Home Exchange Dates Explained – Again!
Oh dear, yet again with newcomers visiting the ExchangeHomes.com web site I find myself having to explain the difference between join and expiration dates versus requested home exchange dates.
Since I started this home exchange blog, I believe this is the third time I’ve written a post dedicated to the subject of published dates, but unfortunately the emails and phone calls continue. People persist in accusing me of displaying out of date listings, when they are looking at the dates a member has published covering when he hopes to exchange.
Let me explain again. On our current web site we show the following dates:
- The date the listing will expire
- The member’s desired home exchange dates
Visitors repeatedly expect me to remove or hide a listing immediately option number 2 – the member’s desired home exchange dates are passed, irrespective of the listing’s actual expiration date. I attempted to explain to a man just a few days ago that each member whose listing he sees published as paid for it to appear on the ExchangeHomes.com web site for a given period of time and I would be guilty of fraud if I accepted memberships, but removed them from view before they actually expired. Regrettably, he didn’t agree with me.
I accept that it’s sometimes unfortunate when a member forgets to keep his or her listing’s dates current. I endeavor to stay on top of them with programmed reminders to myself of anniversary dates on a daily basis of listings that have joined for multiple years. I then check these listings and if the displayed exchange dates aren’t current, I drop the member a friendly email encouraging them to bring them up to date. Usually they do.
When our new, much anticipated web site goes live, the heading for dates will be changed slightly to:
- Member since
- Modified
- Dates of Exchange
These changes reflect requests from members on how they would prefer to see the data displayed.
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