Gumtree and their babysitting section

[ConfusedPixie]

Apparently you can only use these services if you are advertising for free. My ad has been deleted repeatedly yet nobody elses has. Even those with their rates in their adverts.

Since when? This guy seems to be making this p on the spot and aparently the place where I am supposed to place my ads is in the "Other Services" section because:
"The Community section is for babysitters which are offering to do the services for free (maybe as part of a course or for experience etc). The
Services > Miscellaneous > Other section is where people offer a service to babysit at a charge, thus it is the category which suits your ad best."

Yet people looking for a babysitter are not going to be looking in other fucking services.

They are now deleting any ad I place in babysitting on principle but again, nobody elses.

Can I do anything about this? It's a bunch of bollocks and I think he knows it as he now keeps saying "Oh, those are the rules".

I've just looked and it's full of adverts for nannies, au pairs, cleaners etc.

I don't know what you can do about it though. Maybe report every ad that isn't advertising for free? See what they say about that.

I have done, they are all still there

Nowhere does it say that you have to advertise for free services on there, nowhere. I pointed it out to him but he repeated "Those are the rules". What bollocks!

Apparently they are soon to change the way it works.

I am really peeved, it was one girl maliciously reporting every ad where somebody was experienced with kids, which happens all of the time on gumtree, and when I ask why they don't look into that they tell me that I'm breaking the sodding rules and are now deleting anything I put childcare related on principle.

Why don't you advertise in the nannie section on the job section

You aren't supposed to advertise there either, that's for jobs only, not nannies looking for work. Which is fair enough, it is designed for jobs to be advertised not services and I accept that response when my ads get taken down from there doesn't stop me trying to post there though and they don't always remove.

There are loads of adverts in my local one.

Same here! So now childcarers have one place to advertise and it's not where people are going to be looking for a childcarer. Ridiculous.

try netmums? sorry MN but I find it better for childcare specifically ...

I used to keep a constant presence on NM but got nothing from it. It's just having the exposure really. That and gumtree making up rules which is what really pissed me off. It doesn't have anything about people needing to "post for free" on that section or in their T's and C's, and if they did, why did the only delete my ads and not the 30-odd belonging to other people?

They have now, I started reporting every single ad and they delete without checking so they're gone. I'm hoping that enough people get pissed off that they complain to gumtree too and that they actually look into it and not make up stupid excuses and justifications.