VarageSale

One of the Admin ladies Angela in Appleton denied me joining because I live in Green Bay which isn't far away. Yet in the Green Bay community people from Appleton are allowed to sell in our community. Ignorant, discriminative people. Her reasoning was because "different groups have different guidelines." How about not be selfish and be open minded. It's a sales platform for gods sake and it's not like I'm in Milwaukee. Rude people.

It's very hard to sell on VarageSale (Calgary) and the administration has ridiculous rules. It's one of the only sites that's has such strict guild lines. Right down to the photo you take and post. How many items can be in seen in the photo etc. I took a photo of the front and back of a product that I make, and have multiple of. I wanted to show both sides in one photo. My add was deleted, because of that. Then when questioning admin why it was deleted and what was wrong, I was threatened with the three strikes rule. I sell more stuff on other platforms then this one. Administration is very difficult, and they are getting a bad reputation across many different platforms. If I could give 0 stars I would.

VarageSale Admins apparently fall into the categories of: narcissist, self-important, petty, narrow-minded, rigid, arrogant, or condescending. I live in Girard, Pa & left VarageSale after Kimberly Goodman-French, an admin who claims to attend church regularly, made it perfectly clear that VarageSale is a brown-nose popularity contest based on members' abilities to blindly follow and never stand up for themselves. Petty, drama-filled, heartless, & callous group of women!

Low ratings for holding members to conduct and location standards? Sounds like sour grapes to me. I'm a mom buying stuff for my family and often have my kids in the car with me. I'm not meeting some random stranger in a parking lot. VarageSale admins make sure members meet the guidelines for the community in my area, and hold them accountable for their actions. No unsolicited $#*! pics here - people who don't follow rules of common courtesy are removed.

Items are mostly like really new stuff. Frendly, really cool people.
Always keep a few coins or fvers on you in case you spot something else you want. Nice mods are quick to answer questions and help.

After 3 flat out rejections trying to join this site to just buy a garden tractor I changed my rural address, very close to nearby groups to an urban address 100 miles from them and wonder upon wonders the next day I was accepted in all the groups that had told me I was "too far out of their areas". Go figure? Bought my tractor through a different site the next day, partly out of spite for all the aggravation, will not likely ever use this site now.

I have never had an issue with any admin person until Lynn Gray. She is nuts!... targets people at random... so much so that a past admin messaged me about how crazy she is. I've been a top member FOR Years... not once reported or complained about. Today this wacko kicked me out of the site after I sent her proof of her bias and targeting! I will continue to share her name and will go to the media about this. I've kept screen shots... its beyond pathetic for a so called free sight. I think the Founder, a mom like me, would be cringing in disgust over this womans behaviour to members. Clearly we need better administrators and frankly a head office members can reach to resolve such matters.

I had been a member in good standing using this app but in the last eight months the disrespect and craziness is taking over. There have been so many people acting a fool with their ridiculous requests for you to deliver your item to them, crazy no shows or those who don't respond whatsoever and others who block you for no reason after requesting a product or asking if something is available.
Unfortunately, those 'in charge' are the admins for most of the Ontario 'factions' and are part of the group blocking with no communication, not responding to questions or complaints. It's like high school where there is a lot of subjective decision making and friends taking care of 'friends'. I've deleted the whole thing. No point. Beware.

We had an item that broke the rule of "all foul language." Many found offensive in our area. We were told that "this is an adult's site to shop we should just scroll past it." When I brought the restricted item to her attention (and asked for her to clarify her way of dealing with the matter)she has not yet responded to my concern. It's was very foul in language. Not impressed. I think there should be easy access to higher authority. Rules are made to be upheld. That's how you play like true adults. I am from SouthbEastern Manitoba.

The site itself seems pretty good. I've had more good buys over any bad ones. But the admins are nothing more than power tripping control bullies. If there was a way to charge these people I would. They need a refresh of admins.

Denied access to sell on VarageSale for lack of personal photo.

To protect my identity from being copied or stolen it is in my best interest to not include personal pictures or photos of myself.
VarageSale doesn't think so.
I think that's suspicious. Especially after other internet "For Sale" sites have had newsworthy serial stalkings.
I'm not trying to be a stalker, I'm just trying to sell outdoor furniture!

Slightly worn lingerie with a photo sounds disturbing to me!

Tried and used this site for a year and selling dollar store item and cheap or giving away free items is fine. Admins are power trip, power hungry and extremely rude people. Especially the one trying to run the Calgary site/ show. They will revoke or cancel your membership if you over post too many items for sale or accidentally use the same photo for your posting and can't use stock or website pics, or list of what you can't do goes on. The site is Garbage. Get your yourself on Facebook marketplace and kijiji and less rules for selling to post and your sales all will sell within Mins or days! Don't waste a single min trying to argue or get on VarageSale.

* I have to agree about Spring Hill Tennessee. I am a buyer and seller. When I contacted an admin about a problem customer, she promptly blamed me! When I politely disagreed, she got extremely insulting and blocked me from sending any more messages. She behaved like a spoiled child. I don't know how someone gets to be an admin but it's an important job. There definitely needs to be some vetting and training. I don't have time to deal with immature brats.

*Personal information redacted by admin

I've had good luck mostly using this site over the last 6 years in SK. Recently they hired a new admin, Lynn Gray, who is on a crazy power trip. She jumps to conclusions and is very one sided with sellers only. Erika Lee is not much better, but she is a lot more lazy about doing the work altogether. Can we please get some better, local admins... less nobodies that are too high up o n their horses? It's too bad...

Also the "praise" system is a joke. If someone no shows, leaves not enough money, etc and you "praise" them... they can just delete the praise so no one would ever know they were a $#*!ty buyer/seller. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO