Has anybody had any experience with room mate advertising sites?

I'm currently trying to let out a spare room in a student house and have found a couple of sites, of which easyroommate.com seems the best. There are a number of suitable ads on the site and they do look genuine, however, in order to contact people the membership is £30/month.

Does anybody know of any sites that are less expensive that get results? I'm happy to pay a bit but £30 seems a bit excessive for an ad like this.

Quote from ajp71 :

Has anybody had any experience with room mate advertising sites?

I'm currently trying to let out a spare room in a student house and have found a couple of sites, of which easyroommate.com seems the best. There are a number of suitable ads on the site and they do look genuine, however, in order to contact people the membership is £30/month.

Does anybody know of any sites that are less expensive that get results? I'm happy to pay a bit but £30 seems a bit excessive for an ad like this.

gumtree.co.uk its ok, just dont buy anything from it.

Never.

would this be something craigslist could do?

Quote from theirishnoob :

gumtree.co.uk its ok, just dont buy anything from it.

Never.

Lies.

Great for cheap stolen shit

Quote from Klutch :

Lies.

Great for cheap stolen shit

you only ever shift lemons on it.


its liek carbuyersguide and all of them.

" if its broke shift it onto the next ejjit "

In the end I forked out the £30 for a months membership on easyroommate last night. I have since been inudated with calls and the first guy came to look round after work today, he turned out to be completely genuine and new the house would be right as he had seen my detailed ad. Whilst it's not cheap for £30 I did find the room mate I was looking for within 24 hours, could have only paid £20 for ten days...

...and best of all I didn't get any spam from using this site, all the Gumtree ad did was fill my inbox and phone with spam.

craigslist may have done that as well but its free. its how i found my last roomate

Unfortunately craigslist isn't popular in the UK. Half the adverts on the Oxford, UK craigslist page are lost Americans...