I am so pissed off. I’ve just moved and I’ve been trying to get a proper desk and chair for weeks, only I don’t want to spend $400 at a store. So I went on Kijiji which is becoming like some shitty torrent tracker full of dead links. Half the ads there are defunct, for items that’ve been sold for WEEKS, and their lazy dumbass owners will complain about the calls and texts and emails but not invest thirty seconds in logging in and TAKING OFF THEIR ADS. If you’ve sold something spare yourself and others the annoyance and help keep the community clean and TAKE THEM OFF! —Bitcher
This article appears in May 17-23, 2012.
i don’t think that site is good, unless you’re looking for stolen goods
Go to a used furniture stop, Value Village or Sally Ann – it might take you a while to find the right combo but it’d be better than depending on the Kififi.
No the best is when they edit the title to say “SOLD”. Not sold pending pickup because that I get, just delete it! If you took the time to log in and edit it just delete it that’s even stupider. What I hate is how I sent multiple people daily messages offering full price and come to pick it up when convenient for them and never get a reply, and keep sending messages every other day then a week later they take the ad down because the item sold. Wtf? Is my money not good enough? Did you want more than the asking price? Fuck. Every time I sell something I answer every single email and take the ad down the second the buyer is gone. Not rocket science!
So that’s why I have got some asking me if I still have my item listed for sale.
The problem is Kijiji leaves their ads active for like 6 weeks. Thats way too long If you had to re-up the ad every week it would clear a lot of the old ads that people cant be botherd to take down much faster.
Kijiji is a great site but they need to stop relying on their users to police themselves. The rocket scientists that use that site can hardly spell. I also like when they use shorthand abbreviations that you have to decode even though you can write a fucking novel if you want.
I agree OP. It is a no-brainer. Unless, you want to keep getting calls and/or e-mails for something you already sold, delete the ad. The flip side of that is holding stuff for people that, of course, don’t show up to get it.
yeah, it pisses me off too. i wanted sopme old vhs tapes from a guy, wrote him a mail, and a week later, get a reply, saying they went that same day, yet ad was still on 5 days after i got mail from him. fucking lazy assholes are alive around that site.
True story.
But it could be the quality of e-mails the people posting the ads are receiving. If they get an e-mail similar to the following,
“u stil got da desk 4 sale???”…
They’re less likely to respond. That’s a fact.
y’all are being pretty bitchy for a FREE site…
of COURSE you’re going to get douchebags who don’t do the simple shit to keep the site up to date…
it’s like a PlentyOfFish garage sale…
anyone can go but you have to week through the shit with no guarantee that you’re going to find anything worth looking for.
Yeah op i agree and if i may, I’d like to add something to your already stellar bitch.
For fuck’s sake morons, stop putting 1 room in shared accommodation rentals in the 1 bedroom apartment category. You’re wasting my time AND your own because when i see shit like that, i flag it. I have repeatedly asked kijiji to make things clearer.. big letters, flashing banners, splash pages.. whatever will get the attention of these half-wits who can’t figure out how to categorize a damned rental ad.
eggz that’s just it though. Nobody has any real beef with kijiji itself. At least i certainly don’t. it’s a wonderful concept. The problem is that there isn’t the manpower necessary to screen things that come in and keep tabs on ads. To expect as much is unrealistic but the fact remains that it’s not the site that needs hand-holding. It’s the fools using it.