[david@zap-clean]

Has anyone tried advertising on Gumtree.com ?

An acquaintance (in another industry) claimed it brought them a lot of (local) work. 
I've run a brief 7 day campaign recently.  Nothing...

[Ian Gourlay]

Good for selling old cars to Foreigners as long as you ask more than you really want

[*Hector*]

I think you answered your own question there as well Dave....

[Carpet Dawg]

Tried selling my last van on Gumtree. Soooo many time wasters!! If I remember correctly I had about 3 or 4 people say they would come view my van and never turned up!! Also had a few morons on the phone wanting it for £1000 when I stated £3,500 on the ad!


I also advertised my business on there about 3 years ago. Got a couple jobs off it from the "wrong" side of town. Small jobs, again strange people.

Gumtree users seem to be a strange bunch of human.

Its free I guess so maybe worth a try see how you get on. Maybe works better for you. Only one way to find out.

[Carpet Dawg]

Did you pay for this campaign?

[wynne jones]

I've never advertised on there but bought and sold stuff and it's always been thoroughly decent people, alot of the time with posh houses and acres of carpet and rugs. Then started up a conversation about rugs. 

[garry22]

In theory, Gumtree should be one more point of reference for Google's record of your business when working out Google + pages ranking.

Phew, what a mouthful   

[david@zap-clean]

Gumtree are running a national advertising campaign themselves, on National TV... did you see it last night, in the middle of Downton Abbey?

[Phil @ Extreme Clean]

I add myself on the services section it's free and i get 1st page for carpet cleaners fleetwood from it and had a few jobs so why not use it like i said it's all free.

[Neil Jones]

I sometimes advertise for staff on there, it is literally like finding a needle in a haystack though. I'll keep an unpaid add on there sometimes to boost web rankings etc.

[Daren Morrish]

I've used it a few years ago, and agree with the 'Dawg'. Althrough it's free you get the kind of jobs that are very bottom end of the market, also only small jobs from parts of town I wouldn't normally work in.

Daren

[david@zap-clean]

And by magic Gumtree now appears as a sponsored link on CIU !
How did that happen?

[garry22]

Because you've started a thread about it.

[robert meldrum]

Owned by e'bay I believe

[wynne jones]

Has anybody noticed top sellers on Ebay come up in display ads on Google searches. 

[*Hector*]

Yes Wynne...
Mrs Hector knits tiny dolls clothes, and sells them on ebay, and just last night actually she noticed that when she typed in a google search for knitted dolls clothes hers were there....

 

[Dani J]

Has anyone tried advertising on Gumtree.com ?

An acquaintance (in another industry) claimed it brought them a lot of (local) work. 
I've run a brief 7 day campaign recently.  Nothing...

Don’t bother with them, I advertised my window cleaning business with them for 3 years, and only got about 10 customers plus they all wanted it done cheep. And now they have raise the price from £6 a week to £10 and that’s on their feature section.

[wynne jones]

Yes Wynne...
Mrs Hector knits tiny dolls clothes, and sells them on ebay, and just last night actually she noticed that when she typed in a google search for knitted dolls clothes hers were there....

 

I think it's amazing that Ebay will pay for that, you just need a good set of titles and offer good service. Not sure it will work quite so effectively with local.

Bet you are selling a lot of CDs now Hector, with all the fatties back off their hols.

[*Hector*]