If you are reading this page, you are probably a little frustrated that after posting an advert, it has not been approved. That is understandable, but please read on for common reasons before complaining to us.
When you submit an advert, you must tick a box to confirm that you have read & accept the Guidelines, Rules & Prices which do contain all the information copied below.
We receive many advert submissions every day, the majority are genuine, but others are test ads, duplicated, some people simply change their mind, others have not paid, not followed the guidelines or are missing required information causing the advert to be rejected.
Not including an asking price is a common reason for rejected free ads. Prices are optional on paid ads, but free ads must be clearly priced regardless of the obvious value & without exception.
If your advert has not been approved after 24 hours, you should log in to check the advert & modify it if necessary. Unpaid/unapproved adverts are removed after two days.
To ensure that only genuine ads are shown, only paid & qualifying free ads will be approved.
- The accepted Rules & Guidelines must be followed.
- Please allow up to 24 hours for advert approvals.
- If the advert requires payment, the transaction/order must be completed.
- Only qualifying free ads are approved, see below for common problems.
- Unapproved/unpaid ads are removed after two days.
Paid Ads £8.99
The following ads do require payment:
- Horse or Pony regardless of value - Offered or Wanted
- Horse or Pony for share, loan or riding - Offered or Wanted
- Liveries, Grazing or Property for sale or rent - Offered or Wanted
- Lorries, Trailers & Vehicles - Offered or Wanted
- Single offered item with asking or guide price greater than £174.99
- Multiple items with total asking or guide price greater than £174.99
- Livestock, pet, poultry or waterfowl regardless of value - Offered or Wanted
- Offered item or lot not displaying an asking or guide price
- Repeat advert under two months old or exceeding usage limits See Guideline 10.
- Trade advert without a Standard Directory Listing - Offered or Wanted See Guideline 27.
- Free ads can be upgraded & featured by paying the standard fee.
If you are unsure if you need to pay, please use the Payment Calculator.
Payment must be completed.
PayPal Express: After logging in to PayPal you will see a page containing your details. You must click on the Complete Order button to process the payment. If the payment is successful you will be transferred to the Transaction Complete page & receive Email confirmation of your order.
Card Payments: You will be taken to Card Processor to enter your payment details.
Please ensure that all details are entered correctly or the payment will fail bank fraud checks. The connection will be closed if the transaction is not completed within 15 minutes.
If the payment is successful you will be transferred to the Transaction Complete page & receive Email confirmation of your order. Payments will be shown in your bank or PayPal account as CK Art-NFED.
The advert will be approved on the next site update after the order is completed. Please allow 24 hours.
If the transaction fails or is not completed, the advert will remain unpaid & unapproved. No reminders are sent.
Unpaid/unapproved adverts are removed after two days.
Don't worry, you do not have to start again! If payment is received after the advert has been removed, we will post an identical replacement advert for you. To pay, either follow the link in your Advert Details Email or Click Here
If you choose to pay by Bank transfer or Cheque, you will need to manually complete the bank transfer or send the cheque. Bank transfer payments must be confirmed & cheques must be cleared before the advert is approved.
Free Ads
Low value equestrian, agricultural, small holding and countryside related ads up to £174.99 (no animals) may be approved without payment, providing that they qualify, and entirely at the administrator’s discretion. We DO NOT accept adverts for off topic items.
Free ads use exactly the same system as paid ads, are using the site and resources without contributing to the considerable expenses, time, and effort; therefore, they must qualify or the standard payment will be required before approval.
If there is any doubt, the advert will not be approved without payment.
To qualify as a free advert:
Advertiser Details
To combat fraud, we require the advertiser’s name, location, Email & phone number.
Descriptions.
A description of EVERY item offered must be included within the advert text or heading. "Various items", "ask for details", "others available", "see photos" or similar will disqualify it as a free ad.
Prices
An asking price of no more than £174.99 must be included in the advert text for EVERY item, without exception and regardless of the obvious value.
Multiple Items
If any of the items are unpriced, over £174.99 or the total is over £174.99 or would normally require payment, the advert will not qualify as a free ad. Not including the amount available will disqualify it as a free ad.
