classifieds shifting to dynamic pricing

I am very much against this suggestion.

Organizing them according to the time and date added makes sense, why make it more complicated?

User experience. Making the classifieds a valuable resource for finding things.

Businesses who are willing to pay more for higher placement are more likely to be serious about their advertising (and thus their business) than those who are not. It's a much more valuable metric, to me, than how recently someone put up their ad.

That's not true. People will pay more to have a higher placed ad, yes, but this totally dicks those businesses who would *like* to grow, but may not be able to due to an inability to bid higher for spots.

That's not true. People will pay more to have a higher placed ad, yes, but this totally dicks those businesses who would *like* to grow, but may not be able to due to an inability to bid higher for spots.

A process which includes enormous (by comparison) ads for places like car dealerships who are willing to spend more to get more prominent placement. I'm not sure why everyone who brings up the newspaper example leaves that part out.

Also, just because someone is willing to pay more $L doesn't mean their business is automatically more relevant.

This isn't the thread for it. Take that crap elsewhere. Thank you.

I just think that those of us who are trying to do clever or creative or fun things, but don't have huge amouts of money (because we don't have huge dwell or we're not at a telehub or whatever), should have an opportunity to be on a level playing field once in a while.

I had no locatiosn close to telehubs for a long time and I rarely had much dwell. Those periods were my most profitable. I would have valued having an adjustable means of exposure. Nothing is free and if people want to pay large amounts of money for top placement, I think they're getting what they deserve. In any case, as I have mentioned now ad nauseam, by cutting the minimum price, the classifieds are now even easier to get into.

As for the playing field being level, you no longer need to have heavy dwell to rank next to your competitor, as was needed in the days when all we had was Find Places. All you have to do is invest some cash in your ad budget and you can enjoy placement right next to the big guys. That's pretty neat to me.

What good is "getting into the classifieds" if you're always down near the bottom because you can't afford to pump money into classified ads.

I would like to see it too.

Say, with a maximum of 2 ads per day for land owned by the same person/group.

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Secondly, a solution. To avoid this kind of jackasserie at SLBoutique, the defalt sort method is by the time it was added, descending. That way, everyone gets the same amount of time featured at the top of the listing, before falling.

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That neat little button that says "Search."

And much like the Find Places tab with traffic, whoever paid more will still show up first with the little guy rock bottom. Once again I protest against making the classifieds into another domain for the rich to get richer and the poor to become poorer because no one else but the business giants will get their ad seen.

Not true... I for one am not paying anymore than $250 per ad for TWO weeks, unless LL can prove to me how many people are actually visiting my locations via the classifieds.

And much like the Find Places tab with traffic, whoever paid more will still show up first with the little guy rock bottom. Once again I protest against making the classifieds into another domain for the rich to get richer and the poor to become poorer because no one else but the business giants will get their ad seen.

I agree, but I also believe that with Find Places and Popular Places dominated by big business we should have some kind of neutral ground so us little guys have a chance at any kind of success.