VarageSale: Buy & Sell Reviews

by Starryrg

I only use VarageSale 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. VarageSale 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.

by Jannnnax3

Don’t waste your time on VarageSale! In order to sell your items you need to join a community then wait and see if you get accepted or not. Their rules are very very stupid because you have to put you first and last name which as a woman I don’t feel safe having my entire name being public where anyone can google it and find out where I live and what my phone number is and you also gotta put your picture as a profile picture. The admin that talked with me didn’t even their own picture it was a random house. By far the worst app I ever downloaded and used. They kicked me out of the communities I joined because I refused to put my full last name and they were so rude and insulting claiming that my name is not my actual name. I’m still shocked of how they acted/talked with me. Fire that admin (you guys know who I’m talking about) and remove all those stupid rules while you still can or not VarageSale will go downhill!!

by Mark David Zahn

I absolutely love this app in theory, much better than other buy/sell apps, but it has one major flaw that keeps me from using it - a broken “vetting” process. Each locality has a local admin that supposedly vets users before they can participate. I live in one city but do most of my buying and selling in another city 25 miles away, where I commute and work five days a week. The admin there refuses to understand the situation and allow me to participate in the city where I am actively buying and selling items already on other platforms. I do it in that city because that’s where I have the time to do it. I explained the situation to the admin and they still refuse my membership in that group. There has to be a better way to vet users than what they are currently doing.

by WindySkyWind

I don’t even know where to start, but be leary. *All Communities and Admins are different, hopefully you are in a good community with a good admin, if not:

THE ADMINS cannot be removed by the Varage Sale owners/developers even when the admin is a complete hitler with her racism, repetitive verbal abuse to members, mind games, narcissistic tactics and so on.

Over 100 people came forward about this particular Admin: Katherine Langner in the Sienna/Missouri City Tx community and yet still nothing could be done.

The Sugarland, Tx Group is Dead, non active with 3 admin’s that literally do nothing to help grow or get the group active except to decline new members, left and right.

VarageSale is awful now with the ads, admins able to delete all your listings you work hard to post with no notice even when you are following their 100 stupid rules.

Glad Marketplace on Fb has grown so much, it’s now so comfortable that we are doing porch pick up’s on there.
So many from our Community moved to Let Go, Offer Up and Fb MP.
If you have a sucky admin and community too and never hear back from the varage sale people to help you, or they respond with there’s nothing they can do, then head to one of the other apps.

by Burgergril69

VarageSale is horrible in every way. Unlike every other app, VarageSale 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 VarageSale 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.

by SheLikesVintage

Hands down the worst app I’ve ever used. A google search for a dish set had me discover and install VarageSale. I was ready to buy the set from a this app user, cash in hand. Why did I go through the trouble to verify my account (with personal info) in two different ways and still not get accepted (or at least denied) into my local group? I still don’t know. I reached out to the admin after two weeks of hearing nothing to see if the local group needed any more info to accept or deny me into the group (at least let me know if I was denied) but crickets. App shows the message to the group admin as seen 6 days ago and still nothing. Honestly, I’m too old to play high school clique games. I’ll stick to Facebook marketplace, OfferUp, Letgo, 5miles, Chairish and a slew of other much easier and more accepting platforms. Don’t waste your time on this garbage.

by R|RaNg3r-85-

All I want to do is browse and shop for a pc mouse. They had a few of the one I was looking for when I searched as a guest. When I clicked to buy it this app prompted to sign up to buy. I started the process of singing up but they ask for so much. They want your email, address, phone number, contacts and they won’t let you proceed until you upload a photo of yourself. I thought they were going to ask what tattoos I have and where if any. All this to buy a mouse. After all that I finally went and searched for Razer mouse and Black Ops 2 with no results in my area even though I saw that mouse few mins prior to signing up. It’s a scam. Bait n switch. They give you bogus search results just so that they get all your personal info to sell to others and then they don’t have what you want after you sign up. OFFERUP is the way to go at least they don’t ask for your pic and contacts to join.

