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03-08-2005 06:35 PM
We would like to announce our launch of online classifieds Web sites in select international markets. Launched under the brand Kijiji, which means “village” in Swahili, the Web sites offer people in the same city a convenient way to meet, have fun, share ideas, and trade various goods and services.
Kijiji is now available in more than 50 cities in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. In Canada, Kijiji is available in French only in Montreal and Quebec City. From building friendships and trading large appliances to talking about the city’s best restaurants or looking for a babysitter, Kijiji is designed to help people connect.
We encourage you to visit the Kijiji site, post a classified, and tell us what your experience has been. Is it easy to use? Do you like the site? Would you use Kijiji?
Kijiji
eBay Pink, Kitty will be reading this thread and answering your questions.
Regards,
Carly
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02-25-2006 07:54 PM
I have not had much success with the site. And although I don't consider myself a prude, frankly, I find a lot of the personal ads extremely offensive.
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02-26-2006 12:14 AM
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02-26-2006 09:01 AM
My husband is the one who stumbled upon the personal ads when I tried to get him to list some of his stuff. I don't make a habit of reading them. I just find it a little odd that a website that heralds itself as a community, and seemingly with an eBay affiliation, would allow that sort of thing.
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03-02-2006 09:05 AM
http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-SelectCategory
page takes a long time to load and fails...
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03-22-2006 09:06 AM
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03-22-2006 09:31 PM
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03-27-2006 07:38 PM
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03-28-2006 07:40 AM
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04-15-2006 03:29 PM
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04-15-2006 03:35 PM
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04-22-2006 02:17 PM
Ive used the site a few time and had a great experience thier is however space for a few correction to make it easier to use.
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04-23-2006 09:25 AM
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05-04-2006 12:35 PM
My only nagging question is, what is the strategic value of this site in the eBay portfolio, or to put it plainly, how will eBay use this to make money?
I find it most curious that kijiji offers me the opportunity to buy and sell items without fees. In other words, although its "local" nature greatly reduces the reach and exposure of items I may be looking to sell, or the volume of choice in items I might be looking to buy, it allows me as a buyer/seller to avoid both listing fees and shipping fees.
With eBay's success, I just get the impression that a whole lot more traffic could remain revenue-generating at eBay if they reduced and SIMPLIFIED the fee structure so that a seller better understood the total cost of selling an item before they start their sell auction.
I've also wondered by eBay never bought a shipping company and offered preferred pricing to eBay customers. In so doing, eBay could realize new revenue streams to offset the reduction in fees, thereby increasing traffic, trust, etc. These are strategic ideas I'd more expect to continue to build the eBay brand, revenue, and trust in the system.
Further, and more importantly, the resources spent developing kijiji might have been better invested in a serious address of increasing security and fraud issues in the eBay community. I've downscaled the amount of non-local traffic on eBay because I am increasingy wary of scams in both selling and buying. That's the prime reason I went looking for a local site and stumbled upon kijiji, and then was surprised to find out it's an eBay entity.
Instead, they offer kijiji and now I have an outlet to sell without fees?
I don't get it, unless the fees are coming, or some other thing is in place behind the scenes to make it worth their while...??
Please clarify what kijiji does for eBay. I tend not to trust that a for-profit organization with as rampant a clutch on revenues as eBay should do ANYTHING strictly for the benevolent benefit of non-paying public.
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05-17-2006 04:17 PM
sorry to say, but you need some work on this!
go for it!
danielle3190
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05-19-2006 02:34 PM
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05-24-2006 12:27 AM
Also just bought a vehicle through the local Kijiji listings. And they had it listed on eBay at the same time, too, funny I never came across that listing? LOL

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06-12-2006 03:01 AM
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07-18-2006 02:23 PM
