A mate has a diversified service business. He had a few ads on Gumtree (Australia) each advertising a specific niche (but also listing all his other services at the end of the ad) and they all worked well for him. Recently his account was stopped on the grounds he had "multiple ads advertising the same company's services". Meanwhile his competitors have up to 50 ads each! Each competitors ads are all on the same account, same phone number and advertise the same website. Many use the same photos as one another and advertise the same type of service multiple times.
He's raised this anomaly with Gumtree. They won't discuss his competitors but stand firm that he broke the rules and remains banned. We would assume his competitors are running multiple accounts, email addresses & phone numbers, but in fact each one has all their ads on the one account. Clearly they have some kind of permission to do this as they have been repeatedly reported by my mate and others.
What's really going on here?
What are these competitors doing to remain immune to Gumtree's "no duplicate" rules?
Are they paying up every time Gumtree offers to "bump up" their ad? Does that work?
Or is there some other way, like some kind of business account?
Or even better, a way of beating the system ;-)
He's raised this anomaly with Gumtree. They won't discuss his competitors but stand firm that he broke the rules and remains banned. We would assume his competitors are running multiple accounts, email addresses & phone numbers, but in fact each one has all their ads on the one account. Clearly they have some kind of permission to do this as they have been repeatedly reported by my mate and others.
What's really going on here?
What are these competitors doing to remain immune to Gumtree's "no duplicate" rules?
Are they paying up every time Gumtree offers to "bump up" their ad? Does that work?
Or is there some other way, like some kind of business account?
Or even better, a way of beating the system ;-)
