Is there really any benefit of featuring offers?
I think PPH should put featured offers at top in related search results not at 3rd page !!!!!
I featured my icon design offer:
https://www.peopleperhour.com/hourlie/design-a-set-of-5-icons-with-consistency-and-harmony/547943
When searching icon design, my featured offer appears at third page in that category preceded by other non featured offers!!!
At main all categories page there are so many featured offers that the user will never get to my featured offer.
There seems no benefit of featuring the offer.
It should be classified so all the featured offers would get the chance to come up in results.
There should be card designs of category sections not just text.
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As a seller, I had a similar argument, a few months back, regarding an 'Hourly' posting.
One would have thought that paying a fee would put it immediately at the top of the jobs list but this is not the case.
I did get the PPH line about the user having to filter on 'featured' - but why would buyers bother to do that?Even when filtered, my posting only appeared on Page 4 of the listings and pretty-much stayed in that position for a few days.
As a featured posting, one would expect it to be positioned at or near the top of the list, at least for a few hours.
In the event, PPH admitted their inability to control the listing in this way and preferred to give a refund rather than re-posting.
As always with anything involving PPH Support, it took several days of tedious correspondence, misunderstandings, escalations, delays, etc, to reach this point.
From my experience, I suspect that there is no real benefit to paying extra for featuring either seller jobs or Buyer bids.
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Similar experience... only mine never made it above page 8. See https://support.peopleperhour.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360009832078-Featured-Offer-Scam
Wish I had read this post before I shelling out extra money for the "featured offer" scam. It's complete bunk!!
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I've never found 'Offers' or 'Hourlies', as they used to be called, particularly effective.
It doesn't help that any new posting is aromatically rejected and one is left to mess-about with the wording in an attempt to identify the problem and get it accepted.
I usually revert to raising a support ticket which, after the normal support delay of a week or so, results in the acceptance of the post without amendment.
I posted one, related to providing home-workers with IT support, about 2 weeks ago and it was, of course, automatically rejected.
I then raised a support ticket which was then 'escalated' rather than dealt with.
By the time this is posted, if ever, the major opportunity to address this need will have passed.
One way and the other, PPH are pretty hopeless.
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