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There is also flohmarkt, a federated, free and open source platform with multiple public instances, e. g. https://fedi.markets/ and https://flohmarkt.social/.
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In Germany, FB Marketplace or Craigslist were never a thing.
eBay was and is still big
Kleinanzeigen used to be part of eBay but is now it's own thing and is used widely.
Vinted (used to be Kleiderkreisel) was a place to swap clothing with others, it's now a second hand clothing marketplace. It recently expanded to electronics and includes Italy and France now.
Allegro is not a second hand market for like a decade. For second hand you go to olx.pl
same as Ukraine. olx.ua
Olxโs site does suck dicks though and I wish allegro lokalnie kills them. The worst search in the history of the internet.
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.
You can add...
Kleinanzeigen.de and Hood.de for Germany and Vinted.net for several European countries. I use Vinted and Kleinanzeigen quite a lot and had plenty of positive experiences.
Kinda baffling how Kleinanzeigen.de isn't the number one pick for Germany. Nothing even comes close in the used market.
my wife is currently in germany (north) as her dad died and she had to get rid of a ton of stuff. she said kleinanzeigen is barely active and she couldnt get rid of a bunch of things (anything from a big tv to collectables). she thinks the culture of buying used just isnt in vogue.. here in ireland, adverts.ie is absolutely thriving
Kleinanzeigen is very active and I suspect that this might be the problem here. It's absolutely flooded with furniture and antiques so it can be a tough time for sellers due to the competition. It's great for anyone looking to buy though.
right ok.. she's kinda short on time on account of no longer living there and her dad sorta started hoarding in his final years. a lot of what he had was very valuable in his eyes but probably no one wanted to buy it. little .800 and .925 silver statuettes of planes. they'll most likely sell the metal at strike price.
Half a year ago I posted a 15 year old Flat Screen TV, a 2.1 sound system, a smoke detector set and a couch table from Ikea for free. I had more than 100 messages in two hours and everything was picked up on the same day. I guess it really depends on what you want to get rid of and at what price. If you give away good stuff for cheap or free, there'll be a ton of attention. Old fashioned furniture however might be rather hard to get rid of.
fair enough- was this close to a city? cause she's kind of in the back ass of nowhere.
Yes, not too far away from a City with ~100k people.
PS: As a last resort - if she can't get find someone to pick the stuff up - most places in Germany offer a service called "Sperrmรผll", a kind of garbage collection specialized on furniture which doesn't cost much (~5โฌ per mยณ).
Kleinanzeige.de is to 33% (via detour) eBay I just learned.
For Germans also kleinanzeigen.de
gumtree.com is owned by eBay
Yeah was gna say unfortunately
Ricardo.ch is an absolute hellhole in Switzerland, they charge ridiculous fees and donโt offer any sort of protection so they basically make massive profit margins for nothing.
In this case itโs probably more ethical to use literal facebook marketplace.
There is an alternative that doesnโt charge fees, Annibis, but it was bought up by Ricardo and turned to shit. They really are the devil.
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"
There is also Vinted, which operates across EU.
Asides, in Poland Allegro Lokalne exists, which is making an attempt in the same market.
There is also flohmarkt for something federated.
I'd say blocket.se would be more of an alternative than tradera here in Sweden.
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).
For Estonia, osta.ee is mostly auctions. You'd want soov.ee and okidoki.ee for most regular buy/sell classifieds and auto24.ee for cars.
NL, marktplaats is owned by American eBay.
I think a lot of these are.
Tradera is owned by ebay, use blocket.se
Not anymore. Itโs Swedish again since 2021 or 2022.
In Greece we also have vendora.gr
dba.dk is owned by eBay
Milanuncios as well for the Spain
marktplaats.nl is also owned by Ebay
Any Dutch platform that is also locally owned?
Great work and I love seeing people collate solutions. I wish however that gumtree was at least decent.
@Sunshine Nice!
A small clarification for Sweden though: Tradera is more like eBay as it is focused on bidding. Most people I know of use blocket (https://www.blocket.se/) for just selling stuff.
custojusto.pt usually requires payment and is mostly used by companies.
https://olx.pt/ does not and is mostly used by individuals.