that people breaking the posting rules will be banned! what a joke, i report the same estate agents ads daily and the next day the same agents are posting their ads into the private property category again. these ads simply advertise their businesses and should be posted into the Services category.

gumtree must be losing a fortune, if it enforced its own rules then all of these agents would either be paying for a subscription to use Gumtree and/or they would be paying to advertise their business into the Services category.

Until Gumtree starts to enforce its own rules the site will continue to be full of spam and scams, yet the admins/mods will continue to insist that thats not the case..haha..laughable really.