The Best 30 Websites Like Craigslist to Buy and Sell

Did you know there are so many other sites like Craigslist to buy and sell your stuff?

Of course Craigslist is the most well-known and for good reason. First, the site features hundreds of thousands of items for sale in pretty much any category you can imagine.

Second, (and probably my most favorite reason) it’s so popular because it’s free. F.R.E.E. Free to list, free to sell, free to buy. If you’ve ever had other types of sites eat up your profits via listing and selling fees, you know what I’m talking about.

However, with the ever-expanding world of e-commerce, there are now dozens of other (better) sites like Craigslist to choose from to list the stuff you want to sell, or to buy the things you want or need. Here are the top 30 of the most popular alternatives to Craigslist you might find helpful for buying or selling things or services.

The Top 10 Sites Like Craigslist

These sites are listed in order of my favorite sites to buy and sell online that are very similar Craigslist. Right now Offer Up is my favorite, but the Facebook Marketplace is also a very quick and easy way to sell your items as well. When I am looking for services, I lean on Offer Up and when I am looking to sell something quickly, I will head on over to the Facebook Marketplace.

1. Offer Up

Offer Up is a selling site where you list your items or services by type, and you search by type, city or zip code. There’s an added filter letting you choose how far away you can search from that city or zip code.

Categories

• Antiques
• Appliances
• Arts and crafts
• Auto parts
• Baby and kids
• Beauty and health
• Bicycles
• Boats and marine
• Books and magazines
• Services

Okay, the list is seriously too long to post here. Offer Up has a lot of categories and a ton of stuff or services for sale from appliances and auto parts to used textbooks and antiques. You can also ask the seller a question or even make an offer. No listing fees or selling fees. Offer Up is my favorite for security as well. They take your safety seriously and will advise you to as well.

2. Facebook Marketplace

If you have a Facebook account, then you already have access to the Facebook Marketplace. Facebook does a really great job with their marketplace and makes it extremely simple to buy or sell. All communication is done via Facebook Messenger and can be done from mobile or desktop. With the amount of people shopping on Facebook, you can usually sell your stuff the fastest on this platform.

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Poshmark is a social marketplace for new and secondhand style clothing. Now with over 80 million community members across the U.S., Canada, and Australia and nearly 200 million items for sale — Poshmark is now one of the top sites like craigslist when it comes to buying and selling clothing.

Categories

• Womens clothing
• Mens clothing
• Kids clothing
• Pets
• Home
• Electronics 
• Parties

4. Etsy

Started in 2005, Etsy has been the go-to place for crafters, hobbyists, and artists. Today, Etsy is growing into an incredibly large market for online shoppers and is another great alternative to craigslist.

Categories

• Home Favorites
• Jewelry & Accessories
• Clothing & Shoes
• Home & Living
• Wedding & Party
• Toys & Entertainment
• Art & Collectibles
• Craft Supplies
• Gifts & Gift Cards

5. Facebook Groups

Selling on Facebook started inside Facebook groups long before the Facebook Marketplace. Once you request and are approved for a local Facebook group (often called “YOUR CITY Swip Swap), you can begin selling your items and finding other things to buy in your local area.

It can be a bit tedious to find the right sale group for your items on Facebook which is why I like the Marketplace better. However, I do like the fact that if there are any complaints about someone inside the group – they are usually kicked out of the group. This causes buyers and sellers to be extra nice (and fair) with each other to remain in the group.

6. Apartments.com

If you are looking for an apartment to rent or to rent out, Apartments.com has a lot to offer. You can search specific neighborhoods with millions of listings across the United States.

In addition, Apartments.com continues to make over one million calls each month to apartment owners and property managers in order to collect and verify current availabilities, rental rates, pet policies, fees, leasing incentives, concessions, and anything else you may need to know.

Althought Apartments.com is a site like Craigslist, it does offer more rental listings than any other apartments website, including Craigslist.

7. Indeed.com

Whether you are looking for part-time, full-time, or freelance work, Indeed.com is now the #1 job site in the world. In fact, Indeed.com gets over over 250 million unique visitors every month.

Why it still isn’t a bad idea to look for work or to post a job on Craigslist, Indeed.com has visitors who are there solely searching for jobs.

8. Match.com

If you’re searching for any kind of dating opportunities on Craigslist — don’t. Craigslist actually discontinued its personal ads in 2018, which means if you’re seeing personal ads on Craigslist, they’re not legitimate.

