Who wants to avoid eBay classifieds, you do not need to dispense with the flea market experience: with other Tools comfortably from home browse or even sell.
Update from 25. January 2019 : Under the Online flea markets, eBay classifieds at the time certainly the most famous. So the chances to reach here with an advertisement of a large circle of interested parties are well. But there are Alternatives – some with Features, the eBay classifieds. All of them can be used in the Browser or as a App . Our selection:
ReBuy and Momox: Sell with middleman
First: To ReBuy only technology, books and print stuff. Who has sell out of these categories a little, sending his goods directly to ReBuy. ReBuy checks them for defects and suggests the customer purchase price. It is agreed, shall pay to the company the price. The article you sold. the the goods can't get rid of Even if you ReBuy, you keep the money. The risk of fraud is so low.
it is Conceivable, of course, always, that you get for the product on another Portal more money. Or that ReBuy will not pay as much as you had imagined. From a value of ten Euro ReBuy for the customer, will be the shipment insured . Similarly, Momox works. The company also buys goods, but also only from specific categories : books, CDs, DVDs, games and clothes.
Facebook Marketplace: Facebook users, for Facebook users
Who logs in to Facebook, sees the toll-free“Marketplace” in the home page menu on the left of the page . Here you can sell everything from. The customer, however, may be only other Facebook users . And warning: It is in Facebook easy to create a Fake profile . Behind it, the buyer can hide with fraudulent intentions.
in Addition, there is no single number method, they must be individually of the Deal negotiated. On Facebook you can try the sale in the regional Facebook groups , which is similar to how the Marketplace will work.
Shpock and Kalayado: Local
Shpock is in the basic Version for free, and the number of advertisements is not limited. The Tool has classified many Similarities with eBay. Emphasis> within on the personally , is to minimize the risk of fraud. Goods will be sent by Post, is given the possibility of fraud.
The evaluation function makes it easier, in a fraudulent seller or buyer attention. The attention to the Region also Kalayado: Larger cities here have already their own sub-pages. The Portal is similar to Shpock, but no evaluation function.
"Markt.de" the long-Established
Markt.de you have to pay a (small) fee when you buy or sell something. Also special functions for a listing cost extra. Unlike eBay classifieds, you do not need to register to contact the seller. The increases, however, the risk of fraud.
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police warn of eBay-classifieds-Scam: watch out, you can all meet!
Our article of 27. December 2018:
Munich - The police of Saxony warned already some time ago, via Facebook of a new fraud-mesh on "flea market sites", such as, for example, eBay classifieds, like many users, to the victims - and which can cost the Victim money. The fraudsters sell Goods that do not exist, and the buyer will be left after your payment with empty hands.
a function of the payment service PayPal also prevents that the victims can get their money back.
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eBay classifieds and co.: So the Criminals go before
But how does the mesh work? PayPal offers two different variants to send the money to. The Option "friends and family" and the Option "Goods and services". The first possibility is - as the Name suggests - to send money to friends and Acquaintances. PayPal charged in this case, there is no fee for Sending of the amounts and the transactions are performed almost immediately. The catch? In the case of the Option "friends and family" offers the payment service provider does not provide buyer protection.
This and the related security for payments on the Internet, there is only the Option "Goods and services". For the seller, it will not get the full amount (fees: 1,9% + 0,35 Euro), the buyer remains to be on the safe side.
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On eBay have been waiting for classifieds, or similar platforms, scammers are on the go, which take advantage of this feature of PayPal. You don't ask the buyer to pay over the insecure "friends and family"Option, then deliver the purchased goods and retain the payment.
Often a shopper with something like that, because the provider acts so nice and serious and you would like to save him the fees. From such a reason, many users already have the "friends and family"Option used - to the scammers-Trick could potentially fall each.
In one of the police listed the case of a user on the Internet, bought a phone for 40 Euro and have the money sent via those unsafe Option via PayPal. The seller had no goods, and was not to reach. The money was thus lost.
This Scam on eBay-classifieds you can. prevent
thus, in Order to when shopping on the Internet on the safe side, you should use classifieds in the case of purchases on eBay and co. via PayPal, always select the Option "Goods and services", in order to obtain additional safety The seller not sent the goods then the buyer protection of PayPal, and the customer receives his money.
there Should be a seller on the payment via "friends and family", it is to be assumed that it holds a serious offer and exercise caution. The police also advises: "trust Your instinct".
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