As if it's not hard enough

[Harry Chibber]

Celtic strips on sale at Ebay being advertised on this site??

eh???

[PullMyFinger]

Celtic strips on sale at Ebay being advertised on this site??

eh???

Not for me.

[Alex MacLeod]

This has been debated before Harry and the short answer is the site needs revenue but is unable to filter out what e-bay advertise. Maybe if there was more ICT stuff on e-bay then thats what would come through.

[Scotty]

it is also topic related so the topic probably mentioned Celtic in some way ......

[Harry Chibber]

Didn't realise it has been debated before, don't have much time these days peruse the net

Just seems crazy to have an other teams merchandise advertised on this site

[Yngwie]

It's OK, Celtic don't get any money from these Ebay sales, and it actually deprives them of spending in their club shop. So these adverts actually weaken the opposition!

[+CaleyD]

I wish we had the ability to pick and choose adverts to that degree, but we don't, and as the site doesn't run itself for free then we just have to lump it unfortunately.

There's a donate button on the bottom left corner of every page and all users have the option to purchase a paid subscription which removes the adverts from the site on their account. A few people have made use of these functions and have got a couple of other "benefits" thrown in along with it. If adverts bother other people then they too can make use of the option.

[Scotty]

Just seems crazy to have an other teams merchandise advertised on this site

I know what you mean, but as I mentioned above, the ads are "smart" ads which look at the words on the page and throw up the most relevant adverts they can find based on the topic, keywords mentioned in the site descrioption as well as the topics themselves and the "geo-location" of the IP address. I often get Canadian adverts or Scottish tourism ads because it realises where my ip address is from ......

As we have costs associated with running the site to pay for software, servers, domain names etc, we have to get some revenue somewhere and this is the most cost effective way. Of course you could become a "sponsor" and rid yourself of all ads (on the forums at least) or find us some nice benefactor that would pay for all these things and we could remove them for all LOL.

Going to move this topic to tech support now that the main question has been answered.

[PullMyFinger]

It's OK, Celtic don't get any money from these Ebay sales, and it actually deprives them of spending in their club shop. So these adverts actually weaken the opposition!

[SMEE]

Can I donate 1p?

[alimci]

I know what you mean, but as I mentioned above, the ads are "smart" ads which look at the words on the page and throw up the most relevant adverts they can...

Going to move this topic to tech support now that the main question has been answered.

Damn! I was going to write BONDAGE and HANDCUFFS and LESBO ACTION just to see what happened