Can we make the ads a little bit...dumber?

[JungleMan1]

I know it's all for profit etc etc, and I know it costs money to run a site...but perhaps we can make the ads just slightly stupider in the FS/FT section?

Whenever a product is posted for sale, i always see a ton of other ads on the side saying where you can buy the product, sometimes for slightly less money.

I call it automated thread crapping I am fine with the ads, but it's kind of obtrusive on others FS/FT threads.

Just food for thought for the AT folk

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: JungleMan1
...I call it automated thread crapping ...

LOL

 

[eklass]

Originally posted by: JungleMan1
i always see a ton of other ads on the side saying where you can buy the product, sometimes for slightly less money

if you're being duped for more money in the FS/FT forum then it serves you right

 

[amnesiac]

If someone is selling their item for more than you could buy it at a store, then they'll have to learn from that when no one buys their things.

 

[Lord Evermore]

You forget that people will pay extra just to say they got something at a non-retail price. Not even check retail prices, just assume it's cheaper this way.

 

[JungleMan1]

Bottom line is the mods do not allow thread crapping, and I am 100% in agreement with that rule...not that I like to rip people off, but that it's not right to link people to other people's/companies cheaper products in their thread. it is up to the user to do price comparisons.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Money talks! I doubt they will be doing anything about it.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Money talks! I doubt they will be doing anything about it.

 

[JungleMan1]

As I said, I don't have a problem with ads...I would just prefer if they displayed a random ad as opposed to one related to the product one is selling!

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Money talks! I doubt they will be doing anything about it.

Bingo! And I don't see why they should anyway.

 

[Evadman]

That is actually pretty damn funny

 

[Lord Evermore]

I'd rather be told that a forum member is ripping me off than be told I ought to find the lower price myself.