"Gumtree is my next move!!!!!!!!!"

Reasons to:

• Free listings
• No "Final Value Fees".

Reasons not to:

• Search functionality. Basically, there isn't any. If you do a search that contains more than one word, you'll get listings that include any of the words. If I search for "TV Week" (as in the magazine, which I collect), I get TV sets, rental properties, ads for talent agencies, etc. Using quotations marks around your search term has no effect. Trying to filter by excluding words (using the minus sign before them) doesn't work.
  
  It's locally-based, so you have to set a search distance from your location (you can type in "Australia" if you want to search nationally).
  
  It's painful...
  
• No "Checkout" system. Basically, the buyer messages you direct, and you come to an arrangement re payment and delivery. That's it. It's the online equivalent of the old "Trading Post" newspaper. Your ad stays active until you delete it - the site does nothing. Nothing in the way of a "Selling / Sold" screen like on here.
  
  
• Dispute resolution. None. If you buy a dodgy item, too bad. No Feedback, no Resolution Centre, no Item Not As Described, no Unpaid Item cases, etc.
  
  
• Fixed-price listings only. No more will you get two people bidding items up to an insane price, and you making a packet. 
  
  
• Haggling. Be prepared for messages asking if you'll take $7.50 for the item you've listed for $50. 
  
  
• Time-wasters. You'll arrange a time and place, and the buyer won't show. Or they'll examine the item, and decide it's not what they wanted. Conversely, you'll drive 20k's to look at an item you intend buying, and find that someone else took it ten minutes before you arrrived...
  
  
• Payment. In theory, only PayPal, Bank Deposit. or Cash on pick-up. In practice, you'll get people offering money orders, Western Union, beads, sea-shells, small children, etc

There's all manner of other numpty-ness on parade on Gumtree - ads for items that sold three weeks ago, which the seller hasn't gotten around to taking down are a highlight. Think of the worst sellers you've seen on eBay - because of its nature, Gumtree's kind of made up of those. Now imagine the buyers...