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| Posting an Ad |
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What Category Should I Put My listing In? |
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We have provided our users with a large variety of categories to choose from for listings. When creating your ad, please choose the category that best fits the item that you have for sale or the service that you are promoting. |
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Do I Have to Register to Create Listings? |
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Yes. You must be a registered user to create listings. By registering, you create your personal account to create, edit and manage your active and inactive listings at A Classified Marketplace. But don't worry, registration for A Classified Marketplace is absolutely FREE!
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I created a listing, but it does not show up in search results. Why? |
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You need to make sure that you activated your listing. Go to My Account and click on Run to the left of the inactive listing you wish to run. In addition, you can view our movie on our the homepage of our site for help with creating, activating, editing and managing your listings.
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I am having a hard time understanding how to create an Ad...Do you have any posting instructions? |
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We strive to make posting an Ad on A Classified Marketplace a user-friendly process for even the most inexperienced computer user. In order to assist you with your posting needs, we have created both a video walk-through for instructions on posting and written documention that outlines the steps that a user can easy follow to post an ad.
Feel free to click on the following links for more information on these resources:
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I'm having a hard time posting photos to my listing! Any solutions? |
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Here at A Classified Marketplace, we strive to provide you with a user-friendly and highly customizable listing process for all of your Free Classified needs. As a part of this streamlined listing process, you can now post up to four images and one graphical coupon with each free listing you create.
In order to provide the highest level of quality listing customization, A Classified Marketplace accepts multiple file types for your listing graphics. Currently we support .jpg, .gif, .png and .bmp file extensions for your free classified listings.
To post your photos with you your listings, simply follow through the listing creation process until you come to the section titled "Your Coupon" or "Photos". Within those sections, simply click the button named "Browse" to search your computer for the location of the saved file you would like to use.
For more detailed posting instructions, please have a look at the following links:
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I created an Ad but did not receive an email confirmation. How can I receive email posting confirmations? |
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At A Classified Marketplace, we automatically send you an email confirmation of your posted listings on our website.
This email confirms that the posting you created was listing in the appropriate category for your listing and gives you a simple record of your listing.
If you are not receiving your email confirmations, please have a look at one of the following solutions:
- Please have a look in the email account that you used to register for your free account in the "Bulk" or "Junk" email section. You may have your email account configured to pass our emails to your junk folder.
- Go to your account and click in the upper right hand corner of the page on the "Update Profile" link. From there, check to make sure that your listed email is correct in your online account records.
If you still need assistance solving this issue, feel free to contact us today!
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| Registration |
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What do I get with my Free Registration? |
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At A Classified Marketplace, it is our mission to provide highly customizable, FREE classifieds for your local community advertising needs.
When you register with us you instantly receive access to browse, post and communicate with interested local buyers, sellers and small businesses in all of our unique posting categories on our website.
Additionally, upon registration of your free account, all members receive 24 hour access to their online account. Within this account users can manage active and inactive listings, create new listings, manage saved searches, and quickly and easily browse "favorite" classified listings found at A Classified Marketplace.
Registered members also receive the latest and greatest news from everything happening here at A Classified Marketplace, including listing updates, notifications of successfully posted listings and notice of listing renewals.
We invite you to join our community for high quality, free classified listings local in your area.
Click here to register and get started posting today!
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How much does it cost to register? |
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Do I have to register to use the site? |
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Yes. You can search and browse ads without registration on the site, but in order to create your own personalized ad, you must have an active registration on the site. This provides you with your own account and the ability to create, edit and manage listings over time. Click here to register!
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| Searching & Replying |
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How can I reply to an Ad? |
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Replying to an Ad to contact the seller is an easy operation on A Classified Marketplace. First, make sure that you are logged into your account or register for a Free account if you have not already done so.
Once you have found the listing you would like to reply to, simply click "Contact Advertiser" near the top of the classified listing.
From there you will be re-directed to a contact form on our site where you can easily contact the advertiser of the listing of your choice! It's that easy...Try it today!
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How can I search for Ads by Location or Keyword? |
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At A Classified Marketplace, we have made searching for Classified Listings a simple process.
At anytime within our classifieds, simply click the "Search" button on our main navigation. Once you click to search, you will be redirected to our search interface, where you can easily search for listings by category, keyword, or location.
When you are finished defining your search parameters, simply click on the "Submit" button to confirm your search and begin browsing your filtered listings.
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Why does my search yield no or little results? |
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Sometimes you can over-filter your search results while searching for that perfect item. If that's the case, simply initiate a new search but expand the parameters of your search to be more broad.
In the case that you simply cannot find what you are looking for, we simply may not have listings created for it yet! If that's the case, please create a listing in our "Items Wanted" section to specify exactly what you are looking for today!
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| Managing My Ads |
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I saved a listing to my favorites, but now I can't find it. Where can I view my favorites? |
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If you searched through our listings and found something you like, you have the option of saving the listings in your account favorites.
