“I just find the set up very basic. And im not getting the calls even tho the insights are good for my ad. And my pictures are alot better than the majority in my category.”
“This is my second time using this website to sell my dogs and I haven’t sold a puppy on it yet. I might suggest offering bumping the ads for free rather than paying €12 each time. On other for sale websites you can bump ads for free for a limited number of times.”
Hi Anon,
Thanks for taking the time to leave a review and I'm sorry it's not a 5 star experience.
Looking at your ad it's the only one in the Coton de tulear catgory, it may be better to place it in the Bichon Frise category as that gets more views. Your ad has been seen over 500 times, but the price of €1300 for a cross breed might be putting some people off.
“While I find Dogs.ie very handy and a great safe platform for buying and selling puppies and dogs I do think it is too expensive to advertise, I believe the site should either lower the price of leave it as it is but give 3 months of advertising instead of one month. They site managers might also look at making it easier to use the site as I know a few people have said it's difficult to get used to navigating while loading the advert and pictures. I like that the site does it's best to keep buyers, sellers and the animals safe.”
Hi Anon,
Thanks for your review. We do have a more friendly site coming in the next few weeks, customers will be able to custom filters and favourite lists, and image uploads will be a lot easier.
If you haven't sold your 2 dogs by end of the 30 days, please let us know and we can extend for you. Generally dogs sell a lot quick than in 90 days and we've found 30 days to be enough to find buyers.
“It takes a lot of getting used to advertising on Dogs.ie, it's too easy to make mistakes. Maybe try to make it more user friendly, I notice lately lots of people have no photos up, is it possible people can't understand how to do this? Good site but needs to be more user friendly and it needs a stay signed in feature, it's annoying having to log in all the time.”
“Market is no longer good, a month to sell a litter is too short now especially at the much lower prices attainable nowadays. So one is obliged to readvertise which makes it expensive.
In my own case I will continue to use dogs.ie as in my interactions with it, it has been efficient and professional. I will also explore advertising in UK which i have previously done, because it even with rabies and transport requirements etc the increased prices attainable can make it a more attractive marketplace. Regards db”
Thanks for the review DB and honest feedback. I think post COVID there are two factors:
1) a rush of people to get dogs in the last 1-2 years, so numbers of people who want dogs right now is slightly lower as so many people got dogs at the time.
2) additional breeders in the market now, some of these new owners are becoming breeders for the first time, and the additional number of puppies available has brought prices down by 50% or more.
We expect things to settle down in the next 6-12 months and possibly the prices to slowly return to pre-pandemic levels.
Hi Kevin, thanks for your review. I can't comment on DoneDeal and how they factored out their pricing levels. They are no longer accepting ads for dogs for sale, so I'm guessing it wasn't sustainable for them.
For us we want to be able to deliver a level of service and support to our customers, and also as a business be sustainable and profitable. We know we can't deliver this for €1 per ad. It's been over 2 years since we last changed the price, we continue to invest in marketing and a new platform that's coming soon. We hope that our platform helps you sell / buy dogs easier and quickly.
“Overall it has been good but there are some features which would make it better. For example, I would like to be able to edit my advert message. It is locked which doesn't make much sense to me.
I'd also like to be able to add an additional pups credentials/chip. I can't see any means of doing this.”
Hi Ollie,
Thanks for your review. I'm sorry it wasn't a 5-star experience.
We have had to lock ads after they are published because people were selling multiple different types of dogs in the same ad, and of course, the microchip information, date of birth, etc. would be wrong. As for adding chips or editing the description, our support team can help you out here with a quick email to support@dogs.ie
Hi Catherine, thanks for your review.
Looking at your account I see there was some confusion over the date of birth of the dogs, which I believe we remedied.
I'm not following you entirely about what you mean by all the links. Please feel free to reach out to us if you need help at support@dogs.ie.
Thanks for your feedback Henry.
It's great to hear you have 2 sold. We have 14 other ads in the Yorkshire Terrier category and 30 other dogs for sale, so there is a bit of competition. You can edit your ad to mark the 2 sold dogs as no longer being available, e.g. if all the males are gone.
It is also possible to bump your ad to bring it back to the top of the listings for more visibility.
Thanks for your review Denis, and for the idea for profiles. We do encourage sellers to ask the buyers a bit about their homes and to use our contract to make sure all details of both parties are collected properly.
