What’s a good marketplace alternative? TradeMe sucks. I’m quitting Facebook. The grocery store bulletin boards are pretty sparse these days. Where to get things 2nd hand?

The trade and exchange? 😁

Good old days! 🗞️

Maybe Lemmy... One day when the population increases.

That would be great!
- I see on r/DataHorder that they have a sales part, but obviously it is almost all US based.
Your wish is my command? !kiwiclassifieds@no.lastname.nz

Online its only trademe but second hand stores still exist?

Geekzone has been good for me in the past. Problem is it can take ages to make the sale.

Cash CONverters...

Craiglist?

I mean it exists.

In all seriousness nothing else exists with any traffic.

Marketplace had so much potential but it's full of scammy arse holes, trade me has like a $10 minimum that you have to bake into the price of each listing just to cover the sneaky fees they charge

I feel your pain but trade me is at least safer

Try local (urgh) Facebook or neighbourly groups.

My partner has quite easily sold a number of items in these local groups.

We found the local buyers to be far more reliable when coming to collect things (or us delivering them locally.)

Oh, if you're after special interest items (for hobbies etc) then social interest groups on any social media would be a good place to start.

Weirdly, the current options seem so hopeless that maybe there's space in the market for someone to create a new buy/sell website and/or app, not unlike what Sam Morgan did with Trademe a long time ago.

I don't know, there's been a few that have tried and they've all failed. Zillion, sella, allgoods.. probably some others that I can't remember. I think the problem is everyone wants fast, large userbase, no ads, no international sellers, no or low fees, without realising that it's not really possible, I'm pretty sure even Ebay's selling fees are higher than Trademe's. Some one can correct me if I'm wrong, I've not sold on Ebay before.
- To be honest every time I've looked at ebay it's seemed so full of clutter I've struggled to figure out what was going on.
  
  And yeah the critical mass is a big thing. Back in the early 2000s or whenever it was, I remember Sam Morgan was doing stuff like gluing ads to street lamps around town just to get people to look at Trademe. Maybe he got in at the right time. Ebay had already proved the model worked and lots of people wanted it, but it hadn't bothered to enter the NZ market.
  
  It's not as if there weren't alternatives because the huge way of selling stuff then was newspaper classifieds, but Trademe was virtually free in comparison and made it much easiest to list things.

Neighbourly lol

I still use Trademe, I don’t think there really is anything else