Is kijiji no longer a thing?

Kijiji is fine, I still use it for things, but I think you are probably looking for something more specialized
 
Inexplicably, Facebook Marketplace has almost entirely killed Kijiji. When I lived in BC, everyone used Craigslist. Moving back to Ontario, I was bummed to find everyone used Kijiji, which was far less useful except for searching across a broader area. Now, with FB Marketplace having almost totally taken over the free/local classifieds space, I pine for the days of Kijiji. Marketplace is so busted, the search function is hilariously bad, and the time waster/scammer ratio is far worse.

Ensh*ttification at the most egregious...
 
Priller said:
Inexplicably, Farcebook Marketplace has almost entirely killed Kijiji. When I lived in BC, everyone used Craigslist. Moving back to Ontario, I was bummed to find everyone used Kijiji, which was far less useful except for searching across a broader area. Now, with FB Marketplace having almost totally taken over the free/local classifieds space, I pine for the days of Kijiji. Marketplace is so busted, the search function is hilariously bad, and the time waster/scammer ratio is far worse.

Ensh*ttification at the most egregious...
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I have yet to use Facebook to sell anything. All of my stuff has gone on Kijiji, but recently they are limiting you to a single free ad for each category. This is going to put the final nail in their coffin and force me to move to FB. You would think that in the face (no pun intended) of competition they would make their platform more useful by adding features to improve usabliltiy, but instead just double down on making it harder to find and post free ads.
 
About the only thing I use Facebook for is marketplace, Kijiji works but more idiots . Even Facebook has its share of time wasters and knuckleheads now .
OP , if you just want them gone , go to a specialist card shop and they will make you an offer . You may not like it but at least they are gone . If you want to monkey about and get better value , then you don’t just want them gone . There is always a PITA factor to consider.


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Priller said:
Inexplicably, Farcebook Marketplace has almost entirely killed Kijiji. When I lived in BC, everyone used Craigslist. Moving back to Ontario, I was bummed to find everyone used Kijiji, which was far less useful except for searching across a broader area. Now, with FB Marketplace having almost totally taken over the free/local classifieds space, I pine for the days of Kijiji. Marketplace is so busted, the search function is hilariously bad, and the time waster/scammer ratio is far worse.

Ensh*ttification at the most egregious...
nobbie48 said:
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I deleted my Fa(r)cebook account years ago when the Cambridge Analytica stuff came out, but had to swallow my principles and create a Marketplace only account with no friends and a modified name, both for access to Marketplace and access to model-specific groups, which have largely replaced forums (was critical for my RC51 rebuild).

I sold off a bunch of musical instruments and gear a year or two ago, and posted everything on both Marketplace and Kijiji. At the time, I'd say the ratio of responses on each platform was about 10:1 in favour of Bookface, though there were FAR more "Hi, is this still available?" automatic messages, many of which I have to assume was people clicking that button by accident, because many never replied to my equally canned "Yes, are you interested?" response. Of the stuff I sold, only one thing sold via Kijiji.

More recently, I posted some used winter tires and rims for sale on both, and got absolutely nothing from Kijiji and tons of response on Marketplace. I don't think I even got an ad view on Kijiji, which told me the platform is pretty much dead. Meanwhile, I sold the tires on Marketplace within a day.

I don't like any of it, but it's the way things have gone, sadly. I still post ads on Kijiji, but more out of hope that it will rebound as people get sick of Marketplace than any expectations of lots of useful interest.
 
Setting up an FB account with no real personal info that you only use for Marketplace and Groups is just as safe as Kijiji and Forums in my opinon, so really nothing to dislike.

But my biggest problem is they give you all of these options to sort, but none of them work. I wish they'd just remove them instead of teasing and taunting me to keep trying in the hopes they will one day work.

And then there's a max distance you can set your search to, which is only 500 kms.
 
Yeah, the search on FBMP is so bad that I have to assume it's been built that way intentionally, to give you the illusion of control, but to make sure they feed you with preferred ads. On more than one occasion, I've saved an ad, then searched for the correct terms and not have it come up, but still been able to go to my saved ads to find it. If I hadn't saved it, I would assume the ad had been removed, as I searched using a few different (correct) terms and the location was well within the supposed 500 km radius.

The saved search function is equally busted, regularly giving me alerts for a very specific search term that are peripherally associated with what I was looking for. So I end up ignoring my alerts because they're so useless, making it an equally useless feature.

The only benefit is because it regularly jams my search results with totally unassociated results, I often get some truly hilarious ads that would fit well on r/insanefacebookmarketplace...
 
Jayv said:
You can get around that by just changing your location, takes all of 1 second.
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First, it takes more than a second (and you have to remember to switch back). Second, you can't do a national search like you can with Kijiji.

So, for example, I was looking for an uncommon RV model and trying to search all of Canada, as I would have been willing to drive almost anywhere in the country if something was the right price. To do that, I have to change my location to St John's, search, change my location to Halifax, search, change my location to Quebec City, search, change my location to Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Kamloops, Vancouver, Victoria, etc. With Kijiji, you select 'Canada' as your search area, job done.

Add that the search function itself is unreliable at best as noted above, and it's all way crappier than it needs to be...
 
There’s a rudimentary ratings thing on Marketplace which is better than nothing. Otherwise I get sick and tired of the no shows and the replies to a post that says “free first come first served” “hi, will you deliver it….for free too?”.
 
Priller said:
First, it takes more than a second (and you have to remember to switch back). Second, you can't do a national search like you can with Kijiji.

So, for example, I was looking for an uncommon RV model and trying to search all of Canada, as I would have been willing to drive almost anywhere in the country if something was the right price. To do that, I have to change my location to St John's, search, change my location to Halifax, search, change my location to Quebec City, search, change my location to Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Kamloops, Vancouver, Victoria, etc. With Kijiji, you select 'Canada' as your search area, job done.

Add that the search function itself is unreliable at best as noted above, and it's all way crappier than it needs to be...
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Google search for make/model in Canada with FB URL might work.
 
Just bought some home stuff off FB Marketplace to be delivered next Saturday.
E-transfer payment upon arrival if I'm satisfied.
Doesn't get much easier than that.
 
Just a heads up robberies are increasing in the GTA. Friend does a lot of reselling as his main income and his business partner has been assaulted twice in the last few months. Anything over $500 he recommends considering doing the deal at the police station. Kids with guns pretending to own the home you show up to is nuts.
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