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Kijiji Reviews Summary

Kijiji's reputation has significantly declined among users, with many expressing frustration over poor customer service and technical issues. Customers frequently report difficulties in accessing support, experiencing unresponsive help centers, and facing account bans without clear explanations. Additionally, concerns about ad visibility and the prevalence of scams on the platform detract from user experience. Despite some long-term users appreciating the site's historical effectiveness, the overall sentiment leans towards dissatisfaction, particularly regarding paid advertising and the platform's recent updates, which many find cumbersome and ineffective. Users increasingly favor alternatives like Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist for their advertising needs.

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Canada
1 review
15 helpful votes
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It`s crazy how these people are forcing adverts on us. making it extremely "unfriendly" and annoying. STOP IT ALREADY.

Date of experience: July 31, 2017
Canada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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IT JUST PLAIN SUCKS
July 30, 2017

Facebook advertising has driven tons of traffic on the same ad that Kijiji has driven ZERO and Facebook is cheaper! Kijiji just plain SUCKS!

Date of experience: July 29, 2017
Canada
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Used to be a community driven site where people bought and sold used stuff, now it's just about how much money kijiji (Ebay) can make.

Date of experience: July 21, 2017
Egypt
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Rent studio
July 17, 2017

I ask about flat in Monte rial Canada 1,5 room " studio"
My name mohamed bela from Egypt i, ll take this flat for 3 month
I am 33 years i am engineer my wife is doctor
My e mil *******@yahoo. Com

Date of experience: July 17, 2017
Canada
4 reviews
41 helpful votes
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I hate kijiji
July 7, 2017

I rarely get any responses from my ads except from scammers. The site keeps sending me spamming emails to upgrade and promote my ad for a fee. The whole thing is a waste of time.

Date of experience: July 7, 2017
Canada
1 review
9 helpful votes
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WONT LET ME POST
June 17, 2017

Kijiji!. Mostly a huge waste of time. Ive tryed many times to post a simple ad on there. But yet, it will not even show up in my kijiji after submitting it, It will be not recored, looked at or even pend at all. L. It never once posted my ad:@
I also emailed them to let them know what was happening. Never got one reply back.
USELESS SITE!

Date of experience: June 17, 2017
Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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I don't get it...
June 15, 2017

The previous reviewer said that 95% were sincere potential buyers and 5% were trollers/fishers. I think it's the other way around. Had a car for sale - 18 0f 20 replies were all the same, "tell me more about the car". I don't get what they want. My email address? My phone number? It certainly wasn't the car.

Date of experience: June 15, 2017
Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Waste of time
June 9, 2017

Maybe 95% of the buyers on Kijiji are legitimate buyers. The other 5% are just morons with a computer who send out e-mail junk. They ask questions, make offers and then never show. Entertainment site for scammers and jerks

Date of experience: June 9, 2017
Canada
1 review
12 helpful votes
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Kijiji is a wasteland of fraud and scams. Don't even bother listing your items here because it doesn't sell. They are desperate to send the traffic to business customers who are selling off lease junk or same item as individuals at a considerable markup. Don't bother buying either, any good deal is scooped up by resellers within minutes of listing. I listed some popular items and got 3 emails within 45 mins and thought it was
Going to sell, it turned out to be all resellers who sit and refresh every second and make offers and excuses. Ebay totally ruined the classified ads space in Canada and has replaced it with the lowest end small businesses who just upload their database of irrelevant or overpriced products. Both the buying and selling have been destroyed slowly over the last year with all the negative changes.

The site quality was reduced so much that the honest buyers and sellers fled and the left overs are the degenerates. This has also shown in the no-shows. There was always no shows like 1 in 10 but now I'm seeing as much as 3 people in a row flake out, change their mind or in some cases don't even reply after a no show. Don't forget the rampant fraud and scams, now that the scammers email is masked by kijiji you never know who you're replying to. Its all scammers fishing for phone numbers and personal info. Waste of time and I'm back to listing all my good deals on craigslist and the garbage on kijiji.

