Organize! Simplify! {a giveaway!}

By Beth
Sep 13, 2009

A few months ago I was contacted about having an organizing expert come to my house for a one hour consultation, the person would then talk to me about Kijiji, eBay’s free, family-friendly, local classifieds site. 

I agreed to this for two reasons.  One, organization is really important to me, but I’m not really good at it, so any help would have been greatly appreciated.  The second reason is that I loved the idea that there was finally a safe website for listing items to sell locally.  Back in June I listed two couches on Craigslist, rather than being excited when people would respond to my ad, I found myself skeptical and actually scared by their responses.  I trusted NO ONE.  Especially to COME TO MY HOUSE.  Every response came across as shady.

Rather than responding to the interested parties, I hid in the corner with my hands over my ears screaming “what I have done, I listed my couches ONLINE!!  WE’LL NEVER BE SAFE AGAIN.”

Needless to say, I did not sell the couches using Craigslist.  It was then that I read that people can actually sell sex on Craigslist and I thought “you know, maybe this place needs some work, some security and maybe I QUIT IT.“  (p.s.  if you’ve used it and it was a good experience, that is awesome, I’m just overly paranoid, I’m sure.) (Not that I have anything against selling sex on online except that REALLY I DO.)

So, when I found out about Kijiji, I was very excited and instantly felt better just by visiting the website.  And honestly, I wanted to tell all of you about it because obviously the more people who know about it…the better.

Posting on Kijiji is unbelievably simple and straightforward.  I did it!  It took just a few moments, LOVED IT.

GIVEAWAY!

To celebrate Kijiji and organization, I am giving away a $100 gift card to Organize.com which may be one of the greatest websites in the history of the world.  I’m not kidding.  If you go there be prepared to be inspired and also, be prepared to go broke because the laundry sorters, the closet storage, the kitchen organization, the office supplies…GAH!  It’s beautiful.  All of it.

And one of you lucky dogs will get ONE HUNDRED BIG ONES to spend in this glorious place.  *cough*totally jealous*cough*

There are many ways to win!

1.  Post about Kijiji and this giveaway on your blog and leave the link in the comments section.

2.  Tweet about Kijiji and this giveaway on Twitter and leave the link to your tweet in the comments section

3.  TRY IT! List something you’ve been wanting to sell on Kijiji and leave that link in the comments section.

Three chances to win!

Comments will be closed on Wednesday, September 16th at 9:00 pm CST.  Winner will be chosen at random.

BEST OF LUCK!

(don’t forget to follow Kijiji on twitter – @kijijius!)

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Comments

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    Denene@MyBrownBaby says:
    September 13, 2009 at 8:41 am

    Okay—LOVE this! I have a house-full of furniture to sell and I’m scared crapless to list it on Craigslist. UGH! (Though I did buy a fantastic Nikon D-50 from a struggling college student off of Craigslist… I met her at a Starbucks just down the street from a police station… just in case I needed reinforcements. Sad, but true.)

    Definitely going to check out Kijiji! And mama definitely could use some organization in her life. My laundry room is a HOT mess.

    I tweeted:

    http://twitter.com/MyBrownBaby/status/3955288865

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    Mom at MusingsoftheSixties says:
    September 13, 2009 at 9:56 am

    I browsed Kijiji and wrote about it here: http://musingsofthesixties.blogspot.com/2009/09/kijiji-and-more.html

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    Carletta says:
    September 13, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Ok…this is AWESOME!! I just did some reorganizing and could really use the additional support!!

    Yeah!!

    I tweeted: http://twitter.com/Carlettahurt

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    Lyndsay says:
    September 13, 2009 at 11:06 am

    I’ve been using kijiji for months and LOVE it! In fact I’m got a bunch of items listed right now – 3 that should be sold by the end of the day.

    Here is one of them:

    http://winnipeg.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-baby-items-clothing-0-3-months-Snowsuit-Never-been-worn-3-months-boys-or-girls-W0QQAdIdZ155296953

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    Adrienne says:
    September 13, 2009 at 11:09 am

    Wow, awesome giveaway!!! Tweeted here – http://twitter.com/delunadesign

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    Erin says:
    September 13, 2009 at 11:40 am

    There is nothing I need more right now than organization. Especially in the laundry room, omg.
    http://twitter.com/erincharp/status/3958302217

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    Anjie B. says:
    September 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    Kijiji looks so much nicer than that other online classified ad company.
    And I’d love to win the giveaway! I posted about everything on my blog.

    http://abehunin.blogspot.com/2009/09/im-mom-spreading-word.html

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    laura says:
    September 13, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    http://twitter.com/laurathemum/status/3958633265 and http://twitter.com/laurathemum/status/3958592340

    my husband has an ebay business he runs out of our house, we have 2 kids, and a 1500 sq. foot house. i could use some organize.com in my life. thanks for the opportunity!

