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To be really pissed off with Gumtree?

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ConfusedPixie · 31/10/2013 08:33

They keep deleting my childcare ads. I am posting my babysitting services in the babysitting part of the site. Just like every other babysitter and nanny does. Somebody has been reporting everybodies but hers (obvious by the fact that anybody who has more than babysitting experience has their ad removed apart from her and hers is the only one standing within a week) and they keep deleting.

I asked them why. Their response was that I am posting in the wrong category. (I have replied to that this morning only to discover they deleted my re-post of the original deleted ad) WTAF? Why can they just not look at who is reporting, or look at the section. That is where we are allowed to post! We aren't allowed to post in the babysitting and nannies section either, so where do we post? And if it is the wrong bloody category, why are the other ads not being removed either?!

And FWIW, all ads on the babysitters and nannies section are currently not deleted, even though technically, that is the one we are not supposed to be posting on.

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DevilsRoulette · 31/10/2013 08:39

report hers on the grounds that if all similar ads are in the wrong place, hers must be too.

Hopefully someone will actually engage their brain and look.

ConfusedPixie · 31/10/2013 08:43

I was going to do that if they don't give me a satisfactory response this time! That and just go through and report every single ad on there, just to see what they do. I am concerned that I may get my account suspended for that but I only get one or two enquiries a month from it so I'm not too phased.

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ConfusedPixie · 31/10/2013 20:32

I have an answer! Apparently, the babysitting part of Gumtree is for babysitters offering their services for free because of courses and things. No, I am not joking. I wonder how drunk he thinks I must be to believe that?!

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