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Oct 09
It’s all about numbers, numbers, numbers
Growing numbers
We at DoneDeal are a bit nerdy, we love numbers. I know, numbers can be mind-numbing and boring, but in the end a web site like ours is all about numbers.
One important number is how many people actually come to the web site to buy and sell.
Another important number is how many things that are advertised for sale.
And the most important number of all is how many of the ads that actually end up with a sale.
We look at these numbers on DoneDeal all the time. Here are some of our September numbers:
- Over 2,500,000 customers came to DoneDeal to buy and sell in September
- An impressive 9,344 ads sold on DoneDeal in September
- The total value of items sold on DoneDeal in September was €20,906,000 (and that is only counting the ads that actually tell the price)
What do you think about those numbers?
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Congrats on the numbers, numbers and numbers to all the fine team at DoneDeal.ie
As regards Mr. Dunn on Newstalk he showed alot of initative by trying to copy your business idea. He may have a Dunn sounding surname but remember its not a deal unless its a DONEDEAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great numbers – would be interested to learn where they are derived from? Server logs or client-side measurement tool?
Seems Ben Dunne is gunning for you guys on Newstalk a lot these days
Hi Richard,
When people remove their ad from DoneDeal we always ask them if they sold their item or not. Then it is easy to add up the price for all items that were marked as sold.
We only know the asking price, so the items may have been sold a bit cheaper after a bit of bargaining. But there are also lots of ads on DoneDeal that do not mention the price, and we have not counted them.
what an ar*se Ben Dunne is – thinks he can throw money at the old ‘Interweb’ and hey presto.
fuck thats conor kerrigan man
these are great numbers people but its a shame about a small posentige of people that use the great web page. ive been caught out twice now with scams going on and the ads not genuine, keep up the great work d/d staff
its great
Fair play.. how do ye do it with so many free ad sites & ebay etc? BTW Ben Dunne only gave donedeal some free advertising
i advertise regularly on done deal and works everytime. i was wondering Fred if you considered doing a larger ad for a higher price and keeping it on the main page for longer.. everytime i advertise haylage within a couple of hours i get between 10 and 15 new customers everytime . A couple of years ago i placed a half page ad in the dublin horse show programme costing €800 and not a single call from it , so bloody well done DoneDeal
by the way i have an idea for a website that could go global in a very short time , but not sure who to see or get advice about setting it up ..
it kind of on the same basis as donedeal but a completley different slant and its something that everybody needs, but nobody has thought of , and it dosent involve selling , any chance of a bit of help
I could try and help out although i havent had much experiance
Myles that sounds interesting, I have a good deal of web development expereince and have formed e commerce companies. I would be interested in talking to you email izzofinno at gmail dot com
Myles, we’d love to have a look at this. We are a web design and dev company. http://www.webtogether.ie
can help with your idea
Good luck with that Myles
Ireland and Horses ……… that’s a thing of the past now.
I use Done Deal on a regular basis , i have bought and sold many items mainly work vehicles and 1 or two private cars , it is so easy to navigate , looking forward to continuing with done deal in the future (-:
good website but your search engine is crap
Hi Mark,
I would be very interested in knowing what you want to search for. We will use that information when we update our search engine.
Good numbers.
With all the selling websites popping up now i suppose its good for a seller to know the amount of potential buyers who browse your sight.
I just wish you’d have more filters for searching cars for example (like mileage, year from and too, and a key word option that does not include the body of the add (Only the title)). Well done all the same. Jimmy.
Hi Jimmy,
Thanks for the feedback, it is much appreciated. We have great plans for our search engine, but unfortunately it will probably be early next year before we get to make all the changes you suggest.
Please let us know if you have other ideas how we can improve the site.
hi great site and easy to use. can you put up a swap area in the site somewhere. as nobody has cash these days. and also people should not swap horses?
i forgot can donedeal just do a car area as i put my ad up and a table or a cat or someones kitchen takes over the whole site. cheers
I think returning posters of ads or advertisers of business should have some sort of reputation or feedback system, so buyers would be confident that they were getting a good deal
they only put nice comments up folks, dont b fooled reading all the good stuff .. youll also b charged 3.50 per ad wen ur bill arrives.. contact golden spider awards now as i have done to filter this scam out.
I agree Dave I got my mobile bill and the ads cost over 4.40 with vodafone!!!
Only 3 euros, yeah right!
Hi Dave,
I know the phone prices can be a bit confusing. Unfortunately the Irish laws for the cost of the phone calls are very vague. Calls from almost all landlines cost €3, but some of them charge €3.50.
Please note that we don’t get anything extra from those companies, it all goes straight to the phone company. Please feel free to contact your phone company and let them know that you don’t like their pricing.
You can read more about the phone costs in our help system:
http://help.donedeal.ie/info/premium-rate-fees
Hi All
Grate website I just bought my two camera lenses from this site but I thing you chould have more of a easy links to different items that the public put up.
I looking to see if there camera on the Website but its hard to look as to whare they are and whare they are and what link I chould click on.
Yours Benny.
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not bad t say theres a recession on!!!!!!!! well done and good luck
That’s what we would like to see¬_¬ ! No more rip offs, come and get a good deal on Done Deal!
Think you have a great web site to sell goods on. Have been advertising my Baby Hampers for only 24 days now and over 300 people have seen my add. Great way to advertise. Hampers going well too so thank you and all your team.
good point on your phone bill. i was charged 3.50 so why does it say 3 euro looks like we have being done on donedeal. does anybody know why?
Hi James,
I know the phone prices can be a bit confusing. Unfortunately the Irish laws for the cost of the phone calls are very vague. Calls from almost all landlines cost €3, but some of the phone companies charge more.
Please note that we (DoneDeal) don’t get anything extra from those companies, it all goes straight to the phone company. Please feel free to contact your phone company and let them know that you don’t like their pricing.
You can read more about the phone costs on our help page:
http://help.donedeal.ie/info/premium-rate-fees
great site but pity u cant filter out these clowns who breed various crossbreed lap dogs,make up some stupid name for their new “breed” and then try and charge a crazy amount for a worthless animal.
Please note: I posted under the name “dave” but so did someone else. probably a genuine mistake, but you should not be able to have 2 the same names posting. Just incase someone said something the other didnt believe.
hi dave again. I’m a mickey.
I bought a beautiful yorktese puppy last month through a done deal ad. She has brought much joy to our family already and hopefully years more. What kind of clown gets irritated because someone sells a puppy from parents of two different pedigrees and how could anyone refer to any animal as being worthless. It is insulting to animals and to the people who buy them and to the breeders who for the most part do a great job.
Do ye sell stolen items on this site?
What I am confused about is the number of ads that say “No time wasters please” and after their item or “vehicle” is sold they don’t remove their ad. I read an ad, call the number or email them, eventually find out the vehicle or item is sold. They are wasting my time by not removing their ad. Aren’t they time wasters too?????
For reference, I selected 8 vehicles I was interested in. I called all 8 and all 8 were sold, some ove 40 days ago. “My time was wasted”
Advertisers should be made aware that removeing their ad is part of the process.
Gary