What would you guys say would be the third most popular alternative in Canada to Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace?
Also, what would be the most popular alternative to eBay?
I tried Karrot, a South Korean app, and it seems pretty good - there is a lot of options, and the UI is pretty clean: its not pestered with greasy ads like Meta and Kijiji are.
Other than them, what would be third most popular option to Kijiji and Marketplave excited for federated classified marketplace to become popular in Can
Nextdoor has a sales feature, if you’re on that at all. I’ve never used it, so can’t say whether it’s any good.
I stopped using Kijiji a long time ago and recently deleted my account. It’s dead to me. FB Marketplace is one of the few reason why I still have my FB account.
I hope to find decent alternatives eventually in Canada.
It’s probably not exactly what you’re looking for but I use mercari in Japan to buy used things. Do they offer their services in Canada? I think they do in the US.
Craigslist. Highly popular in certain provinces compared to Kijiji, and there are no ads or other stuff. Just plain old text based webpages.
The site is free for buy, sell, give-away and trade between individuals. This model seems to be funded by companies that want to pay a fee to list housing or jobs.
Craigslist is definitely American, and looks like something from 1998.
Its purposely the same as when it started in the 90s. Loads fast, no ads, just old school HTML links.
They have worldwide sites
Kijiji has definitely declined over the years. The ads are bad, but I find the worst aspect is the amount of accounts on there that are just shops selling new products rather than people reselling their old stuff. It makes it very annoying trying to find second hand shit.
Karrot is nice
Too many people use the LLM generated caption feature, but that’s a fault of the users than the platform itself.
Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be profitable yet. They’re from a South Korean company that seems to be doing the Silicon Valley “become ubiquitous while losing money then enshitify”.
I would be interested as well. Varage Sale isn’t where it’s at either.
Federated would be interesting. I wonder if we can just have a Lemmy community for something like that?
Varage sale? You mean garage sales?
Nope. It’s an app
Strange name… I’ll check it out though. Thanks.
I feel like moderating something like that would be daunting. I’m not sure how quick mods would legally have to respond. Same as mods from the proprietary platforms I mentioned – although they are not the same scale.
Am I OOTL? What’s wrong with kijiji? Isn’t it Canadian?
I believe it’s run by eBay now.
Used to be owned by PayPal (eBay), but they were bought out a few years ago so I don’t know what it is anymore.
But given their heavy use of Temu and some other ads, and formerly owned by PayPal, I’m happy to jump ship to something more ethical. And to jump ship to something not connecting with me random ad trackers.
sigh
Wow I didn’t know about the ebay/PayPal bit. Looks like they are currently owned by Adevinta. Strange Adevinta don’t have a Wikipedia page, but I’m seeing reports of being owned atleast partially by Blackstone 🤮.
Guess I will be searching for a replacement too.
Haven’t seen ads anywhere in so long; I would highly recommend Firefox (librewolf on desktop, ironwolf on android for sane defaults) + ublock origin (its the one that actually works on Firefox based browsers).
Does lespacs still exist? Was it used outside Québec?
