Time to evaluate the issue of replies in the classified ad sections.

p.m. doesn't stand for past morning; it's post meridiem...online, it generally means private message (as previously indicated).

I'm not sure how to interpret your statement that you have sent 44 PMs and neither one was responsive - your wording almost makes it sound as if all those messages were to two people. If you have sent that many messages without getting a response, I'd guess that you are doing something wrong...whether it be not submitting the message, or something in the content making the recipient not want to respond.
Figuring that out is largely irrelevant to this thread, however; so if you would like to pursue that, please create a separate thread within this same forum.

Originally Posted by Leopard Gecko Guy

I've tried that, but still I'm not getting any responses to my messages. Often times I feel this forum is dead or it may be going out of service. So far I have sent 44 PM's and neither 1 was responsive. Whenever I'm on this forum, I feel like I'm talking to a wall. Hope you can look into it. Thanks and give it all you can. I'll get back to you in a little bit. Bye-Now. Will chat again soon.

Check the dates on the ads as well as the profile of the member you are contacting. A lot of people are no longer in the business, so you just may be contacting someone about a very old ad, or even someone who just doesn't frequent this site any longer.

To be perfectly honest, I severely doubt your claim about the 44 PMs with only a single reply.

I just deleted the messages that No1 was responding to. So now I'm back down to 34. But I'm still waiting for answers, technically your the only 1 who is answering, and I appreciate that. I just whish every1 on this page was more like you. Anyway Thanks.

Originally Posted by Leopard Gecko Guy

I've tried that, but still I'm not getting any responses to my messages. Often times I feel this forum is dead or it may be going out of service. So far I have sent 44 PM's and neither 1 was responsive. Whenever I'm on this forum, I feel like I'm talking to a wall. Hope you can look into it. Thanks and give it all you can. I'll get back to you in a little bit. Bye-Now. Will chat again soon.

If you actually sent that many messages to ads offering currently available animals and are not getting any responses, the problem is you.

Only Benefit i see to allowing non paying members to post in ads, is for when sellers Inbox is full and need to contact member via posting in their sales ad. As well as posting BOI threads in the ad as well to alert others.

Why can't you just make it so that we can all reply to the For Sale ads, but it just won't cause the ad to be bumped to the top for anyone? Simple solution? You stay in line when your ad was created. Need a new programmer to do that?

Originally Posted by Johnenewt1

Why can't you just make it so that we can all reply to the For Sale ads, but it just won't cause the ad to be bumped to the top for anyone? Simple solution? You stay in line when your ad was created. Need a new programmer to do that?

That would involve basically gutting the entire forums software, and just for that section. Forum software is pretty much BASED on the concept of 'a reply bumps a thread to the top so people can see there is new activity'. It's not that simple at all.

Originally Posted by Johnenewt1

Why can't you just make it so that we can all reply to the For Sale ads, but it just won't cause the ad to be bumped to the top for anyone? Simple solution? You stay in line when your ad was created. Need a new programmer to do that?

I presume that YOU are a programmer and also familiar with the way that vBulletin operates since you seem to feel it is simple to do. My programmer is one of the best vBulletin programmers in the world. When he suggests something to me, I pay attention. But heck, if you know more about this stuff than he does, then please, by all means enlighten me.

This discussion is now over, I've moved on.

This isn't your discussion to end, Mr Baker.