If you tried to create ad ad on www.sellstuff.co.za recently you may have had a bit of trouble getting it done.
I have, for quite some time spent a large part of each day removing suspicious looking ads, as well as ads that do not fall within the guidelines for www.sellstuff.co.za.
I also added text to the ad submission page specifically requesting that people do not ad their email addresses in the description field, but many people seemed to have ignored this completely, so I did something about it.
Last week (I think) I added extra validation to check that no email addresses had been added in any of the fields on the ad submission form, then tested it and it worked……. problem is I tested it when I was logged in.
You see the same form gets used whether you are logged in or not, and when you have not registered, or logged in there are additional fields for your username, and … email address. So my validation worked so well when you filled your email address in the email address field, it told you no email addresses are allowed, not nice 
, remove your email address from that field and you cannot submit the form really really not nice.
Thankfully a user took the time to send me a mail letting me know about the problem, which is now fixed.
So in closing, if you have any issues at all on the site, let me know! I won’t ignore you. Thanks to all those people who have sent me feedback it is appreciated!
Posted under Classifeds Sites Updates
This post was written by Shaun on March 10, 2010
