“The old used Victoria was so easy and efficient. Now to renew an ad, so many steps, it’s time consuming and frustrating. Whoever designed this new version has obviously never had the experience of listing anything for sale online. Otherwise they would not have complicated the process.
Very unhappy with the new site”
“UsedVictoria was how I advertised my business I can't afford paid ads that don't deliver, and it's always been good for the free ads. They just changed the website and there's no longer free ads for your business, their billing for everything and the site is broken and useless and it's dead now. R.I.P. no one is going to use this garbage website and pay money. They basically just killed my business.”
“Set province BC and city Victoria browsed adds and they were in Manitoba and Sask. very hit and miss, not user friendly. I placed an add had a hard time editing it and after four days no views, only me when I checked ad. Is anyone using this.”
“Company completely ruined a long standing resource where locals could buy, sell and give away free items and services. Now the only option is facebook.”
“I have expressed my distain for your so called changes for security B/S many times, and now you are imposing more extreme changes that are at another level of "give them more adds and less useability" and shove it down their throats, we know more than our costomers, they are just too stupid and will follow like SHEEP what ever we shove down their throats.....Just look at the NEG. comments everywhere, listen to our complaints or it could be your DEMISE......ROSSCO”
“Has been getting progressively worse over the years, there emphases on more advertising than posted ads so no real surprise it is dead. ......Oh, its not dead, well perhaps it would be for the best. tried it and with all the others out there I can cancel my account.
Why change something that was working?”
“Frustrating half hour trying to register/log in/contact vendor. Grainy kaptcha pics keep repeating and you never get it right. A total waste of time!”
“do not pay for ads on used victoria especially the "wallpaper ads" that border the sides of pages. i am paying over $200 a month for a year for zero leads. biggest waste of money in advertising ever. this site will be a ghost if it continues down it's sh*tty path.”
“Posted an item. Started getting weird messages of people offering to purchase without seeing it. So I started researching and saw messages from others about a scam through used.ca in BC where a lady described how she got a much larger payment than asked for. To make a long story short, when I got the cheque for the item - person posed as Therese Desrosiers ,
the amount received was higher than asked, exactly like what the person who called the police described. IT'S A SCAM!!!!”
“Bought fire wood was promised a full cord it was short 29 cubic feet and I had to re-split 80% of the wood because it was to big to burn. Made a complaint to used Victoria and nothing but crickets ☹️☹️”
“The only people that responmded to my ads were scammers reading from the same script - exact same words - and asking for my banking info and bank daily limit to send me an e-cheque. Ubelievable”
“I posted 2 adds and all I got back was junk, people trying to scam me. Even Used.ca sent me a warning about one of the users that contacted me saying that I should not respond, delete the email and block it. Multiple times I got requests to accept Paypal payments, cheques, etc. Right ... Shady reasons like I'm just moving and I will send the movers to pick it up without actually talking with me or agreeing on anything. Right ... DO NOT USE IT!”
“I've written MANY times in the last 3 yrs.to used.ca about the stupid changes to the format, but NOBODY is listning, used.ca was much better 3 yrs. ago most of the changes make it so we have to see MORE GOOGLE adds and less usability, the latest change eliminated tha bottom of the page where we swiched from one city to another, in it's place is a BIG GOOGLE adds now how do we switch cities, there arn't even any instructions with the dumb chages...DON'T FIX WHAT AIN'T BROKE”
“$ amounts don't consistently save on ads. I ended up having to give away something because the ad showed it was $0. I couldn't verify on the spot because the app doesn't show a complete list of my ads, but I saw that other ads of mine showed $0, so I believed the purchaser. I went back to the desktop version after I got home from the "sale" but I couldn't confirm; however, when I tried to edit another ad, the $ amount didn't show and when I went to re-edit the same ad, the $ amount had disappeared from the field where I had previously entered it. I'm going to delete all my ads now and try another site--I'm glad I didn't try to upgrade, as I would have paid for something that doesn't function properly.”
