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
For Germans also kleinanzeigen.de
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.
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.
There is also flohmarkt for something federated.
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.
NL, marktplaats is owned by American eBay.
I think a lot of these are.
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).
custojusto.pt usually requires payment and is mostly used by companies.
https://olx.pt/ does not and is mostly used by individuals.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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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.
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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.
cool bro thanks.
he died about a month ago now and we’ve dealt with the little bits and the larger things… the furniture is the biggest shame. dude had custom tables, sideboards, display cases, liquor cabinets made for his place, solid maple, really just beautiful stuff. tens of thousands of euros to make new.
as you know, apartments are meant to be left completely bare and painted white. so, there’s no home for these truly beautiful pieces and they’ll just go to god knows where.
as I said, the furniture was made for the apartment so it fits absolutely perfectly in the space. it makes sense to me that that furniture would stay and the apartment would be rented as furnished, but apparently thats not something that happens all too much. germans accumulate furniture over the years, its a sign that youre all adult or whatever, with the vast majority of germans renting their entire lives. Im aware rent pricing controls makes this possible.
different system than Im used to, and who am I to judge, but I will say with the idea of always renting, your money always goes poof, gone when you pay your rent. paying a mortgage means you pay off that part of the loan, €1,000 a month means 12k a year that you get back when you sell. my wife told me that we had accrued something like €80,000 after a little over 3 years after we switched from renting to paying off our mortgage. for me, nothing changed, I had paid rent every month of my life since we had to move out of the house I grew up in following my father’s death when I was 18 or so.
Not only have we essentially saved 80k through this system where the bank bought the house we live in and we give them €1.05 for every euro they paid for it one euro at a time, the house has also appreciated in value, so its now worth about 20% more than when we bought it.
I don’t agree with the ethics of the system I’m living with, but there isn’t a huge amount I can do to change things other than vote the way I do.
So, anyway, thanks for the link she needed to deal with everything pretty fast mostly on her own, and her dad lived in the second asshole of nowhere, deutchland. quite close to buxtehude, actually.
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 “Sperrmüll”, a kind of garbage collection specialized on furniture which doesn’t cost much (~5€ per m³).
Kleinanzeige.de is to 33% (via detour) eBay I just learned.
Allegro is not a second hand market for like a decade. For second hand you go to olx.pl
same as Ukraine. olx.ua
Olx’s site does suck dicks though and I wish allegro lokalnie kills them. The worst search in the history of the internet.
gumtree.com is owned by eBay
Yeah was gna say unfortunately
There is also Vinted, which operates across EU.
Asides, in Poland Allegro Lokalne exists, which is making an attempt in the same market.
