Listia is an auction site for Free Stuff where you bid on other people's items using credits instead of real money. We make it easy for users to get rid of stuff they don't need anymore and find stuff they want for free. Listia is a marketplace where people enjoy giving and getting items for free.
Listia (listia.com) has 79 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 1.9 out of 5.
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2026
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Bad address system won a knife but couldnt pay shipping cuz "invalid"
I typed my address when i won the karambit crimson web
but it said invalid i tried multiple times and it still said invalid it was only
valid for a place above mine which is insanely far away from me
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willowjewelers
I bought a $15 Amazon gift card from …
I bought a $15 Amazon gift card from them and it's been DAYS. I have tried "everything" to get their attention. Tomorrow I can ask for a refund, but I doubt they'll even respond. They also don't respond when I ask general questions, but they are quick to tag my sales and take them down. I don't know who works there or what their problem is, but this is ridiculous. I spent probably $25 on shipping alone (not to mention the products themselves) just earn the almost 2 million credits to get the gift card, and they won't even give me my CODE!!! I have emailed them a million times. I have commented to try to get their attention. I have submitted requests. What is the deal? They wouldn't allow another seller to ignore me like this, and yet they have treated me like diseased swine. I cannot believe I even thought they were going to fulfill their end of the bargain. I use them a lot and they almost always take forever to respond, almost always take the other person's side. Recently I lost nearly 100k credits because this one lady was not forthcoming in saying what the shipping would be on a deck of cards. When I didn't want to pay up $7, I lost all my credits because I was the bad guy that didn't want to pay that. The listing said " exact shipping"... I go to the post office all the time and the shipping for that could not have exceeded $3 and I wasn't budging so I LOST. Who is in charge of Listia? Why can people sell condoms but not coupons? Chinese sex toys but Americans are not allowed to sell a vibrating massager? I am so hot mad at Listia right now. I cannot believe how unimportant I am as a seller, buyer, customer, and person. And if they want me to take this down they owe me an apology and something for my troubles.
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Karl B.
Scam website that suffers from hyper-inflation
Listia money has lost its value DRAMATICALLY over the years. So if you sell items and don't buy items with those points in the near future you'll find yourself screwed as I am.
In July of 2015 here's what you could buy credits for:
16,000 - $5.00
32,000 - $10.00
64,000 - $20.00
160,000 - $50.00
Now here's what you buy credits for:
86,000 $5.00
172,000 $10.00
344,000 $20.00
860,000 $50.00
So credits are worth 5 TIMES LESS than just over a year ago. Can you imagine if your US dollar was valued at 5X less in the matter of a year? What a scam.
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Nathaniel M.
Banned for multiple accounts. Acceptable. But there is no appeal?
I first started out selling Magic The Gathering cards for a few thousand credits and then I decided to leave back in 2013. I rejoined Listia with a new account and was forced to make a new account due to "an exhausted amount of phone numbers" when posting ads. When I made the new account, I made a different email and switched everything onto that account. Email, facebook, twitter, ect. It all worked out fine. But a few hours later, as I was selling more Magic The Gathering cards, my account was suspended for multiple accounts. I understand why they would do that but when I tried to make a new account, it completely blocked my access to make a new account. The thing I hate about this website is that they do not add ban appeals or any customer reasoning at all. I still have my old account but I don't see any point of using anymore considering this website is a complete waste of my time. Be cautious of this website.
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jim
moderators stink have there favorites
Do not respond to support tickets punished me for someone calling me names and i called him one back. They have there favorites and it shows.
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Stephanie B.
They Have The Saddest Customer Support Ever 6 days to reply Sad I Say
I Would Say Do Not Use This Site All They Care About Is There Selfs And Taking Your Credits When Do Not Need Them And As Long As They Get What They Want They Are Happy I Listed A Auction On There Site And It Got Deleted For There Know It All Moderators That Do Not Know Nothing About Shipping They Only Favor Certain People On There Site Too Which Is Not Right They Also Can Not Ever Take Responsibility For There F ups Moderators Working For Them
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BMF
It is nowhere as good as advertised.
I started a year ago on Listia selling few leftover items that I sell on eBay, eCrater, or Amazon.
What attracted me the most was the credit system they use because that means there is no real money exchanged and I am not going to file bartering transactions on my tax.
I can also use the credits to buy something nice or some gift card, but then here comes the problem.
First, there is hardly anything 'nice'. And then there is the credit depreciation. A $25 Amazon gift card sold for a bit over 30k credits 12 months ago now goes for well over 60k credits. A $10 gift card will cost you more credits than the credits you earned for selling a $10 item. To make matter worse, Listia try to make money by selling credits. That is pretty much the same as printing their own money and it further depreciate credit system.
This month they started charging transaction fee on all auction with 500 credit or more open bid, time to GTFO of there.
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Ed
HORRIBLE SITE RUN BY IDIOTS
I had been a member since 2012, my account was verified 5 different ways, I had over 1800 Total Auctions completed with 100% positive feedback and accumulated over 4 million credits from successful sold auctions. Then one day all of a sudden they start holding back my credits on completed auctions! Which meant that I had to wait for the buyer to say that they got the item or I had to wait for a minimum of 20 days to pass! I submitted repeated requests for help or an answer and I ALWAYS got the same canned answer that said:
"Immediate transfer of credits is a courtesy that we extend to our most Trusted Sellers. At times, even for Trusted Sellers, credits will go into a pending state. This will occur from time to time based on your trusted credit amount, credits being used on the items you are currently bidding on, and your completion rate. It's not due to anything you've done wrong."
Well, since they never gave me an answer and I constantly asked and pushed for one, they banned me from commenting.THEN they banned me from bidding! This website is a joke! Aside from treating their members like garbage, there are 1000's of scammers on that site. Scammers that are allowed to post bogus auctions without any verification whatsoever. All you need is an email address and BOOM, you're a listia seller! How do you know they are scammers? They usually have NO feedback, have recently joined the site, have NO verification (if they do, it's usually a bogus Facebook profile) and have stock or stolen photos of their items (usually high end electronics/phone items). Then to top it off, the IDIOT "mods" almost always post on the following on bogus auctions:
"To make sure you get the most bids and credits from your listings, please add more information about your item. Details such as make, model number, condition, and any known issues will really help you get more credits. This also reduces the number of questions that your bidders have to ask.
For the best possible results, you should also post a clear, close-up picture of the item in your possession. We recommend photos of your item powered on, powered off, and of the back and sides. All of the pictures should be taken on the same background. We also highly recommended writing your Listia username on a piece of paper showing it next to your item. Doing so will help bidders know that you really have the item in your possession.
All of this will prevent your listing from getting flagged. The last thing we want is for your listing to get deleted! Thanks for your cooperation and hope you hit the jackpot with this listing!"
So not only do you have to be weary of the sellers but the mindless "mods" as well. Because of this, I have stopped buying/selling on listia