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But do you know 5miles? Or Letgo? Or OfferUp or Neerbuy or Saily or VarageSale? These sites are a visual marketplace, showing pictures of an item but often
by caf 10y ago
But do you know 5miles? Or Letgo? Or OfferUp or Neerbuy
or Saily or VarageSale? These sites are a visual
marketplace, showing pictures of an item but often
including few words to describe it. They offer the seller
anonymity while making it hard for police or others to
search the web for keywords. Lost a bike? You could spend
hours scrolling through pictures across more than a
half-dozen sites trying to track it down. Then do it
again the next day. These sites may sell legit
merchandise. But they’re also the 21st-century way to
fence stolen goods.
This makes it sound an awful lot like these sites are knowingly - or at least with a Lucille Bluth wink - catering to people fencing stolen goods.
- bfuller 10y agoI seriously doubt their business model is based on fencing stolen goods but I would be interested to hear the customer service directors excuse for why this is not the case.
- j28xfc5qsc 10y agoI don't work for one of those apps, but have used one. I like it because it is a lower-friction way to buy and sell items. I can take pictures of items in my garage with my phone and quickly list them without going to my desktop and writing up a Craigslist post. It's the same old story of Uber/Tinder/etc making something easy to do on your phone.