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HELP AND GUIDELINES FOR PLACING ADS

Welcome to Northwest Indiana’s leading classified advertising site!  It is free to place and respond to all classified ads.  If you are looking to promote your business, please register your website in our business directory.  If you are looking to discuss whatever is on your mind, please visit our discussion forum.  If you are looking to place and read classified advertisements, you have come to the right place!

Placing your ads within our site is very simple.   Please read the info posted below before posting any ads.

HOW TO PLACE A CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT

1)  To place an ad you will need to register so click the "Register" link.
2)  Fill out the form with a username, your email address, and a password.  (We only use your email address for communications about your ad or this site.  We will never disclose your email address to a 3rd party.  People can reply to your ads without them knowing your email address, see note below.)
3)  Click "OK". This will (should) log you in.
4)  To place an ad, first select the subcategory in which you desire to place in ad.
5)  You should now see a "Submit Ad" link near the middle of the page. Click on this link and then fill out the form with the info for the item you wish to sell.
6)  Repeat steps 4 through 6 for each additional item you wish to sell.

PHOTOS
The maximum size for photos in pixels is 640x480 and a 200 kb file size.  All larger sizes will be rejected and deleted.  If you need to reduce the size of your photos, try our online photo resizer.  A great free photo utility for reducing photo sizes is available for download at www.irfanview.comOnly a thumbnail of your photo is shown in the listing.  When someone “clicks” on the thumbnail, a full size version of the photo is shown.  Please don’t post any obscene photos (see our terms of use agreement below).

PERSONAL ADS
Before posting or responding to personal ads please this info on personal ad safety.

HOW TO RESPOND TO AN AD
You do not have to show your email address or phone number in the ad.  Within each ad there is a link “reply to this posting” which will allow people to reply to your ad without revealing your email address or other personal information.  Replies to ads are sent to the email address you used to register to the classifieds site.

TERMS OF USE AGREEMENT

The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on our Website. We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision. It includes Content that:

 
  • is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
 
  • harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
 
  • involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
 
  • promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
 
  • promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
 
  • contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
 
  • provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
 
  • provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
 
  • solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and

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