Classifieds Enhancements/Changes - Fully Implemented

[Steve Shauger]

Classifieds Enhancements/ Changes UPDATED 6/7/23 Note new information is underlined

Membership Levels:
• Contributing Member annual dues are $30. This membership includes 30 classified ads total per year, including 2 vehicle ads. Once you post a classified you can’t add additional items after initial listing. You can edit your listing for correction or clarification for 7 days and then it’s locked. A new price field allows you to edit/change price beyond the 7 days at any time.
• Premier Member annual dues are $60 This membership includes 60 classified ads total per year, including 2 vehicle ads. Once you post a classified you can’t add additional items after initial listing. You can edit your listing for correction or clarification for 7 days and then it’s locked. A new price field allows you to edit/change price beyond the 7 days at any time.
• Advertising Member annual dues are $125. This membership includes 125 classified ads total per year, including 2 vehicle ads. Once you post a classified you can’t add additional items after initial listing. You can edit your listing for correction or clarification for 7 days and then it’s locked. A new price field allows you to edit/change price beyond the 7 days at any time.


**Adding classified ads. If you run out of classified ad posting, you can purchase a new membership (Contributing 30 ads, Premier 60 ads or Advertising 125 ads) your old membership
will be canceled without refund of any remaining time. A new membership will start, with as selected classified posting privileges along with new anniversary date. The cost of an ad is still $1””

***The above memberships are offered to non-commercial entities***



Sponsorships are available to Commercial Entities. We have many options and features that can be configured to meet your budgetary and promotional requirements. More details such as levels and options are located in the Sponsor Forum. Sponsors can place 5 adds per day (unlimited if listing in your exclusive forum). Sponsors can bump their ads every 3 days in the general classified forum. Vehicle classified ad total listings vary based on the selected metal package.



As always I appreciate your support and look forward to our latest feature My Garage & Journey to launch following this implementation. The changes are newly implemented and if you have questions or encounter issues, please PM or email [email protected] and I will try to address expeditiously.

Illustrations below:

*First picture illustrates the ad originators Mark Sold & Bump icons

*Second picture illustrates the sale ad status counter located under UserCP in the Sales Thread option.

Best regards,

Steve Shauger

[Bill Pritchard]

These seem like very reasonable enhancements to the site, Steve. As always, thanks for your efforts in keeping this site the great resource that it is!

[Steve Shauger]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

These seem like very reasonable enhancements to the site, Steve. As always, thanks for your efforts in keeping this site the great resource that it is!

Thanks Bill and I see you already used the Sold feature on an old ad. Any old ad can be updated to Sold and archived. This will help maintain only active classified ads.!co

[big gear head]

Does this mean that multiple items can not be listed in one add?

[Steve Shauger]

Originally Posted by big gear head

Does this mean that multiple items can not be listed in one add?

Good question! When listing multiple items in one ad, they should be similar and lower value. This applies only to initial ad post. After the initial post, items may not be added, a new ad is required.

The initial reason behind encouraging members to combine like small items into one ad, was due to instances where 10+ ads were posted by a member and all the other ads posted that day were no longer on the first page. This was no ones fault, but was addressed as stated above.

There will be minor adjustments made and bugs fixed. The goal in all the enhancements is to make it fair to all members, and user friendly. I Would hope no one places multiple items in an ad for fee avoidance.

Contributing, Premier & Advertising member can post a maximum of 3 ads per day. If this # needs to go up it can be adjusted based on feedback.

We have a few other changes to enhance the look of your ad in planning stages.....

Thanks,

[Steve Shauger]

See updated notes underlined, in original post.

[Steve Shauger]

I want to make Contributing Members aware that those whose anniversary is January 2022, should have received a notification yesterday. This is not an invoice or renewal, it simply notifies you of a price change from $25 to $30 when your renewal is due.

Again I updated renewal pricing on all memberships due in Jan 2022 and Feb & March will be completed shortly. If you recall I announced this Feb/March that Contributing Memberships would change from $25 to $30.

The update is a very manual process and I spent over 6hrs on January yesterday. If you have any questions please contact me via PM.

A big thank you to all the Contributing Members who support the site. It looks like the new feature My Garage and Journey will launch at the end of the month. This was delayed quite a bit because the Classified enhancements were a much larger and costly project.



Best,

Steve

[Mr70]

Thanks,can confirm receiving email yesterday of price increase.
January guy..

[BJCHEV396]

Best $30 you can spend! Thanks Steve.

[Steve Shauger]

We are in the process of adding a price field in classified ads. This field will allow the originator of the ad to adjust pricing. This will be implemented shortly.