Sold items of machinery remaining on internet sales sites.

[Bill Turtle]

I rang up a farmer today about a tidy tractor I found for sale on a well known internet sale site (not this one). This turned out to be a short conversation because he told me he had sold it over a year ago. I couldn’t tell how old the advert was, and had applied a few of the sites filters to give me a list of suitable machines. Can sites either automatically take adverts down after a set period or put on the date an advert is listed to avoid wasting both buyers and sellers time?

 

[Sid]

I rang up a farmer today about a tidy tractor I found for sale on a well known internet sale site (not this one). This turned out to be a short conversation because he told me he had sold it over a year ago. I couldn’t tell how old the advert was, and had applied a few of the sites filters to give me a list of suitable machines. Can sites either automatically take adverts down after a set period or put on the date an advert is listed to avoid wasting both buyers and sellers time?

Had that with a site as well. Was only sold 2 months ago though.

 

[quattro]

I rang about something yesterday it had been sold 6 months ago

 

[nick...]

Was a tractor on here that had been sold at lest 6 months earlier and another still advertised that was sold last autumn.first mention finally removed but the other is still there
nick...

 

[ACEngineering]

At least they didnt try selling it twice

 

[warksfarmer]

I rang up a farmer today about a tidy tractor I found for sale on a well known internet sale site (not this one). This turned out to be a short conversation because he told me he had sold it over a year ago. I couldn’t tell how old the advert was, and had applied a few of the sites filters to give me a list of suitable machines. Can sites either automatically take adverts down after a set period or put on the date an advert is listed to avoid wasting both buyers and sellers time?

Had it on here as well though. Been looking at trailers recently and there’s a few adverts coming up from months ago and sold months ago.

All sites should just put a 30 day limit so the seller has to delist it if not sold.

 

[Cmoran]

Here in Ireland we use mostly DoneDeal and the ads expire after 72days but still people leave ads up long after they are sold !!

 

[fergie35]

We have a particular problem in that sites like Farmers Weekly, Mascus etc... scrape dealer websites and ad your adverts to their listings. We always have people calling up about tractors we sold months ago as they are on farmers weekly. Well we haven't advertised on FW for nearly a year now, I went and had a look, sure enough there is our tractor and our contact details. It really is frustrating. The only place we advertise online is our own website, which is updated daily.

 

[Al R]

We have a particular problem in that sites like Farmers Weekly, Mascus etc... scrape dealer websites and ad your adverts to their listings. We always have people calling up about tractors we sold months ago as they are on farmers weekly. Well we haven't advertised on FW for nearly a year now, I went and had a look, sure enough there is our tractor and our contact details. It really is frustrating. The only place we advertise online is our own website, which is updated daily.

How much would a full page of machinery listings cost to list with FW then?

 

[fergie35]

How much would a full page of machinery listings cost to list with FW then?

About a £1000 per week.