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Limit on Classifieds Ads bump?

Should Classifieds ads be more limited to renewals.

  • No - Leave it as is.

    Votes: 5 33.3%
  • No - but force new 'un-renewed' ads to always be at the top.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Yes - Reduce the number of allowed renewals

    Votes: 5 33.3%
  • Yes - Extend ad renewal to 1 month and limit to 6 bumps.

    Votes: 5 33.3%

  • Total voters
    15
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I realize there have been a few threads on this over the past year. I haven't sold anything on here for a bit and thus haven't paid much attention to the ad bumps when browsing. After posting two items a few days ago I was amazed to see how quickly they disappeared off the first page to literally be lost in a sea of ad renewals. The most frustrating part of this is that I believe about 30-40% of the ads had been bumped over 20 times with a large portion bumping 40 to 50 times or more.

This means these ads have been up for over a year and not sold. IMO either the item isn't going to sell, is priced too high, or there is some other seller related quirk to the ad turning people off. Whatever the reason - to have my ad buried with in hours stuff that isn't selling is discouraging.

I've added a poll and I hope the mods will take into consideration some modification of the process to make new items more apparent.