Opinions Please: Daily proliferation, several dealer/distributor ads,..


Good Day...I'm not looking to start a war, nor am I asking this question to cast any negative comments on one or more manufacturers and distributors/dealers that look to use Audiogon ads EVERY day or at least weekly to post a long stream of the same ads over and over again on new equipment be it Tube, Solid State or Cabling as if it were their own personal bulletin board. There are several that do this on a daily and weekly basis.  It makes it difficult to go through the "new today" and "new yesterday" auctions, classifieds, etc..and figure out what regular members and others who post one-at-a-time postings have put up that day.  

I think it would be sensible for Audiogon to consider putting up a separate "Dealer/Manucturer" Sell Forum right here on the same site that would allow them to conduct their business while keeping regular member/others' ads which we also pay money for, in a place where these ads stand a chance of showing up earlier in the list, not one page or more down after the repeating dealer, distributor and manufacturer ads are done.

The firms in question are all fine members of the forum and provide good products; I think that Audiogon should consider setting up a page for them and give regular members listings a better chance of being easily seen.

Thoughts?
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I agree with the OP and suggest the "Classified" ad section be for private party ads and create another section for dealer & manufacture use or install a filter system like craigslist has.
Thanks for breaching this topic. The proliferation of dealer ads just gets me too. It makes for filtering for results more difficult or getting your gear out for sale out there. I agree that there should be a filter or search criteria for ads by dealer or ads by private party owner. Craigslist has this kind of filter so it is possible for A'gon to adopt something similar. 
I was just thinking the same thing this past week. So many ads with new gear at full list price. What is the point of Audiogon anymore???

Hopefully more folks that are looking for the Audiogon of old will find the other audio internet sale sites, where fewer dealers roam.
HiFiShark may help them find the other Audiomarts, Audio Asylum Trader, etc. 

That said, I do agree that it is time here for separate new from the used sections. I have no issue with dealers posting ads for used equipment.
agree with the separation ides...I find I spend less time looking at ads now that there are so many new/dealer ads...