Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. While Craigslist, the e-commerce site is still an option, it is easy to find alternatives for anything you might want to buy or sell. And in terms of finding a job, date, or a new roommate, there are safer and easier-to-navigate online alternatives to Craigslist.
Whether you want to sell your car, buy new patio furniture, find a designer gown, or a new babysitter for your kid, there are mobile apps and e-commerce marketplaces devoted to entire categories of products and services. Whittling down your options might seem overwhelming at first, so we've rounded up 10 alternatives to Craiglist to help you buy, sell, and hunt for all the things you need or want, from a new home to new help.
For all its capabilities, Craigslist comes with a few notable drawbacks. For one, the site's sheer size works against users at times. Sellers in popular categories, such as real estate and automotive, complain that within 15 minutes of their posts going live, they are already relegated to the second page, having been supplanted by dozens of more recent ads from competitors.
Craigslist has also long been a magnet for scam artists. Unscrupulous sellers often post fraudulent ads that look like great deals, but they intend to extract and exploit financial information from naive and unsuspecting buyers. While Craigslist's simplicity remains popular you can search by town, city, state, and country among users, the site has some features that could stand to be updated. Most notable among these are users' ability to sort within categories based on price, distance, and other specifications.
In addition, the interface template design hasn't changed much since its inception. In , the company added a basic app, but its no-frills design is extremely similar to the website. The site launched in the U. In , eBay began soliciting bids to purchase the eBay Classified Group.
Categories range from travel to funerals. This alternative offers buyers several advantages over Craigslist. First, its sort function is far more advanced and much easier to use. A buyer can sort items within a category by price, distance, or how recently the post was made with a few clicks. Thumbnail photos of the product accompany ad listings, saving buyers time since they can scroll right past ads with worthless stock photos or, worse, no photos at all.
Notably, eBay Classifieds also provide sellers with a few benefits Craigslist lacks. A Craigslist ad in most categories disappears from the site after seven days, although it typically becomes buried deep enough in the search results to become irrelevant long before that. On eBay Classifieds, ads stay live for 30 days. While not a strictly classified site, Facebook has enabled many of its users to buy and sell products more quickly and with more convenience and security than Craigslist.
To sell something on Facebook, a user can post a status update with a picture of the item, a brief description, and the price. The user can request his friends to share the post with their friend lists.
Even if only a handful does so, the post's exposure can multiply quickly. Many people are more comfortable selling on Facebook than on Craigslist or other classified sites because they are dealing with friends or, at worst, friends of friends, as opposed to strangers.
News reports have featured documented cases of robberies and violence stemming from botched Craigslist transactions. Selling used clothing and accessories or buying them because it is an environmentally conscious and affordable way to update your wardrobe, Poshmark, is a one-stop e-commerce shop. You can sell or purchase items for pets, kids, men, women, and your home. Think of it as an online consignment shop with hundreds of brand-name items, like Nike, Calvin Klein, Coach, and Chanel.
Poshmark has over 70 million community members across the U. Messages CL has always been hit or miss for me and not just with annoying buyers.
Sometimes I'll get a quick responses, sometimes dead silence. Sometimes I'll take an ad down and repost it months later. The repost will get a good response when the original didn't.
FB marketplace is the same way. Craiglist, MySpace and eBay. COYS Member. Messages 6, Craigslist is more garage sale quality gear than anything else, around these parts. There seem to be very few eyeballs on it for musical equipment these days. Messages 1, Thanks for the replies! Interesting to hear how it can differ from city-to-city, though. I'm not on Facebook otherwise I'd give that a try.
Brian N Member. Messages 2, Craigslist has been working for me. I've listed around 20 items in the past few months all at very reasonable prices a couple of them at a bit higher than reasonable , and all of them sold with zero negotiating. I word my ads very specifically and that weeds out all of the lowballers and flakes. Messages 4, Less listings but better gear. Last edited: Jun 7, PapaPauk said:. That bare-bones nature of Craigslist keeps things simple, but can be a turn off for users.
Conversely, Marketplace features a sleek design that matches the overall look and feel of the Facebook app that people have grown accustomed to from using on a daily basis.
When you list an item on Marketplace, Facebook also allows you to post it directly to any Facebook Groups that are focused on buying and selling. Those users turn to the group to buy and sell items within my area.
The size of it shows how many people on Facebook are using Marketplace and corresponding buy and sell groups. Not all of Facebook's 2. That's far more than 55 million visitors Craigslist had in , according to Forbes. Whenever anybody contacted me for an item I was selling, it was always done over Facebook's Messenger app. This kept the conversation within Facebook's ecosystem.
It meant I could easily look up a potential buyer's profile and get some information about them, such as their name and photo and perhaps where they work or what school they attended. That extra bit of information instantly raises the trust factor of a transaction conducted over Marketplace.
Facebook also makes it easy to report someone if they harass you or try to pull a scam, though I never ran into this problem. On Craigslist, you don't have much information to go by besides someone's phone number or email. Perhaps you might get their full name if they include it in their email signature or give it to you, but that won't happen in most cases. Back when I used Craiglists during college, every transaction felt like a high-stakes event.
Then thredUP lists your items and sends them to buyers. Payouts can range from 5 percent to 80 percent for directly purchased items and 20 percent to 95 percent for consignment goods. Pay alternatives include PayPal, a Visa prepaid card or shopping credit. Tap or click here to download thredUP. This community app allows you to post a listing for items you wish to sell or give away. Upload a photo and select a category, price or free, description and title.
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This second option will further help you access a wider audience. Once you have a buyer and agree on a price, you must arrange for a meetup and payment.
There are no payment methods available through Nextdoor. Now you have all the tools you need to get rid of all that clutter. App lets you automatically sue spammers. How can you stop them? Well, when the authorities fail to solve the crisis, leave it to the private sector to develop other tools to aid in the fight. As much promise as these apps seem to show, none can give the people what they really want: a shot at revenge.
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