To keep it very simple: No Price = No Free Ad
If asking for offers, a guide price must be included in the advert text. No Guide Price = No Free Ad
If giving away for free, this must be clearly stated in the advert text.
Prices or descriptions shown in photographs are not recognised or accepted.
The price paid or asked elsewhere will not be accepted, only your asking price is acceptable.
Wanted Ads.
The following wanted ads DO NOT qualify as free ads.
- Horse/Pony/Animal - Wanted
- Horse/Pony for share, loan or riding - Wanted
- Livestock, pets, poultry or waterfowl - Wanted
- Liveries, grazing or property wanted to buy or rent
- Lorries, Trailers & Vehicles - Wanted
Free Ad Quota Limits, Replacements & Repeat Ads.
The same items or similar advert must not have been submitted within the last two months.
The advertiser must not have submitted more than 15 free adverts in 30 days.
The advertiser must not have more than 30 free adverts online at any time.
Swaps or exchange
Swaps are classed as offered, not wanted ads and subject to the standard terms and pricing.
Trade or Dealer Advertising
Trade adverts (including wanted) are not eligible as free ads unless the advertiser has a current Standard Listing in the directory. See below.
If you are still unsure if you need to pay, please use the Payment Calculator.
Adverts not qualifying as free ads will not be approved until payment has been received. If your advert has not been approved after 24 hours, please log in & modify it if necessary. Ensure that it follows guidelines, all required information has been provided including an asking price. Not including the price is the most common reason for failed free ads.
Unapproved adverts are removed after two days.
To keep the system manageable, unapproved ads are removed after two days. If the advert has been removed, you will need to start again with a new advert ensuring that the guidelines are followed so that it qualifies as a free ad, or pay for the ad & a replacement will be posted for you.
Further Help & Tips
Off Topic Items
From January 2024 we are no longer accepting miscellaneous adverts which include general household items or furniture. This helps to simplify the administration and focus on the intended equestrian and countryside adverts.
Livestock, Pets & Poultry
All livestock (offered or wanted) including small animals, pets, poultry or waterfowl (inc' hatching eggs) are excluded from the free ads offer, regardless of type, breed or value. The free offer was removed in November 2022 due to the number of adverts posted by professional small animal/poultry breeders. Funding these adverts was unsustainable & over shadowing the intended equestrian ads.
Multiple Items.
When possible, please post a single advert, listing & pricing each individual item if selling separately.
Multiple items will be treated as a single item, therefore the total price or amout available must be clearly shown & no more than £174.99 to qualify as a free ad.
Trade or Business Ads
Any adverts offering goods, supplied, produced/bred/sourced to order/commission, or offering multiple new items or options such as a range of sizes or colours, regardless of value, either on the NFED or elsewhere, will be treated as trade and therefore not eligible as free ads without a current Standard Directory listing.
A Standard Directory Listing will allow small trade items up to £174.99 to be advertised in the classifieds free of charge. Livery spaces are included for yards with a listing in the Livery category of the directory. Any ads will be subject to the Free Ads rules, limits & conditions. Horses & ponies are not included. Adverts will not be featured, but as with all free ads, you can pay to feature the advert.
Hay, Haylage & Straw Sales
We understand that many people make their own hay or haylage & wish to sale the surplus. Providing the amount available is clearly stated & the total price does not exceed £174.99, the advert may be classed as a private sale & approved without payment at the administrator’s discretion.
Hay, Haylage & Straw being regularly advertised on the NFED or elsewhere, offering delivery or different choices will be classed as trade. Trade adverts will only be approved without payment if the advertiser has a current Standard Directory listing in the Hay Straw & Bedding category.
Service Offered
We DO NOT allow services to be advertised in the Classifieds, but do have a fully featured Service Directory. Please Click Here to see how to use the NFED to advertise your services.
Employment Wanted
We DO NOT allow employment, job or work experience wanted ads including work offered in return for riding or accommodation.
Events
Events are not permitted in the NFED Classifieds.The NFED Event Diary is provided to advertise events. Click Here to submit details.