A great alternative to Craigslist for dating is Match.com and in 2022 Match.com was named best dating app for long-term relationships by PC magazine. 

9. Carvana

While Craigslist is a still a great place to buy and sell your car, there are many other sites out there that focus solely on car sales. One of the fastest growing place to buy or sell your car online is Carvana. Many people know Carvana as the car-vending-maching company, but Carvana has recently become the go-to place for online car transactions with a 7-day return policy on any vehicle purchased through Carvana.

10. Zillow

If you’re looking to buy, rent, or sell a home on Craigslist, you may also want to look to Zillow

You can buy, rent, or sell a home on Zillow, plus find valuable tools and tips for house hunting, finding a mortgage lender, real estate agent, or even an interior decorator. The browsing feature on Zillow allows you to search multiple listings in your desired town, city, or state ranked by price, lot size, number of rooms, and other settings.18

Zillow can help you find a real estate agent to show you the home, and some listings offer a virtual 3D tour. This alternative to house hunting on Craigslist, which sometimes offers limited information, offers a level of professionalism and tools and expert advice needed for such a serious business transaction. Besides, the sheer volume of homes, townhouses, and condominiums available on Zillow make it house hunters’ virtual paradise.

The Rest of the Best Sites like Craigslist

11. Oodle

Probably the most comparable to Craigslist is Oodle, but it also does something Craiglist does not do – Oodle aggregates listings both locally and nationally from sites like eBay, ForRent.com, BoatTrader.com, Cars.com, and many more. Oodle uses these networks of online marketplaces to buy, sell, and trade products and services.

Categories

• Merchandise
• Motor-operated vehicles (cars, boats, motorcycles, RVs, etc.)
• Rentals
• Real estate
• Jobs
• Pets
• Tickets
• Services
• Personal ads
• Community-related ads (announcements, groups, etc.)

Currently Oodle has over 15 million monthly users and is available in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, UK, Ireland, and New Zealand. There are no fees for listing or selling, however there are limits to how many listings you can post at a time based on your selling categories.

12. Locanto

When you think of Locanto, think of the word “local”.

Instead of offering up ads from around the country, Locanto is best for those who are looking for something locally such as a used car, a babysitter, a job, or anything particular to the vicinity of where you live.

It’s very simple to post an ad on Locanto and the ads are meant to feel and look like ads you see in the local newspaper (what are newspapers again?). My favorite part of Locanto is your ad will remain live for 60 days which exposes your ad to a very large audience.

Bonus: You can upload pictures into your ad and you can use HTML codes to send a link to your website if you choose to do so.

Categories

• Classes
• Community
• Events
• For sale
• Jobs
• Personals
• Pets
• Real estate
• Services
• Vehicles

13. Trovit

Trovit is a site where you can list your homes and cars for sale, or list available job positions you may need to fill. How Trovit works is it lists ads for over 50 countries including the United States, Mexico, the UK, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Mexico, and many, many more.

The site is pretty well organized. When you search for a vehicle you start with the country you want to buy in. From there it brings you to another screen where you can choose a make, model, etc. You can choose cars by area or by make and model.

Searches for real estate work similarly. You start by choosing your area, and from there you can narrow down the search based on the type of house/number of bedrooms, etc. you want.

The site has an expansive amount of listings on it. Most all of the listings seemed to be taken from/linked to other sources. FYI, you can only advertise items for sale on Trovit if you own a coordinating website.

However, if you’re advertising on Craigslist or similar sites you can be pretty sure your ad will show up on Trovit anyway.

14. Gumtree

Gumtree is just like Craigslist and is wildly popular in the UK and is also frequently used in Australia, South Africa, and recently Gumtree has began to increase in popularity within the United States

No matter where you live, Gumtree is still a great alternative to Craigslist because of the ability to buy and sell to anyone in the world.

Categories

• Motors
• For sale
• Property
• Jobs
• Services
• Community
• Pets

Gumtree can also be used as an app and can be found in both the iTunes App Store and Google Play Store.

15. US Free Ads

USFreeAds have been around since 1999 and I don’t think they’ve ever done an update on the look of their site. It’s about as plain and simple as you can get which isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes keeping it as simple as possible works the best.

After doing some digging, there are two separate sites for US Free Ads –  USFreeAds and USNetAds.

