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What happened to the useful (to me) information on sold classifieds?
I liked having the sold item darkened out and eventually filtering down due to a new post or bumping while showing new items added or sold items, in real time as they happen.
This not only informed folk on what's selling or not, but expected prices received for this area. It also added fast witness to the coming and goings of the ads.
For me it has prompted both selling and holding according to my view of the local market.
Now it's just 800 pages of lookalike ads making finding sold info a real project and unwanted added effort.
In my mind, we lost 25% of the value of the classifieds sections.
I realize we now have a bunch of uptown filters. Sometimes that helps but frankly, most of the time I'm in no hurry so it's a hindrance and can even miss out because many times I'm open to change so might miss a good thing in another brand or I set the dollar to tight.
The way the classifieds use to be was like reading the newspaper cover to cover 40 years ago. It is part of the whole package, more in the way of passing time, while learning a little something along the way.
Even when I was in a hurry it was easy to skip sold items while at the same time radially seeing current and old stuff by the page you were on.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this that I've noticed so I'm assuming I'm missing the added value of the new system instead of the deficit I see..
Maybe everyone is in a hurry now a days or just more technically advanced.
I liked having the sold item darkened out and eventually filtering down due to a new post or bumping while showing new items added or sold items, in real time as they happen.
This not only informed folk on what's selling or not, but expected prices received for this area. It also added fast witness to the coming and goings of the ads.
For me it has prompted both selling and holding according to my view of the local market.
Now it's just 800 pages of lookalike ads making finding sold info a real project and unwanted added effort.
In my mind, we lost 25% of the value of the classifieds sections.
I realize we now have a bunch of uptown filters. Sometimes that helps but frankly, most of the time I'm in no hurry so it's a hindrance and can even miss out because many times I'm open to change so might miss a good thing in another brand or I set the dollar to tight.
The way the classifieds use to be was like reading the newspaper cover to cover 40 years ago. It is part of the whole package, more in the way of passing time, while learning a little something along the way.
Even when I was in a hurry it was easy to skip sold items while at the same time radially seeing current and old stuff by the page you were on.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this that I've noticed so I'm assuming I'm missing the added value of the new system instead of the deficit I see..
Maybe everyone is in a hurry now a days or just more technically advanced.