by Tommytupa

I wasn’t allowed to join because I couldn’t prove that I lived in San Ramon. The city I have lived in since I was two, as did my husband. I grew up across the street from my my grandparents and my husband and I later bought their home. My mom was PTA president, I attended Disney, Pine Valley, Cal High. My sister teaches in San Ramon. Now along with my passport, a ridiculous description of San Ramon since 1974, a video of my house and street, and my ID they still had to review if qualified. I’m honestly I went through this much trouble to be treated so poorly. Would someone research the history of San Ramon, break into a home to shoot a video and forge documents to join what must just the most incredibly amazing site. No thank you and screw you and your ridiculous scrutiny and incorrect judgements.

by Livdub

Super disappointed in this app’s requirement of having to use your first and last name in order to join an area. Their reasoning is that people feel safer meeting someone who uses their first and last name but I argue that it’s the opposite and that I feel LESS safe meeting someone who knows my first and last name. You could easily google my name and find out where I live or work when on all the other apps I use they only show my last initial and I never give everyone my address. When I expressed concern about my safety in joining with my full name the moderator denied my access and told me it was to make other people feel safer. No other app requires me to give my full name that is then made public for everyone to see. This is very concerning and I’d suggest this app consider how they’re protecting their members and how it’s actually putting people at risk, specifically as a woman I do not feel safe someone being able to google me and find out where I live by my full name.

by Cutenik

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 VarageSale will have a better system in which anyone can sell buy and searching easily. Offering shipping would be good too.

by Ellie Girard

Like other people are saying, the new pop-up video ads have made VarageSale a nightmare. This was our favorite platform to buy and sell (or give away) items locally, and I used it at LEAST twice per week. Now, when you scroll, you can make it about 8 listings before a video ad pops up, takes over the whole app, and stops everything. If you were quietly scrolling, get ready for sound to come blasting out of your phone—awkward and annoying! And then if you’re lucky, VarageSale will crash too. Oh man. And I can tell it’s irritating and deterring other users, too, because the responsiveness of everyone has gone WAY down. Once these video ads happened, it seems like we all just stopped using VarageSale , messaging about items, responding to notifications or messages, etc… I can’t even move free items anymore. I check VarageSale sometimes to see if they’ve changed their mind on this ad format, but alas, it looks like it might be here to stay. Bummer!

by Swills14490

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!!

by Ian And Maya

So VarageSale used to be more local, and I wish I could limit the geography of buyers 7-10 miles from my house. I live in a suburb of a big city on the very outskirts. VarageSale used to allow a trading group for my neighborhood. It was great! I was fine when it expanded to my suburb. Recently, I have people from MUCH farther away buying items. Or trying. Now they are having difficulty finding my house, getting lost, and so forth. Ugh!

My neighbors have stopped using it and created a Facebook group instead. We had a very active neighborhood group before. I love the format of VarageSale , but I wish that there was away to keep it more localized. If I wanted to reach all of Houston which is 60 miles across, I would use marketplace. I want something small and neighborhood based.

by LauritaGarcia

I use VarageSale all the time, the only thing I really don’t like about it, and don’t see why it’s never been added is.. adding a posted date to listing, because a lot of times you click on a posting and you don’t know how long ago it was posted unless you go to the filter settings and sort them by newest. Too many times I search something in specific and it shows me listings from two years ago, and the only way I’d be able to even tell is if someone commented and it shows how many weeks ago someone commented. It’s annoying because being that old, most of the time if you message someone asking if it’s still available, they don’t respond, so I try to stay away from super old posting and I’d appreciate being able to know MORE EASILY, how long ago a posting was created or last edited.

by K Sixxer

I absolutely love VarageSale but since the new update yesterday it keeps crashing every time I go to look at my notifications and scroll down on the actual category notifications. It makes it hard because it will totally crash and I will have to go and open again for it to do the same all over. The past updates recently have been freezing a lot to where I’d have to manually close out all the way and bring it back up. I haven’t noticed that yet with this update but the new thing of crashing 5 times within the last 10 min is definitely frustrating, please fix! 😪

by Kdp43

This is a good way to buy and sell goods. No more garage sales to set up and take down.
There are several things that are frustrating. First is not being able to remove "I'm interested" from a listing when the seller changes their mind but doesn't remove their interest. Second, there is no consistency in sellers photos. I was denied membership because my Facebook photo was a palm tree and not a photo of myself. Now there all kinds of things being used instead of self image. Third, the ability to praise. Often I try to praise someone but VarageSale won't let me. I was told to go to that persons home page, click on praises and there would be a button to click on so a praise could be left. No such button.

by Tjdunn66

This is the coolest site ever for buying and selling items!! The people on here selling are your neighbors and that way you know you’re not going to be dealing with people who take advantage of you and do weird things!!I have been on this site for about five years now and I’ve just had the best time meeting and making new friends!! I highly recommend that if you live out here in surprise or near here that you join this group we would love to have you we have a great time buying and selling on here thank you God bless

by LarryEgbert

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I don’t like to write recommendations/reviews for anyone but I’m left with no option cause it looks like magic at first and became reality when I started reading through his texts remotely .

