Fix Your Email and Other Beijinger Website Updates

This is an excellent start; however, I would suggest that there are guidelines and policies for employers that post ads about their positions.

Frequently, there are employers that their email address is returned undeliverable or that the person that posts the advertisement, but does not proof read their work, so when they made a typeo, they therefore do not provide a valid email address.

Also, we see some posters that have posed the same classified advertisements day in and day out for many years. There has to be another reason why they are always looking for people and often times they do not respond.

A few specific examples are Carl He with the Sino Candadian group, the person with the email address containing _nd, and Sally Xia.

Some colleagues and I have created a list of email addresses and contact information of such offenders or even those of have horror stories to report, and we have even contacted The Beijinger; to help them improve their website; however, after providing one list and requesting a meeting, but receiving no reply, we have other means of spreading the word about these potential employers rather than trying to make this website better due to the management's attitidues and behavior.

I posted an ad in the classifieds around a month ago which was rejected , and when I sent an email to ask why so that I could interpret the rules and post corrctly no-one bothered to reply.

So maybe have a set of classfieds 'guidelines' , so we can see some basic boundaries would be very useful.

Overall this would be classifed as good news. As a reader who's utilized services advertised in your classified section (ads which are posted for free), I am happy local businesses and professionals find The Beijinger a way to get the word out of their services.

However, it is quite frustrating to see the same apartment or service advertised multiple times in one day. That seems wholly unncessary and only leads to bad behavior by others. The categorization of the classifieds could be more robust. This leads to more narrow searches (i.e., see what you came to look for, not a bunch of irrelevant stuff) which saves time of the searcher and also comforts the poster in that they can take comfort their ad will indeed be easy to find (and which should mean sticking to the new policy is not tough).

Lastly, I don't know how the neighborhoods section is configured when one goes to post an ad (are posters able to pick multiple?), but it's both inaccurate and confusing to see an apartment or service, for example, which has such a broad range of neighborhoods in which it's associated with. An apartment can't be in the neighborhoods of "CBD, Shuangjing, Sanlitun, Dawanglu" all at the same time. Force the advertiser to choose one spot in which their listing is associated with, and have it rest at that. (Dawanglu is indeed in the CBD so that one is possible, but because 'CBD' can also be associated, it errantly states that some how Dawanglu is not in the CBD. If one has a filter which goes from broad to narrow, that is OK but when one looks at the left hand side of all the neighborhood options, it is unfortunately mixed between large swaths and small pockets of the city.)

Thanks again to The Beijinger for allowing businesses and customers to have a forum in which to connect. That part I am truly grateful for, as I would suspect many, many other readers are. Kudos to The Beijinger!