7 Tips for Buying and Selling Things Online Safer and Faster

  

 7 Tips for Buying and Selling Things Online Safer and Faster

1. Use a replacement phone number

Often spammers use popular ad sites to collect phone numbers, e-mail, and other contacts. And then they call and send out advertisements. They use database numbers and scammers. Therefore, when you create or edit an ad on Avito in the “Cars” or “Real Estate” categories, you can use the number protection service. So you keep confidentiality, and your phone does not fall into such a database. The service connects a replacement number to the ad. Calls will be forwarded to your real one, but only those whom you yourself will call back or send an SMS message will see it. As soon as the ad is closed, Avito disables call forwarding and calls cease to be received even if the number is in the spammer's database.

Forwarding to a virtual number works only for calls. Messages in instant messengers (WhatsApp and others) and SMS will not pass: this helps protect you from spam. Buyers will still be able to write to you in the Avito messenger.

Number protection is enabled by default. Therefore, if you want to receive SMS and messages in instant messengers, you will have to disable the function in the ad settings.

2. Hide your phone number

If you do not want to receive calls and SMS, on Avito you can hide your phone number and communicate with customers or customers exclusively in chat. To activate a feature, create a new one or edit an existing ad. In the "Contacts" section, select the "In messages" communication method. After that, the Call or Show Phone buttons will disappear from your ad.

3. Study ratings and reviews

On Avito, you can evaluate sellers and leave feedback about them, so if you liked a product, you can always study the rating of its owner and decide on a purchase. Rating is the average of all the ratings buyers put to the seller if their transaction took place or failed. Estimates are taken into account after a personal meeting and after an order with delivery. If you did not agree or did not communicate with the seller at all, your rating will not be included in the rating. But the review on the site will remain, and other users will be able to see it.

4. See ads on the map

It is convenient when you can walk to work and not stand for several hours in traffic jams. To go to a manicure after half a city is also a so-so prospect. And apartments are usually searched in a certain area. On Avito, ads of the categories “Real Estate”, “Jobs” and “Services” can be viewed on the map. For example, if you are looking for an apartment closer to your place of work, you can go to the appropriate category and click "Show ads on the map".

5. Use radius search

In Avito mobile applications for Android and iOS, there is a function to search for ads in a certain radius. It is available in the general category, as well as for job and service announcements.

To use the search in the radius, indicate in the application what you need, and then specify the query. Avito will ask for access to GPS-coordinates or offer to enter the address manually. Then you will need to select a search radius - from 1 to 100 km. When you apply this filter to the search results, you will see only ads in a given radius.

6. Subscribe to sellers

If you often buy on Avito, it is convenient to always have at hand a list of personally verified sellers. Especially if a person sells goods of a certain subject: for example, things for a child of a particular age or interior items. Go to the profile of the seller you like and click on the “Subscribe” button. In private profiles, the button is in the left column, for companies - in the upper part of the profile. Everything! Now ads from your favorite sellers will be displayed in a special section.

7. Save requests and announcements

Keeping hundreds of tabs with suitable ads open to watch later is inconvenient. In addition, a new ad will suddenly appear, better and cheaper? Avito allows you to:

Adding ads to “Favorites” is convenient when there are many interesting offers and you want to compare them.

Save search parameters: you will receive notifications of all new ads for the query of interest, so do not miss anything. It’s also easier to find ads: you don’t have to drive the request by hand - just turn on the necessary filters. For example, you can save the car search by year of manufacture, type of motor, bodywork, and the presence of additional options.