Notices or Questions
The classifieds are for buying and selling adverts only. General questions, news, appeals, requests, messages, notices, advice or recommendations are not accepted.
News
We do not allow news to be posted in the classifieds, but News articles be emailed for inclusion on the news page. A current standard listing is required for business news articles.
Manure and Muck Heaps
As this is an equestrian site, we can be pretty confident that the majority or our users have enough manure, so adverts are not permitted. If you would like a muck heap removed, please look in the Services Directory for an Agricultural Contractor.
Availability
NFED users rightly expect the item to be available & to be able to make enquiries or offers through the NFED without being redirected to a different website for further information or to bid. Including links or sending viewers to items advertised on other websites is not permitted.
Safety Issue
We support the work of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre www.ceop.gov.uk.
Any advert that the administrator considers may put the advertiser at risk, will be rejected without notice.
Competition
We do want to provide a free service for low value ads, but this does rely entirely on sufficient paid ads to keep the business viable. Therefore, anyone involved with, promoting, canvassing, administrating a website, social media group or page offering a similar service, allowing advertising or in competition with the NFED is not eligible for free advertising.
Blocked Advertisers
We aim to provide a top quality service which includes free use of our resources for genuine advertisers but the system is open to abuse, so does relies on the honesty of our advertisers to make it work properly & fairly for everyone.
Adverts submitted by anyone directly or associated with someone; found to be cheating the system, breaching contracts, using multiple identities, acting, advertising or trading dishonestly, canvassing, regularly ignoring guidelines, being abusive, wasting ours or our user's time or causing problems in any way whatsoever will be rejected without notice.
CKArt-NFED has discretion as to which ads or advertisers are in violation of these rules. If you are prepared to cheat us or our users, we don’t need you here and politely suggest you go elsewhere.
Adverts submitted from advertisers either under investigation or having unresolved complaints against them will not be accepted. The administrator’s decision is final & we reserve the right to refuse adverts without explanation as this may affect any ongoing police or trading standards investigation.
Why Hasn't My Advert Been Approved?
If you are reading this page, you are probably a little frustrated that after posting an advert, it has not been approved. That is understandable, but please read on for common reasons before complaining to us.
When you submit an advert, you must tick a box to confirm that you have read & accept the Guidelines, Rules & Prices which do contain all the information copied below.
We receive many advert submissions every day, the majority are genuine, but others are test ads, duplicated, some people simply change their mind, others have not paid, not followed the guidelines or are missing required information causing the advert to be rejected.
Not including an asking price is a common reason for rejected free ads. Prices are optional on paid ads, but free ads must be clearly priced regardless of the obvious value & without exception.
If your advert has not been approved after 24 hours, you should log in to check the advert & modify it if necessary. Unpaid/unapproved adverts are removed after two days.
To ensure that only genuine ads are shown, only paid & qualifying free ads will be approved.
- The accepted Rules & Guidelines must be followed.
- Please allow up to 24 hours for advert approvals.
- If the advert requires payment, the transaction/order must be completed.
- Only qualifying free ads are approved, see below for common problems.
- Unapproved/unpaid ads are removed after two days.
Paid Ads £8.99
The following ads do require payment:
- Horse or Pony regardless of value - Offered or Wanted
- Horse or Pony for share, loan or riding - Offered or Wanted
- Liveries, Grazing or Property for sale or rent - Offered or Wanted
- Lorries, Trailers & Vehicles - Offered or Wanted
- Single offered item with asking or guide price greater than £174.99
- Multiple items with total asking or guide price greater than £174.99
- Livestock, pet, poultry or waterfowl regardless of value - Offered or Wanted
- Offered item or lot not displaying an asking or guide price
- Repeat advert under two months old or exceeding usage limits See Guideline 10.
- Trade advert without a Standard Directory Listing - Offered or Wanted See Guideline 27.
- Free ads can be upgraded & featured by paying the standard fee.
If you are unsure if you need to pay, please use the Payment Calculator.
Payment must be completed.
