No response to classified ad

Interesting… me too…

I also responded to three ads and received no response from the three different people.

While they may have all sold (some were from March), I would have thought to have heard back a “not available” from at least one.

Maybe the Briar Press stuff can go more easily into people’s junk mail?

Hi Emma & Rebekah,

I can’t offer much insight, but some numbers might help. An average of 1500 unique visitors view Briar Press every day, resulting in roughly 12,000 page views per day. Classifieds is our most popular department; we’ve heard from some sellers that they receive many responses on the first day. It is certainly possible that some sellers choose not to respond once their items have sold, or stop responding after the first 5 or 10 inquiries.

As you both suggest, messages generated by the Briar Press site might get caught in some users’ spam filters. Also, on rare occasions, some sellers may not reply if they’re concerned that the interested party might be a scammer. Responses that might be misinterpreted as suspicious tend to be overly brief, such as “I’m interested, let me know.”

I’ve thought about adding comments to classifieds ads. Users having trouble getting through could post a public comment to the advertiser. The drawback: some users might post a comment but think that they had sent an email. We’ve seen this happen regularly. In addition, advertisers would have to check the web site regularly or risk missing a posted response.

In the case of the recently re-posted item, if you think the seller has an overreaching spam filter or some other email issue, as a last resort you might try posting a message in Discussion on the chance that the seller would see it.