Posted 2006-02-10 9:09 AM (#36877) Subject: My Pet Peeve: SOLD ADS Can't you remove them?
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 362 Location: Allegan, Michigan
If your trailer is sold why don't you remove the ad? I get frustrated when I pull up a search and 75% of the ads are sold! Is it that hard to remove them? I think if you mark a trailer sold it should be removed within 24hrs. This gives the owner time to relist if the sale goes sour. Or maybe HTW could give the lister a grace period to relist the exact same ad if the sale doesn't go through. Or maybe you could come up with a "sale pending" instead of sold if the deal hasn't gone all the way through. If it is a sale pending sometimes the trailer is just on hold and the deal can fall through. I just get frustrated when the majority of ads are those sold already. I don't want to sift through those. Just venting a bit here!
Posted 2006-02-10 9:36 AM (#36882 - in reply to #36877) Subject: RE: My Pet Peeve: SOLD ADS Can't you remove them?
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 565 Location: Michigan
This is no different than Equine.com or Dreamhorse.com, they keep all their sold ads on until the ad expires. Actually I don't mind the sold ads and when I was looking for a trailer last year, looking at the sold ads gave me ideas of what I wanted in a trailer and I could compare prices, options, LQ layouts, condition of the trailer, etc. Sometimes I would email the seller and ask what they actually got for their trailer. When I finally found the trailer(of my dreams) it was listed on here. Once I purchased it, the dealer added the "sold" part, sold to ME!
All I can say is thank goodness for the internet to find trailers. Just point, click, scroll and happy trailer shopping!
Posted 2006-02-10 9:39 AM (#36883 - in reply to #36877) Subject: RE: My Pet Peeve: SOLD ADS Can't you remove them?
Veteran
Posts: 133 Location: Indianapolis, IN
But I like the fact on equine.com and tacktrader that you can check to NOT show sold trailers. It makes it alot easier to weed through them, I agree 100%
Posted 2006-02-10 10:19 AM (#36892 - in reply to #36883) Subject: RE: My Pet Peeve: SOLD ADS Can't you remove them?
Elite Veteran
Posts: 1011 Location: Oregon
Since there is no such thing as a horse trailer blue book, I think the sold ads are very helpful. When I was selling my trailer to get a new one, it would have been helpful to see what others were paying for a trailer like what I had. I only wish the sold ads were on there LONGER since I didn't have much to compare mine to. Then when I was trailer shopping, it helped me to see what the going price was for what I wanted.
A good thing would be to have the option of marking a box to "do not show sold trailers".
In reality, how many people actually go in and mark it sold? When searching ads for horses, trailers and other things, I can't count how many times when I called or emailed the person that I got the reply back that it was sold.
Posted 2006-02-10 7:43 PM (#36920 - in reply to #36894) Subject: RE: My Pet Peeve: SOLD ADS Can't you remove them?
Extreme Veteran
Posts: 379 Location: Columbia, TN
I think they take the individual ads off as soon as you put sold on them but they keep they dealer ads on with sold so the dealers get advertising. About a month ago I was looking at 3 H bumper 4 Star there were 9 ads 8 were sold. It has now been changed and only one sold one is on there. One thing I can say is it seems that Dave tries to keep things straight and when some one points something out he does his best to fix it.
My Pet Peeve: SOLD ADS Can't you remove them?
If your trailer is sold why don't you remove the ad? I get frustrated when I pull up a search and 75% of the ads are sold! Is it that hard to remove them? I think if you mark a trailer sold it should be removed within 24hrs. This gives the owner time to relist if the sale goes sour. Or maybe HTW could give the lister a grace period to relist the exact same ad if the sale doesn't go through. Or maybe you could come up with a "sale pending" instead of sold if the deal hasn't gone all the way through. If it is a sale pending sometimes the trailer is just on hold and the deal can fall through. I just get frustrated when the majority of ads are those sold already. I don't want to sift through those. Just venting a bit here! 
