I found out about OfferUp from a comment on [email protected] to post https://lemmy.world/post/1953789, by commenter @[email protected] .
The OfferUp site doesn’t let me look around as it’s geoblocked, and VPN didn’t seem to help. So I went off the Wikipedia description and Googling:
- Competitor to eBay and CraigsList.
- It seems to be around in some major cities, and shipping is available for inter-urban or less urban locations.
- It’s both for buying in straight-up transactions as well as bidding (a’la eBay).
- Most item categories are free to list items in, but it costs to put up more than a limited number of listings a month in certain categories.
- They have fees for the sales based on the transaction value
- They have some form of moderation
- They have some user based moderation based on ratings
- They tie user accounts to actual persons
- They don’t handle food transactions (?)
Based on these points I would be inclined to not considering it as a thrifting resource to add to the stickied list, on the other hand I’ve listed an auctioning site in Sweden as a thrifting resource, and might as well include eBay as well.
Your thoughts?
Thank you for the response, it is helpful. I’m leaning more towards not adding them to the list. I also saw that their user ratings were really bad for a “20+ million user base”.
I noticed the VPN part, and they seemed to block pretty much every exit point in the US for my VPN provider, even though I cleared cookies, caches and used different browsers to surf in incognito. Unless I left some sloppy crumbs.