Date of experience: June 8, 2017
Canada
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Made this account just to review this; I'm anonymous.
I used to love Kijiji back in the good ol' days (2012-2014). Now, they've a) Ruined the site layout, b) Gone full greedy (understandable due to AdBlock and paying employees), and finally, c) Complete garbage customer service. They treat you like a child (if they even ever get back to you); I was told my 'situation would be resolved very shortly, and numerous times they got back to me, they told me something like 'Sorry, we can't do this, our tech managers are unable to' - complete B. S.
Goodbye Kijiji; moving to LetGo, I recommend you do the same.
P.S. There are tons of scammers and pedos/creeps on Kijiji. Be aware.

Date of experience: May 30, 2017
Canada
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Kijiji are slimy greedy stinking dogs and are effecting a low evil money grab for a paid listing service called admarket that does not warrant them pirating peoples credit cards

Date of experience: May 23, 2017
Canada
1 review
13 helpful votes
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It used to be a great way to buy and sell with other locals, recycle / reuse and all that, now its 90% crappy business listings. I have given up, after years and dozens upon dozens of transactions. Too bad.

Date of experience: May 13, 2017
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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While looking for jobs in my area kijiji allows adds from the other side of canada. I tried to make this known to them but theres no way to contact them! The closest you get is a topic page that is an intentional dead end. Ebay has completely ruined this once useful site. Leave it to them to destroy everything they touch. Terrible

Date of experience: May 7, 2017
Canada
1 review
14 helpful votes
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Used to be great, but now this site is nothing but page after page of dealer ads and spam listings from fcuking eBay? Get real. I don't know anyone who uses Kijiji anymore. They've KILLED it for good in my opinion.

Date of experience: May 4, 2017
Canada
4 reviews
5 helpful votes
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Never pay to make your ad "urgent", it only lasts for 12 hours and you have low visibility again. Sell on Amazon and it will work out much better for you.

Date of experience: April 8, 2017
Canada
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Recently, in what I can only assume is a drive for increased advertising revenue, the sight floods you with irrevelant paid ads. You try to narrow a search to 5 KM from your home and get hundreds of paid ads from the same company with locations set for hundreds, sometimes even Thousands of KMs away... time to start using Craig's List.

Date of experience: March 18, 2017
Canada
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I've used kijiji before. However, this time the area locator went to fredricton, new Brunswick. It made me believe that i changed the location to GTAt. After 2 weeks with my *******@ck in my hand i found out wrong location. Also, after spent money on ad! They would not do anything, about it! Fustration.

Date of experience: March 18, 2017
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Kijiji used to be amazing, but now they just let you waste huge amounts of your time making adds, and then try to charge you to post at the end. After 10 years I have stopped using their gougey service. Supposed to be free, but even posting a free service add coats 10$ now, same when I wanted to sell both my cars, the second one flags you as a car dealer and wont poat for you unless you pay.

Date of experience: March 8, 2017
Canada
2 reviews
3 helpful votes
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I used to love Kijiji.ca but they've clearly started to take a nosedive. Even their customer service is just God awful now compared to what it used to be. I've sent emails asking about site changes and they outright deny that any changes have happened, lol.
I guess the company must have gotten sold or is under new management or something because it's seriously just so so awful now.
Paid ads take up pages and pages. I have an ad blocker but it's no good for a site like that so I still see all the completely irrelevant ads. I'm looking for free used wood for crafts projects, oh, well all I have to do is scroll through 20 pages of stunning custom reclaimed wood furniture on sale for thousands of dollars. Yeah, definitely someone looking for free wood is going to be able to afford a piece of furniture for five grand! Augh!

Date of experience: March 6, 2017
Germany
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I used Kijiji recently to sell few items. The problem is that my post went back to page 10 in few minutes and to page 50 in an hour. Technically Kijiji is not a free service and certainly is not about the users, all about revenue. For local ads I use locobiz.com

Date of experience: March 6, 2017