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    inthefastlane says:
    September 13, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    i may or may not need to get rid of anything right now, but anything that fuels my organization obsession has to be good right? http://twitter.com/inthefastlane/status/3959073702

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    Jaime says:
    September 13, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    Kijiji is great but be careful, there’s a lot of scams on it too.

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    Devan says:
    September 13, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    Wow – I have lots of BIG toys that are just too big to ship – this site will help out so much! Thanks for sharing the info – I had never heard of it and was a little leary of using Craigslist.

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    Amy J says:
    September 13, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    http://twitter.com/maoj (Also I am twitter deficient, how do I link to a single post?)

    I would love to be more organized!

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    Evelyn says:
    September 13, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Here in Nova Scotia kijiji is way, way more popular than Craigslist. I don’t think I know anyone who would even consider Craigslist. I’ve used kijiji numerous times (buying and selling) and haven’t had a bad experience yet. My brother has even gotten some carpentry work using it.

    Anyway, since everyone I know already knows about it, and I’m in Canada and your contest probably doesn’t count for me, I’m not going to blog about it. But just wanted to tell you that I agree! It’s great!

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    Tricia Z says:
    September 13, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    I would love to sell mt services as a translator on Kijiji!
    Thanks for such a great giveaway!

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    Carrie says:
    September 13, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    I tweeted the giveaway: http://www.twitter.com/mrshart03. I don’t know how to link to a specific tweet – if you do, would you help me out???

    Reply
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    kyla says:
    September 14, 2009 at 7:29 am

    What a wonderful giveaway! I just had to pass it along via Facebook, and I saved Kijiji to my fav’s. Can’t wait to post my hubby’s old boat on there! ;)

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    Karen B. says:
    September 14, 2009 at 8:56 am

    I will have a few big items to sell. I was not excited about using Craigslist. I never heard of Kijiji and checked it out and it sounds good. Telling everyone I know to check out Kijiji.

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    Kijiji says:
    September 14, 2009 at 9:42 am

    Hi Jaime,

    We have automated spam/scam filters in place, but they unfortunately can’t catch everything. If you ever encounter a scam on Kijiji, please click on “Report This Ad” in the upper right corner of the ad, or contact our dedicated customer service team and they will be sure to remove it: http://info.kijiji.com/help/index.php?a=add

    Thanks!

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    Ann G says:
    September 14, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Wow!! What a cool alternative! Over the past couple of weeks we have been trying to sell some stuff over Craigslist and we have been contacted by more spammers than I could imagine. It really is very SAD that people think they can be so dishonest…I’ve only sold 2 things to “real” people who wanted our stuff. I’ve had about 70 responses….not a good average if you ask me. I’ll be posting our stuff to Kijiji very soon (like right after I sign off here and go to Craigslist and copy and paste to Kijiji)! Thanks for sharing this alternative!

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    Ricki says:
    September 14, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    This looks really great! I may be trying this out very soon! Thanks for the giveaway…

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    Ivy says:
    September 14, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    Awesome giveaway! I tweeted about it here.

    http://twitter.com/Fidgetybird

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    Lisa says:
    September 15, 2009 at 8:31 am

    Girl, I need some home organizational help in a bad way. I tweeted about this…..

    http://twitter.com/MommyMo/status/4005374944

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    will says:
    September 15, 2009 at 9:05 am

    Wish we had something like that over in the UK! would be very useful

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    HaB says:
    September 15, 2009 at 11:51 am

    Great Giveaway idea…and I will probably order from Organize.com even if I don’t win!

    http://twitter.com/HaBryerton/status/4009300679

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    Jennifer says:
    September 15, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    My teeny tiny kitchen needs help!

    http://www.itsabeautifulride.com/2009/09/giveaway.html#links

    and

    twitter.com/beautifulride

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    Kijiji says:
    September 15, 2009 at 3:23 pm

    Hi Ann,

    You can also import your ads on other classifieds sites to Kijiji automatically by using our Ad Importer!

    Check it out here: http://info.kijiji.com/importer/index.php?mpch=ads

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