Nebenan.de is also good for Germany.
I love Subito.it, I’ve been using it for years by now, and it got really. Ether with its own delivery system and payment protection
You can find several of those companies in the list of acquisitions by ebay: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay
It seems like mba’s are in control at ebay: first they enshittified their own product because they didn’t understand how it was used, and instead of fixing their own enshittified product, they instead started buying their competition and then commenced enshittifying those.
Allegro is not a second hand market for like a decade. For second hand you go to olx.pl
Olx’s site does suck dicks though and I wish allegro lokalnie kills them. The worst search in the history of the internet.
same as Ukraine. olx.ua
For people in the US that are reading this…
Yeah, you’re fucked. Craigslist still exists, as does Backpage, but they’re both pale shadows of what they once were.
Rude. I was hoping to find a recommendation for a us equivalent thread/post. Not a slap of reality.
I’ve never used fb marketplace. I have had good luck getting rid of things on offerup but deleted my nextdoor account after less than 24 hours because the drama and posts were mind numbingly stupid
The last time I used Craigslist was about two years ago to find/buy a bird cage. The person told me about a forum-esque site for bird adoptions. I was surprised when the person I reached out to on a 3 month old post responded and I adopted my guys!
It (the small marketplace) is not completely dead. Forums and niche sites are still going strong
Hey, I really wish it wasn’t the way it is. But Facebook sucked up (verbiage intentionally) almost all of the traffic.
Can you still buy & sell things locally on other sites? Sure, absolutely. But the traffic is minuscule compared to FB, which means less stuff available, and fewer people buying. I fuckin’ hate it.
Nextdoor is a cesspool of all your very worst neighbors and I’ve never used FB Marketplace either. I’ve sold a few things in recent years on OfferUp and Craigslist. Although Craigslist always feels a bit sketchy because of no reviews/ratings, like you have no idea if the person you’re dealing with will be an ax murderer. And people are flaky on every platform.
I prefer to give things away and not deal with the hassle of selling them, unless it’s a big item like a TV or an air conditioner.
I’m thinking about organizing “boot sales” but calling them “tailgate sales”
Ricardo.ch is an absolute hellhole in Switzerland, they charge ridiculous fees and don’t offer any sort of protection so they basically make massive profit margins for nothing.
In this case it’s probably more ethical to use literal facebook marketplace.
There is an alternative that doesn’t charge fees, Annibis, but it was bought up by Ricardo and turned to shit. They really are the devil.
For Germans also kleinanzeigen.de
In Romania, olx has a huge spam problem. There are scammers trying to scam sellers, since the platform encourages people to make phone numbers public.
As a buyer, I don’t like it either. Everything is overpriced. For example, I was looking for some ikea furniture and the only sellers in my area were asking like 80% of the price of a new one. Tech is overpriced too… Like $150-200 for an ancient i3 or i5 laptop with 4gb of ram… I can get a better deal on ebay (where shipping is at least $20-30).
There is also flohmarkt for something federated.
NL, marktplaats is owned by American eBay.
I think a lot of these are.
I’d say blocket.se would be more of an alternative than tradera here in Sweden.
Tradera is owned by ebay, use blocket.se
Not anymore. It’s Swedish again since 2021 or 2022.
In Greece we also have vendora.gr
dba.dk is owned by eBay
marktplaats.nl is also owned by Ebay
Any Dutch platform that is also locally owned?
