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Improve on the way you make a post!
Dear developer,
Please make pictures bigger after you choose them. It’s so tiny and there’s no way to view the picture bigger before posting. Also, when looking at your listings, please make the pictures a lot lot bigger. Also, when going back and forth on your selections when making a new post, the text keeps getting deleted. Please make it a way for the text to not disappear. Sometimes I forget to click on a different picture to post and I go back to the option where you choose pictures. I already put the description and when I go forward to the next screen, all my descriptions are deleted!Show lessXstina123
Not good for the Ganges made
I have had this app for a year or more. And list a minimum of 75 listings. But sine you can only boost the list 3 times for free and just pay for featuring after that my store activity has dropped by 90%. Abductors boost all of my listings would be almost $400 for a week. This has made it not worth my time in list or even selling on this app. I will go elsewhere , when at one time this was a productive and gainful of list my jewelry and art that I do . It’s a waste of time and I won’t spend the money they ask for to feature a proxy that I shouldn’t gave or it basically falls if the radar. Bad move on thier partShow lessstarrs metalworks
The worst of the four popular classifieds apps
1. Takes forever to load compared to Craigslist, Offer Up and Letgo apps.
2. Generates the fewest sales compared to the above listed apps. Namely one sale compared to a few dozens througout the other platforms. No wonder, how many users would want to stick with 5 Miles considering all the drawbacks?
3. Limits photo size, allowing to load any shape photo and then removing (!) the entire ad a few minutes after posting because “one of my photos was too long”. At least allow to edit photos instead of having me post the entire ad all over again!
4. Persistently displays new activity notification on app icon even when I already reviewed it.
5. Counts app generated nonsensical notifications as messages making me check the app way too often with no way to turn them off and keep the relevant buyer message notifications.
Update: after a few of these before noon today I did change the rating from 2 stars to 1 star.
6. Gets stuck on some screens making it impossible to continue without closing the app and reopening it again.
7. The ads are as irrelevant and ugly as could be (think advertising gross pics apps over and over again).Show lessPrelestnica
Developer Response
Really appreciate your feedback and we will improve on above points, if you meet any specific issues, do not hesitate to contact us at support@5milesapp.comThis app was great but not anymore
I have been using 5miles for 3 years and sold a bunch of stuff using the free boost option. Now the free boost option is no longer available. You get 4 free boost when you list your item that’s it. I will use those 4 free ones in 1 day. I can’t pay to boost listing I am selling items under $20. If you must charge to boost do on items over $50. Why charge people on these small inexpensive items. Those of us who sale “cheap garage sale items” should be given a break. I will be switching to OfferUp. 5MILES if you ever bring back the boost option for items under $50 I will be back. Review from a disappointed former 5miles user.Show lessLisdeanne
Just a terrible app.
If you look through the reviews you read reviews that have 5 stars but everything they said was a negative about the app. This app is filled with spam and advertisements, it does not feel authentic. It links to other apps like “burner phone” that just want to make you subscribe for payments to o use. The speed deals that you bid on are just cheap items from china that show an original price that is completely made up, a scam I hope people do not fall for. User-ability is terrible and difficult to navigate. I also believe messages are fake to think your products are getting interest.
The final thing. I have never heard of this app and found it by just strolling though the app store. I have never heard of anyone else actually using this app.
Stay away, there are way better apps and websites you could use to sell your items.Show lessJohnnyp12759383
Developer Response
Hi ! Thanks for the feedback on spam and advertisements and we will forward your voice to our Developers. Hopefully we can optimize 5miles app and make it more user friendly soon!Ridiculous
I’ve been using 5 mile for a few years. Recently I found out you need to ((pay)) to boost your items you are selling. I have a lot of items. I’ve worked hard to get them. I’m trying to make money with the stuff I am selling. Money is tight and this gets me by. Anyways why do we have to pay you in order to boost. I’m trying to make money in the first place. Why would I pay you when I hardly have any. It’s been free to boost forever. I had over 50 items that I was selling and now since I’m being charged a few dollars an item I decided to unlist and delete all of my items off of 5 mile. This is ridiculous. I’m not going to pay you anything. I am deleting the app and going elsewhere. 😡Show lessDiamond Princess Presley
Unacceptable!
I have had the app for a few years now and started running into an issue with posting. I wasn’t able to get past a certain point and kept giving me an error to where i couldn’t post any new items or even edit current posted items. I got so frustrated that i emailed their tech support to get the issue resolved. I emailed back and forth with now going on 4 people. At first they kept saying restart your phone and try reconnecting your internet and so forth which i thought was weird seeing as though my issue had nothing to do with any of those solutions. I then got an email from another department saying the reason for by denied purchase was due to not having enough “friends”. That’s when i knew they weren’t going to resolve the issue. Why is it so hard to fix a cliche on the app. I haven’t had this issue before so I’m not sure why it started now. It has made the app impossible to use which is very disappointing. I’ll be using other apps for my selling needs and keep this in mind when reaching out to a company like this. My issue is still currently unresolved.Show lessbuysellfanatic
Fake Messages
This is also, as others below have described, been a big issue on the app. People messaging you that haven’t been active for more than 3-5 days or more that message you out of the blue with one or two questions in badly written English. “Can pick up today”, “I would like to buy”, “need more information before I buy now”. These messages are not sent by the buyer but the app itself. Please do NOT use this app to sell your items unless you know it is a REAL person and will actually be in your area to pickup items. I cannot stress enough that someone that hasn’t opened the app in more than a week will not send a message at all.
Please fix this in your app, your obvious malpractice of selling, or I will make sure to find a way to get your app off of the App Store.Show lessmbkta
Absolute garbage. Use ANY other sales app instead!
I haven’t had ANY positive experiences with this app. I spend the time to type out detailed listings, add my pictures, etc. only to have my listings removed with ZERO explanation. When you click the option to appeal, it immediately gets denied, again without explanation. If you email them for clarification, it’s the same thing. I tried getting more information, and they told me that nobody can sell those items, yet there are LITERALLY dozens of them listed! They said I could report them, so I did, yet over a week later & theirs are still up.
I’ve NEVER had a listing removed in the other selling apps! In fact, with this app, I’ve never had any real people inquire about my items. Maybe the previous reviews I read were accurate.
Sorry if this review sounds like a rant- I’m frustrated!!Show lessLoisangel
Getting worse with every update
Now there is no way to set the distance & they’ve added something stupid where you can bid on items. I won a bid & they expect me to pay for it & you can’t even tell them your size. I’m not paying for anything if your not able to have it sent in my size. Stupid addition to 5 miles. Also, this app never boosts my items, even after 2 days. I notice everyone else’s items are boosted. I’m not selling anything that is prohibited, so there is no excuse. I got rid of this app in the past because of the same problem with boosting, decided to see if the problem was fixed, but nothing has changed. I don’t expect to get a response since no one really cares about reviews unless it’s a good review. Totally useless app.Show lesslc012477
