Classifieds shutdown

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
The existing TFF classifieds system is going to be taken down and sent to the scrap bin it belongs in next week and replaced by something new and shiney !

To achieve this classifieds will be closed from Monday morning until Friday evening

all existing adds ( well anything less than 3 months old) will be imported to the new system so don't worry about any recent adds you may have going missing and they will still be viewable in the threads created in the for sale forum


................wish us luck !
 

Fuzzy

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Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
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Another scam in classifieds ????
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
It annoys me that we can't see the TFF username of the seller instead it says user id 343. This is not useful because he could be a new user but it might someone who I have dealt with on here before which would make me much more likely to deal with them again. Likewise if they know me from my TFF username they may be more (or less) likely to deal with number 401 or whatever.......
 

Flat 10

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Arable Farmer
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Fen Edge
And what happens when you message someone via classifieds? PM on here same as before? Done it to someone who hasn't replied but I don't know who the TFF'er is cos of stupid new number ID so I can't DM them directly:banghead:
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
It annoys me that we can't see the TFF username of the seller instead it says user id 343. This is not useful because he could be a new user but it might someone who I have dealt with on here before which would make me much more likely to deal with them again. Likewise if they know me from my TFF username they may be more (or less) likely to deal with number 401 or whatever.......


the numbers are for the ads that imported from the old system, new users ad a proper username


Transition of systems is less than ideal and we did our best to bring over andy still relevant old systems content but all new ads going forward won't suffer the same issue
 
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
And what happens when you message someone via classifieds? PM on here same as before? Done it to someone who hasn't replied but I don't know who the TFF'er is cos of stupid new number ID so I can't DM them directly:banghead:


same as any other online classifieds - they get your message via email or you have the option of calling them

Connecting this to TFF usernames makes maintaining the forum very complex and expensive and creates opportunity for spammers plus a lot of people use the classifeds system that have no interest in the forum whatsoever

We will have a unified login in the future but that's a while away

at the end of the day this is all for free unless you are a dealer so adjust expectations accordingly to what's technically possible / affordable for us please. I think its miles better than any other Ag classifieds site and most importantly has vastly higher traffic levels - we had a guy email yesterday saying his machine sold in 3 hours of going live and he had had 18 phone calls about it already !
 
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
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Another scam in classifieds ????


use the report button - they get removed as soon as we are notified about them, its a useful new feature that we didn't have on the old system. Community policing of the fakes is the only way to deal with them
 
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Also if I click on a section eg hedgecutters it says 17. i then click on it to view them and only 3 come up....
Not including one i put on there!

when did you put your hedge cutter on there ? was it prior to the new system going live ? not everything imported well from the old system and if your ad is one of them @Jon S will be happy to redo it for you I'm sure
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
when did you put your hedge cutter on there ? was it prior to the new system going live ? not everything imported well from the old system and if your ad is one of them @Jon S will be happy to redo it for you I'm sure
Its on there when you scroll through the time line............
 

Flat 10

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Fen Edge
same as any other online classifieds - they get your message via email or you have the option of calling them

Connecting this to TFF usernames makes maintaining the forum very complex and expensive and creates opportunity for spammers plus a lot of people use the classifeds system that have no interest in the forum whatsoever

We will have a unified login in the future but that's a while away

at the end of the day this is all for free unless you are a dealer so adjust expectations accordingly to what's technically possible / affordable for us please. I think its miles better than any other Ag classifieds site and most importantly has vastly higher traffic levels - we had a guy email yesterday saying his machine sold in 3 hours of going live and he had had 18 phone calls about it already !
Easy grumpy, you were the one asking for feedback so I gave it. I have no idea how technology works so wouldn't have a clue about whats difficult or not.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Easy grumpy, you were the one asking for feedback so I gave it. I have no idea how technology works so wouldn't have a clue about whats difficult or not.

No intention to be grumpy so sorry if it comes across as such. I was just trying to explain the limitations we have to work under and that the transission from one system to another was never going to be ideal

I appreciate the feedback and as in my post If you need help with anything specific any member of the team here would be more than happy to assist
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
It annoys me that we can't see the TFF username of the seller instead it says user id 343. This is not useful because he could be a new user but it might someone who I have dealt with on here before which would make me much more likely to deal with them again. Likewise if they know me from my TFF username they may be more (or less) likely to deal with number 401 or whatever.......

Interesting, as we also had lots of farmers say they didn't want their TFF account connected to a classifieds account, with real name, address, phone number and so on. As it removed the anonymity from TFF. We also needed the checks on Classifieds to try an identify fraudulent adverts better.

However, I think there is a middle ground where we could add TFF username to the account form on Farm Classifieds and use this field when the thread is created on TFF - so then you could use the PM system as well. For users who are happy for their account to be connected. Problem was in the old system that the PM system didn't work in classifieds. People were missing alerts and so wasn't a solution either.

Should have thought of this ourselves. Will speak to the developers on Monday and add it to the list. Seems relatively easy to me though.
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
I’m just not finding the new layout user friendly.

I either looked on distance nearest or newly listed.

Can’t get to like it.:confused:(n)

You can do both those on the new system:

Recent adverts (click the header near the bottom) - https://www.classifieds.farm/listings/recent/

The distance part won't wok for a while as so few adverts in the old system had a postcode on them. As all adverts are renewed it will work better and better and you can now do distance or look on the map. Map element wasn't available in the old system.

Mind you it easier for us as we have been looking at the new system for 5 months while developing it, so are more used to the features. Being able to save a search and get an alert when a new listing is placed for instance is one of the new features.
 

Fuzzy

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
You can do both those on the new system:

Recent adverts (click the header near the bottom) - https://www.classifieds.farm/listings/recent/

The distance part won't wok for a while as so few adverts in the old system had a postcode on them. As all adverts are renewed it will work better and better and you can now do distance or look on the map. Map element wasn't available in the old system.

Mind you it easier for us as we have been looking at the new system for 5 months while developing it, so are more used to the features. Being able to save a search and get an alert when a new listing is placed for instance is one of the new features.
For the third time i report the following which looks like a scam to me.

Address is shown as 83-84 Hampstead High Street....this looks more like USA and fake.

ID 5645
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