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• Automotive
• Pets and animals
• Collectibles
• Real estate
• Home and garden
• Hobbies and leisure
• Toys, games and models
• Health and fitness
• Electronics
• Miscellaneous
• Clothing and footwear
• Jewelry and watches
• Announcements
• Services
• Sports
• Wanted ads

16. AdLandPro

AdLandPro allows you to post up to 20 ads for free and the ads will stay on their site for 4 weeks. However, if you update your ad inside those 4 weeks, you can keep your ads up indefinitely.

Once you post your ad, it is then sent to their database which is linked to over 57,000 affiliates websites.

Categories

• Jobs
• For sale
• Automotive
• Announcement
• E-books and online lessons
• Real estate
• Miscellaneous
• Pets
• Services
• Business

Some of these are older sites that many have forgot about or they may be brand new and just getting started. Often I will find the best deals on these sites listed below because they may not have as much competition from other buyers and sellers.

17. Geebo

What makes Geebo (pronounced G-bo) unique is the personal touch in the digital age. Every single ad is actually manually approved by a human being instead of a robot or algorithm.

Geebo is only offered in the United States and is currently in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Phoenix, Washington, DC, and Seattle. To date, Geebo has spread to over 160 communities nationwide.

Categories

• Merchandise
• Construction and farm equipment
• Services
• Employment
• Rentals and roommates
• Real estate
• Resumes

18. USA Today

Not much to explain here. USA Today is a giant in the print and digital media niche and reported over 102 million unique visitors and 1.2 billion pageviews per month in 2017.

One thing is for sure – your ad will be seen by a lot of people!

Categories

• Auctions
• Automotive
• Business
• Careers
• Education
• Marketplace
• Notices
• Real estate
• Services
• Sports and recreation
• Travel
• Miscellaneous

19. Ads Globe

Ads Globe is a nice looking site, it’s free, and you can choose ads from a drop down list of multiple countries.

However, after looking through their site for United States based ads, very few ads were found. If you’re going to try out Ads Globe, be sure to set your location at the very top left of their site.

Categories

• Merchandise
• Autos
• Real estate
• Rentals
• Pets
• Travel

20. PennySaver USA

I am sure the founder of Craigslist (Craig Newmark) had a PennySaver print ad in his hand well before he ever thought of starting Craigslist.

Penny Saver has been around for more than 50 years and survived the shift from print media to digital media in the online world. If you live in California, you can still find the Penny Saver in print, but everywhere else is online as PennySaver USA.

Also, PennySaver USA is visited more than 1 million unique visitors per month.

Categories

• Arts and entertainment
• Cars and vehicles
• Food and dining
• Jobs
• Merchandise
• Pets
• Real estate
• Services

21. City News

City News offers free classified ads to help you sell or buy all over the world. You can post in City News if you live in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and more. There’s also an option for upgraded ads, but there are charges to upgrade.

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You can choose from a variety of categories to sell or shop in, including:

• Antiques and collectibles
• Astrology, holistic and religion
• Auto and motor vehicles
• Boats and water sports
• Business opportunities
• Real estate
• People connections

And more. I even found ads for medical treatment services, such as knee surgery in foreign countries, which was….interesting.

22. 10 Day Ads

10 Day Ads has an interesting concept going for them. It’s free to list and sell stuff online, however the ads only stay on the site for – you guessed it – 10 days.

The goal, according to the site, is to keep the ads new and fresh so people aren’t seeing the same listings over and over again like can happen when people post on Craigslist.

Not only does this concept help buyers to avoid seeing old ads, it helps them minimize the chances of seeing an ad for an item that is already sold.

Categories

• Antiques and collectibles
• Employment
• Music/records/CDs
• Appliances
• Everything else/miscellaneous
• Personals/video profiles
• Art
• Fashion
• Pets
• Automotive
• Baby items
• Home and garden

And several other categories. The site is pretty well organized and easy to use. The site offered ads from all over the world, however when I checked the listings a lot of the categories had “zero” items for sale.

23. FreeAdsTime

FreeAdsTime looks and runs a lot like Craigslist. You start by choosing your state, and then the city you want to browse in, from the home page.

