Comments on: Trading Post‘s last days a sign of things to come http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/trading-posts-last-days-a-sign-of-things-to-come/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:54:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bullmore's Ghost http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/trading-posts-last-days-a-sign-of-things-to-come/#comment-39988 Bullmore's Ghost Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:26:22 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/trading-posts-last-days-a-sign-of-things-to-come/#comment-39988 I find Trading Post Online a difficult site to navigate and I don't use it unless I have to as there are better-designed sites, especially for cars. It is laid out as though it is a hard copy newspaper. Unless it gets a work-over by non-newspaper people who know how to design online shopping sites, then I'll not be a customer. I find Trading Post Online a difficult site to navigate and I don’t use it unless I have to as there are better-designed sites, especially for cars.

It is laid out as though it is a hard copy newspaper. Unless it gets a work-over by non-newspaper people who know how to design online shopping sites, then I’ll not be a customer.

]]> By: Tom McLoughlin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/trading-posts-last-days-a-sign-of-things-to-come/#comment-39491 Tom McLoughlin Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:46:51 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/01/trading-posts-last-days-a-sign-of-things-to-come/#comment-39491 Who owns gumtree? It one of the bigger operations presenting as folksy local scene. It's quite effective. I notice some scammers on there in acommodation (dodgy overseas types claiming local address) so you need to exercise awareness. I notice even rsvp at fairfax cross sells on it. And I wonder how common craiglist is in Australia now? My old boss at City Hub hated Craig list, but since then he's got a complementary website and probably bleeding revenue on his small operation too. Anyway trading post is still on the web and worth a look for cars and stuff in my experience. But the gumtree model is strong with regionalised geographical refinements in searches, though their search results are sometimes incorrect. Who owns gumtree? It one of the bigger operations presenting as folksy local scene. It’s quite effective. I notice some scammers on there in acommodation (dodgy overseas types claiming local address) so you need to exercise awareness. I notice even rsvp at fairfax cross sells on it.

And I wonder how common craiglist is in Australia now? My old boss at City Hub hated Craig list, but since then he’s got a complementary website and probably bleeding revenue on his small operation too.

Anyway trading post is still on the web and worth a look for cars and stuff in my experience. But the gumtree model is strong with regionalised geographical refinements in searches, though their search results are sometimes incorrect.

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