On-list advertisements/long sigs

[auditude at cox.net]

Whenever I get a notice of a new ad that has a reference to an Ebay auction, I wish there was something I could click that would somehow help enforce the no Ebay link thing.  (Even tho' if I'm interested in the item I'll check it out on Ebay.)  I just think it's discourteous to put an ad up like this if it is expressly forbidden.

Can't a filter be put on the ad submission form to reject any ads that have the word Ebay in them, or something like that?

They get posted quite a bit.

Ken

Mark L. Chang mchang at ee.washington.edu 

Brett Dikeman wrote:

> Note that advertisements are allowed in the Marketplace(we have a dealer 
> section, and yes, you're expected to make a small donation, I believe), 
> and you're always welcome to make a general donation and be listed on 
> the sponsors page(we have many already.)
> 
>  Among other things, if listers know you support Audifans, that 
> generates considerable good will and people will probably be a lot more 
> likely to help you every time you need help fixing cars for your 
> business...
> 
> Oh, and while we're at it folks- no ebay auctions(save gag stuff like 
> that poor 100 with the giant spoiler) on-list OR in the 
> marketplace...and no for-sale ads on any of the lists.
> 
> Done fulfilling his duties as the Big Bad Mean Audifans Volunteer for 
> the month,
> Brett

While Brett does that, I always hear that the audifans marketplace 
doesn't get enough visibility so that's why people post on-list. Well, 
some things to consider:

   * the marketplace is always #1 in terms of hits on the web site, 
accounting for nearly 30% of the pages viewed on audifans.com
   * the marketplace has its own mailing list. every time you post, an 
email goes out. people that subscribe to this (brett, how many?) all see 
your ad. I know I watch 'em. Great way to avoid having to search the web 
site.
   * Just since going live with the new marketplace in like November, 
we've served up 256 car ads, 370 parts ads, and 126 Wanted ads. When we 
retired the old code base, it had served *thousands* of ads.

Thanks for making it work, folks.

Mark