letgo

Don't bother with this app. To prove a point, I posted several items. In their description, the first line was, "please, don't ask if this is available, because I will not respond.". First two days, I received 4 messages. All of them said, "is this still available? So I replied to each saying yes, it was. Not one person out of the 4 made any further attempt at communicating. So, are they bots... or real people? It has been about 6 months now and I have yet to sell one item on let-go but I usually sell one to two items per week on Craigslist. I can say, however that at least with letgo you can post items for sale. Facebook marketplace seems to flag account and put you under review all the time regardless of what you're selling. And there is never a human being to speak to. It is all automated responses for the computer who can only see dots and dashes.

This app was at one time pretty good. Now its flooded with sleazy services posts from people I would let on my property let alone have them perform a service. I contacted a few to obtain their credentials, no one had any or any formal training for the service they are advertising. Its so obvious many of these are a scam. Several of these individuals spam post for multiple services
Dog walking
Babysitting
Massage
Yoga instructor
House cleaning
Interior design
Car detailing.

I am pulling my posts and removing this app.
I have addressed this with the Letgo service folks who apparently do not care about their users, or more importantly their users safety.

I am just reading the reviews trying to find out if it's worth sticking with this site, and I see that, much like other sites that offer reviews, most people won't bother doing a review if they love something, but if they had a one-time bad experience that could happen no matter where or what you're using, they will jump at the chance to gripe up a storm about it to anyone who will listen. I am going to say, with what I've done and seen so far on the site, that it doesn't seem all that different from similar-type sites (i. E. Craigs List): if you like shopping that way, stick with them and buyer beware; if you hate it, then go to WalMart, the mall, or whatever :)

I agree with the many other comments on here, more people wasting time simply clicking " is it available" and that's it. You can fill out all the details of the product including: size, price, location and people will still ask you. I've listed my city and province, and constantly have people messaging me only to find out that they live in a different city. Also, men and women constantly approach you for dating purposes with no real intention of buying anything. Not enough filters on this app, to make it efficient, safe and worthwhile for sellers. Big

Calls dropped off to zero from CL so I tried Letgo. Got a lot of losers asking was stuff still available then they stopped texting. Most never read More Info so I knew they never read the details or location. Now that Letgo started charging for bump ups on 4/10/17 all the creeps have left. Not getting any response now. Expect Letgo is about to fold.
It's a pathetic website. I blocked over 250 losers and reported at least 100. Losers looking for something for nothing.

I've tried selling several things on LetGO. I discount 95% off what they could buy new, but they want it for free or they want to trade you for something worthless. No real buyers with actual money. Example: 5 year old refrigerator in excellent like new condition, can't tell it's not brand new - I put it on for $175 (it retails for $1025) and I get people ask me can I sell it for $50 and can I deliver, or 10 messages asking it it's available and then I never hear back. I take the ad down/mark it sold after selling it via Craigslist and weeks later still get inquiries from cheap people. OK app overall, just the audience is horrible.

I have been pretty successful but primarily when I am selling things ready for the dump. I've noticed that is really what people are selling... lots of weird worthless crap.
I've sold lots of furniture at very reasonable prices because I know I don't want to work hard to get a booth and sell it myself at a flea market. If you analyze your options often the best is giving away free or reduce price. Then I get real interest and items are out of my life. It's possible that less success might mean you are unrealistic about how you are pricing things.

I had tons of inquiries and was very excited about the initial response, but almost everyone wanted to know if I would negotiate. I put a lot of consideration into pricing, and listed most furniture pieces at $29- including a kitchen set with 4 'arching chairs in very good condition. I also posted a solid oak rocking chair, maple end tables, a brass floor lamp I paid $159 for. I thought $29 was fair. Most offers were for $15. I guess the ads leave people to believe we are desperate to sell. Rather disappointing

They are overbearing and meddling in that they insist on all transactions happening in THEIR chat room. Not acceptable. Highly suspicious.

When you go to close your account, they wrongly assume that everyone is using their (faulty) app on a smart phone. They are wrong. Some people still use a pc, but they have made no contingency for them.

Oh well, in 30 days my ad will expire and that will be the end of that. I'm reading the reviews and finding that it's a good thing I found out early before putting a bunch of time in the letgo FARCE.

Setup is a nightmare, and very intrusive. Asks for too much information about location from the very start. I wrote them saying that they need to simplify the process to something more like Craigslist, where everything you need to add, edit or delete is at one spot. I found it a problem to have to reveal your specific location immediately. I did get a potential buyer, but could not hook up with that person because I registered Letgo at a PC, and the software did not sync to my tablet. I may try again, but probably will not now that I see from the other ratings most people agree with me in some way, shape or form.

If you look at all of the complaints, there are no buyers and that has been my experience too. I've had 6 inquiries and ZERO follow up from any buyer after I respond to them. There may be some legit buyers using the app, but for every real buyer there are probably 500 sellers.

It appears letgo's main problem is that it is too new and not enough buyers have adopted it. This makes sense - it is not like craigslist and ebay were major market players right away.

Maybe buyers will use the app/site more after a few years. So as of right now, its a buyers market and a sellers black hole.