With the Aussie Trading Post ditching its paper and going fully on-line, it has been thus far useless in advertising our puppies after 2 weeks. We finally advertised on the Telegraph and got a call and found a home for one of the puppies on the first day of the ad.

We have had approximately 100 views on our trading post ad, but not a single enquiry. All the while our ad gets further and further back on the search pages.

Plenty of people don't go on-line to browse for bargains (and many still don't have internet), not to mention that having a classified ads paper in hand still has it's comfort and advantages. I have my doubts that the Trading Post will flourish now without a paper copy and when there is eBay if you want to go online to buy or sell.

Though pet placements remain a problem as eBay doesn't do pets.

For some strange reason they have the worst search facilities of any large online trader apart from ebay.
If you want to find a particular make of car with particular appointments forget Trading post. You might be just getting close and they'll tell you it's timed out.
What is so hard about writing a decent search program complete with all criteria?
The other most irritating thing they do is list several categories which are the same, but have case sensitive differences or misspellings, so you have to do separate searches for each of these minor categories.
In other words, there's no intelligence lurking in their system.
Plus they're too bloody expensive.
I hope they go broke.
Check out the HTML of one of their pages sometime. It must have been written by a computer or an idiot, it's just way too complicated.