Today I’ve got one email (from many) that I would like to show the answer, since more than one would like to understand how we work and what we do.
Email from customer:
Hi
I have spent 2hours trying to configure you script, and now finally got it going, my site is full og Google ads which you failed to mention.
The script does not work as I tried to ad a listing, then went on to your demo site and tried there too and that does not work.
I just wish people were more honest and if your going to give scripts away for free then let it be free instead of playing tricks and sneaking other people\’s ads so that we promote their business. The little guys like us have no money and still we are being stepped on by people like you.
I will find a honest script provider and when they say free I hope they will not do what you have done.
Our answer and explanation:
[jetpack_subscription_form]Hello XXX,
We are really concern about your email and satisfaction over our free product.
We are trying to do our best giving away a free version while at the same time struggling since we have 3 employees and an office to mantain. So that is why we have publicity inserted in the free theme. Of course you can erase it by editing the HTML since the code is 100% open source. Think about APPs for the phone: they have publicity and you can’t remove them! unless you pay of course.
About the installation, that is not normal, you can see our video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8KbTWoy4jM or from other people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IepRJUMGZYM and doesn’t take them more than 5 minutes as you can see. Your hosting may not be compatible, there’s free hoting like 000webhost.com or 260mb.com that they work good and for free.
In the demo the listings are not published but moderated since people posts a lot of nudity or +18 ads, and we had problems witth that. You can try any oher open classifieds installation like aderous.com classifiedsbarcelona.com etc… there’s 15.000 wesbites running with our software.
As you can see we are really honest and trying our best. I am attaching to you one premium theme for free so you can enjoy even more and as said for free.
Just uncompress the file and upload the folder to your themes folder. Activate it in the admin.
Hope hear great news from you.
Saludos / Regards.
Chema Garrido, Open Classifieds Founder
Barcelona, Spain GMT +1
http://open-classifieds.com
That could have been worse on both ends : )
Too many people want free stuff… Guys, come on… this team as well as other teams work hard in order to provide you this script…and they do it for free… Just think about it: would you allow other people download and use a script you have worked really hard on for free? I think not, but these guys do it so stop thinking that everything on the Internet should be for free. There are a lot of money invested in something like this and, if you don’t like what you get, buy the damn script and don’t complain…
Hello Gabriel. Thanks for your comment ;)