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We have Marktplaats which was bought by EBay in 2004. I personally like Tweakers Vraag & Aanbod for electronics.
In Germany, there's "Kleinanzeigen", which was "eBay Kleinanzeigen" until it was sold in 2023.
eBay sold it off? :O
Yeah, it's now owned by Adevinta who also owns many of the other sites listed in this post, like Le Bon Coin, Marktplaats etc.
oh oh, that's not good
And there's also ebay.de.
There's a fediverse project called Flohmarkt, german for flea market.
fedi.markets is a european instance.
And here's an article about it on wedistribute.org.
Opened it. Title of the page is "None". Interesting choice.
Is payment secure over None?
Currently, there is no 3rd-party payment system involved. We let you decide how to organize payment and shipping / transport.
Oof...
I've used forums for this purpose and never had an issue with 3d party payment, however it also had a reputation system, which this seemingly doesn't have. There are also only 17 items up at total in "All", a decent part of which are not real items (like the EU flag up for sale for 8000 billion euro) and services (company selling logo's for 30k with an AI generated image as example).
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so effectively just a modified version of lemmy lol
Tbh this actually seems like the only viable choice to me.
Without dedicated support staff and fraud prevention like commercial solutions might be able to offer, I don't think online sales are possible in any safe way without simply trusting the other person.
So the platform is best used just for local in person sales (like on a flea market).
In the Netherlands we have Marktplaats.nl and Vinted is pretty big here as well.
In Sweden, there are e.g. Tradera and Blocket.
For Finland: tori.fi (I guess most popular nowadays) and then huuto.net, which is more ebay style I think.
Facebook marketplace is also fairly active. I go there when for a chance to buy something for way less than it's worth.
People on huuto.net know what a used playstation is worth.
People on facebook, don't.
There is second hand shops and facebook marketplace is pretty common. In warmer season, we have "brocante" and "vide-grenier" something like a mix btw a garage sale and a local market. I usually put the things I want to give in a box and call my friend to check on it. For close I send a bag to a friend or neighbour, I know they will pick what they want and give the bag to someone else.
In France it's Le Bon Coin, or Vinted for clothes mostly.
Denmark has dba, den blå avis (used to be a news paper of sorts where you could trade). Owned by ebay. We also have a bunch of other services like Reshopper for everything baby related and gul og gratis which paradoxically is neither gul (yellow) nor gratis.
Bazoš, sbazar, aukro these are the main ones but there are also specific ones like cyklobazar.
Lot of stuff is also going through FB marketplace, sadly.
PS: I have insider info that there will be reworked version of sbazar coming this year.
I know LeBonCoin in France and Wallapop in Spain/Portugal, curious to see what are the others
In Romania, Poland and a few other territories there's OLX.
It's weird that this is the one corporate, monetized online thing that hasn't gone global. Even for car rides Uber is in most markets even if there's a side alternative.
I guess eBay is that, but it's just residual in most places, you mostly get hits from anglophone countries.
It has gone global but not in branding. If you search some of the names mentioned in the comments here, you´ll find that many are owned by a single company.
LBC, OLX and Wallapop don't seem to be owned by eBay, and in fact eBay competes with those in their respective territories, as far as I know. Backmarket is a bit harder to trace, but I don't think it is, either.
Even if they were, the question of why there would be different brand names operating would remain.
If anything, I suppose the real leading global brand here is Facebook. But even then, I feel these regional competitors are in a better footing there than in other areas of online services.
There is backmarket for thoses afraid of meeting fellow humans in order to do a transaction.
There is also a big markup on the price.
Both LeBonCoin and Wallapop have shipping integrated into the platform. Of course some sellers turn it off which is annoying but you can do most things without meeting a human.
You still have to talk to the seller, backmarket is the seller, you shop and click and it's delivered, 0 risk of getting scammed (outside of the platform scamming you)
Yes, I never used Backmarket due to that. For "corporate" second hand, there is CashConverters and WeBuy
In Italy I guess the big one is Subito.it
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