FreeAdLists Blog – Free Classifieds

Here is a message to paid posters. You might not know this but you are screwing your client’s marketing/advertising efforts. I do understand there is a need for these types of activities – many legitimate businesses (real estate, law firms, booksellers, auto dealers, etc) outsource their marketing/advertising activities to others. But when you incessantly spam classified ads sites with certain keywords or URLs, you are forcing operators of these sites to take drastic measures. For example and not surprisingly, banning certain keywords and/or banning some website URLs amongst other things.

As with everything else in life, use moderation so please post your ads in moderation. Nobody needs or wants to see 10-15 “different classified ads” of the same topic.

I have been asked time and time again about the type of classified ads we accept. It is in the FAQs and Terms of Use, but I guess no one reads those things anymore (even though they acknowledged reading the TOU when they posted an ad).

Okay – Off the top of my head (this list is not all-inclusive)

–We do not accept credit cards or anything credit card related because 99% of these ads are scams. Most of these promoter are parasites and just making it harder for people to deal with the their credit issues.

–We do not accept pharmacy/drug/pills related classified ads. Frankly speaking, it seems pretty darn scary to buy drugs/pills online from an obscure website. That includes steroids.

–We do not accept stuffing envelopes or ad posting scams. These offers are pure BS, and most if not all, are illegal. If anything, report these useless promoters to the authorities.

–We do not accept gambling ads either. Most of those ads are scams.

–We do not accept loan offer ads. 99% of these ads are scams. If you received a “loan” from one of these promoters,  you have been had. These ads are flagged and deleted on sight.

–We do not accept sites that promote music/movie download sites because we certainly do not want people accessing “so-call free” movie/music sites. These downloads were probably obtained illegally. As you know, nothing is free in life — except regular ads on FreeAdLists.com (just a little humor) — but again, you are investing your valuable time into the posting effort so it’s not really free.

–We do not accept hate/racist classifieds either. This is a private website, so we don’t have to accept that crap.

–We do not accept those Free Yorkies or Free Bulldog ads. Let’s be honest.  No one is going to give you one of these exorbitantly expensive dogs. They are going to ask you for a bogus shipping fee or some other type of BS fee. Bottom line, you will never see a dog. However, you might see your banker because you just bounced a check. My advice — deal locally or go to the local pound and get a real dog. The majority of these scammers are from overseas. Frankly speaking, most of these scammers have never seen a Yorkie  yet alone afford one.

–We reserve the right to delete any classified ad from our site that violates our Terms of Use/FAQ.  That should be common sense.

–We accept ads from posters who are 18+ (adults only). This is not a site for minors.

–Posters assume all responsibility for their classified ad.

If you post these type of aforementioned classified ads, you can pretty much assure yourself of being banned for life.