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Opinions Please: Daily proliferation, several dealer/distributor ads,..

Good Day...I'm not looking to start a war, nor am I asking this question to cast any negative comments on one or more manufacturers and distributors/dealers that look to use Audiogon ads EVERY day or at least weekly to post a long stream of the same ads over and over again on new equipment be it Tube, Solid State or Cabling as if it were their own personal bulletin board. There are several that do this on a daily and weekly basis.  It makes it difficult to go through the "new today" and "new yesterday" auctions, classifieds, etc..and figure out what regular members and others who post one-at-a-time postings have put up that day.  

I think it would be sensible for Audiogon to consider putting up a separate "Dealer/Manucturer" Sell Forum right here on the same site that would allow them to conduct their business while keeping regular member/others' ads which we also pay money for, in a place where these ads stand a chance of showing up earlier in the list, not one page or more down after the repeating dealer, distributor and manufacturer ads are done.

The firms in question are all fine members of the forum and provide good products; I think that Audiogon should consider setting up a page for them and give regular members listings a better chance of being easily seen.

Thoughts?
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hiker1529
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Yes, a dealer tab located next to "New Today", "Amazing Deals" and "Hot Items" would work well.  It is frustrating to want to peruse new listings of  used items but instead slogging through a ton of repetitive dealer ads.

This comes to mind every time I hit the site (usually daily).  Thanks to Zephyr for saying it out loud!


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Definitely what I had in mind...that way we can find any new dealer or manufacturer posting while not having them clog up the view of regular member ads, auctions, etc....A reputable dealer posting a singular piece of good quality used or demo gear should also be included its the regular user ad/auction postings.  

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I'm not seeing any changes, so I guess this thread has fallen on deaf ears.
It will become obsolete in a short while, and then vanish into the abyss.

Oh well, nice try Zephyr!
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dbtom2: Thank you very much for your kind words! 

hammersurf: great post, thank you!

Jmcgrogan: it's not fallen on deaf ears to be sure but work had to come first this past week (bummer) so I've not been on the boards all the much in the last week or so...

ebm: love your one-liners as always; you'll never wear out a keyboard :-)

All: Thank you to everyone for your contributions, glad we all agree and suspect there are many more of us out there,...unfortunately as some predicted, when I forwarded this to Audiogon, they thanked me/us for being valued members of the forum and tried to tell me it was not possible to do without detracting from the amount of traffic dealer ads would receive (paraphrasing). I countered with the fact that they could easily create a user interface metaphor that split up everything, could still focus on page-load on dealer ad sections but could allow users the choice (via tab views, search/filters, etc...) of what we wanted to see. They went on to say they value the feedback and will continue to consider it.  I don't think anything will change in the near-future but I'll keep sending this in regularly and see if they finally agree to making some changes....

Have a great (rest of the) weekend and happy listening!!!




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Another example of daily proliferation.   These types of listings are a big turn off on me.  



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