Gumtree Avis 

Simply doesn't work. Posted a free add and it kept taking 1/3 off the asking price when posting regardless of the item being for free. What a waste of time.

Yes, I could have raised a support ticket but this is pretty basic functionality and not going to waste my time fixing their issues. There are dozens of alternative sites.

GUMTREE ARE THE SCAMMERS TOOK £30 FOR AN ADVERT WHICH WAS DELETED STRAIGHT AWAY CANT GET ANY ANSWERS OTHER THAN DIDNT MEET T&Cs BUT CAN NOT TELL ME WHY !!! REFUSE TO REFUND THE MONEY BACK TO ME ITS A COMPLETE SCAM NO CUSTOMER SERVICE AT ALL NO CONTACT NUMBER YOU CAN SEND AN EMAIL AND GET AN AUTOMATED RESPONSE NO ANSWERS **** BEWARE DO NOT USE ****

Man collected a large amount of weight listed Lego & happily paid the asking price of £60 cash. Later on he claimed it was weighing light & he wanted a part refund. I explained no it wasn’t light & that respectfully, he could have taken what he wanted out & was scamming me. I then had his partner messaging threats for a full refund ! I ignored them then received home printed letters, claiming they are from the small claims court & to refund them asap ! Nightmare annoying sale.

The account was blocked with no clear explanation. I was trying to create an ad with item's photo made by myself. No delivery and online payment required. Collection only. Three times my ad was rejected just for no reason.
As i see from other testimonials here, Gumtree are scummers themselves.

I posted an add on gumtree and they took it off without a reason charged me £29.99
Which is lot of money for an add
I can’t see anything wrong with my add
And they have not give me my money back I have put complaints in but no luck this is like theft and I will go to the citizen advice and will contact trading standards what a dodgy thieving company gumtree is not conducting its self in a professional manner something needs to be done add number 1445320994

GUMTREE TOOK £30 FROM MY BANK ACCOUNT AND REMOVED MY POSTED AD.
NO REFUND,NO EXCUSE ,NO REASONS!!
NEVER AGAIN.
LEGAL THEFT!!!
🤬🤬😡🤮
1445449932

Complete Nigerians. Send me a list of completely unappropriate adverts every day.
Whatever programme or system they are using is rubbish.
Can only assume it is run by 13 year old girls who know nothing about nothing.

Contacted Gumtree to make a complaint. One user messaged me with a low ridiculous offer few days later sent another offer which was the same amount ,I declined . After selling my item to another buyer ,The user who initially sent offer was allowed and did leave bad feedback all because I didn't except his ridiculous low offer . Now I'm left with bad feedback after years of selling and buying on gumtree ,costomer service is pathetic to say the least. I explained what happened and stated this should not of been allowed to happen and they refused to do anything about it.
Its been four days and still haven't had any follow up reply, when I asked why was a user allowed to leave bad feedback just because I did not except his offer ?

Where is the protection for a seller from user who clearly abuse the site .

Gumtree is a platform that looks like no any admin takes care for it. Thousands of very old adds that should be deleted from time to time. Regardless this, is a platform that scams is a highly rate than any other I had advertised. Get away of this platform as is a waste of time and energy

!!Shut the site down because its just full of scammers!!

GUMTREE TOOK £40 FROM MY BANK ACCOUNT AND DISABLE MY POSTED AD AND THEY DONT REFUND TO MILLIONS OF USERS AVOID GUMTREE IT BECOME SCUM WEBSITE NOW 👎👎👎👎👎

Asked for cars or vsns under £1000 all ads sent to me were way over this some were £30.000 plus!!!

Beware that when trying to post an ad on Gumtree not only is their format painful to use but my ad costing me £9.99 for the very most basic could not be accessed by myself and it was not linked to my account- I then had to waste even more time after the painful experience of trying to create the post - the only reason I begrudgingly paid the £9.99 is I only found out they have put their prices up by £8 since I last tried to use them) I contacted them several times to ask what was wrong with the ad I could not see it linked to my account nor could I slide the live notifications on - finally ( meanwhile I’d sold all the kittens elsewhere via free ads and word of mouth) They refused me a refund even though when I asked for it - the ad I’d paid for was not fit for purpose as in not live - I am very frustrated that I wasted many’s hours of my time and was charged £10 just for them to approve it - they definitely have become money grabbing uncaring people be warned I paid £10 wasted many hours and for treated terribly it’s not just the money it’s their attitude they were even aware I’m am unemployed due to long term illness - avoid them use the other on line platforms available!!

They only finally made this ad live after I demanded my money back when I’d already sold the kittens privately and elsewhere their ad didn’t actually sell them just was frustrating and overpriced !!! pets 4 Homes half the price and offers a better service more pictures and even videos !!!

I use to use Gumtree regularly after this I’ll not use them again. A real shame as they were previously great to deal with.

Time wasters who take your address & never show up...Avoid...

Don’t get your workmen from Gumtree they are all inexperienced they will leave your work half completed, Someone even told me he would complete the work the next day, to give him the money I trusted him the money but he never showed up! Gumtree did nothing about it!
Use mybuilders.com tradesmen they are experienced and well mannered, will leave your job to satisfactory level. If not you can at least leave a review which trades person really cares about.

See all the other posts of sellers listing ads and then inexicably taken down and basically told "don't come back!". Exact same for me. I stupidly paid promo fees, which they decided they were within their rights to keep despite my ad never going live. Something else is going on here with this company. Suggest you don't line up for the unexpected whacks and insults coming your way from the 'service team'.

DO NOT BUY FROM THIS BUYER!
ANNA OF ARNOLD, NOTTINGHAM. 07908 429448.

LAURA ASHLEY PAINTED FURNITURE.

MY COFFEE TABLE CAME, TOTALLY SCRATCHED, WHEN I TOLD ANNA NO FORM OF AN APOLOGY. STILL WAITING FOR PAINT TO TOUCH UT UP MYSELF. DISGRACEFUL WAY TO CONDUCT A BUSINESS.

My add for a piano has only been up for a couple of days and so far I've only had responses from people who are clearly scammers. Too much like hard work tbh. Gumtree responded quickly when I let them know about first scammer but after 4th it was more hassle than it's worth. Wish I hadn't wasted my £10 promoting my ad. Wouldn't recommend.

Had 3 immediate lengthy email to and fros from obvious scammers with no intention whatever of buying my iPhone. Gumtree/eBay do absolutely nothing to limit the plague of scammers on the site. Why don’t they at least list how long users have been registered so that you can try to spot scams from people who have just joined for a single try at defrauding then use a different account next time. The amount of care you need when trying to sell something is just OTT.

This website is an absolute joke i tried to sell my old xbox and all i did was post two pictures and a description and they removed it when i asked why they email back

Good day Lauren,

Thank you for contacting us. I hope you're doing great. Unfortunately, after review of your account, we will not be able to restore your ad.

We reserve the right to remove content and disable accounts where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of our terms or the rights of any other party.

We ask that you do not continue posting any further ads, as they will be automatically removed. Thanks for your cooperation and understanding.

Still zero explanation in what i actually did wrong and when i tried to ask they just end the chats and have now blocked me it seems