Marketplace offers you 5 different types of ads which you can select during ad posting or reposting. It is not possible to switch between different ad types while it is live. Depending on the selected Freak Site the available types are:
- Sell
- Auction (Make Offer)
- Buying
- Exchange
- Gift
In order to participate in any auction first you need to register an account. Once you have an account visit any auction and in the sidebar you will notice bidding box. A place to make an offer.
Below input for bid value you will see what is the minimum value you must place. Once the auction is finished and if you’ve won it you will receive confirmation mail. You arrange payment with the seller. Freak Sites are a series of classified ad websites and not a traditional auction site like Ebay or others. We do not manage the transaction, we are simply the conduit to match Sellers with Buyers.
List of all auctions in which you are or have been participated in is displayed on your profile under Auctions
We have a variety of ways built into our system for people to promote their ads, but we’ve decided to keep it an even playing field for now for all of our subscribers to participate. In the future we may be offering some additional advertising promotions. These features are turned off for now, but here is a list of potential future promotion opportunities.
- Bump Up Ad ( this will update creation date while expire time remains and can be used only once per ad )
- Highlight Ad ( this will make your ad stand out from others in listing )
- Top Ad ( make your add in the first XX positions of listing as well as in it’s regualar listing position )
- Urgent Ad ( display urgent ribon on ad box )
- Home Map Ad ( have your ad appear on landing page )
In the future, once you have selected promotion type and period you can proceed to payment screen. Once the payment is cleared your promotion will be active. Promotion starts from the time when payment is cleared and not from time the promotion is requested.
We highly recommend that you link your ads to your accounts on social media to gain more exposure and share your ads with others to gain more traction for your ads.
From dropdown you are selecting general location of your advert while selecting it on the map you are being more precise. Also if the location search of the marketplace is set to geolocation, people who search by location will find your ad easier. Location Search of the marketplace can also be set as list of predefined values in which case value from the dropdown is being used.
Freak Sites has a “Keep It Simple” advertising Marketplace:
- Subscriptions
At Freak Sites we’ve created a Subscription based advertising package that is $99 per year for up to 99 ads per year, per website. That’s as little as $1 per ad! All ads will expire at the end of the 365 days of your subscription unless you renew for the next year
In order to retrieve phone number of the seller go to the seller’s profile page or any of their ads and you will notice a block with their phone number, if it’s listed or you can email or text them if they are not providing their phone number.
If you wish to start messaging conversation with the seller first create an account. Once you have created your account navigate to any of their ads and you will notice button for sending a message. List of your messages is available on your profile. There you have AJAX messaging system where you will be able to continue conversations.
One of the benefits of our sellers paying $99 a year is that if people have to pay to use the service it will limit the number of “scammers” who prey on people on free classified ad websites. The person must have a PayPal account to join a Freak Sites and they have paid $99 a year to each individual website.
Of course, there is no guarantee that we won’t have people who try to use our website to create a way to scam people, so as a buyer always verify the seller is for real by doing your due diligence. Check their seller rating from other buyers and sellers.
There are two types of reviews – buyer and seller. First step is to register on our marketplace. Next you need to send a message to a seller. Once the seller responds to your message you will be able to review seller and in the same time seller will be able to review you.
When users visit your profile they will be able to see your overall review , complete list of your reviews and to filter them by type.
Once you post review it can not be changed. Also seller and you have option to respond to review.
If you have found an ad which you want to visit later or contact seller later, etc. you can mark it as Favorite and it will be saved to the list of your favorite ads, which you can access from your profile dashboard.
If you feel that the ad is breaking some rules, you can report it directly from ad page by clicking on the Report button and writing detail reason. Ad will remain active until administrator checks it out. Please provide details, so that the seller can be contacted and the ad can be verified by our staff.