Nightglade 7 | 97
6 Jul 2011 / #1
I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but it's recently happened to me twice.
When placing an advertisement on Gumtree, you have to wait 24 hours for the advertisement to go live. However, when I placed an advertisement on there (in English) offering private services, for the last 2 times I've waited 24 hours only to receive an email saying something along the lines of "Sorry, but Gumtree.pl is a Polish site, therefore advertisements should be in Polish and thus we have removed your advertisement". That's ok, I can respect that they have their own rules. What's interesting though, is that browsing Gumtree, I see a billion (perhaps a mild overstatement) advertisements purely in English that seem to not only pass the selection process, but remain on there for a long time.
It's ok for me to provide translations in addition to the English text if required, alas the issue is that it's far more time consuming, my Polish is terrible and so it downgrades the advertisement, and finally: I keep getting contacted by people writing or speaking in Polish, despite writing to please contact me in English!
Has anyone else experienced this, or frustrated by it?
When placing an advertisement on Gumtree, you have to wait 24 hours for the advertisement to go live. However, when I placed an advertisement on there (in English) offering private services, for the last 2 times I've waited 24 hours only to receive an email saying something along the lines of "Sorry, but Gumtree.pl is a Polish site, therefore advertisements should be in Polish and thus we have removed your advertisement". That's ok, I can respect that they have their own rules. What's interesting though, is that browsing Gumtree, I see a billion (perhaps a mild overstatement) advertisements purely in English that seem to not only pass the selection process, but remain on there for a long time.
It's ok for me to provide translations in addition to the English text if required, alas the issue is that it's far more time consuming, my Polish is terrible and so it downgrades the advertisement, and finally: I keep getting contacted by people writing or speaking in Polish, despite writing to please contact me in English!
Has anyone else experienced this, or frustrated by it?