Posting an advert#
You can post an advert whether you are signed in or not. The only difference is what you later edit it with — your account if you are signed in, an advert password if you are not.
Steps#
- Click Post an advert.
- Choose a category. Only then does the rest of the form appear.
- Fill in the fields that appeared — the title, description, price and whatever else the category asks for.
- Enter your contact email and region.
- Add photos.
- If you are not signed in, set a password for later edits.
- Submit the form.
- Read the message on screen — the site tells you straight away what the advert is waiting for. Depending on the site, an email arrives too (see below).
The form is empty until you pick a category — and that is correct
Every category has its own set of fields: a car needs different details than a book. Until you choose one, the system does not know what to offer you.
What the price next to a category means
Each category in the list shows what posting costs: Zdarma (free), Od … (from — the lowest price for your country) or Placená (paid) — the category is paid, but no price is set for your country, so you cannot pay for an advert in it from here. Pick another category or contact the site operator.
Only categories you may post into are offered
Categories the operator has switched off or reserved for themselves are not in the choice.
The blocked message
If after submitting you see "Sending is not allowed: the e-mail, phone or IP address is blocked.", the site operator has blocked your e-mail, phone or connection and the advert was not saved.
What happens after you submit#
After you submit, the site tells you straight away what the advert is waiting for. The advert is published once everything the site requires is met — payment (if the category is paid), email confirmation and approval by the operator. These conditions run side by side:
| The message says | What it means |
|---|---|
| a link in an email — confirm the advert | a message with a link went to the address you entered; until you click it, the advert is not published |
| waiting for approval by an administrator | nothing to do, it is published as soon as the operator approves it — you get an email when it is approved |
| both | confirm with the link first, then wait for approval |
| just saved | the site requires nothing more, the advert is posted |
Whether the site requires email confirmation may depend on whether you post signed in or not. The link in the email works even when you are not signed in, and clicking it more than once does no harm. If the advert is still waiting for approval or payment, the site tells you so after the click.
The link in the email is what confirms the advert
If the email does not arrive or you overlook it, the advert exists but nobody sees it. The message on screen reminds you, but you have to find the email yourself. If it has not arrived within a few minutes, look in your spam folder.
If it is not in spam either, there was probably a typo in the address
If you are signed in, open the advert's edit screen from your account menu and confirm it with the Confirm tab. Otherwise post the advert again with the correct email — the unconfirmed one cannot publish itself.
Do not post the same thing again when the advert does not appear immediately
On a site that approves adverts, publishing can take a while. The site administrator may also delete needless duplicates.
The password for edits#
If you post without signing in, you set a password. Without it you could not edit the advert — the system would have no way of knowing it is yours.
- A password of your own must have at least 6 characters.
- If you leave the Editing password field empty, the system generates a random password that you never see.
The confirmation email sent after posting does not contain the password. Instead it carries an Open advert management link. The link is valid for 7 days and can be used repeatedly, so you can reach the edit page with it more than once. It stops working as soon as the advert password is changed. After seven days (or after a password change) you manage the advert with the password you chose when posting, or through I forgot my password. If you let the system generate the password, I forgot my password is what remains.
If you forget it: on the advert's edit page click I forgot my password. A link for setting a new password arrives at the email given in the advert — the steps are in Managing my adverts.
The password can be recovered, you do not have to post the advert again
The link arrives at the same email that is in the advert — it cannot be sent anywhere else, otherwise anyone could take over someone else's advert.
After entering the password you have two hours of access
Then it closes and you enter the password again. It is not a bug, it is protection in case you walk away from the computer.
Lose access to the email in the advert and you lose the advert
The new password goes only there. So put an address you can actually reach into the advert — not a work one that will be closed in a month.
The contact email#
Interested people write to you through a form on the site; your address is shown neither in the listing nor in the detail.
A typo in the email means nobody will ever reach you
Replies from buyers, the activation link and any new password all arrive here. Check the address before you submit — afterwards you cannot change it without the password.
The address may have at most 255 characters. The form rejects a longer one right at the field with "Enter at most 255 characters."
Photos#
Large photos are shrunk in your browser before they are sent: if the longer side of an image is over 2560 px, it is scaled down before the upload, so it goes up faster. This applies to JPEG and PNG; other formats and attachments are uploaded unchanged. The photo stays upright.
The file size is limited — the maximum is shown by the hint in the upload area. A larger file is rejected with a message that it is too large.
You can submit even while files are uploading
If you click submit before all the files have uploaded, the form waits with the message Please wait until the files finish uploading — the form will then be saved automatically. and sends itself once the upload is done. Do not close the page in the meantime.
The first photo decides, because it is the one shown in the listing
Photograph the whole item in daylight against a plain background.
Photograph the flaws too
A scuffed corner in a photo saves disappointment at handover — and a buyer who drives over and leaves again.
The title and description#
The length is limited — usually 100 characters for the title and 10,000 for the description (the site administrator can change it). A counter right in the field shows how many you have used; formatting of the description does not count.
The title should hold what people type into search
"Author 26" mountain bike" reaches more people than "Bike for sale". The brand, the type and the size do most of the work.
Contact details belong in their own field, not in the description
The site may strip blacklisted words and links from the text, or not approve the advert. A phone number or email in the description is not processed as a contact either.
State a price even if you are willing to negotiate
People skip adverts without one — and the price is also what sorting and filtering work on, so without it you do not appear in price-range results at all.
The price#
The form checks the price when you submit it — both when inserting and when editing the advert. The error appears right at the field and the advert is not saved until you fix it:
| What you enter | Message at the field |
|---|---|
| a negative price (e.g. −500) | "The price must not be negative." |
| a price of 1,000,000,000 or more, or a number with an exponent (e.g. 1e15) | "Enter a number smaller than 1000000000." |
How long an advert lasts#
The validity is counted from posting and is driven by the category the advert belongs to; if the category has no period of its own, the site's default is used.
Before it expires you get a warning (if the operator has switched it on); after it expires the advert disappears from the listings. For a period set by the operator (a number of days after expiry) it can still be renewed; after that it is deleted. If the operator configures deletion differently, an expired advert may stay for longer.
You can extend it through the advert's edit form
You do not have to post it again — you would lose the replies it has already received.
Where to go next#
- Managing my adverts — editing, extending, deleting
- Replies to an advert — where messages from buyers appear
- Tariffs — paid promotion
- Posting while signed in — why to register