Thread: What's up with the fixed price?

What's up with the fixed price?

Since I have all of my categories set to be free, and charge $15 for featured Ads, I thought I would use the fixed price option for regular Ads and set the price to $0. This way I would eliminate the value appearing beside each category...
Well I just got 4 email complaints from customers trying to post a free Ad, and are being asked for Paypal processing.
What's up with that?!

Re: What's up with the fixed price?

I was hoping to do the same thing on my new setup. is this going to be an issue? should it be set up differently?
Anyone else have this problem?

Re: What's up with the fixed price?

It seems this is a known issue as it is right in the options:
Note: If you have the "Activate Paypal?" option set to "Yes" then each ad will automatically be a draft until payment is made (regardless of the option above).

So I guess we have to put somewhere in the form that tells people this.

Re: What's up with the fixed price?

No.
There is a field in "Configure" called "Default New Ad Status" You can set your new Ads to "Published" and they go live right away.

Re: What's up with the fixed price?

Is anyone having an issue with this option and SPAM posts getting posted up?

Re: What's up with the fixed price?

I was tinkering with a new classifieds site earlier this week - I don't the think the Fixed Price option is suppose to be designed to work in the way your suggesting.

I believe an easier and better solution would be to include a fix in the drop down display code that removes "$0" if that category is free.