Private Party Ads

FatTire · Feb 26, 2017

Have you considered putting a "For Sale" section (Private Party) up in the General Forum section where people most often look? (Somewhere around hydraulics, tires, projects, etc.)

I think you'd get a lot of traffic to it. Check out the forum at "Expedition Portal", they get of ton of traffic on the For Sale subsections. I have a few odds and ends I'd sell at a good price to a TBN member, and also a tractor that I'm going to sell this year, but I have the impression that hardly anyone scrolls all the way down to where the Market Place stuff is currently shown.

Deere Dude · Feb 26, 2017

Didn't know they had a private party add section. I guess I should have read down farther.

dsgsr · Feb 26, 2017

+1

David

Code54 · Feb 26, 2017

Years ago it was just part of the "normal" forum and I looked at it daily. Now I can't say I look at it much as it is not nearly as easy to check out. I miss the old way...

ovrszd · Feb 26, 2017

There is a classified section. This was just debated last week. Most posters said they never use it.

But, with that said, if you have something for sale, check out the classified section.

ovrszd · Feb 26, 2017

Dohhhh, forgot to mention, it's in the top row of icons, along with "forums" and others...

ovrszd · Feb 26, 2017

You sneaky devil you. You already know about the classified section. Why did you start this thread??? If you aren't going to "waste" your time posting in the classifieds, what exactly do you want???? :confused3:

Code54 · Feb 26, 2017

I personally miss it not coming up under "recent posts" with all the new ads

ovrszd · Feb 26, 2017

Code54 said:
I personally miss it not coming up under "recent posts" with all the new ads

If it was used significantly we wouldn't miss that.....

FatTire · Feb 27, 2017

ovrszd said:
You sneaky devil you. You already know about the classified section. Why did you start this thread??? If you aren't going to "waste" your time posting in the classifieds, what exactly do you want???? :confused3:

The reason I started the thread was to see if the moderator(s) had any interest in moving the Classifieds into the regular forum section. In the current location it is seldom used -- it gets so little traffic there is no point in posting an ad. If it received some decent traffic I'd use it, both for buying and selling. Got it?

teg · Feb 27, 2017

It been talked about before... I hate the "new" way (3 yrs old), loved the old way.

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ovrszd · Feb 27, 2017

FatTire said:
The reason I started the thread was to see if the moderator(s) had any interest in moving the Classifieds into the regular forum section. In the current location it is seldom used -- it gets so little traffic there is no point in posting an ad. If it received some decent traffic I'd use it, both for buying and selling. Got it?

Hmmmm,,,, not sure how to do that without making it something you have to go "thru" to get to the forums?? I mean really, there are several/many forums on TBN that I've never visited. And I probably won't visit. Unless I have to go thru them to get where I want to go. If I want to view the classifieds it doesn't get any easier than clicking on the bold icon above.

I guess as someone mentioned, if every new classified post showed up in the "new post" or "todays posts" section it might get more visibility. But then as seldom as it's being used, maybe it already does??

Got it.

aczlan · Feb 27, 2017

The built-in for sale forum, was replaced with the separate classified ads section so the dealer for sale ads and personal for sale ads are all together. That's why you can no longer start a new thread in the for sale forum. As I recall, there's a sticky at the top of the for sale forum that explains this.

Aaron Z

Code54 · Feb 27, 2017

I personally click on the "today's posts" every day and I don't notice ever having the "for sale" stuff come up.

MossRoad · Feb 27, 2017

FatTire said:
... to see if the moderator(s) had any interest in moving the Classifieds into the regular forum section. ...

The moderators have no control over the look, feel, operations, etc... of TBN. That's up to the owners.

sixdogs · Feb 28, 2017

ovrszd said:
There is a classified section. This was just debated last week. Most posters said they never use it.

But, with that said, if you have something for sale, check out the classified section.

ovrszd said:
Dohhhh, forgot to mention, it's in the top row of icons, along with "forums" and others...

Yeah, but it doesn't work if you want to post something. I think I read something about it being designed for the commercial advertiser and not the casual seller like us. I may be wrong but think I read that. I have been unable to post despite efforts on my part.

I'll add that I have posted some things on another tractor site and it went well.

teg · Feb 28, 2017

So which tractor forum has the best classifieds section?

aczlan · Feb 28, 2017

sixdogs said:
Yeah, but it doesn't work if you want to post something. I think I read something about it being designed for the commercial advertiser and not the casual seller like us. I may be wrong but think I read that. I have been unable to post despite efforts on my part.

We can use it, I've put a couple ads up on there and it seems to work well.
You are limited to (I think) 5 ads as a non dealer user.
But otherwise there is no restriction on regular users using it.

Aaron Z

sixdogs · Feb 28, 2017

aczlan said:
We can use it, I've put a couple ads up on there and it seems to work well.
You are limited to (I think) 5 ads as a non dealer user.
But otherwise there is no restriction on regular users using it.

Aaron Z

Last time I checked you had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get an ad in. Has that changed?

aczlan · Feb 28, 2017

sixdogs said:
Last time I checked you had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get an ad in. Has that changed?

As I recall, you have to register separately there but it wasn't a big deal. I think it took me a whole 10 minutes to get registered and get a test ad posted back when it was first introduced.

Aaron Z