Englewood Edge - Englewood Florida's own online daily newspaper

Our Classified Ad Policy

Wel­come to the Engle­wood Mar­ket­place! We’ve spent extra time mak­ing sure this part of our site meets our stan­dards for qual­ity and ease-of-use and hope very much that you’ll find it use­ful. Some things you should know:

For buy­ers:

• Your instruc­tions are clear and easy: see some­thing you like, and call the advertiser!
• We can not assume any respon­si­bil­ity for the truth­ful­ness of the ads, or for the qual­ity of any goods and/or ser­vices adver­tised herein.
• If you encounter prob­lems with an adver­tiser — free items are not free, or you are charged more than adver­tised — please con­tact us imme­di­ately. We can not medi­ate trans­ac­tions, but we can try to make sure prob­lems don’t crop up again with the same advertisers.
• Be sure you tell adver­tis­ers you saw the ad on Engle­wood Edge!

For sell­ers:

• If you’re sell­ing some­thing for less than $500, adver­tis­ing a job open­ing, or offer­ing a pet to a good home, your ad is on us. We want to facil­i­tate this kind of exchange within the com­mu­nity and this is one of the ways we’re doing it. We do require, how­ever, that you set a price when sell­ing some­thing with a free ad. If you want to place an ad with­out declar­ing a price, you can, but you have to get a paid ad instead. Job and pet offers don’t require a price.
• Cur­rently we are allow­ing one item per ad.
• Every Clas­si­fied Ad, free and paid, comes with 250 words and one full-color pic­ture, unless oth­er­wise spec­i­fied. Extra pho­tos and text are avail­able for a fee, though we do rec­comend you keep the total length of the text in your ad from get­ting too long, because buy­ers wont read all of it. Give all the impor­tant info, maybe show a lit­tle bit of per­son­al­ity, but don’t write a book on the subject.
• All ads run on a weekly basis. You can choose up to 4 weeks ini­tially, and/or renew for more weeks. If you need the ad taken down for any rea­son, con­tact us using the form on this page and we’ll have it down usu­ally in the same day. We will refund unused weeks if nec­es­sary, but can­not refund par­tial weeks.
• We will send you a con­fir­ma­tion e-mail when the ad is ready to go online. Ads should go up the day after we recieve them, at 3 a.m., and be taken down 7 days later, also at 3 a.m. We can delay post­ing your ad to a later date at your request.
• We need to list con­tact info with your ad, and this means post­ing that info online. This can be a phone num­ber with­out a name, or an e-mail address, or both. If you do want to include a name, that’s fine. How­ever, we DO require that we get a phone num­ber and name from you even if it doesn’t appear online so that we can con­tact you if we need to.
• PAYMENT: When you place a paid ad, you will be brought to a secure online pay­ment page where you can place your ad by credit card. We’re pro­cess­ing pay­ments through Pay-Pal, but you do not need a Pay-Pal account. You may find that you have to re-enter some of the same infor­ma­tion you entered on the order form to make this pay­ment. This is normal.
• If there are any prob­lems with the ad, such as miss­ing infor­ma­tion or if you signed up for a free ad but don’t qual­ify for one, we’ll con­tact you to straighten things out. This may, how­ever, cause a delay with your ad.
• We reserve the right to edit, rewrite or refuse any clas­si­fied ad or ser­vice direc­tory list­ing at our dis­cre­tion. We take no respon­si­bil­ity for mis­takes that appear in the ad, but will cor­rect them as nec­es­sary and as soon as we can after you con­tact us. See “Con­tact us” below.