PayPal Express: After logging in to PayPal you will see a page containing your details. You must click on the Complete Order button to process the payment. If the payment is successful you will be transferred to the Transaction Complete page & receive Email confirmation of your order.
Card Payments: You will be taken to Card Processor to enter your payment details.
Please ensure that all details are entered correctly or the payment will fail bank fraud checks. The connection will be closed if the transaction is not completed within 15 minutes.
If the payment is successful you will be transferred to the Transaction Complete page & receive Email confirmation of your order. Payments will be shown in your bank or PayPal account as CK Art-NFED.
The advert will be approved on the next site update after the order is completed. Please allow 24 hours.
If the transaction fails or is not completed, the advert will remain unpaid & unapproved. No reminders are sent.
Unpaid/unapproved adverts are removed after two days.
Don't worry, you do not have to start again! If payment is received after the advert has been removed, we will post an identical replacement advert for you. To pay, either follow the link in your Advert Details Email or Click Here
If you choose to pay by Bank transfer or Cheque, you will need to manually complete the bank transfer or send the cheque. Bank transfer payments must be confirmed & cheques must be cleared before the advert is approved.
Free Ads
Low value equestrian, agricultural, small holding and countryside related ads up to £174.99 (no animals) may be approved without payment, providing that they qualify, and entirely at the administrator’s discretion. We DO NOT accept adverts for off topic items.
Free ads use exactly the same system as paid ads, are using the site and resources without contributing to the considerable expenses, time, and effort; therefore, they must qualify or the standard payment will be required before approval.
If there is any doubt, the advert will not be approved without payment.
To qualify as a free advert:
Advertiser Details
To combat fraud, we require the advertiser’s name, location, Email & phone number.
Descriptions.
A description of EVERY item offered must be included within the advert text or heading. "Various items", "ask for details", "others available", "see photos" or similar will disqualify it as a free ad.
Prices
An asking price of no more than £174.99 must be included in the advert text for EVERY item, without exception and regardless of the obvious value.
Multiple Items
If any of the items are unpriced, over £174.99 or the total is over £174.99 or would normally require payment, the advert will not qualify as a free ad. Not including the amount available will disqualify it as a free ad.
To keep it very simple: No Price = No Free Ad
If asking for offers, a guide price must be included in the advert text. No Guide Price = No Free Ad
If giving away for free, this must be clearly stated in the advert text.
Prices or descriptions shown in photographs are not recognised or accepted.
The price paid or asked elsewhere will not be accepted, only your asking price is acceptable.
Wanted Ads.
The following wanted ads DO NOT qualify as free ads.
- Horse/Pony/Animal - Wanted
- Horse/Pony for share, loan or riding - Wanted
- Livestock, pets, poultry or waterfowl - Wanted
- Liveries, grazing or property wanted to buy or rent
- Lorries, Trailers & Vehicles - Wanted
Free Ad Quota Limits, Replacements & Repeat Ads.
The same items or similar advert must not have been submitted within the last two months.
The advertiser must not have submitted more than 15 free adverts in 30 days.
The advertiser must not have more than 30 free adverts online at any time.
Swaps or exchange
Swaps are classed as offered, not wanted ads and subject to the standard terms and pricing.
Trade or Dealer Advertising
Trade adverts (including wanted) are not eligible as free ads unless the advertiser has a current Standard Listing in the directory. See below.
If you are still unsure if you need to pay, please use the Payment Calculator.
Adverts not qualifying as free ads will not be approved until payment has been received. If your advert has not been approved after 24 hours, please log in & modify it if necessary. Ensure that it follows guidelines, all required information has been provided including an asking price. Not including the price is the most common reason for failed free ads.
Unapproved adverts are removed after two days.
To keep the system manageable, unapproved ads are removed after two days. If the advert has been removed, you will need to start again with a new advert ensuring that the guidelines are followed so that it qualifies as a free ad, or pay for the ad & a replacement will be posted for you.
Further Help & Tips
Off Topic Items
From January 2024 we are no longer accepting miscellaneous adverts which include general household items or furniture. This helps to simplify the administration and focus on the intended equestrian and countryside adverts.
