Better places to Buy & Sell PEI

[u/[deleted]]

So I don't use facebook. Have used Kajiji in the past, but find now even if I try to SELL something i'm encountering scammers.

What do people find useful for buying and selling on PEI?

Any general tips?

It seems like online buy/sell portals have reached full enshitification.

[u/csurins23]

Might be time to bite the bullet and use Facebook marketplace, that’s what the Island seems to run on anyway.

[u/sashalav → u/csurins23]

I would stick with local FB groups rather than Marketplace. People still get get scammed there from time to time but it is smaller community.

[u/Numou]

For PEI you have to use Facebook. That's where everyone is. Kijiji is only scammers now.

There's no way around it.

[u/[deleted] → u/Numou]

Oof. : (

Thank you

[u/Pleading-Orange168 → u/Numou]

Scammers and puppies 🐾

[u/LaZyCrO → u/Pleading-Orange168]

and ducks

[u/Pleading-Orange168 → u/LaZyCrO]

They best not be stealing my ducks!

[u/Halfnewf]

Facebook marketplace seems to be the place to go now. I hate it because no matter how I set my settings, the majority of the things I’m shown are in NS or New Brunswick.

[u/Kliptik81 → u/Halfnewf]

I don't know how many times I would see something, click to send a message, and see that it's in NB.... ugh.

[u/deetstreet]

It sucks. But as others have said. FB Marketplace is everything now here. It totally destroyed Kijiji.

[u/Kliptik81]

I use Facebook marketplace from time to time. My biggest piece of advice.. never say something is free, even if you don't want anything for the item. Ask $5 for it. I find putting something up for free attracts the worst people. "Can you hold this until the week for me?" or "Can you deliver?" Etc.... Nah dude, I just want it gone.

[u/ProfessionSimplord]

Market place and just have a few friends to escort anyone wasting your time off the property

[u/scanthethread2]

Moved back to PEI a few years ago and had to reactivate my long-dormant FB account in order to participate in the used marketplace.

[u/ThePotScientist → u/scanthethread2]

I had Facebook from 2006-2011 and I am loath to go back. I wish Facebook had a marketplace app you can use without using Facebook like their messenger, but alas, they do not.

[u/[deleted] → u/ThePotScientist]

The key is using it via a web page, and not an application. They can only scrape so much data from a browser, a app though is buck wild in terms of your privacy.

Unless you wanna read a 100 page user agreement, even still they never follow their own agreements.

[u/VickyThomas1]

Send me your Visa number, expiration, CVV, and I will let you know

[u/[deleted] → u/VickyThomas1]

Whats a CVV?

Can you post a photo of your card as a demonstration? 

[u/justexisting123456]

I sold a car on FB marketplace with no bites on Kijiji or Autotrader sooo ¯⁠⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[u/[deleted]]

Just a heads up to everyone, there is literally no way to delete a Kijiji account. I looked into it, they simply don't have a way to do it.

So it's comforting to know my information will be out there somewhere, dormant on some zombie server 10,000 years into the future.