• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Other people bumping your ads

How do you feel about somebody bumping your ad?

  • I'm all for it - it keeps my ad on top

    Votes: 31 37.3%

  • I don't mind, if it is somebody I know

    Votes: 7 8.4%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 26 31.3%

  • I don't really like it, but I don't complain

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • I hate it - it's my ad, if I want it bumped, I'll do it myself

    Votes: 11 13.3%

  • other - please comment

    Votes: 6 7.2%
  • Total voters
    83
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I see this happening from time to time, and have discussed the topic with a variety of people (some of whom no longer participate on this site). Regardless of whether you have expressed your views in the past, please vote in the following poll.
**Note - for the purpose of this poll, only consider the gratuitous bumps (ie Bump for an awesome snake, or , Bump for a great seller) not those that result from legitimate questions/comments.

I am not posting this as a personal criticism of the practice, but to gauge the opinions of the sellers. If it is considered a good thing, maybe more people will pick up the habit...if people don't like it, maybe people will take the hint.
 
I bump periodically for a person that I'd really like to see sell.

I try not to do it too much, but there are some really great people out there trying to sell and self-bumps are kind of like whoring yourself. It's much nicer when someone else does it for you (IMO of course).
 
My opinion:
I find it annoying, and delete those and other BS comments as soon as I notice them (*before anybody gets any ideas about having some fun with me, I plan to start adding negative karma to the process - I feel that strongly about it).
If I want my ad bumped up, I'll do it myself...in my own way. Another person posting just for the purpose of bumping my ad up does not benefit me in any way...in fact, I think it can have a detrimental effect (depending on the person doing the bump).

**edit: Since I have been asked about my above statement, I need to clarify - the deleting of comments and negative karma applies only to MY ads
 
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I'm not sure if this is on topic, but I see really old ads that are bumped because someone doesn't pay attention to the date on which the thread was started. Can there be a time limit placed on ads to prevent this confusion? Can really old, ie, years old, ads be removed?

I think the seller should be allowed to bump his or her own ad. I have seen sellers do this very tactfully by updating the ads or adding incentives to purchase. I think that the seller should be responsible for bumping the ad, because it is really in their best interest to do so, right?
 
I think its a good way to help people out and maybe communicate with someone. i dont see any harm in it as long as it isnt something derogatory/negative torwards the item being sold. in the end everyone here is helping out one another one way or another. whether you buy sell trade or do whatever you do we are all linked some way.
 
Im kinda torn. If someone buys from me and wants to post they are happy with the animal they just got... then great.. Im all for it.

But if someone is bumping me just to move me to the top. Prob not helping me much.
 
Southern Wolf said:
Im kinda torn. If someone buys from me and wants to post they are happy with the animal they just got... then great.. Im all for it.
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Somebody posting "Hey, I just wanted to say that I just got a ______ from this guy, and couldn't be happier" isn't really what I'm talking about (though, personally, I don't want that in my ads either - whether I do it immediately, or after the sale, I'm only going to delete it. I'd rather have them put the kudos on the BOI.) I'm referring only to people posting bumps in other people's ads...whether they read bump, bump it up, back to the top, bump for a good seller, or whatever.
 
Southern Wolf said:
Im kinda torn. If someone buys from me and wants to post they are happy with the animal they just got... then great.. Im all for it.

But if someone is bumping me just to move me to the top. Prob not helping me much.
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it helps because if your on top people notice you right away.. its the same thing when you go to walmart and check out there is tons of candy eye-level for little kids so parents PURCHASE so bumping to the top does help in my opinion
 
Jaime,
Since you seem to be justifying the act, let me ask you a couple more questions:
1) How do you decide whose ads you are going to bump? The response most would expect is that you do it for friends...but that doesn't always appear to be the case.
2) What if one of your ads was bumped by somebody you didn't want to be associated with...would you still consider it to be a good thing?
3) Is there a limit to the number of times you will bump a given ad?
 
Couldn't you just put 'Please don't bump' in the ad? :shrug01:

Until this thread I would have never thought that a positive or neutral bump would be an issue. My logic would be that the top of the classifieds and new posts is a good place to be.

Thanks for the negging warning too, wouldn't have known bumping could get it.

As for people you don't want associated with wouldn't they know it? Making it a different kind of issue?

I know I'm mouthy, so just let me say there is nothing meant to be sarcastic in this post.
 
Twizted Paths said:
Thanks for the negging warning too, wouldn't have known bumping could get it.
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For a better understanding of what he means, check his post again :) He edited it. No worries if you bump... its not something punishable... But some people just dont like it :)

I wont like it, and may issue negative karma too depending on who is doing it, and why... ( sometimes people just like the animals... cant help that unless they get locked, and i dont plan on locking my ads) unless its for questions about the animals, which i will not mind people posting on my ads for.
 
Mooing Tricycle said:
For a better understanding of what he means, check his post again :) He edited it. No worries if you bump... its not something punishable... But some people just dont like it :)

I wont like it,
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Thanks, I didn't read it since he edited it :)

I won't bump your ads either, even when you post killer pretties :thumbsup:
 
Good topic Harald.. I have never really thought about bumping some elses ad. I feel its more the sellers right to bump his or her own ad personally. Since I do not sell many snakes through classified ads Im not sure what I would do if someone bumped an ad I placed.
 
Bump Bump To the top.... Whoo Whooo

I think it can get annoying when you see post that have 5 or 6 replies that are all from the Creator of the listing.. That is why you can become a contributing member so you get the extra tools to bump if you want or do other cool things with your listings.

As far as people Bumping me to the top I DON'T CARE if you do it or not.

One more thing>>>>> if you get out of control with the bumps you are making yourself look bad....

My opinion only matters to the people that make this site the #1 reptile site on the Internet..
 
Hey All,
Im new to this forum and have been on several others for years. I never thought one way or the other about it. I have bumped the hell out of my own add on another forum just to keep it current or update it. I never thought for a momnet it could be seen as bad, but each to their own so to speak. I just started selling online this year and everyday is a learning experience. Interesting topic.
Tom
 
LumpyReptiles said:
Bump Bump To the top.... Whoo Whooo

I think it can get annoying when you see post that have 5 or 6 replies that are all from the Creator of the listing
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That's my feeling. If I were a seller, I wouldn't want an active ad to find itself on page 46. Who looks past page 4 or 5 (depending on the dates, sometimes there's a big influx of ads and that's understandable)? But I also wouldn't want my ad filled with my own seemingly selfish self-bumps.

I bump ads periodically. I try not to be a whore about it, though. But I think it looks better if someone that likes you and your animals to bump your ad than if you do it yourself.
 
Then you get those people posting nonsense on ads just to bump their post counts because they have nothing relevant to add to the forum otherwise.

I don't mind someone posting on my ads once in a while to help me bump them up, especially if they've been on the back pages a while and it's a legitimate question, I just can't bring myself to shove my ads in people's faces every day day after day otherwise. I'll bump on occasion if it falls a few pages back and it's something I really need to let go of. For the most part the serious buyers know how to search for stuff and will find us if we have what they want.
 
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