pay to advertise on piston heads

[evo-mark]

just put an advert on piston heads and was charged £7 not a lot of money but I'm thinking some of the more bizarre stuff you see on there may now be a thing of the past now its not free  

what do you think ..

[Mark Stanton]

Pistonheads is owned by Haymarket publishing - its a commercial business venture and that's what happens, when folks run a business      

Please don't confuse it with a friendly club free forum      

[cliveboy8]

Put my car on Piston Heads, don't have a problem with £7, think it is good value. Probably more to put it on ebay!

[moomin]

what do you think ..

it is free for anyone who was a member before they changed the system - which was only a few weeks ago.

and ditto what Mark said, it's a commercial thing nowadays.

moomin

[evo-mark]

the point I'm making is not the fact you now have to pay £7 for a car you think will sell in 30 days as after that I think you may have to pay again .

It's all the bizarre stuff you see on there that may never sell but you enjoy looking at anyway  

my point was will piston heads now just become auto trader the second    

[Mark Stanton]

Probably ............ with folks having to pay it'll no doubt stop folks who just wanna chance their luck seeling stuff for nowt    

[Barry Ashcroft]

I thought all classifieds where free unless you do a premium ad which is chargeable unless allready a member.

We have just launched a new classified system featuring two levels of advert, standard adverts and premium adverts.

Premium adverts cost £7 and feature 9 pictures and placement at the top of the listings.

Standard adverts are free, but are placed after all the premium and dealer adverts in the listings.

In addition to the two categories, we also still have some old adverts on the site which were submitted before new system went live on the 3rd of July. These adverts are being treated as premium adverts until they expire (which will be within the month).

All of this means that if you have recently submitted a standard advert then it is likely to appear several pages back in the listings, especially in a busy category which still contains a lot of old system adverts. As the old adverts expire this will balance out, but in the mean time your advert can be easily found by using either the advanced search or filter tools. Alternatively, you can upgrade your advert for just £7 which will allow you to add 6 more pictures and will bump your advert right to the top of the list.

[slippy]

I thought all classifieds where free unless you do a premium ad which is chargeable unless allready a member.

Ditto

[Barry Ashcroft]

Put my car on Piston Heads, don't have a problem with £7, think it is good value. Probably more to put it on ebay!

Have to say that I aggree.

But then I've been a member for years so wont have to pay  

[evo-mark]

I put up a free add first, got 3 free photos it said advert live but i searched for my add in the ford fiesta section where my car should be and couldn't find it ,

so just paid £7 to add more pics and get to the top of the page.

[wiz 1]

Sold my last two cars through PH with no problems or canvassers which is better than Autotrader, where you get charged a fair bit then get several calls a day from telesales and get all the tyre kicker morons ringing. Had a polo GTi listed in both, had a woman from Kent after it and a guy from Edinburgh who came down and bought it. Through PH. Autotrader got me a late night call from some youth who wondered if i would sell him the leather interior,  

The classifieds need thinning down a bit though especially some of the chav boxes that keep appearing.