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Canada
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I used Kijiji recently to sell few items. The problem is that my post went back to page 10 in few minutes and to page 50 in an hour. Technically Kijiji is not a free service and certainly is not about the users, all about revenue. For local ads I use locobiz.com

Date of experience: March 6, 2017
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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WONT LET ME POST
June 17, 2017

Kijiji!. Mostly a huge waste of time. Ive tryed many times to post a simple ad on there. But yet, it will not even show up in my kijiji after submitting it, It will be not recored, looked at or even pend at all. L. It never once posted my ad:@
I also emailed them to let them know what was happening. Never got one reply back.
USELESS SITE!

Date of experience: June 17, 2017
Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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I don't get it...
June 15, 2017

The previous reviewer said that 95% were sincere potential buyers and 5% were trollers/fishers. I think it's the other way around. Had a car for sale - 18 0f 20 replies were all the same, "tell me more about the car". I don't get what they want. My email address? My phone number? It certainly wasn't the car.

Date of experience: June 15, 2017
Canada
1 review
16 helpful votes
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Kijiji used to be fast and easy to navigate. Lately its website is almost unusable! Extremely slow with constant redirects to ad pages you don't want. What good is it if you can't browse easily on it to find what you want?

Date of experience: August 30, 2017
Canada
2 reviews
30 helpful votes
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I've had an add running with Kijiji, Calgary, Alberta, for over three years. My ad was for my services. I've never had any problems accessing my account using the google web browser until six weeks ago. I can no longer sign into my account. I've sent many emails to Kijij in attempts to have them fix the problem. Their response is the google web browser is the problem and for me to download their web browser. This tells me that they made changes that is affecting my access to my Kijiji account. I keep telling them to fix the problem, as I have no problems with the google web browser except when trying to access my Kijiji account.

Date of experience: September 30, 2016
Canada
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Be aware of a bunch of scammer responding to your ad. I put my vehicle up for sell and some $#*! want to pay me by PayPal lol. Claim he's out of town and someone will pick up my vehicle. Call him out on this horse $#*! and ask where my vehicle is headed? Nigeria. Took off the ad and repost my ad a month later. One lady call me within 2 minutes while the other text me from California. Asking why he looking for vehicle in Canada. Said his father is buying it for him and asking me to email him with his link that he has provide in his email. He can you know what with himself. Where are these low life is coming from. Becareful regarding any site and make sure you received and verify the payment is ligit before you relinquish your posession.

Date of experience: April 6, 2019
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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If you do not like kijiji, there is an alternative. Try this website: www.canadianvillage.ca
This website is 100% like Kijiji but the only difference is that www.canadianvillage.ca allows you to post as many ads as you can. There are no restrictions at all.

I personally do not like kijiji and that is why i use canadianvillage.ca

Date of experience: October 11, 2014
Canada
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Kijiji lied to me. After several request they came out with some excerpt from someone that complaint against me.
A company that can discriminate against someone should loose their license to operate in Canada if you asked me.
Also be very carefull when using KIJIJI to hire people. Lots of thieves and i was even ask of nowhere to go meet someone at a known crime spot where people steal cellphones from people meeting them.
Even a couple called me to rent a room, they wanted it right away because they lost their i.d. that at -30 celcius. Be carefull anyone at KIJIJI can say you have no right to refuse off hand to rent to someone.
One person wanted a room for her and a rooster. I inquired if i was not understanding the ad. She really wanted a room for her and a rooster.
She complained to KIJIJI i did not rent to her.
Kijiji is a woke company where the honest people like me have no rights..

Date of experience: January 5, 2023
Canada
2 reviews
17 helpful votes
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You list something and ten minutes later its on page five and a day later its on page 30? Because the greedy day holes can't stop spamming the sight with their nonsense and I'm talking these greedy corporate pigs that have more money coming out their day holes, but have to monopolize a sight where people are trying to sell things. Shoppers Drug Mart is a fine example of a billion dollar corporation totally monopolizing page after page, like the greediest drug lord

Date of experience: November 13, 2017
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I must have wasted two hours posting health and wellness supplements. All of which were posted using kijijis "whatever we choose" criteria so they just delete the ads. If your going to waste my time then I'll take my potential business elsewhere. Creatine and bcaa aren't "allowed" but gorilla mode preworkout is? Whatever. Kijiji was relevant when I was in high school…. 15 years ago. There are better options with less posting nazis. Kijiji would get 0/5 if I could. Time wasting cheap and an old terrible interface.

Date of experience: December 8, 2022
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I was ripped off by a guy selling silver and gold coins on kijiji. I reported him to kijiji and they didn't do anything about it. I followed up with emails and phone calls to kijiji. They banned me! I called them out because they wouldn't remove him from kijiji. They lied and said they were looking into it. A month went by and he was still on there selling counterfeit coins. I even reported him to the RCMP. Even they did nothing. So I contacted kijiji again to ask why they hadn't banned the criminal and they banned me. Go figure.

