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I can see now what the XstreetSL staff have done wrong. They've played one of those games where you have problems on the left and you have to match them to the answers on the right.

Unfortunately they seem to have applied the wrong answer to a problem. The problems were "How do we deal with freebies being used as advertising tools and not paying for the service" and "How do we deal with goodwill freebies that aren't being used as advertising tools".

Unfortunately for: "How do we deal with goodwill freebies that aren't being used as advertising tools". They seem to have applied the solution that is really suited to: "How do we deal with freebies being used as advertising tools and not paying for the service"

I'm admittedly a bit confused about this, but I don't see why anyone would want to pay L$99 for promotional purposes to have their freebies put into the freebies section that isn't going to be browsable and where keyword searches will be removed from the main site, what sort of promotional opportunity is that? However for those who give freebies for goodwill, that would be a compromise, a far from happy one, but a compromise for completely free listings.

I have said in previous posts that freebies used as promotional tools should be treated as such and I'm not objecting to XstreetSL saying that they should be charged, but when paying gives you a worse service then you get now, I'm a bit confused by the idea of paying money to get worse visibility.

The only people who are likely to want to pay to have freebies listed are those who see them as a community service, those who use them as a promotional tool will surely just list their items for L$3 or L$4 where they will be in a category they can be found, pretty much defeating the object of these changes.