Gumtree.pl ad posting criteria?

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Jul 6, 11, 00:58 #1

I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but it's recently happened to me twice.

When placing an advertisement on Gumtree, you have to wait 24 hours for the advertisement to go live. However, when I placed an advertisement on there (in English) offering private services, for the last 2 times I've waited 24 hours only to receive an email saying something along the lines of "Sorry, but Gumtree.pl is a Polish site, therefore advertisements should be in Polish and thus we have removed your advertisement". That's ok, I can respect that they have their own rules. What's interesting though, is that browsing Gumtree, I see a billion (perhaps a mild overstatement) advertisements purely in English that seem to not only pass the selection process, but remain on there for a long time.

It's ok for me to provide translations in addition to the English text if required, alas the issue is that it's far more time consuming, my Polish is terrible and so it downgrades the advertisement, and finally: I keep getting contacted by people writing or speaking in Polish, despite writing to please contact me in English!

Has anyone else experienced this, or frustrated by it?

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Jul 6, 11, 10:40 #2

Nightglade:

When placing an advertisement on Gumtree, you have to wait 24 hours for the advertisement to go live.

Not really, it's usually placed within minutes.

Nightglade:

provide translations in addition to the English text

That's the best way - write first Polish version then English and publish the ad. If you've seen purely foreign language ads there, they mus've slipped he mods. You can report it to them too, if you want.

vndunneThreads: 72 Posts: 340 Joined: Jan 12, 07 ♂	Jul 6, 11, 11:16 #3
Interesting to know as i want to place an ad on Gumtree shortly. so will follow the suggested approach.

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Mar 9, 12, 18:11 #4

Merged: Gumtree.pl

Is there something wrong with the gumtree.pl website at the moment, because for the past week i've had problems going onto the site. Everytime i open gumtree my computer will not respond and i have tried various internet connections to test this and it still happens. Is it just me or are you also experiencing the same problem?
It would be good to know, please let me know.Thanks

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Mar 9, 12, 20:44 #5

Nightglade:

when I placed an advertisement on there (in English) offering private services, for the last 2 times I've waited 24 hours only to receive an email saying something along the lines of "Sorry, but Gumtree.pl is a Polish site, therefore advertisements should be in Polish and thus we have removed your advertisement". That's ok, I can respect that they have their own rules. What's interesting though, is that browsing Gumtree, I see a billion (perhaps a mild overstatement) advertisements purely in English

yes the same thing happened to me , Gumtree Krakow is managed from the Nederlands i think anyway there are a bunch of uncompetent employees working for Gumtree Krakow!

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