Let us know what we can change at Gumtree to make it better?

leonfilo · Joined: 27 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

It would be useful if you include a RSS facility to specific word search. For example if you only want to recieve updates of a specific age range in the dating pages.

Craiglist is already doing that.

DESIGUY420 · Joined: 28 Sep 2008 Posts: 1 Location: EDINBURGH

A081088 · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 27

Teresa George · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Saltdean

I have recently discovered GUMTREE and I love it!!! However I recently went to display a few things for sale only to realise that there is no heading for EQUESTRIAN please please I am sure it would be worth while. I look forward to seeing the change.
Kind Regards
Teresa

lindycogito · Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 1

It would be extremely useful if we could filter the results by date of postings. I was trying to use the housing section to find accommodation; the map feature is very useful (I wanted to search for places only very close to a specific location), but hard to use because there are tens of very old ads appearing on it which just obfuscate the new recent postings (and since people don't delete their ad when the place becomes unavailable, it is quite annoying). By restricting to show only, say, the posts of the last week on the map, this would be solved.

eva.angelina · Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 7 Location: London

IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE A FUTURE AD BUTTON IN THE MASSAGE SECTION.

anakaday · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

anakaday · Joined: 15 Oct 2008 Posts: 2

New posts should be at the top and older ones last.
It must be in reverse order.
Go and look a iii( internet investor).
You have to go through pages and pages to get to the one you want.
You need to do this quickly.

Another point about ads - you should not make it difficult for people to repost ads. This upsets people and makes their life difficult. Let people be free to repost their ads in the most convenient way instead of edit and delete. The ads get lost after one day.
Perhaps you can put a restriction on the number of posts in same category running at the same time.
For example business posting 20 accommodation adds should pay for the service - not to be at the top but to be allowed have more than 2 live property ads at any one time. Before you do that you could assume that most business will be happy to pay a small amount voluntarily.
You could simply have link for business customers and they would be happy to pay.

I am pleased that it's expensive to pay for posting because it would encourage the best ads to be at the top but also it doesn't encourage too many people being at the top of the list and penalising those that don't pay

whiterengland · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 4

Robert Grayson · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

Include a Churches category

faithjj · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

[quote="Jester"]Please let us know what we can change at Gumtree.com to make it a better experience fo you? What categories would you like to search? What sections are you are craving to post in? You speak, we listen - you ask, we act Very Happy

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Gumtree used to be very good i loved it very much but now...please where is my ad 31162324? I have emailed Gumtree team from help site but no response...

davinbourne · Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 9 Location: UK

Sorry, I posted this as a new topic by mistake in General Feedback instead of replying to 'suggestions to improve Gumtree'.

Here it is again. Perhaps you need to delete the posting that it is not in the 'sticky' section.

INFORMATION LINK ON NEW RULES

I do not think that users are aware that you have changed the rules regarding re-posting (bump up).
Can you either include that information at the appropriate place when edit / re-posting an advert or provide a direct link to the re-posting rules so that the person is not expecting the advert to magically re-appear in the current listings.
I think that a little bit of communication will go long way in gaining back respect from the public and building back confidence in your site. I do not think people realise the enormous task that you have controlling the ever increasing spam and inappropriate advertising.

FREE WEEKLY BUMP UP SERVICE

I also think that it would increase respect by providing at the very least a FREE weekly bump up service. This could be controlled from your end in the form of a simple email with a click link. This will encourage people to advertise and then hopefully from your point view take up the sponsored upgrade.
I think that having no free bump up service at all is only likely to antagonise people rather than encourage them to stay with you.

I hope that you find these suggestions helpful.

Chris121212 · Joined: 06 Oct 2008 Posts: 12

Make the email system hide our email addresses, always.

This was spammers will not be able to get hold of our valued private email addresses.

GH · Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

Jester says........You speak, we listen - you ask, we act

well for a start no one at Gumtree is brave enough to let you speak to them. and I have asked, not once, but several times, why my ads and my use has now been restricted for asking, but YOU DO NOT ACT. I can't believe the amount of posts complaining of your lack of response. you leave people in the dark and very annoyed, not the best way to run a business.

Urban Pauper · Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 1664

How about a spell checking function? I don't really like making mistakes.

faithjj · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

Gumtree used to be very good i loved it very much but now...please where is my ads 31162324,31275458? What is wrong with these ads? and the 31162324 was just alive two days and removed for no reason. I feel so disappointed with Gumtree as i never experienced this before.

angel30eyes · Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Norwich

Hi there Gumtree, Was wondering if you could considering adding a new catagory for the Stuff For Sale section please, i think a toys for sale section would be great especially coming up to xmas, i am clearing out the old for new and some of it is like brand new and people wouldn't know what catagory to look in for toys so this would be a great help for all us parents out there

Thanks oddles
Angel30eyes Razz

bagman · Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

"Please let us know what we can change at Gumtree.com to make it a better experience fo you? What categories would you like to search? What sections are you are craving to post in? You speak, we listen - you ask, we act"

Didn't this sound good on your first day back in 2006?
But now either boredom or apathy appears to have set in. This is evident by the amount of negativity seen in these forums and the lack of sightings of any moderators.
I have been trawling through the feedback here and there are some seriously good ideas and with a little effort this site could be a major competitor to the infamous EB*y.

The main complaint appears to be the mystical disappearance or none appearance of adverts..mine being one of them.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE sort the problems out, you have a good base, and lets have a decent sales site we can depend on!!

evondoll · Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Glasgow

Asadi · Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Posts: 1

How about if somebody's ad is posted in the wrong section; instead of deleting the whole thing, you allow them time to ammend it, or post them the page. Otherwise they'll have to retype the entire ad and upload pictures again. A bit of a watse of time, no!?

davets · Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

[quote="bagman"]"Please let us know what we can change at Gumtree.com to make it a better experience fo you? What categories would you like to search? What sections are you are craving to post in? You speak, we listen - you ask, we act"

[b]Didn't this sound good on your first day back in 2006?
But now either boredom or apathy appears to have set in. This is evident by the amount of negativity seen in these forums and the lack of sightings of any moderators.
I have been trawling through the feedback here and there are some seriously good ideas and with a little effort this site could be a major competitor to the infamous EB*y.

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ebay owns, or has a controlling stake in gumtree, which they only bought to stop it competing with ebay.

paulmark · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 2

the moderators might like to help by replying to paying customers emails when you tale our monies and do not put our ads on!
As no-one seems to want to reply to me, I shall be taking this further!

nospam · Joined: 20 May 2008 Posts: 28 Location: London

Get rid of bots like OOSHOPOO.COM and UUSHOPUU.COM

(perhaps there should be a CAPTCHA on the ad submit form?

johnmark · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 118

make it similar to hotukdeals

adambestboy · Joined: 28 Mar 2008 Posts: 13

This used to be a simple easy site for the community now you have ruined it by making it all about money, the appeal to this site was it was free to post ads on it now your stopping people from renewing there ads> It is very rare to sell an item within one day especially when you take all day to get them onto your site then you refuse to renew them them the following day unless they pay you, sort it out you are spoiling the site!!!

I will be looking elsewhere to sell my or indeed give away my old goods as you have made it difficult to work surley you cant expext everyone to make up a new ad everyday until they sell there car/tv etc, stop money grabbing and get back to what made this site great!!!!!!!