Gumtree Reviews 406

I have been using Gumtree for years and have hardly had an issue! Very easy to use!! I just sold a motorbike the other week withing 3 days of the ad. Bearing in mind things are not selling anywhere at the moment, I was over the moon! I am surprised to see so many negative here as I haven't had these issues at all! Thank you gumtree for saving me a lot of money from other sites!

# Frustrated with Delayed Messages
I'm experiencing issues with delayed messages, causing me to lose potential customers. Messages are taking too long to deliver, and by the time I respond, clients have already moved on.

# Request for Improvement
It would be beneficial if messages could be connected to a normal SIM card number, ensuring timely communication.

# Pricing Concern
The current fee of £7.90 seems excessive. Is there a more cost-effective solution available? .

This company wants you to send all your details it is useless. All you want is to contact a advertiser and they want your life story. Load of rubbish. If some one is try to sell something why not use aphone number ,I can't put down real words off what I think not recommended at all

It says basic ads can be posted for free. I wrote up my ad and posted it. Ad went live, one hour later, it was removed due to being in the wrong category (it absolutely wasn't in the wrong category). The email said it was better suited in the services category. Instead of them moving my ad to said category, they just straight up deleted it.

I wrote up the ad again, chose the category they suggested, and now it says this selected category requires an £8 fee. So are basic ads free or not? Can no longer post an ad without having to pay. Passing on gumtree and will find somewhere else.

A fraudster has nicked my images and created an ad, using my images/description. I’ve reported the ad and emailed gumtree 48 hours ago. They’ve done nothing about it.

Firstly, it’s not a genuine ad, so his profile needs blocking. Secondly, for what purpose would he need to clone my ad? To commit fraud????????? This should have been taken seriously. Sadly, gumtree doesn’t mind people being scammed

Absolute Garbage!

I used to use Gumtree, with limited success a few years ago.

I recently uploaded an add for collection, but it will not show up in my ads.

Tried listing the item several times over the last 2 weeks and the same outcome, so no point in anyone thinking I might need to wait for the add to show as it would have done so by now!

A pathetic website that doesn't allow us to change an email address that has been compromised.
A site whose rules vary from person to person.
A confusing website that says we sell a nest box goes against their rules.
A website that instead of making people's lives easier does everything that is possible to give us a hard time.

Sorry I meant to say Ticket Gum

I’ve no idea why people waste time with Gumtree. It’s nigh on impossible to get a response from sellers.
Either the items don’t exist, the sellers ignore messages or don’t even receive the messages in the first place.
Gumtree either needs to get their act together or ditch the idea.
Fleecebay might have rip-off fees but at least you get responses from sellers 99.9% of the time.

Not gumtrees fault. But why are there so many odd folk on it. I have three items for sale and had three individuals ask if it’s still available. Never hear from them again. And it’s not an isolated case. I’ve added a couple of items for sale with NO OFFERS. What do I get. Yep you’ve guessed it. The one item I hadn’t request NO OFFERS. I get an offer agree they can collect same day which they asked for. Nothing. Total bunch of moronic time wasting losers. Most odd. It’s not worth the hassle. I’ll take the things to charity. I’ve closed my gumtree account. It’s an insight a window into today’s moronic society. Hence why I’ve closed all my media accounts.

Within minutes of opening an account and posting items I received an offer. Very quickly I realised the offer was an attempted fraud. Four days later having immediately told gumtree I have had no feedback from gumtree at all. A waste of time.

You never get a reply!!
Not even a polite "sorry it's already been sold"
It's a terrible platform.
And then there's the scammers!
Totally unsafe market place!!!

I have had a few weirdos message me on Gumtree when I’ve had items up for sale. Can’t even give stuff away on there now. And when you do add items for free. You get people messaging to ask if you will drop it off for them, really?? Not sure it’s as popular anymore. There are much better places to sell used items now.

Gumtree Uk ... Worse than ever not working properly lots of errors and glitching all the time. It’s been going for a while few months now . Their updated version is cheap similar to Facebook Marketplace which is awful, dissatisfied for a lot of other people that are users who use it on regular basis. Saddest thing Not sure if this site will gonna survive for much longer. (Shame that was great market 2 years ago)

After identifying a scammer using gumtree and bringing it to the attention of customer service, they did absolutely nothing.
I wonder if scamming emails are be sent by members of the gumtree staff?
When emails are generated by gumtree advertisers must come to one conclusion GUMTREE are the scammers, advertisers be very careful as nothing good comes from this site.

once again the MUPPETS AT GUMTREE . WON'T ALLOW ME TO PLACE A ADVERT LISTING ON GUMTREE. ITS SAYS ..IN RED BOLD FONT ....... Your advert description cannot contain website links, please use the Website Link field instead.....THERE IS NO LINK. it merely says this is a lap top & NOT a link or app why do muppets & algorisms' rule gumtree. no wonder they are haemorrhaging sellers & users. mother of god... so after over a 1 hour i,ll have to start again and remove the words . this is not a mobile phone link or app. which i have done 3 times already. if that wont work .tomorrow i will give another 1 star rating..

This site is swarming with scammers posting items for sale and then praying on trusting individuals and stealing their hard earned money.
It doesn’t matter how well they come across on their messages, no broken English, polite and well mannered….i was still scammed and I am very upset about it. This is the second time this has happened to me on this site, once almost 10 years ago and I thought it could never happen again as I’m a little older and wiser….nope, happened again because this site is an infested pit of vile scammers.
My account will be closed for good once I have taken all relevant action on the person involved. Please do not put yourself at risk buying on here….its the worst selling and buying site in the UK!

Im a breeder and its first time Im using this website to sell my kittens and probably last. I paid for the ads quite a bit, listed them few times in hope and all I got was time wasters and some kind of bots sending me message 'is this still available' and not writing anything else! And on top of that I got harassed by someone and gumtree did nothing about that.

Awful third rate platform and every single communication you have is with either a scammer, a bot or someone that doesn’t respond or turn up - total waste of online space occupied solely by bottom feeding wasters

Gumtree, what has happened……
Your web page is shocking!!!!!!!!
It’s glitchy,slow and unusable.
I agree with all your other customers,BRING THE OLD WEBSITE BACK.
Your losing a lot of customers with this new web site, it’s so poor.
Listen to your customers.
I wouldn’t recommend this site to others , look at the 1 star feedback and improve from there.
It’s just frustrating as gumtree was a good site for me.NOT ANYMORE.