Gumtree Experiments

Posted: Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at 9:24 AM | By: Anthony

After a few tests it seems in the right hands Gumtree could be a very lucrative way to engage with users.

I posted a Casual Sex based ad for Kensington London.. obviously as a woman and got 220 responses in 3 hours, that is crazy shit.

Most of which would jump of a bridge to have sex with my fictional character, let alone sign-up to anything.

Not that I would recommend doing that..

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james poole Posted On: Jan 19th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Back in the day i used to do a lot of this “e whoring”
Very easy and quick way to make money.
Daniel Posted On: Feb 2nd, 2009 at 8:22 pm

If you ever feel like a good laugh and/or confirmation that humanity is doomed:

* Set sex in Skype to female
* Set status to “Skype me”
* Wait 60 seconds or so

From the general level of intelligence displayed by the rush of horny men I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard to get them to click on your money making links. Hell, promise them a pic or two and 50% would probably place an amazon order on your aff code
mel and dwayne Posted On: Feb 8th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

we still would like to get something up and running to make money. please can we book some time with you, when you’re down at the end of the month xx
Sarah @ SEO PPC Posted On: Aug 16th, 2010 at 2:45 pm

This is hilarious! And echoed in the recent accusations that Craigslist was aiding sex trafficking – http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1727333/craigslist-responds-sex-accusations
Perhaps there are more to these websites then meets the eye!