Is Farmers Weekly Classifieds worth it?

[KennyO]

Can't get anything if i search for cx 820 either.
Bring back the good old days of Thick Farmers Spring/ Autumn sale.

 

[Steevo]

@Chris F?

 

[Two Tone]

I once advertised a combine in FW in May and didn’t get a single response. Put it back in for July having added £2k and the phone never stopped ringing.

I don’t think advertising a Combine this time off year will be very successful.

 

[Steevo]

I once advertised a combine in FW in May and didn’t get a single response. Put it back in for July having added £2k and the phone never stopped ringing.

I don’t think advertising a Combine this time off year will be very successful.

I can see both sides of the coin. As a used buyer, I always start looking during and straight after harvest....I know many buyers of new combines will look to do a deal this time of year so dealers are taking their part-ex machines back in over the next month or two. The tidy machines will find homes quicker, and the more difficult to move machines will hang around. Come round to Jan onwards, the market is more limited and it can often be hobson's choice....get round to June/July and you're spot on. Yes helpful if you are a seller....but if you are a buyer you have limited choice of quality machines because many may well have been traded.

 

[Clive]

Looking to upgrade my combine and have found a machine I'd be interested in purchasing so ready for my machine to leave the farm.

Never used Farmers Weekly Classifieds before as heard the horror stories on here about pricing, but wondered if it's worth a punt for a week in the magazine. I can't see any mention of magazine advert pricing anywhere on their website.....only the online adverts for £50 or so.

I've tried TFF Farm Classifieds but I'm not sure it has enough traffic from non-TFF members and Farmers Guide adverts whilst free take a few weeks to be published and so I could easily lose a month.

Can anyone give me an idea of FW advertising cost please?
Do trade sellers pay a similar rate to private sellers? (i.e. is it worth me placing an advert via a dealer rather than FW direct)

A few hundred spent on an advert could(!) be well worth it if it adds a few thousand to the value of a machine compared to trade-in price.

TFF classifieds has far more traffic than FW most is direct or from google not the forum - you are wasting your money there if it doesn’t sell on TFF

If you want to advertise elsewhere I would suggest the European sites like Mascuss and agriaffairs etc - big reach and a different market, exchange rates make Uk machines look cheap right now as well

 

[Clive]

Farm autotrader has the best searchable website from a buyers perspective and seems to get the volume of items for sale. FWI seems to be going backwards. TFF is now a waste of time. When you search you just find a bunch of stuff for sale from years ago, doesn’t seem to get any quantity of new stuff anymore. The multiple different host options and links to pictures that don’t work makes the hole thing very frustrating.

Should be nothing g older than 3 months old on there since we fixed a bug that was t automatically clearing old ads as it should - if you find any different let me know please

 

[oil barron]

Should be nothing g older than 3 months old on there since we fixed a bug that was t automatically clearing old ads as it should - if you find any different let me know please

Searching with my phone via safari it still shows 259 pages of private listing classifieds going back to 2015. Also when using my phone with safari the link highlighted in the attachment which is ment to take you to classifieds.com doesn’t work.

 

[oil barron]

Should be nothing g older than 3 months old on there since we fixed a bug that was t automatically clearing old ads as it should - if you find any different let me know please

It looks like from my I pad using the search on classifieds.farm there are no older tractors anymore, but there are still old combines.

 

[Clive]

Searching with my phone via safari it still shows 259 pages of private listing classifieds going back to 2015. Also when using my phone with safari the link highlighted in the attachment which is ment to take you to classifieds.com doesn’t work. View attachment 833261View attachment 833262View attachment 833262

We don’t delete them from the forum but the classified page should delete after 3 months unless the advertiser renews the listing

It’s one if the many reasons we have a separate classifieds as the forum sortfware has no feature to delete after a set time etc

If you can find old listings on www.classifieds.farm please let me have a link and I will look into why they have not auto deleted

 

[Clive]

It looks like from my I pad using the search on classifieds.farm there are no older tractors anymore, but there are still old combines.

Any links ? I will take a look later today and see what’s no working - only stiff older than 3 months should be relisted items

 

[fergie35]

We don’t delete them from the forum but the classified page should delete after 3 months unless the advertiser renews the listing

It’s one if the many reasons we have a separate classifieds as the forum sortfware has no feature to delete after a set time etc

If you can find old listings on www.classifieds.farm please let me have a link and I will look into why they have not auto deleted

3 months really is to long Clive. They should be removed after a month and renewed, after all it's not much pain for us that advertise to renew them if they are still for sale.

 

[Scribus]

Farmers Guardian seems to be well packed with machinery adverts but no mention of classified rates for individual adverts.

 

[Clive]

3 months really is to long Clive. They should be removed after a month and renewed, after all it's not much pain for us that advertise to renew them if they are still for sale.

if a user wants to remove their ad earlier they can do - people posting adds really should manage them and not rely on us to police it IMO

 

[Steevo]

Well....up until this morning I was considering it a complete waste of money.....but at least I tried.

Then today, I've had several enquiries which seem hopeful. So all in all, I'd certainly say it's worth a punt. Better enquiries than any other advertising method so far.

 

[Steevo]

I don't see your combine for sale in the Classifieds @Steevo

Link is inactive for me

Link not working for me either. It also doesn't show on phone unless you turn to landscape.

Classifieds ad is back live again now - seems it got caught in moderation for a week or so for some reason.

 

[Steevo]

At the same time as I posted that I got a TFF notification (I assume from a mod) to advise this was sorted over the weekend and I now have trusted status so no moderation required in the future.

Thank you to whoever that was!

 

[fergie35]

if a user wants to remove their ad earlier they can do - people posting adds really should manage them and not rely on us to police it IMO

I do not agree. You could put a system in place with minimum effort and programming to pull the adds after a month. It IS the advertisers duty to make sure his ads are current, after all if they were paying FW prices to advertise they would only be listed exactly until they were sold or it would cost the advertising a fortune. At the moment TFF classifieds is full of ads that are very old some of which show a posted date of January this year.

 

[Clive]

Classifieds ad is back live again now - seems it got caught in moderation for a week or so for some reason.

Reason being I’m on holiday ;-) .... sorry !

 

[Clive]

I do not agree. You could put a system in place with minimum effort and programming to pull the adds after a month. It IS the advertisers duty to make sure his ads are current, after all if they were paying FW prices to advertise they would only be listed exactly until they were sold or it would cost the advertising a fortune. At the moment TFF classifieds is full of ads that are very old some of which show a posted date of January this year.

We could change it to 1 month - but it’s 3 months which seems a reasonable period to me. If we set it to 1 month I bet someone would be starting a thread complaining it was too short ........

If a vendor sellers they should remove it themselves sooner - not exactly hard or too much to ask to take responsibility for your own advert is it ?

As I say it’s a free service - you get what you pay for