Livestock, Pets & Poultry
All livestock (offered or wanted) including small animals, pets, poultry or waterfowl (inc' hatching eggs) are excluded from the free ads offer, regardless of type, breed or value. The free offer was removed in November 2022 due to the number of adverts posted by professional small animal/poultry breeders. Funding these adverts was unsustainable & over shadowing the intended equestrian ads.
Multiple Items.
When possible, please post a single advert, listing & pricing each individual item if selling separately.
Multiple items will be treated as a single item, therefore the total price or amout available must be clearly shown & no more than £174.99 to qualify as a free ad.
Trade or Business Ads
Any adverts offering goods, supplied, produced/bred/sourced to order/commission, or offering multiple new items or options such as a range of sizes or colours, regardless of value, either on the NFED or elsewhere, will be treated as trade and therefore not eligible as free ads without a current Standard Directory listing.
A Standard Directory Listing will allow small trade items up to £174.99 to be advertised in the classifieds free of charge. Livery spaces are included for yards with a listing in the Livery category of the directory. Any ads will be subject to the Free Ads rules, limits & conditions. Horses & ponies are not included. Adverts will not be featured, but as with all free ads, you can pay to feature the advert.
Hay, Haylage & Straw Sales
We understand that many people make their own hay or haylage & wish to sale the surplus. Providing the amount available is clearly stated & the total price does not exceed £174.99, the advert may be classed as a private sale & approved without payment at the administrator’s discretion.
Hay, Haylage & Straw being regularly advertised on the NFED or elsewhere, offering delivery or different choices will be classed as trade. Trade adverts will only be approved without payment if the advertiser has a current Standard Directory listing in the Hay Straw & Bedding category.
Service Offered
We DO NOT allow services to be advertised in the Classifieds, but do have a fully featured Service Directory. Please Click Here to see how to use the NFED to advertise your services.
Employment Wanted
We DO NOT allow employment, job or work experience wanted ads including work offered in return for riding or accommodation.
Events
Events are not permitted in the NFED Classifieds.The NFED Event Diary is provided to advertise events. Click Here to submit details.
Notices or Questions
The classifieds are for buying and selling adverts only. General questions, news, appeals, requests, messages, notices, advice or recommendations are not accepted.
News
We do not allow news to be posted in the classifieds, but News articles be emailed for inclusion on the news page. A current standard listing is required for business news articles.
Manure and Muck Heaps
As this is an equestrian site, we can be pretty confident that the majority or our users have enough manure, so adverts are not permitted. If you would like a muck heap removed, please look in the Services Directory for an Agricultural Contractor.
Availability
NFED users rightly expect the item to be available & to be able to make enquiries or offers through the NFED without being redirected to a different website for further information or to bid. Including links or sending viewers to items advertised on other websites is not permitted.
Safety Issue
We support the work of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre www.ceop.gov.uk.
Any advert that the administrator considers may put the advertiser at risk, will be rejected without notice.
Competition
We do want to provide a free service for low value ads, but this does rely entirely on sufficient paid ads to keep the business viable. Therefore, anyone involved with, promoting, canvassing, administrating a website, social media group or page offering a similar service, allowing advertising or in competition with the NFED is not eligible for free advertising.
Blocked Advertisers
We aim to provide a top quality service which includes free use of our resources for genuine advertisers but the system is open to abuse, so does relies on the honesty of our advertisers to make it work properly & fairly for everyone.
Adverts submitted by anyone directly or associated with someone; found to be cheating the system, breaching contracts, using multiple identities, acting, advertising or trading dishonestly, canvassing, regularly ignoring guidelines, being abusive, wasting ours or our user's time or causing problems in any way whatsoever will be rejected without notice.
CKArt-NFED has discretion as to which ads or advertisers are in violation of these rules. If you are prepared to cheat us or our users, we don’t need you here and politely suggest you go elsewhere.
Adverts submitted from advertisers either under investigation or having unresolved complaints against them will not be accepted. The administrator’s decision is final & we reserve the right to refuse adverts without explanation as this may affect any ongoing police or trading standards investigation.