Date of experience: February 24, 2021
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I wanted to help educate the public about news and buying and selling stock on the tsx, and everytime I posted an ad they would take it off. To me thats not free speech thats discrimination against the people of this country and I donot think its right, according to the gov. Of Canada people in this country we have the right of free speech and I think their company should be shut down and dealt with in the courts for violating the laws of Canada, Bruce.

Date of experience: August 31, 2018
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Downhill
March 4, 2017

Why doesn't Kijiji police all the bullhsit ads?
I search for a honda generator and get ads for concrete vibrators.
Idiots.
I want to search all of Canada for a specific motorhome, it only lets me search one province at a time.
It used to be great, now it's a pile of sh1t.

Date of experience: March 4, 2017
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Website is horrible
July 20, 2019

Something goes wrong no matter what you do. After the first time writing a huge ad the ad failed to post so I wrote it again -.- The second time I wrote it, thankfully I copy and pasted to a document, I couldn't upload all my ten photos then it cleared my ad again! Three times the charm? Wish me luck...

Date of experience: July 20, 2019
Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I was posting on Kijiji and paying extra for top placement for some business ads I made. I guess this alerted their inside sales to call me to offer a Kijiji business account. A salesman called me and told me how I could save money by paying a monthly fee, giving me x amount of top add placements. He was good at overcoming any objections and I signed up.

After using the services for a few months I cancelled as I was not seeing the ROI as I thought I would. After cancelling, I continued to see bills coming my way. I called billing and they said this was an error. So I didn't think anything of it. Then the second month of bills since cancellation came in. It took multiple points of contact to get in touch with my sales rep. Finally he emailed back saying he said he would call. Which if you look at the attached image, those promises were empty. Finally after speaking to him, he said I agreed to paying for 60 days post cancellation. I asked him why he didn't tell me about this in the sales pitch. He said he did. Which he CERTAINLY did not.

Over $1000 down the pipe with no ROI or help with these guys.

Be cautious when signing up for their business accounts. There are financial traps that keep you tied financially and your account rep give 0 care to help you out which rendering your service or after. They just care about making the sale and locking you in.

See typical conversations with the sales rep. Broken promises that they will call you back with never ending excuses. Very poor client care.

Date of experience: January 15, 2021
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My mother passed away, leaving 2 cats that I could not keep. I couldn't find any rescue place that had capacity and I needed to find a good home for them quickly as I had no place to keep them so I purchased an ad on Kijiji to give away the cats for free to a good home. The site allowed me to select "free" as the asking price.

After taking my payment, Kijiji sent me notification that they were cancelling my ad because they have a policy that animals cannot be given away for free. I was not allowed to change the ad to include an asking price, I did not receive a refund for the cancelled ad, and I did not receive a response to my inquiry back to them.

While I understand that my ad went against their policy, it was an innocent mistake. I should have been allowed to correct the ad, particularly since the site did not prevent me from selecting "free" as the price for cats to rehome. If you're not allowed to put "free" as the asking price for cats then the site should not allow you to select that for the ad. This is clearly just a ploy to take money for ads they cancel, in the hopes people will pay more money to post a new, corrected ad.

I am so disgusted by this. I will NEVER use Kijiji again.

Date of experience: July 14, 2023
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Now kijiji push people to pay if not you are out, they delete your adds for no reason and those who pay their adds let them to put adds everywhere doesnt matter categories... most peolple doing busness or adding their services are mad soooo mad, this is the end of kijiji, as much as we are we can change things, there are lot of similar web sites.

Date of experience: October 9, 2016
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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How many times, ways, or emails, passwords ect. Do you have to give others the E X A C T same loser zero results? I cant send a message to any seller no matter how hard I try!
Loser platform!

Date of experience: December 25, 2020
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Worst site ever..
February 8, 2018

I'm from california and craigslist is what's used and it's great. I came to MTL in November and learned that craigslist wasn't as good as back home. People came to tell me about kijiji being this great website. Well, My girlfriend and I are trying to move out of our place, we made an ad and have had nothing but problems. We were told the ad was posted and it wasn't we have contacted customer service for help and they told us that kijiji is not the right platform for us to use. WHAT?!?!? This website is wackkkkk. I want to see kijiji crash an burnnn. If I could I would put no stars. Any other sites out there like craigslist and kijiji that isn't full of spam?

Date of experience: February 8, 2018
Canada
4 reviews
7 helpful votes
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In may of 2014 I tried to purchase an svhs vcr from a seller, but the guy hemmed and hawwed I had the cash with me I went to his office and he said that he had the machine there, but when I got there he was very rude and belligerent to me and he even threatened me with bodily harm. Of course he didn't have the vcr there. No stars for you kijijij

Date of experience: January 2, 2017

Overview

Kijiji has a rating of 1.1 stars from 370 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Kijiji most frequently mention customer service, live chat and post ads. Kijiji ranks 189th among Classifieds sites.

service
74
value
73
shipping
41
returns
46
quality
59