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

marianplumbing · Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 4 Location: croydon

Sounds great hyperian, Gumtree people should think on that. It will help them and us and you as well on the long run, it's clearly a win-win situation.

City Plumber · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 249 Location: Essex

I thought it was only me getting pissed off with Gumtree, but obviously not.

marianplumbing · Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 4 Location: croydon

I'm pleased to let you know that I was contacted by Gumtree staff and they looked into the problem. Now it's sorted out for good and they gave me three days free featured ad.
Thank you.

City Plumber · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 249 Location: Essex

strawbryblond1 · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

I'd like to see it become a rule that when posting on Gumtree that the price of the item MUST be included. I am looking for a dog, and I am not impressed by the fact that alot of people selling dogs don't bother to put the price in the ad. It would save me and them time if the price was there so I could decide whether it's in my price range, and not have to phone them just to find out it's not! Thanks

promassagealliance · Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 10 Location: LONDON

As I proffessional massaghe therapist I would like to see this section seperated into therapeutic and erotic Idea

with professionals pre registering to maintain a good quality and professionalism. Idea

Also to see the therapeutic ads on the front page of services Idea

Many thanks

Miss Bitch · Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:16 am Post subject:

My suggestion - wipe out this feeback forum and start again.

Post admin's email address all over the place so people can whinge directly instead of clogging up the forum with their crap.

"Feedback" to me doesn't mean whinge about every tiny little thing that may only affect one person - and that's all this forum is.
No wonder most of the threads don't receive any response. Who could possibly be arsed with the gazillion "why has my ad been deleted" whines.

The email to contact Admin directly should be posted very clearly on every section of the forum. You never know, someone might take notice.

ShallWeDanceTonight? · Joined: 27 Aug 2007 Posts: 2396

ubsun2 · Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 9

Jester are you brighter than Twitty

So get an erotic services section like craigslist and vivastreet and stop acting like a load of sexually repressed idiots.

That's how to clean up the massage section then people who want a proper massage or an erotic one can go to the relevent section and not wade through the shit and waste money phoning what they don't want..

Sort it NOW Jester......NOW

malc · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 28

for all those who want an email address - there are "contact us" forms all over the help section .... it's nto that difficult:

http://www.gumtree.com/help

leza99 · Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 5 Location: carrickfergus

mivona · Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 10

You can try giving us some feedback on why seemingly innocuous ads are being pulled. It just seems quite bizarre, with no logic to it.

ubsun2 · Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 9

Does anybody actually work at Gumtree ?

I am looking at the massage Ads and you can clearly see that so many are duplicated...If you are only allowed one ad per day then some one is not doing their job ....give the job to me and i will do it...

Get the duplicate ads sorted...i flag then but nothing gets done they are still there....

so who's working ? No one by the looks of it...

emh101 · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

uglybugly · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 9156 Location: nw london

when quoting someones post, i think there needs to be a few new lines, this needs it since so many "quoter" have messed up by accidentally deleting the ] in the html coding

atelfer · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 8

[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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Can You please add the city of Townsville to the Australian Gummtree Website, Townsville is a very large city with a population of 1 million and growing. I love this site but would make it easyer to use by adding Townsville to it.
Thanks

uglybugly · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 9156 Location: nw london

can u put an age limit on the posters in the penpal/girls wanting to meet guys etc sections as to stop people under that age stop posting

Miss Bitch · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:39 am Post subject:

JayElectrics · Joined: 18 Jan 2008 Posts: 2

I started advertising room about a week ago and I came across many duplicate adverts which cover most of the results-page and irritate other users. Sad

Later on, I have noticed that the problem is across more cathegories... Crying or Very sad

Could you please set a BOT(or automatic check when submitting an ad) which would check that the title & e-mail does not exist across the database? Most of the spammers do not even bother to change the title, so it would save me, admins and all users time, to browse whole pages full of duplicates. I believe that many don't bother reporting those to admins or admins are too busy to deal with them.

I would even punish the spammers by sending automatic email stating, that they abused the system and the ad will not appear at all... Twisted Evil

I'm not familiar with the Gumtree's database system, but in MySQL it would take about 10minutes to make a code, which checks the values before submitting the ad.

Wish you all the best!

Jay

deisel · Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 10 Location: Sussex

CHEESED OFF OF GUMTREE 4X4 IN SUSSEX.

We have corresponded with you before about the number and nature of calls and even e-mails which we regularly endure as it is easier to find a contact phone or fax number for our 4x4 business than it is for Gumtree.com.

This has come up yet again this morning as we received a fax from Humberside Police asking for information regarding an advert placed on your website which involved a criminal investigation.

It seems that there are two choices here, either buy our domain name off us or put a decent, easily visible set of contacts INCLUDING A PHONE NUMBER on your website.

I am passing your contact feedback details to DC Lorraine Mackie of Humberside Police in the hope that you will be able to assist her with her enquiries and look forward to hearing from you.

chemicalbro · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 6

it seems a little unfair that edinburgh has a forum and glasgow hasn't. i can understand that some glaswegians would use it for abuse and nothing else but its a sweeping generalisation if this is the case

Bazzerb · Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

There are far too many automated postings appearing especially in the personals sections all over the place.
Please, gumtree admin, add a captcha. Recaptcha is an excellent solution, or a home brewed one.
This will improve the quality of your ads.
Thank you in advance

imlooking · Guest

19582194 · Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 8

How does one get paid for selling an item?Could I ask the buyer to post a cheque to me in the post as I do not want to meet strangers in person.

I couldn,t find my question above in Gumtree help topics-even though it might be there-also I obviously think that it would be stupid to be giving credit card or bank account details.
Martina

19582194 · Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 8

Also how do i change the username that i have 19582194?I,M tired at the moment and I know that the answer could be pretty obvious