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General Information
The home page can be accessed using the url: www.AdsMantra.com.
The site is designed as a web portal to allow buyers and sellers
to interact electronically. The design
focuses primarily for free local advertising of products and services. The site has been designed as a portal that
will allow private and commercial users to promote and to sell their products
and services by placing ads in the website.
The site targets users of all the cities and towns in
The site aims to enhance user experience by giving access to any information on the website within 1-3 clicks. This is achieved by using cookies to store the default location preference of the users to avoid selecting location each time they enter the site. Obviously, the users are free to change location at any time. Neither the buyers nor the advertiser need to maintain any user accounts or passwords to use this site. The only requirement is that users should have a valid email account to be able to activate ads and to exchange emails with the advertisers.
The portal is envisaged to be a dynamic system that will be enhanced based on inputs from users to improve the features and functionality offered. The site is expected to provide more value added services to the advertisers and the consumers in successive releases. The user community is encouraged to provide their inputs via the “contact us” option to generate enhancement requests. It’s only with the support and encouragement of the users that the site will grow in popularity and usefulness.
For technical users, the website is built on latest j2ee
architecture and technologies, a modern RDBMS and is hosted at commercial cyber
centers. The full architecture and
design has been developed by the Custom Design team of i-Plaza Global Services
and all rights to the site are owned by them. |
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Default Location
The
default location provides a facility to select a location where advertisers
want to post ads and buyers want to search.
The reasoning behind this facility is the assumption that most buyers
and sellers will like to interact locally for the kind of products and services
being offered at this site.
To
select default location, use
click to change Location link on the left menu bar under the flags. The selected location is highlighted in the
title bar as “CITY/STATE CLASSIFIEDS”.
Thus if you select
Next time the users opens the website, the site opens with the default location already set. Thus an advertiser will straightaway go to the category page of “Post Ad” or the person searching for products will go to the category page for the “Search Ad” menu.
For
the technically minded users, the url on the top will
change to the default location sub-domain.
Thus with
Note: the sub-domain mentioned above is available for all the states and the 35 most populous cities, for the rest, currently the users will need to select the location every time they want to place ads or search ads for their city or town. |
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How to post an Ad
Select the “Post Ad” menu tab and follow the 3-4 steps required to post your advertisement; these may look daunting but are very straightforward and should take a few minutes only to post your Ad.
STEP 1: Location
Selection (not needed if default set)
If a default location is selected, you will see the
category page (Step 2) otherwise the location selection page will be displayed.
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Click on the state or city that you want to post to.
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If a default location was selected, please confirm that the
location selected is correct per the banner on top. To change location please click
click
to change Location link on the left
under the flags to change location. For help on
default location click here
if required.
STEP 2: Category
Selection
Select the category/subcategory in which you want to post
your advertisement. If you select the main
category then your advertisement will become searchable in all the
subcategories. Thus selecting “Sale/Buy”
instead of “furniture” will make the item searchable for all sub-categories in
Sale/Buy.
STEP 3: Create your
posting
Please enter the following information (*) indicates a required
field.
STEP 4: Email Receipt and Activation
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How to search Ads
Select the “Search Ad” menu tab for beginning the search. Searching for ads will be the most frequent activity on the site and has been designed with lot of flexibility in mind. It should take users 2-3 clicks to find the items that they are looking for and are given different navigation features to search for items.
STEP 1: Location Selection (not needed if default
set)
If a default location is selected, you will see the
category search page (Step 2) otherwise the location selection page will be
displayed.
STEP 2: Perform straight search or select category
Choice 1: Straight Search -- you can enter any search string, change drop downs for city and category and hit the “search” button to quickly find items matching the search criterion. The results should show as a list of items matching your search or it will display “No Listing found”. You can change the search criterion and hit the “search” button again to zoom in on the listing (s) of interest.
Choice 2: Select the category/subcategory in which you want to search the advertisement. The # of ads currently active in a category is given in parenthesis next to the main categories. If you just select the main category for searching, the results will include all the subcategories under that category.
The results from either method will give a list of ads that match the selection. The ads with photographs will have a camera icon next to them. You can click on the ad headline to see the result (see STEP 3).
STEP 3: View Ad and contact user
Once you are in the advertisement page, you should see all the
details about the item. Generally there
should be enough description about the product or service that should allow
users to decide whether they want to contact the advertiser for following up or
not. Most advertisers will not provide
any personal contact information like email or phone# but the website provides
an anonymous email id for every advertiser.
To contact the advertiser, please click on the reply to the advertiser’s
email that is repeated on the top and bottom of the ad next to the reply to
option: Reply to: xx-xxxxxx@adsmantra.com
You can contact the advertiser by either clicking on the
anonymous email id or the envelope icon next to it. You will be sending the email from your
normal account and your personal email id will be visible to the
advertiser. At this point onwards, the
advertiser and you will be interacting directly -- with the adsmantra.com having served it’s
purpose of bringing you two together similar to paid newspaper ads. Please review the warning on top of the ad
about the fact that adsmantra.com is not providing any guarantees or
warrantees explicit or implicit about the products or services being offered by
advertisers. Thus use the same
common-sense that you do when responding to newspaper advertisers. |
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How to Edit your Posting
The system sends you
a notification email once you save a new advertisement for the first time also
has the details for editing your ad.
This is the same email that you receive with instructions to activate
your posting. You need to go to
your Email system (specified during posting) and look for an email from
info@adsmantra.com with “ACTIVATE/EDIT/DELETE
…” as the subject line. This email will
have a hyperlink for activating the Ad.
(Note, if you do not get this email in your
inbox, then look for the email in your junk or bulk folders. This may be done by your Email anti-spamming
software and you will need to click on ‘permissible user’ for routing emails
from
info@adsmantra.com
to your inbox
from next time.) The email should be
received within 5 minutes of the posting confirmation.
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How to Delete your Posting
The system sends you
a notification email once you save a new advertisement for the first time also
has the details for deleting your ad.
This is the same email that you receive with instructions to activate
your posting. You need to go to
your Email system (specified during posting) and look for an email from
info@adsmantra.com.com with “ACTIVATE/EDIT/DELETE
…” as the subject line. This email will
have a hyperlink for activating the Ad.
(Note, if you do not get this email in your
inbox, then look for the email in your junk or bulk folders. This may be done by your Email anti-spamming
software and you will need to click on ‘permissible user’ for routing emails
from
info@adsmantra.com
to your inbox
from next time.) The email should be
received within 5 minutes of the posting confirmation.
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Flagging Posting/Ads
AdsMantra flagging feature allows users to flag inappropriate postings for removal, while maintaining other's ability to express freely on any postings. You can take action if you feel a posting is inappropriate by flagging by clicking on the following links (located at the upper right corner of each posting):
If a posting receives sufficient negative flags it will automatically be removed. Users whose postings are repeatedly flagged are subject to AdsMantra Admin review and/or follow-up action. Hundreds of postings are removed through community flagging each week mostly due to violation of the AdsMantra terms of use and posting guidelines. |
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How to Contact Us
The www.AdsMantra.com website has been designed to provide the best user experience to buyer and sellers of various retail products and services. It’s meant for both commercial and non-commercial users. We recognize that the growth of this site’s popularity will grow by catering to the needs of the users. Thus your suggestions for enhancements regarding new features, facilities, etc as well as improvements to the current features are openly welcomed. You can use the Contact Us link on the website and selecting the Enhancement Request in the subject line with your suggestion entered into the comment area. Click the Submit button to send your suggestion. Please indicate if you like a response back.
Alternatively, you
can send us an email to the following email address
info@adsmantra.com . |
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