EBay vs Amazon vs Gumtree? Which One Do You Use?

[TheDarkAngel21]

eBay

Amazon

Gumtree

Other

[AiahZ]

I'm so grateful to have a job. :)

My mom had an Amazon account since she was in school over 20 years ago. But over the years, Amazon has gotten too big to offer consistently great customer service. Like, we often don't get packages despite being long-time Amazon Prime subscribers, because UPS won't drive up our private road and won't call us when they're at the entrance to our property and we have to sign for something. Anyway, Amazon has never made right by us here.

And due to globalization and Amazon's growing CS center outside the US, everybody in my family (sharing a family account) has trouble understanding Amazon's customer service agents. I mean, I live in a big international student city (Boston) so I'm not down on strong accents. But if you're working with English speakers, come on, you have to be able to understand basic sentences and to respond appropriately.

And these big companies have very little accountability. Whether UPS, Ebay, or Amazon, if there's a problem that's not very easy to fix, you can either get wrong advice or you're told nothing can be done. Because they know you can't get in touch with anyone with the power to address the problem.

Anyway, I prefer dealing with much smaller, local companies now, even if this costs a lot more. I like feeling a company appreciates my loyalty. So I haven't used Ebay or Amazon since late fall and I don't plan on going back to them or their counterparts.

[Anonymous]

I use Ebay

Never used Amazon thanks to there being no shipping available to Australia on products that I have been interested in buying and because the government forcing us to only use the Amazon Australia which has a limited arrange of products

Gumtree have used it but don't find it as good

[Bananaman177]

Amazon because they pay zero taxes, which is proof that they are expertly run.

They still donate millions to charity, but they don't give money to any evil, corrupt government, so God bless them.

I will use ebay on occasion if Amazon doesn't have something.

[wankiam]

i use ebay almost all the time
gumtree just invites scammers
amazon always feels like im just helping to line the pocket of bezos

[wankiam]

thanks for mho

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I use Amazon more than Ebay but i do use them both
you have to be careful what you use cause you never
know i say go by the Stars that each seller has and
buy from them if one has just 3 Stars i would stay
away from them.

[BobbyC65]

Amazon and EBay but mostly.

[Prof_Don]

Amazon, because of the customer service and guarantees with shoddy sellers puts me at ease.

[Liam_Hayden]

Primarily Amazon. I have found good deals elsewhere, but eBay customer service sucks so if there is a problem you might be out of luck.

[arabgoddess]

You forgot the big one.. 'market place'

Gumtree is ideal because you can post for free and you can negotiate price 👍

[jamesgoldman]

I've used all 3 and made money via selling on Gumtree as well as buying but only made money from buying on eBay

[TheUniqueOne96]

eBay.

I don't have an account on the other ones.

[EmmaMary]

I would have to say that I probably use both EBay and Amazon equally.

[Massageman]

I look for those odd-ball items on Ebay, while my wife likes Amazon at Christmas.

[sweetcocoa_]

Amazon. I've never even heard of gumtree

[ShadowofRegret]

Amazon

I don't even know what "Gumtree" is.

[moonpie89]

Out of those , I've only used Amazon

[IAMNathanael]

Ebay! I've never even heard of Gumtree

[Sheyhoney]

What’s gumtree 😭😂

[CT_CD]

Amazon

[JustRollTheDice]

Takealot

[AiahZ]

Do you mean Givealot? Ahahahahaha!

[JustRollTheDice]

@AiahZ nope takealot is my countries version of Amazon

[Nikki1989]

Ebay.

[yeolsb]

eBay

[Anonymous]

Amazon and eBay