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Hey guys

Recently I developed a website for people around Australia to advertise their cars or items online for free.

The site is only a couple of weeks old but it has had a pretty good start and some great comments.

So if you are looking to get a little more exposure and for free, then check out www.its4sale.com.au

Every post gets 5 pictures and all the rest of the shinies and danglies.

Any comments/suggestions for the future, send me a pm... Often people request: homes for sale.. Wont be doing that for some time yet

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Hey guys

Recently I developed a website for people around Australia to advertise their cars or items online for free.

The site is only a couple of weeks old but it has had a pretty good start and some great comments.

So if you are looking to get a little more exposure and for free, then check out www.its4sale.com.au

Every post gets 5 pictures and all the rest of the shinies and danglies.

Any comments/suggestions for the future, send me a pm... Often people request: homes for sale.. Wont be doing that for some time yet

hey mate, great website by the looks of things:) once i take some pics I will put my VK commy up for sale through your website.

cheers for the info :down:

Thanks for the comments guys.

About 90% of people that visit the website go straight to the car search / car ads. But there isn't many cars yet! Need more cars to satisfy the viewers.

On the right of the website, I am allowing an advertisment. If there is a business (or SAU) out there that wants some extra advertising I'll put it on there for free until someone really does want to put a paid flash advert up (Hopefully this will help cover the costs of the site being free).

Thanks very much for its4sale mode of selling. I intend to put my wife's BMW on your site within 2 weeks.

I hope all goes well for you too - every success.

What makes this mode of selling different from any other - just off the cuff?

Tez

Thanks guys.

The site should remain free for... no idea haha. Until I need to upgrade to a dedicated server which will be at least 100+ a month. Then I will need to find some sort of income via its4sale - Hopefully the paid ads will conver that and there will be no need to charge users like you and me :(

Advertisement - Thats the hard part. We have flyers business card size. I have given hundreds to friends and family to put on cars for sale they see and notice boards etc... But again, I can only rely on my self haha.

Terry: I just activated your account for you :) Saw you was "not activated" so fixed you up myself. When you advertise your wife's BWM, I might not have the model... Let me know and I'll add it straight away. There was millions of BWM models haha and only added the ones I was familar with

The difference? Is that it is free lol.

Originally I decided to do this becuase ALOT of my friends told me they were getting sick of the increasing costs of ebay, carsales, trading post etc... So off I went and spent over 150 hours doing this for everyone!!!

Edited by wilorichie

Thanks for good service Richie. I was going to 'activate' when I got home from wk. Ta.

The BMW will be a E39 523i Model going for $14,900. I'll be in touch with pics and wording of the Advert.

Cheers, Terry

Thanks for good service Richie. I was going to 'activate' when I got home from wk. Ta.

Haha thanks mate.

The cars are increasing now... but still need plenty more to keep everyone happy!

There are some nice imports on there now as well that look just - awsome.

Any comments/suggestions shoot here or PM. Everyday I spend about 1-2 hours on it creating new functionality etc...

Once again, thanks for all the comments.

Have a Import Car yard on there now. Dom - He has alot of nice imports for sale on the site.

Going to add some features on there soon such as: other cars or items by this user and will do a 'people currently browsing' feature down the track.

Looking for more ideas within grasp. Not to complex for now (Dont have the funds to spend to much time on it).

Nice work mate.

Userfriendly and intuitive.

Have just popped a few items up there, and might pop one of my cars up there.

One suggestion I'd like to make is to be able to browse via category, rather than having to go down the sub-category level.

Hey Richie, thanks for the PM letting me know about your site. I have uploaded 2 cars on there to help you out.

http://www.its4sale.com.au/ad_auto.php?m=3...;a=41&page=

http://www.its4sale.com.au/ad_auto.php?m=4...;a=42&page=

A couple of things I noticed when I was putting up the adds are this:

1000 characters to give a description on the car didn't seem enough. I could have used double that and still fallen short. For people with heavily modified cars they are going to find it difficult to list all their modifications in the space they have. I also don't understand the tokens? Is this just to get people to think twice before selling to stop impulse selling? Maybe people could earn tokens by telling a friend about your site. 10 tokens for each email address?! And I agree with the search options. When I click on Automotive I expect to find cars and I find stereo gear, which is a bit confusing, and when I search for cars and I want to search for NISSAN can you get "ALL MODELS" to be the next option? Just to make it easier for all us lazy people? :)

Otherwise I find the site really user friendly and I think it's going to be a great hit. I was very impressed when I first had a look at it last night. Best of luck with it and I'll keep my ear to the ground about advertisments for you.

Edited by phee

Cheers for the Feedback

Haha, you lazy people! I'll put the "All Models" at the top rather than at the bottom.

With the Automotive thing, I'll add a subcategory in the BUY page that says "new and used cars".

The ITEMS database is completely different from the CAR database so that makes it hard. I couldn't use the same database as I wanted cars to have ALOT more options/fields.

The Tokens? They are there incase I need to impliment something urgently. It's basically a safety feature to instantly stop postings if I have to. The max anyone can have at any 1 time is 30. Of course I can add/remove them from my admin back-end though.

Firstly - It gets people to notice how much they are posting.

Second - If I have to upgrade the hosting accounts (Next step is about 250$+ a month) then I will have to charge 50c for each token or something like that. That won't be happening as I have about 90gigs left - So about another 50,000 ads and 10,000 members or similar haha.

The plan is to always keep the selling free so I will have to have income via that website another way (Flash adverts etc...).

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