Kijiji

This platform has gone to garbage - seriously. I saw someone complain about seniors here who get annoyed at lowballers - its not just seniors, that is very ignorant. People used to lowball a bit, but now most people just come out of the gate with "how low will you go" - as if I am going to lowball myself. Every ad I post inevitably gets 1-3 people asking for it at half-price and use the excuse of "I'll buy it today if you can do this price" as if I am absolutely desperate and thirsty for a sale at any cost.

An other problem is that even a low-priced ad often doesn't net a lot of people like it used to, and I think people are moving away towards other solutions.

Yet an OTHER problem is that Kijiji has whored itself out so badly that any given page could have 6+ companies advertising their products before eventually you even see a normal ad posted by a person. Seriously, it is ridiculous how many advertisements and "listings" are posted by businesses to show off their stock at their stores to attract people.

The facebook marketplace and FB groups for local yardsale / listings net far mroe responses much more quickly.

Lastly, no matter what you do, Kijiji $#*!-$#*!s the image quality of any photos you upload, so good luck showing or viewing blemishes and details or model numbers in listings.

Avoid at all costs.

Coast to coast Kijiji couldn't score a 5 star review in the last year, these are the people that expect you to maintain a 95% feedback on ebay while they throw nothing but scammers and cheapskates your way. Kijiji is pure garbage with harmful web technologies. The employees and company are trash, the users are mostly idiots and the scammers are dirtbags from overseas. That makes up kijiji in a nutshell. Kijji is designed for exploiting end users for the data and if you're stupid for ad fees. The automated buttons are used by scammers and shady companies to collect data, thanks to the idiots at kjijii, a scammer needs little work to click the buttons and start collecting data with bots. Ebay and kijiji love this so much as its their traffic generator, you must at least come back and log in to reply to tell them off or you suffer a big hit in your rating for not accepting scams, that is why they forced the reply rate feature on you, without it the scammers and tracking from kijiji would never work because nobody replies to third world scammers. Like I said, scum company and just like at ebay they make it impossible to contact them after they implement these anti-user / pro scammer features. Co-incedence?

I posted an ad to rent my house. I filled out all the "mandatory" portions and explained my house. Then it was deleted. I reposted with a bit more information, but I was perplexed as to why my previous ad was deleted. My second post was deleted again. So I asked the customer service, what was wrong with my ad. Then they said I had to put:
Accurate monthly rent/price
Location of house/apartment
Type of apartment; basement, low rise/high rise (include floor number)
Whether the unit is furnished or unfurnished
Images of the inside of the unit
Date the unit is available
Whether or not utilities are included in rent; if so, specify which utilities are included.

The entire address or my phone number was not a part of "mandatory" information. Also I did indicated it was unfurnished by clicking options.

Anyway, I added more information. Yet again it was deleted. This time, they said I should have included:
- What is the price/rent? Does rent include hydro, gas, or any other amenities?
- Contact name and number.
- Length of lease.
- Policy on pets.
- Clear images of the space.
- The address or general location of the unit.
- What floor is this unit on?
- Is there any outdoor space?
- How many appliances are included?
- Any relevant information regarding the condition.
- How many rental references are required?

Bunch of BS! Some of the abovementioned suggestions were not made previously (such as "how many appliances are included"). In addition, I have my phone number filled out in the mandatory section. Why do I need to repeat it in my Description?

I thought they were just trying to frustrate me so that I would pay money to post ads. But after reading other unsatisfied users who had paid ads and yet got their ads deleted, I guess Kijiji is just a very unhelpful site.

Agent Audrey expressed v little interest and ended the chat, Also, the email-address policy is bonkers.

They do not enforce any of the rules for pet salesReported ads are left upThey did enforce 2yrs ago!