Shpock: Buy & Sell Marketplace 12+

We’ve been using shpock for over two years and prefer this platform to sell unwanted items, including technology, clothes and bric a brac. Its also great to be able to search locally for something you need and ask the seller questions before you visit to buy. The app is easy to use. Simply take a picture(s) of your item within the app, add a description, price it and click, its for sale. The majority of shpockers are honest and trustworthy. I like the opportunity to meet a buyer and receive cash - no fee to pay! I’m also happy to send items by post using paypal payment. Shpock instructs that when a deal is offered, accepted and confirmed it is legally binding. This is not true as some buyers will change their mind and fail to turn up for their items. Just re-list the sale and carry on. Be careful to only present your full address to buyers within the deal/offer dialogue of the app. All shpockers can see the open questions and answers section. Be firm with buyers about time frame for collection to minimise hassle. Shpock would improve if it provided an escrow service ie, hold a payment with an offer, requiring the buyer to have ‘skin in the game’. This would stop any time-wasting.

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The Shpock app itself is really good and well thought out - it's intuitive, relevant and ergonomic in almost every area. The only downside to this app is nothing to do with the build of the app and everything to do with the end users who are using it. I would say it's roughly 50/50 on whether you are going to get a trustworthy and responsible, honest and reliable buyer/seller and the rest of the time it's going to be people who just literally waste everyone's time and don't seem to care about it. This is a shame because it's so easy to upload a new item for sale within literally seconds, but then to spend sometimes weeks or months selling it because you've had to relist the item several times due to people saying they are buying it then not turning up or cancelling the sale altogether - there is no real incentive to the buyer to carry on to the end of the transaction if they so happen to just change their minds, I understand that this is sometimes good for everyone but St the same to.e, I tink it would be better if "repeat" incidents by the sesame buyer/seller are then treated differently and some sort of eating or penalty fee are then levied on those users, that would surely help to weed out the non-serious users?... Anyway... Rant aside as I said this app is brilliant for what it is intended for and is really easy to use even for the beginner level users out there.

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It’s OK, but There are two major flaws with Shpock. One , when someone has made an offer and you have accepted and sent them a message saying so, until that person confirms the deal you can not get back in touch with them until they do, nor can you edit the item , so you are locked into a deal until the other person confirms, they have up to 3 days to do this. Several times I have had time wasters who don’t confirm and I or Shpock need to cancel the deal, in this time It has stopped any genuine buyers from making a genuine offer, and so a time waster has cost me a sale. It would be better if you were able to chase up an offer and ask them to either confirm or cancel a deal if they fail to confirm, or maybe you just want to stay in contact until they do, but you can’t. Also, Shpock do not seem to check and block obvious scam artists once they have been reported. Shpock seems to be infested with these. Luckily I can spot them a mile off, but others can’t. Another thing is, and this is not necessary a fault of Shpock, for every 1 genuine buyer you get, you have to endure about 10 time wasters, scam artists, and idiots who deliberately make silly offers just to be mischievous or think your stupid or desperate enough to accept. I have actually sold more items more successfully on other sites rather than Shpock. Fortunately I have nearly sold all the items I need to sell now as I am moving house in a week, we’ll just give what’s left to a charity shop.

Hi, while we have strict security measures in place to prevent bad actors from contacting other users on our platform, they unfortunately can make it through our tight safety net in some cases. Please report issues during a deal through the menu at the top right of your chat, so that we can take immediate action. Kind regards, your Shpock Team