Classifieds - How hard can it be?
Discussion
Chaps and Chapesses,
What is it with the Classifieds and people (mostly companies) putting their adds in the wrong car category?
Ok not exactly going to cause a CO2 Climate disaster but for example on the BMW 5-Series Pre-89 Category 9 out of the 15 on the first page are E39's or newer. One is a brand new one.
The odd one isn't too much of a disaster but when there are more errors than right entries it makes viewing them a right pain in the backside.
Ta
What is it with the Classifieds and people (mostly companies) putting their adds in the wrong car category?
Ok not exactly going to cause a CO2 Climate disaster but for example on the BMW 5-Series Pre-89 Category 9 out of the 15 on the first page are E39's or newer. One is a brand new one.
The odd one isn't too much of a disaster but when there are more errors than right entries it makes viewing them a right pain in the backside.
Ta
There are two causes for this problem:
1. Dealerfeeds - we take automated feeds from several companies which send us a big list of cars to be added to the classifieds each day. Unfortunately this means we need to automatically pick a category at this end based on the information in the advert and where this information is incomplete or unusual in some way then cars sometimes end up in the wrong category (especially with the more complicated splits such as BMW 5 series)
2. Muppets - regardless of the steps we take, there will always be someone who manages to put their car somewhere completely inappropriate.
If you spot them then there are two solutions. If it's just a couple then hitting "Report to Administrator" will be the quickest and easiest way of getting them moved to their correct homes. If there are quite a few then just post in here or drop me an email and I'll get them all moved as a batch.
1. Dealerfeeds - we take automated feeds from several companies which send us a big list of cars to be added to the classifieds each day. Unfortunately this means we need to automatically pick a category at this end based on the information in the advert and where this information is incomplete or unusual in some way then cars sometimes end up in the wrong category (especially with the more complicated splits such as BMW 5 series)
2. Muppets - regardless of the steps we take, there will always be someone who manages to put their car somewhere completely inappropriate.
If you spot them then there are two solutions. If it's just a couple then hitting "Report to Administrator" will be the quickest and easiest way of getting them moved to their correct homes. If there are quite a few then just post in here or drop me an email and I'll get them all moved as a batch.
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