I think you may be underestimating the effort involved somewhat.A central govt agency could have built this site for 5k.
Given the success of the website in passing on items, and the subsequent savings to those people that have used it, what has been saved is greater than the website costs.Ok it provides competition then to existing sites and maybe does a better job. It shouldn't be competing with existing sites. It shouldn't be doing a better job. By using a budget which is not driven by the costs involved you can create the fanciest web site around but it's a somewhat pointless exercise.
http://www.Jumbletown.ie and http://www.gumtree.ie have ads to cover the costs of hosting and maintenance. The lack of ads on this site would indicate that Joe Taxpayer will be picking up that (recurring) bill.
I think you may be underestimating the effort involved somewhat.
Would you care to expand on why it is better than jumbletown or others?provides a better service than similar ones
I may not be making myself clear. I don't care if that this is a good site. I don't care that Users have saved money and resources by using it. They would have made the exact same savings by using pre-existing services.Given the success of the website in passing on items, and the subsequent savings to those people that have used it, what has been saved is greater than the website costs.
This is something of a zero sum game. Traffic which goes to this site detracts from the other sites. Their viability is 100% determined by the revenue they generate. The viability of this site isn't. Putting up some adds to cover a proportion of the cost is a fig leaf. The site won't live or die based on the revenue it generates.There is scope to carry ads on it to allow the website to pay for itself or even raise revenue. The nature of the ads would need to be teased out but it has been considered.
The fact that you can carry out searches based on type of item and location. You can save the searches and you get an alert when an item matching your criteria is posted.
Only the items still available are on the 'site.
The immediacy of the image of the item appearing alongside the ad when you look at all the items available.
The smartphone app.
They're just what I've found better in my own experiences and like I said, it's just an opinion. I'm not stating it as fact that it's the best out there.
I didn't say there wasn't. I just gave an opinion based on my own experience. I haven't mocked yours.Thats gas, sure any site can do that. There's lots of opensource/low cost licenced software that easily does all that.
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