To do this, simply click the button near the top of the listing titled "Add to Favorites".
Once a listing is saved in your favorites, you can easily find it by navigating to your account, and clicking the top header titled "Favorites".
Once clicked, our system will display all of the favorite listings you have saved in your time with an account. From here, you can edit your saved favorites to manage the listings you would like to keep in your favorite listings.
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I sold my stuff. How do I stop my listing from running? |
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Stopping an active ad from running is easy for all of our valued users.
From the My Account page, click on the Stop link to the left of the active listing.
Alternatively, you can also choose to delete a listing completely by clicking on "Delete" next to your active listing. Please be advised that this function will completely delete your listing from your account, requiring you to recreate the listing in the future from scratch.
Either option will take your listing down from active posting on our marketplace.
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I think my Ad expired? How can I renew it? |
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Here at A Classified Marketplace, once you create a listing, it is active for 90 days without any further action. Once the 90 day period has expired, you can choose to renew your listing at absolutely no additional cost for another 90 day period.
Best of all, there is no limitation on the number of times that you can renew a listing.
Within your account at A Classified Marketplace, you can easily renew your classified at any time during the active classified listing period by clicking "Extend" next to the listing of your choice. Doing this will enable a new 90 day active period for your chosen listing.
If your listing has expired and is past the initial 90 day period, simply look near the bottom of your account with A Classified Marketplace for your "Inactive Listings" and click "Run" next to the listing of your choice. Once you click "Run", your chosen listing will automatically renew for a fresh 90 day period.
Renewing a listing will enable the ad for another 90 day period from the time of renewal for absolutely no cost. |
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I have some information I would like to Edit in my active listing. Where do I start? |
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Editing your active listing is easy & quick with our free classified system.
First, navigate to your account, next, click "Edit" next to the active listing's title within your account.
This will automatically direct you to the details of the listing itself that you setup during your initial free listing creation, where you can easily change listing information, add pictures and much more!
Once you have made the appropriate edits, make sure you submit the changes by clicking "Save Changes" to the existing ad before navigating off the screen. |
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I am receiving spam replies! What can I do? |
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If you are receiving replies to your postings that do not seem to be coming from the most reliable sources, and suspect that your listings may be generating spam, please report the listing and reply to our help department at info@aclassifiedmarketplace.com.
We strive to provide a Free Community Classified resource that connects local users. As a part of this, we recognize that spam is a reality of every public classified site, but we ask your help in keeping our online community tidy while we provide efficient & effective community communication at a price everyone can afford!
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| Posting Problems |
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I can't find my Ad?!? |
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Once you have completed the posting of your Free Ad on A Classified Marketplace, locating your ad is a simple process.
Here are three quick ways you can find your ad:
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If you took note of which category you chose to post your ad in, you can easily find your listing again by navigating to that category off of our homepage.
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If you have no idea where you posted your ad, simply navigate to your account, by clicking the "My Account" button on the top menu bar of our website. Once in your account, you can manage your active listings, or view them in their active state by clicking on the Ad title.
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Alternatively, you can also find any posting by using our user-friendly search function to find ads based off of keyword, location or category.
If you are still having trouble finding your ad, please contact us with any questions. |
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I created a posting but when I finish the posting process my ad will not finalize. What can I do? |
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Usually, any challenges related to having posts not finish, confirm and become active on A Classified Marketplace deal directly with not inputting required information during the posting process.
During the posting process, make sure that you fill out all the required information in the listing, including the title, description, & your location. Once you submit your listing, any required info will be shown to you in red for ease in confirming the listing.
If you are still having issues with your posts, please contact us for more assistance.
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| Privacy |
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What is your privacy policy? |
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I don't want my name, phone number or email address to appear on your site. What should I do? |
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You can have all your personal information remain private. Update your personal privacy preferences from the My Account page. |
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If all my information is private how can a buyer contact me? |
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When your ad appears, instead of showing your contact information the following appears: "This seller has chosen to remain private. You may contact this seller via anonymous email by clicking here." The prospective buyer completes an on-line form and the system sends you an email without revealing your information to the prospective buyer. |
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| Staying Safe on A Classified Marketplace |
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How do I stay Safe while using A Classified Marketplace? |
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While most users at A Classified Marketplace can expect no negative issues in the use of the marketplace classified listings, we do receive seldom communication from users with reports of listings that intend to scam, defraud or otherwise endanger our valued registered users.
In order to minimize your risk associated with dealing on an open, public classified marketplace, please take the following precautions when dealing with any listing on A Classified Markeplace:
- During Buying and Selling of items on our Marketplace, please deal directly with local listings. Schedule meetings in public area when possible and make sure that all exchanges take place in person to minimize miscommunication or fraud.
- Absolutely NEVER wire or send money to buyers or seller found on the marketplace. Watch out for red flags when dealing with interested parties which could include but are not limited to users asking for payments up-front, "overpayments", or other scam-like activities.
