Free Classified sites are okay, but they are not usually the best choice if you are posting a serious ad. If you pay nothing, chances are you’ll get nothing in return. Too much open access can lead to trouble. The recent Craigslist killing is just one example of the horror stories that can happen on a FREE site. Paid classified listings are usually a safer choice and are more beneficial in the end for you. When you come out of your own pocket to pay for something, it shows that you are serious about what you are purchasing and you expect to get something for your money. On the other hand if it’s FREE; what do you really expect to get out of it? Do you really expect to find a great business partner, job, or mate on a FREE site? FREE sites such as Craigslist are becoming very short lived. If you have ever posted a Craigslist ad then you’ve noticed the piles of junk mail and bogus responses to your postings. Many people even go so far as to reply to a post by posting a reply on the classifieds site, when this is clearly not the purpose of the site. Another problem with sites like Craigslist is if someone doesn’t like your ad or think you should offer a higher salary, they can flag your post and have it removed from Craigslist. This is unfair to you and unfair to the person out there who may have benefited from your posting.
People in general (especially business-minded people) are starting not take FREE sites seriously anymore and basically see it as a FREE opportunity to advertise their own business services, thus the reason for the increase in bogus email replies to your postings. It’s no wonder that sites like BizPartnerHunt.com are springing up all over the place and doing quite well. BizPartnerHunt.com protects all of it’s postings from automated search engines and robots, which run through ads sending automatic bogus replies. This protection helps to ensure that all of the posting replies from an ad posted on BizPartnerHunt.com are from real live people who are genuinely interested in your posting. Sites that concentrate on specific types of ads are highly recommended, especially if you are looking for legitimate ads and responses. BizPartnerHunt.com concentrates specifically on individuals looking for business partners, investors and others to barter services with. The site is a year old with many success stories. A lot of sites which are similar to BizPartnerHunt.com charge up to $100.00 to post and/or search ads, but BizPartnerHunt.com only charges $9.99 to post unlimited ads for 6 months and it’s FREE to search. It doesn’t matter how much money someone spends to post an ad, all that matters is that the person has put forth an extra effort by paying some sort of fee to have their ad posted. This alone helps to show their sincerity in their ad post.
Now let’s be fair and do our best to find some positive things about FREE Online Classifieds. Let’s see. Can you think of any? Well to tell the truth the only positive side to a FREE Online classifieds site is that it’s FREE and who can turn down anything that’s free. However, if you are serious in your search for whatever you may be looking for, rather it’s a mate or a serious business partner; paid classifieds are the best way to go. But not just any paid classifieds site, it should be a classifieds site which focuses specifically on what you are seeking and not a wide open FREE-For-All-Site.
