melbourne · no facebook account required
you can buy and sell secondhand around melbourne without a facebook account. browsing needs no account at all. signing up takes an email address and a suburb. garage opened this year and is still small, which is worth knowing before you come looking for one specific thing.
the obvious place to sell something locally is facebook marketplace, and it needs a facebook account. if you have one and it suits you, use it. there is far more listed there than on garage and that will be true for a long while yet.
this page is for everyone else. people who deleted the account, or never wanted one. plenty of them would rather not put their real name and their friends list next to a bike they are getting rid of.
garage asks for an email address and the suburb you are in. you pick a display name, and it does not have to be your real one.
35 things are listed right now, nearly all of them around melbourne. if you are after a particular model of a particular thing, it probably is not here yet. the things that do turn up are the ordinary ones: a bookshelf somebody is done with, a bike that got outgrown.
nothing here is ordered by how long it can hold your attention. you choose the order: newest, price, or distance.
Your location never gets more precise than your suburb. The map on a listing draws a circle about 500 m in every direction from the middle of that suburb. Nobody’s house is marked.
Photos are re-encoded on your device before they upload, so the GPS coordinates a camera writes into a photo never leave your phone.
There are no ad trackers, and the analytics we run is cookieless. The privacy page has the rest, including how to delete your account.
it costs nothing to list something and nothing to message a seller. there is no fee on a sale.
have a look at what is listed. that needs no account.