We have come to realise that policing profiteering is a ambiguous task as there are many grey areas. Also, some users (although aware of profiteering) are still interested in buying the item for sale, so who are we to tell them not to?
We are however adamant in keeping the community ethos and protecting Adverts users by making them aware of either the RRP, or original price the item was bought for. We also believe that adding a comment on every profiteering ad will dissuade sellers in the long term.
With that in mind, we have decided to review our rules: Profiteering :Attempting to sell an item above the Recommended Retail Price (RRP) Adverts.ie is a community marketplace and does not encourage profiteering. In cases where an item is suspected of being sold above the RRP, registered Adverts.ie users reserve the right to report the listing to Adverts.ie Support for review. The claim is then reviewed by Adverts.ie Moderators and: 1. If the reported RRP claim is found to be incorrect, the reporting user will be notified, and your listing will not be affected. 2. If the RRP claim is upheld, an adverts moderator will post a comment on your thread linking to the RRP. We will not however remove the listing and we leave it up to the buyer to decide on whether to make an offer or not. Ticket sale is an exception. All ticket sales are at face value (plus booking fee and additional costs) or less.
Adverts.ie moderators reserve the right to remove any ad that is deemed excessive.
Our sellers’ house rules have now been updated.
Thanks!
Claire
Title grabbed your attention? Then read on…
We are always on the look out for good talent to join our development team to work on the next generation of Daft, Boards and Adverts products and services.
Ask yourself the following questions?
- Do you want to code for the busiest websites in Ireland? - Ask the person beside you if they have ever used boards.ie, daft.ie, adverts.ie or boardsdeals.ie? - Would you like to work with the latest set of technologies in Ireland’s fastest growing technology company? - Are you a believer in big ideas and looking to work at a company that can really make a difference? - Does it excite you that your code is used by 100,000′s of people within seconds of being deployed? - Want to work in a modern office in the centre of Dublin using the best of tools? - Do you find yourself playing with web APIs and building web apps in your spare time?
We have a very high standard on our engineering team and are looking for smart, passionate developers. The role is an extremely rewarding one for the right candidate!
So who are we?
The Daft Media Group has 15 software developers spread across three companies, Daft Media Ltd (@daftmedia), Boards Ltd (@boards_ie) and Adverts Marketplace Ltd (@adverts_ie).
What do we do?
A common question that we often receive is what type of projects would I be working on? So, here’s a sample of some of the projects that are currently ongoing at Daft Media:
Adverts.ie We are currently working on a brand new backend/frontend for Adverts that is due to be rolled out this year. The system will be run entirely on the Amazons EC2 platform. Multiple PHP/Nginx webnodes in autoscale mode sitting in front of an array of MySQL & Solr data servers. We are making heavy use of Solr’s excellent built-in faceted search to drastically improve the overall usability and speed of the site.
Boards.ie Boards recently underwent a bit of a cabinet reshuffle. The ever increasing traffic to Boards means that we have an ongoing infrastructure project, we are continually adding more and more FreeBSD boxes to our cabinet. We are looking at migrating some of these systems out into the cloud, this will allow us to add on demand compute power during busy periods.
BoardsDeals.ie Boards recently developed and launched a group buying website for its members, boardsdeals.ie. The site is running out in the Amazon EC2 cloud. The system basically works by offering deals at a large discount. Once the minimum number of deals has been purchased the deal is activated. PDF vouchers are automatically generated using FPDF and are mailed out once the timer has run out.
Daft.ie Daft recently completed and launched the Daft iPad application into Apples iTunes Store. The app was developed by our own developers in house and is 100% powered by the Daft API. The app reached number 4 in the iPad download chart. The last few months have seen a huge increase in mobile device usage on Daft, this is a area that we will be focusing on in the coming months.
What now?
Well, if you’ve read all the way down to here… please send me a cover note & CV to jobs@daft.ie!
We also run a Software Engineer Internship program for Computer Science/Engineering students.
Thanks, Ciarán @ciaranmaher
