This was a pleasure to setup and use, especially after testing a couple of others that promised similar features but did not deliver.

This was easy to install, easy to setup and easy to add to the site. The duplication of the module for specific groups and locations of your adverts makes this a very effective tool and while you may have multiple modules you only need the one component and all the data is there easy to read and use.

So as per my title, highly recommend this one - well done to the developers :)

I read the existing reviews and took note of the responses by the developer and thought I would try it. I mean it is only a small amount to try correct.

So anyway I purchased a short subscription, I installed the banner system and most of it worked but there are a few issues such as the date start and from and the placement of the various functions to make it useful.

I could not get it to work unless I edited the settings via phpmyadmin which makes this component next to useless. It would seem others as per their forums have had similar issues. The author seems to blame the users templates but I have tested on core templates and my own and no difference.

I also provided feedback to the developer on his forums but the time for responses was VERY long to nil in most cases. Lookign through the forums while I did have access (you need to subscribe for access) it would seem that the support is lacking in that the time of responses in most cases is way too slow and really makes the subscription worthless.

If you need support ask your questions quickly, as your subscription may run out before you get an answer - which is I am sure a ploy by the developer so you renew - sorry not me, I will not pay for a solution that is not supported. If it was free and unsupported that is fine but with payment comes and expectation that support also is provided.

This is a shame as it did look like what I needed but unless the author can support it better it will not get any better.

The subscription model being used is poor in my view, but hey if you like to pay for no support then go for it. My advice is for anyone looking at this is to find an alternative solution.

This is ok for the most part but it needs more work and is not yet ready for production site.

The image conversion is poor from what I have tested even with a 90 quality setting. It also needs to be able to convert to same file type - e.g. if the image is a jpg leave it as a jpg for the thumb as well, if it is a gif, leave it as a gif and so on.

Or better yet add an admin function to enable the setting of the file format the thumb should be created as either globally or for each section or file type.

The admin paramaters needs to be tabbed as it is too long, set it up into tabbed sections.

As said this is fine but not yet mature enough for production site.

As per the two previous ratings/reviews this really is one of those WOW! components - excellent idea and maybe something for the Joomla Dev's to consider as a standard component for future Joomla releases.

Seems odd to me some of teh other reviews, maybe they are asking too much of this as it is designed to be a photo gallery for SOBI2 and it does this very well.

I do not charge fees for listings on my site so payment options were not needed and for me this is a winner for all my users who have taken to this feature like ducks to water - thanks again Neo and Trinity.

This little add-on tool for SOBI2 is a really neat and has enabled me to move categories and data from one SOBI2 install to another and back again (I have 9 clones) - has saved my well above the asking price in time - another excellent solution from Neo and Trinity :)

I have tried in vain to get this to work on my 1.0.15 site (both a dev and test site) and so far have not been able to get it installed. To the developers credit he has tried to help but there must be a conflict with some other component I use - either way as said I could not get it to work. I have given it an average rating due to my difficulties but I still believe that this will be a good component once all the bugs are ironed out.

I would have to say this is by far the fastest and easiest sitemap to setup and it has plenty of plug-ins for your other favourite components. Excellent work guys keep it up :)

Over the last several weeks I have been testing a number of different form components. I left RSForms to last as it was a buy to own one - I only wish I started with RSForms first. If you have ever heard of the p[hrase 'you get what you pay for' well let me save you some time - with RSForms you get more that what you pay for.

It is a credit to the developers on making such a great tool - all I can say is a BIGG thank you.

I think my title says it all, this really is the BEST component out there, and I have used many.

Not only is the component easy to install, it is also easy to use, easy to customise, and to top it all off - and this is why this is the BEST - it has Excellent support from Trinity and Neo, second to none.

The forums are constantly monitored by both Trinity and Neo as well as many others (plus myself) all willing to help anyone that needs it.

There is also the ability if you need to clone the SOBI2 system, so you can have more than one running for different sections of your site, I have 6 - yep 6 and they all work brilliantly.

SOBI2 also has a host of add-ons, a number free and a few commercial, which I have used both, and I am more than happy to pay for some of the add-ons to help Neo and Trinity keep on developing SOBI2, but please don't think you 'need' the commercial add-ons, because you don't that is up to you.

To sum up if you need any sort of directory system SOBI2 will fit the need and more, no need to look elsewhere - just brilliant!!

Thanks again to Trinity and Neo :)

Nice and easy to install and configure the base use of the ad system. However it greatly lacks the ability to customise the look and feel of the ad system in general.

While it allows you to add and remove and place fields in a few places the actual look and feel and styles and editing the system would be too daunting for most.

It uses one css file so it is easy to make a few cosmetic modification's but unless you have good php and html experience the rest of the customisation is a - do at your own risk - situation as I felt that even the code with the base html file (adsmanager.html.php) has insufficient detailed comment to follow it clearly.

I hope the developer takes my comments as being constructive criticism and keeps developing it and separates the html and css into a template based system, I suggest something like what has been done with SOBI2 as an idea that the developer may want to look at for future development of this ad system.

So to sum up, if you want to install as is and not change much go for it as it will do what you need. If you need customising of how it looks but are not good at HTML or PHP stay clear of it or hire someone to help.