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Title: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: MAX Carpets on February 04, 2012, 07:11:45 am

Morning all

Does anyone use Gumtree to advertise? I dont, but I have noticed a few of the mobile phone number crew have been using it.

Cheers

Justin

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: Helen on February 04, 2012, 07:47:29 am

Not for this business, but had nothing from it for other adverts we have placed :)

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: derek west on February 04, 2012, 08:35:13 am

brilliant for finding what you want, all be it a minefield to sift through,

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: tom cronin on February 04, 2012, 08:44:01 am

Bought and sold lots of w/c stuff on there

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: Steve Rothwell on February 04, 2012, 09:30:00 am

I have advertised CC on there lots of times (it is free after all) and not had any enquiries at all.... not 1 .........

not even a snifter........... had a few hits on the website from it.... but no telephone enquiries.......

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: Bedfordshire Oven Cleaning on February 04, 2012, 09:56:11 am

Quote from: Hector......... T/A CC Salisbury (ish) on February 04, 2012, 09:30:00 am

I have advertised CC on there lots of times (it is free after all) and not had any enquiries at all.... not 1 .........

not even a snifter........... had a few hits on the website from it.... but no telephone enquiries.......

Same here, had 20 ads running at one point, few page views but never one enquiry.
I think a lot of canvassers use it too, get lots of companies with the "we can get you on top of google" line contact me through Gumtree.
On the plus side the gumtree ads get quite high google rankings, for example if someone searches 'tenancy cleaning anytown', I may not be the highest but my gumtree ads are, so people find me anyway through that.

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: Bedfordshire Oven Cleaning on February 04, 2012, 10:23:53 am

Oh, and never pay for a featured ad, I did it once and got less interest than non-featured ads!!
I don't know about anyone else but even I scan straight past the featured ones so not overly surprised.

Paul

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: Andrew Briscoe on February 04, 2012, 11:17:49 am

Have used it to advertise for staff in areas that are not local to us.
Used it for Lancashire and North Cumbria, and was inundated with
people wanting work.

Andrew.

Title: Re: Gumtree anyone?
Post by: Carpet Dawg on February 04, 2012, 05:01:29 pm

I tried selling a van on there last year. never again, full of inbreads.