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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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Definitely agree!
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Thank you all for the feedback...I'm going to forward the thread to Support and see if they will consider it.

Viridian: I don't have a "severed weight problem" but do appreciate the consideration :-)  Just for the record, this website can choose to cater more to dealers and better support dealer showcase functionality HOWEVER, anyone well-versed in user interface usability will tell you that you can easily accommodate both types of patrons, all of whom pay ever-increasing fees by having appropriate separation of the way in which you interact with the site.
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Thank you again to everyone who responded!  If I get any replies from Support, i will let everyone know! This could all be accomplished too with filters, an even easier technique than a multi-tab visual metaphor or other technique...
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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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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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No doubt this contributes in many cases to people spending time on other forums elsewhere though each of the other options has its positives and negatives (many use antiquated forum-style thread-view user interfaces which I happen not to like personally and find hard to locate and follow threads, some have a very clique-ish group behavior pattern where if you don't agree with the forum's moderator, you are ostracized,....etc).  Overall the drop in qualitative traffic on Audiogon is a bit sad and I'm hoping things turn around.  No matter what, as long as this seems to cater to dealers/mfg and their repetitive ad postings, the site will be harder to use and make the prospect of selling or buying used gear for us normal users that much more difficult...if one more "Bu... of Audio" or interconnect "Component of the Year" or any of the other highly repetitive interconnect or amp manufacturer or dealer ads shows up with long lists from the same source multiple times per week, it will be enough to make someone want to barf!
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