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So Long OfferUp, It Was Fun While It Lasted (imgur.com)
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I usually spend some time on OfferUp looking at things I might be interested in buying used because why not. I am interested in seeing if I can get some Milwaukee Packout cases slightly used for a deal.

Did a search for "Milwaukee" and got more than 14 pages of posts from a single pawn shop. Most of the ads aren't even selling anything they are just the same text on all of them.

WE ARE LOOKING TO BUY TOOLS DEWALT, MILWAUKEE, MAKITA, SNAP ONE, MAC TOOLS, ALL HIGH END BRANDS - USED IN GOOD CONDITION! MESSAGE WHAT U HAVE OR CALL TO DISCUSS XXX-XXX-XXXX

One of the posts was the same item for sale, but posted like 25 times.

Apparently, caps-lock is where it's at. Anyway, if this is not cleaned up by the OfferUp spam patrol, is there another Craigslist / OfferUp that doesn't have this quantity of spam?

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[-] i_dont_want_to 3 points 1 week ago

It's a shame LetGo got merged with OfferUp. I got some great stuff on LetGo and was able to unload quite a few things too. OfferUp was not nearly as good.

Facebook Marketplace killed Craigslist in my area. As of late, there are more postings than there used to be, but the days of Craigslist being full of deals seem to be gone.

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