Selling your house? Perhaps you’re selling your car. Or maybe you’ve finally gotten fed up of your kid not taking care of his cat like he said he would and you feel it is time to get rid of him (The cat…!). Well all this is possible with one of the world’s hottest online centralized networks for classified advertisement. What’s the best part? IT’S FREE!!!
Kijiji is a subsidiary of Ebay and was launched in March, 2005. The word “Kijiji” is Swahili for village. True to its name, you can buy and sell items in your own sector by simply selecting the city/town you live in from the list provided. You next select the sector that interests you. Your choices are “Buy and Sell”, “community”, “events”, “cars and vehicles”, “housing”, “jobs”, “pets”, “services”, and “personals”. Yes, that’s right, personals! You can actually shop for a soul mate just as easily as you can a new car!
There is also a section called “want ads” where you can post a specific item that you may be looking for that you have not found among the items currently on sale. Many businesses are using Kijiji for things such as furniture and office equipment to actually finding candidates for job openings.
There is also a section called “Free Stuff” that offers, well, free stuff! If there’s one thing that we human beings love it’s something for free! It is also the ideal section for those of us whose obsessive compulsive disorders do not permit us to throw anything in the garbage. Instead, you can give it away. Simply post the ad (for free), wait for an interested party to contact you, and organise the pick up!
