We all know that on internet, content is the king and more content rich pages means more free traffic. Seems one of the online free classified player has been following this religiously and is successful in building +1.7 million unique pages.
This post is motivated by a recent forum thread initiated by someone named “Jose” from Meghalaya at workfromhomeindia.biz on October 12th, 2009.
Seems Jose was trying to find answer to a financial issue he is facing with the said classfied site clickindia.com and turned up sharing some stunning facts that maybe point towards the fact that what we see on classified sites may not be entered by visitors like you, even a step further, may have been plastered on the website without the concent of the advertiser himself.
Below are some excerts of the thread:
“The so called popoular classified ads website Clickindia.com has turn into Scam, Fraud. We the advertisers who post those classified ads in the website didnt get paid for a while now. Payout is usually on the 10th and Sept 25th of every month. I dont knw they just stop payin us. Has anyone did the ads posting job for ClickIndia or heard abt it.”
“We all knw posting of ads is free in their website. But the number of ads posted in their website by free customers(surfers) is very few to meet the demands of the increasing internet surfers . So The ClickIndia staff members employed us to post ads for their websites for more trafficking and for better options for seaching the right thing in the right location. Nearly 80% of the ads in the site is posted by us. We collect them from local newspapers, magazines etc. Everybody thinks its a genuine website but they are not now”
“They pay us Rs.4/ad. Anybody with internet knowledge can join it. Am from Meghalaya, and there are three members here and some in Assam. They stop paying and they always keep their chat rooms offline too this days. They even keep their phone switch off. I force them if they dont pay us, we will post complaints in forums and other newpapers, then they cool down a bit and they told us that we will get paid after 3 days. But now its more than 1 week now and we havent got our salery. Their assistant’s name is Meexxxxx Raxxx and her email is xxxxxxxxxxxx28@gmail.com and her phone no. is 09999xxxxxx. She’s a really short temper women. Nobody can talk to her properly. Am tryin to expose their EVIL thing to everyone”
Infact, there is another complaint flashing on consumercomplaints.in that seems to be from the same provider, only otherwise the internal staff is doing some part-time as well
The reason why I am wasting my time and web space for something like this is not to give more exposure for people like Jose or showcase a website like clickindia.com in bad light, but to emphasise on the fact that what you see may not be true is not just something for the external world but is also strongly true for contents available online.
Online free classifieds are among good things available online for end user. Seriously, someone from clickindia.com should resolve this asap and try coming up with a clarification from their end..
