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Old Sep 11, 2009 | 07:00 PM
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Hi guys,

I'm thinking of starting an online classified ads website (not the free kind but will be charging depending on different pricing tiers) for my business project and I wanted to get some insight from some fellow s2ki'ers.

Is there anything you like/dislike about paying for online classified ads?

Also another question I had, is there any legal repercussions by copying a sellers car ad from website xyz.com and posting it in my classified ads website to build my classified ads content?

Any positive/negative feedback welcomed!
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Old Sep 11, 2009 | 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Amer,Sep 11 2009, 11:00 PM
Is there anything you like/dislike about paying for online classified ads?
Uh, I dislike paying. Why pay when there's high-traffic sites that let you post for free?
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Old Sep 11, 2009 | 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark355,Sep 11 2009, 10:08 PM
Uh, I dislike paying. Why pay when there's high-traffic sites that let you post for free?
it weeds out alot of scammers, not all, but most of them.
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Old Sep 11, 2009 | 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by djdorifto,Sep 11 2009, 07:11 PM
it weeds out alot of scammers, not all, but most of them.
I totally agree, sites like craiglists that are free are full of junk. I want to start a local classified website in my area to display good, quality ads that don't have any telemarketers/spammers listings.
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Old Sep 12, 2009 | 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Amer,Sep 11 2009, 07:00 PM
Also another question I had, is there any legal repercussions by copying a sellers car ad from website xyz.com and posting it in my classified ads website to build my classified ads content?
Any other suggestions on this?
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Old Sep 12, 2009 | 09:33 AM
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[QUOTE=Amer,Sep 12 2009, 11:23 AM] Any other suggestions on this?
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Old Sep 12, 2009 | 12:00 PM
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Originally Posted by quiksilverS2K,Sep 12 2009, 09:33 AM
When I was trying to sell my last car I ha, I posted it both on CL and on AutoTrader.... I didn't get 1 response from my ad on AutoTrader (I always asked where people saw the ad when they called)... I would have signed up for the "run until it sells" but it was a ridiculous price for that option. So IMO if you want a chance to be successful you should have a policy that ads will run until the item sells. I will never use another classified that doesn't offer this from the get go, or at least at a reasonable cost. Just my 2 cents. Best of luck to you!
I definitely agree, I had planned to use this feature from the very beginning on my site.

And back to my question:

is there any legal repercussions by copying a sellers car ad from website xyz.com and posting it in my classified ads website to build my classified ads content?
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Old Sep 12, 2009 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Amer,Sep 12 2009, 08:00 PM
I definitely agree, I had planned to use this feature from the very beginning on my site.

And back to my question:

is there any legal repercussions by copying a sellers car ad from website xyz.com and posting it in my classified ads website to build my classified ads content?
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't really know the answer, but there are sites that do this now. I think that, if it's published already, copying it should be fine.
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Old Sep 12, 2009 | 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus,Sep 12 2009, 01:38 PM
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't really know the answer, but there are sites that do this now. I think that, if it's published already, copying it should be fine.
do you have any examples of thses sites?
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Old Sep 12, 2009 | 07:27 PM
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Autos.yahoo.com gets their listings from cars.com. I guess they have a deal going.

I thought sites like cars.com auto-searched the web for classified car sales ads.
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