- Never give our personal information or banking information to other users on the marketplace or over the internet for that matter.
- Use the "Report this Listing" button at the top of every listing to report any scam-like, suspicious or otherwise questionable listings that you may come across at A Classified Marketplace. This helps all of us maintain a better, more community oriented market for all users to enjoy and share.
- Please Note that A Classified Marketplace Inc and its subsidiaries does not offer any type of buyer or seller protection for listings encountered on our websites. You use this website at your own risk and are responsible for any and all dealings that you have with other registered users on the website.
- Please be smart and use common sense when dealing with strangers on any public community classified websites such as this. If a listing looks and feels like a possible scam, please report it immediately to help make the public listings better for all those involved.
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What is flagging and why should I do it? |
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Flagging is the method by which we provide our registered users the ability to report suspicious posts at A Classified Marketplace.
To flag a post, simply go to the post's listing page and click the button near the top of the listing which reads "Report this Listing". Once you report a listing, our moderators will quickly and efficiently take the listing down so that it cannot be broadcast to our other valued website users.
We appreciate you taking the time to flag listings that seems suspicious. Since A Classified Marketplace is a community regulated website, we ask that you please use discretion in flagging listings and only flag and report listing that truly look like they could present a clear danger to other users.
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Did I choose a secure password? |
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At A Classified Marketplace, your user registration involved choosing a password with which to use to login to your account on subsequent visits to our website.
In order to protect your account and the listings that you have created at this website, please be sure to choose a password that is unique to this account, that is easily remembered and that will insure the security of your online account.
When creating your account, be sure to stay away from passwords that are easily guessed. Examples of passwords that may be too weak could include: "password", "qwerty", "number1" & other such simple and easily inputted password options.
Further, If you are using a public computer for your posting needs, be sure to disable any username or password remembrance options on the computer station so that the next user cannot access your personal account. Additionally, always make sure to log out of your account before leaving the public computer unattended.
If you have further questions on this topic, feel free to contact us today!
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| Advertising on A Classified Marketplace |
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What are my options for Advertising on A Classified Marketplace? |
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At A Classified Marketplace, you are welcome to create Free Business Listings within our Free Classified System to promote your service, items or otherwise. Our Free Business Listings are absolutely risk-free, with a listing being active for 90 days at which point you can choose to rerun your classified at NO additional cost!
However, if you would like to be an advertiser to promote your service or product in a fixed manner on highly trafficked areas of our website, feel free to have a look at our advertisers section for more information on how your custom advertisement can be seen on static, well traveled pages of the site.
We have inexpensive, monthly advertising banner sizes to fit a large variety of business types, and more importantly advertising budgets.
Additionally, if you need a graphic designed for your business advertisement, we have designers on hand to help create the perfect look for your business or service.
If you have questions about advertising on A Classified Marketplace, feel free to contact us today and a representative will be in touch with you with more information about your advertising options, costs and special discounted offers!
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| Pricing & Payment |
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How much do listings cost? |
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Here at A Classified Marketplace, you are welcome to create an unlimited number of absolutely FREE classified advertisements for the promotion of your listing. No gimmicks, no limitations and best of all no cost to you for the promotion of your classified!
Once you create a listing, it is active for 90 days without any further action. Once the 90 day period has expired, you can choose to renew your listing at absolutely no additional cost for another 90 day period.
Best of all, there is no limitation on the number of times that you can renew a listing.
Within your account at A Classified Marketplace, you can easily renew your classified at any time during the active classified listing period by clicking "Extend" next to the listing of your choice. Doing this will enable a new 90 day active period for your listing.
If your listing has expired and is past the initial 90 day period, simply look near the bottom of your account with A Classified Marketplace for your "Inactive Listings" and click "Run" next to the listing of your choice. Once you click "Run", your chosen listing will automatically renew for a fresh 90 day period.
Additionally, we do provide listing subscriptions for our members who wish to create listings that run for over a year without renewal. Please see our Pricing page for information about listing plans.
If you have any questions about the use of A Classified Marketplace please feel free to contact us at your convenience.
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How Long Does a Listing Run? |
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Our Basic Listings Run for 90 days and are absolutely FREE when you sign-up for a Free Member Account with A Classified Marketplace.
Once you create a listing, it is active for 90 days without any further action.
Once the 90 day period has expired, you can choose to renew your listing at absolutely no additional cost for another 90 day period.
Best of all, there is no limitation on the number of times that you can renew a listing.
Within your account at A Classified Marketplace, you can easily renew your classified at any time during the active classified listing period by clicking "Extend" next to the listing of your choice. Doing this will enable a new 90 day active period for your listing.
If your listing has expired and is past the initial 90 day period, simply look near the bottom of your account with A Classified Marketplace for your "Inactive Listings" and click "Run" next to the listing of your choice. Once you click "Run", your chosen listing will automatically renew for a fresh 90 day period.
We also have subscription plans available for ads that last a year in duration without renewal. See our pricing page for more!
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