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From there you can choose from several different categories such as:

• Jobs
• Services
• Vehicles
• Pets
• Real estate/rentals
• Community
• Musician
• Items

“Items” refers to things for sale and under this banner you’ll find links to items such as clothing, collectibles, computers, kids’ stuff, heavy equipment, jewelry, furniture and more.

You don’t have to create an account to post here, however, doing so will give you added benefits, such as being able to track the number of views on the items you’ve posted. It’s free to create an account too.

As I searched the site, I found there were several ads to browse for some items, and zero ads to browse for others. The site was attractive and easy to use.

24. Recycler

Recycler is another site where you place your ads directly. The site is easy to use and has categories such as cars and vehicles, pets, real estate for sale, rentals, sports and recreation, community, jobs and more.

It seemed to me that the majority of the stuff listed for sale here consisted of vehicles. Some categories, such as pets, had no listings when I was doing my research, however in the vehicles category there were thousands of ads to browse through.

You have to create an account with Recycler in order to post an ad, however it’s free to do so. This is a site I’d use to advertise a vehicle I had for sale, but it doesn’t look like it gets a whole lot of traffic for other items.

25. Borro

Borro is a site where you can sell your stuff to a pawn company. Their primary goal is to lend people money using their valuables as security, however it looks like they will buy items within certain parameters.

Items they accept for pawn include: jewelry, precious metals, camera equipment, musical instruments, Apple computers, luxury cars, and designer handbags. You can also buy these items directly from Pawngo.

26. Classified Ads

The Classified Ads website seems to be a pretty popular place to list items for sale.

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Some of the categories they run ads for include:

• Vehicles
• Real estate
• Rentals
• Pets
• Personals
• Jobs
• Items for sale

And others. You can place ads directly on the site, but I also noticed they had ads that seemed to be pulled from other sites. The site is simple, but organized and easy to use.

27. OLX

OLX offers items for sale that include all of the usual stuff: vehicles, real estate, electronics, used furniture, clothing, etc. They have sites for a couple of dozen countries, including Pakistan, Guatemala, India, South Africa and more.

However, when you click on “United States” it brings you to LetGo’s website. It’s a good place to search and list if you live in countries outside of the U.S.

28. Bookoo

Bookoo brings buyers and sellers together. They have site pages for all 50 U.S. states, as well as sites for Germany, Italy, Belgium, Japan, the UK and more.

As far as U.S. ads go, some states had dozens of cities listed while others, like Minnesota, Michigan and Idaho, had between zero and two cities listed.

Within many of the states and cities listed, however, there were quite a few ads to choose from if you’re shopping. This looks like a site that’s doing very well in some states, but still has room to grow in others.

29. Kijiji (Bay Classifieds)

Now rebranded as eBay Classified, Kijiji is dubbed Canada’s most popular free, local classifieds site. Kijiji shares ads in all of Canada’s major provinces and surrounding territories. Ads are listed by province and then narrowed down from there.

Categories

There are dozens of categories to choose from, including those listed below:

• For sale
• Housing
• Electronics
• Jobs
• Pets
• Home and garden
• Community
• Cars and vehicles
• Services and resumes

30. Hoobly

Hoobly classifieds offer the usual stuff: vehicles, clothing, jobs, etc. You don’t need an account to browse listings, however you will need to create one (they’re free) to communicate with sellers or to list something for sale.

There weren’t a ton of listings on this site, but it’d be worth a look if you’re searching for something in particular. States, such as Michigan and Florida, had a lot more listings than many of the other states featured here.

How to Safely Buy and Sell These Sites

Whenever you’re buying – or selling – on websites like the ones mentioned here, it’s important to use safety precautions in an effort to prevent scammers or criminals from taking advantage of you.

You can start by never giving anyone your personal credit or debit card or other financial information. Deal in cash only (or a cashier’s check from your bank for large ticket items) and don’t give sellers money until you’re sure you are getting what you are paying for. There are also apps for sending money online.

Also, when meeting up with someone, bring a second person along if possible, meet in a public place and always let someone know where you’re going and when you should be back.

Done right, you can get some phenomenal deals using online websites!

Summary

As you can see there are a ton of great other sites like Craigslist. Whether you’re looking to sell your car, get a deal on a washing machine, you need to create extra cash flow flipping “stuff” or just need money now you have options.

Also, in the comments below, please let me know if you have tried any of these and what you think of them. Or, if I am missing any other sites, please drop me a comment below and I will get them added in!

Thanks so much!