VarageSale: Buy & Sell

Ignore the old reviews that say it crashes constantly, that it’s spam, disorganized, not managed etc., All that is untrue. You can sort and search by category, name pr type of item, price etc., You can also Reserve items for your buyer and schedule a meet up. It then goes into both of your “My transactions” tab. It even sends a reminder message to buyer and seller the day of the meet. Each group “community” seems to have their own rules but lots of them are the same. Negative reviews here complaining about those rules should not have joined that community. The rules are listed right on the same page as “request to join”. If they didn’t like the rules why join? I myself want a group that has some rules, structure and has someone available if I have a question. I don’t get that with other buy and sell apps. I like that the groups are local. I don’t have to worry about where the item is located or how far I have to drive to get it. Much better format too! So easy to find what I am looking for.

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I only use the app because it is what everyone over here uses to sell their stuff in the military. You cannot copy addresses or phone numbers out of the messages almost ever. You have to pick single pictures to post in Messages and cannot pick albums or multiple pictures at a time. The application crashes constantly. Half the time you don’t even get notifications properly if at all. It is the same on iPads and iPhones alike. The app used to notify you when your items would get removed or we’re about to get removed and no longer does. Active conversations continually don’t show up or in active conversations get sorted back into the active conversations at random. And for some reason every time they get new admin’s they seem to be power-hungry military spouses who have no authority in the military but seem to want to dictate to everybody whatever they choose. They continually make up new rules since I’ve been on this program based on their emotional experiences and their frustration with customers they are supposed to support. They seem to constantly post rules that existed no other yard sale type site. Overall the site needs complete overhaul and they need to hire or have admin‘s that are there to help people with issues not be mafia dictators.

I have been with garage sale prior to its beginning here, on FB Exchange. I like how you can upload up to 5 pictures, but often find that sellers do not post that many. Usually just one. Then we all ask for them to post more. Sometimes the quality of pics aren’t that great either, or the pictures lack descriptions which include measurements, age of item and condition. I try to include all these things in my descriptions so I dont have to answer a ton of questions. I also post pics I know are pleasing to make it an easy sell. I work hard to earn praises! But I agree with others, the CON would be that there are some not so nice sellers, who fail to communicate in a timely manner. We should be able to rate for bad transactions too! Like a thumbs up and thumbs down, and allow the person to provide a feedback. Other than that, please update the system so we dont get multiple notifications!!

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This app is horrible in every way. Unlike every other app, this app doesn’t allow you to search within a location radius or anything like that. You have to join a ‘community’ and you can only buy and sell and search for stuff within that community. The problem with that: There’s like 30 communities in my town. So in order to see all the offers in my town I would have to join all 30 communities. Here’s issue two: you can’t just ‘join’. You have to apply. I was waiting TWO WEEKS for my application to be reviewed. In the end, I got denied because I didn’t want to use a public profile picture of myself. Fun fact: The community manager who denied me doesn’t have one either. I really wanted to buy something on that app, but couldn’t. No idea why this app is a thing and managed like that. Even if I had a profile picture, the whole community thing is ridiculous. Imagine you wanna look in another area for items because you travel there, guess what, you have to apply to a community there first. And unless you wanna do it 30 times it’s basically a gamble. Terrible concept, big waste of time. By the way: Changing your community deletes all your listings.. use offerup instead, they’re amazing.

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There is no need for separate communities. And the only ones that are available are all far away from where I live. And they don’t offer a way for me to creat my own community where I live so options to sell and buy are all to far from me. to search stuff there isn’t much detail on how to sort though all post like using a specific brand name. Not really easy and once you remove a community all your post go with it then you have to re post in a new one it’s a lot of extra unnecessary work involved you cant even edit any post after the fact for example you were searching for a jacket and pants found the pants and not the jacket will the photo of the pants can’t be removed from the post you created, it will stay on the post. I will have better luck on offer up and poshmark. Maybe in the future this app will have a better system in which anyone can sell buy and searching easily. Offering shipping would be good too.