You can give him a trial.

by 4Witt777

this app is made up of communities so I’m not seeing items that are 5 states away. I get to see items being sold right in my own city and surrounding areas. This means if I see an item I like I can drive 10 minutes and have it that same day. The HUGE bonus for me is the safety that comes from knowing time was taken to verify every single member. My town’s group even takes extra precautions and extra measures before adding people. My town’s group has a dedicated admin team that is available almost 24 hours a day to answer any questions and quickly handles any concerns.

by Neversitsstill

I love varage sale because it's organized so you only have to sort through items you are interested in! Other Apps and systems are cumbersome. It makes buying or selling much easier! Organized to more of a target audience! Easy to follow your items. And you don't have to scroll through items of no interest (An example: if you're looking for furniture you click on that category. You don't have to look at baby clothes or Christmas decorations) And you can set up notifications and get an alert if someone ask a question about something your selling, wants to buy your item, or even on items you're considering purchasing. Love VarageSale!

by Korkor11234

Stay away from VarageSale. 0 activity in over 3 months!! No response from help support for over 2 month when they finally answer (after I threaten with a law suit) the main question they ask me is if I am a business owner the name on the response? YUNG. To me this looks like a total Chinese scam in USA. All American should Ban All Chinese products or business in USA all they are taught growing up is to copy and steal secrets , people identities and intellectual property. I have a felling VarageSale is one of these tools they use.
3 months not even 1 view, 0 communications, 0 sales, no customer support help, no customer support response (after sending 3-4 mails), they responded only when I threaten with a law suit the response was lame didn’t fix my issues and was ONLY Intersted in my “business”.... no thank you Mr, YUNG the heck with your app. I’m deleting and deactivating my account. My rating: -1,000 negative stars!

by PeculiarMe

VarageSale , itself, is fine, but VarageSale users make a very simple process complicated. They insist on meeting at “swaps” instead of negotiating a mutually acceptable location to make quick transactions. I’ve missed several sales simply because I would not wait around for (or make a special trip to attend) a swap, which is super inconvenient for me because I live outside of the area where the swaps are held. I work, shop, and attend church in the area and have made many efforts to meet around any of those activities, but people have literally refused to meet me anywhere but swap. In this case, VarageSale is only as good as its users because what’s the point in posting all your awesome items or finding awesome things you want to buy if your fellow buyers/sellers are going to be so difficult??

by Clbrew22

Overall, VarageSale is good. I use it often to sell items & most of the time the transactions are good. However, we need the ability to rate or report “bad” users. If you are able to “praise” good users, there should be a way to counteract the ones who don’t do the right thing. I don’t care how many praises you have, or if you have the medal showing you are a good user, if you will not respond to my messages asking about an item you have for sale. I can see that that you have read my messages...why not send a simple response, even if it is to say you will get back to me later? A user rating system isn’t great if it’s only one-sided.

by Penelope54

I’ve been using VarageSale , and I’ve definitely seen improvement! One major thing, please make it possible to click through to someone’s book from a transaction page! I can’t even click to their page from an item reserved for me if I get there through transactions. This is so frustrating, I have to actually search the person’s name to keep browsing their page, or scroll through notifications to find a non-transaction one.

I also hate the new layout because our group had a lot of ‘discussion’ posts, which just come through as big speech bubbles. It’s visually overcomplicated. Maybe the discussions are a different color, with no image?

Thanks, I’ll continue to use VarageSale!

by Judy_chick

I think that this is an awesome way to shop, the only thing I would like to see is the price on the item. Some of the members post items and put $1, and you know it’s not $1. so you have to got find the item again and see what the description says. Why not just put it on the item so if you’re just looking for a price that you don’t have to waste time going through every process and find out it is way out of your range!