What's new on Horsefinders.com

Many changes have been made to horsefinders.com to fix problems caused by the following system abuses:

• Creating multiple classified ads for the same or non-existent horse in multiple states and/or cities
• Creating multiple accounts to get around some site restrictions.
• Creating accounts with invalid email address or other seller contact information
• Uploading too many photos, or photos files that were too large

The main issue we have attempted to address is preventing the large amount of alert emails sent to invalid email addresses, caused by two of the above abuses.  Another issue for us is system resourses.  Allowing unlimited ads required lots of disk space and system memory.  This caused the site to be slow to load and slow to search for horses for sale.  Hopefully we have resolved the biggest complaint about the old site.

We are aware that some users will not immediately like the changes we've made to the site.  Please give it a chance, and please feel free to contact the site administrator if you have comments and/or suggestions.  admin@horsefinders.com.

Change list:

• Those requesting sellers' alerts will now be required to have a valid account on Horsefinders.com.  This is necessary as we need to verify all email addresses.
• A unique and valid email address will be required to create a new account.  This means that you cannot create an account that has an email address that another account has, or that cannot receive email.
• A unique and valid phone number will be required to create an account.  This means that you cannot create an account using a phone number some other account has.
• All classified ads will use the account holder's contact info.  This means that you won't have to enter new contact information for each ad you create.
• You will be able to select what contact information to include in your ad.
• There are new restrictions on the number of ads an account holder can create and manage.  For example, the Basic (free) level will only be allowed to have a single ad.
• For security reasons we do not inform visitors if the email address they entered for the password reset process is a valid email address on this site.  So, not getting the confirmation email may mean that you entered the wrong email address or that email from this site ends up on yur SPAM folder.  Please let us know if emails from us are found in your SPAM folder.  If you have forgotten, or no longer have access to, the email address for your account, you will have to create a new account.
• Within 15 days before account expiration, or after expiration, an account holder will have up to one year to renew, upgrade or downgrade their account.
• After expiration, an account will remain "renewable" for one year, after which the account and all of it's associated classified ads and their assets will be deleted.

There are now four account levels: