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5miles: Buy and Sell Locally is an iPhone and Android Shopping App, made by The Third Stone Holdings Limited. Today, it has gone through many interations by the developers - The Third Stone Holdings Limited, with the latest current version being 8.7.6 which was officially released on 2020-12-04. As a testament to the app's popularity or lack thereof, it has gathered a total of 191,645 Reviews on the Apple App Store alone, with an average user rating of 4.70427 out of a possible 5 stars.

How does it Work?

5miles opened a new channel called 5miles Dash. It is a new auction feature that allows you to bid on brand new items. - Auctions last 90 seconds and bids start at $1. - Only pay when you win. - Items are shipped directly to your door. - If user is unsatisfied with a product, we offer buyer protection so you can request a refund. - Claim up $22 Coupon package towards your first purchase. 5miles is the highest rated local marketplace app, helping you buy and sell stuff in your area. 5miles is free, easy, and safe and has facilitated more than $1 BILLION in local sales, helping 10 million happy users put money back in their pockets and find great products at great rates. “5miles is the first to integrate local services into an app of this kind” - CNBC “The 5miles app is a great way to sell old items AND to buy new things at a fraction of the cost they would be retail.” - Alicia Reneeg, BuzzFeed “It’s better than Craigslist and it’s better than OfferUp with its attention to informative detail.” Catherine, 5miles buyer With 5miles you can also discover great classifieds in your area, find a place to live, hire local services, or get a new job - all from the comfort of your phone. It’s FREE to list items for sale and FREE to discover local goods and services, all within 5 miles. Easy • Snap a photo and offer up your items in seconds • Use GPS and zip code to find thousands of listings nearby • Make an offer by sending an in app chat message • Free to boost your post to send it to the top of the feed • Easy registration via Facebook or email • Share your listings via Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and Email Safe • Email, phone, and Facebook verifications • Rate and read reviews of buyers and sellers • Use our Safe Area Exchange Locator (SEAL) feature to find a secure meetup spot • 5miles team constantly monitors listings and chats to keep fraud away • 5miles doesn't share your information with anyone • Don't want to meetup? Choose shipping for your exchange method Fun • Discover great stuff near and far by browsing photos • Search and filter to find relevant listing • Like items and follow sellers • Make offers and get the best deals • Chat to share more details, photos, and meeting spots • Share listings to Facebook and Twitter to sell faster Shop, make offers, and list items and services for free. It's like your own online garage sale without the hassle. Find home cleaning, home repair, or home improvement professionals. Get help with chores or errands. Find a mover you can trust. Looking for housing or a roommate? Find apartments, houses, and condos for rent or sale. Find a roommate to share your dream loft. Landlords, list your real estate in a snap! Looking for work? Find jobs near you! Full-time, part-time, freelance jobs, or short gigs. FREE for everyone. Download now and discover great listings from the 5miles community. Are you ready to go shopping? Want to find out more about us? https://www.5miles.com/ Email: hello@5milesapp.com

Top Reviews

OFFER UP IS A BETTER APP

By abbyr815

I’ve had this app since 2016 and it USED to be a great app but for some reason lately I can’t post a single item without getting a notification almost immediately from 5miles saying my post was taken down because “it’s a duplicate post”. Before 5miles even responds with some MEANINGLESS APOLOGY or a STUPID SUGGESTION of theirs my post was NOT a duplicate post. All my items are different and I take time to take pictures and post them. People (that act like children) selling the same thing I do flag my posts because I sell my stuff cheaper and 5miles doesn’t even bother looking at it before removing it. It’s frustrating and I don’t need a USELESS LINK from the “5miles developer” to some email y'all will never reply to. If you’re going to delete my “duplicate post” delete everyone else selling the same thing I do without picking and choosing just mine it’s frustrating. I haven’t used the app for about 6 months for this same reason and don’t plan on using it any longer. I’ve had the same issues with OFFER UP because there’s childish people there too but when I email them they resolve the issue quickly and ban those accounts flagging competitors but when I tried to dispute the issue with 5miles they simply went ahead and removed most of my posts and said they were all “duplicate”. I WOULDN'T WASTE ANY TIME DOWNLOADING THIS APP WHEN OFFER UP IS A WAY BETTER OPTION THEIR TEAM ACTUALLY PAYS ATTENTION TO YOUR ISSUES.
App Run By Idiots

By BarterKing62

I have used 5miles since it first came out, and at the time it was a great concept. The name said it all… Shop and sell quickly within a 5 mile radius of where you live. But then for some reason they caved in to pressure from lazy users and expanded their search area to a wide region, and all of a sudden sellers had people contacting them from two hours away to buy a $10 blender. None of these transactions ever worked out obviously. It used to be you could bump your items every four hours also, but over time this got changed to once a day, and then it changed again to some ridiculous “coin“ system where you have to spend time on the app earning coins to bump your items. Sellers became very frustrated with 5miles. A worse problem is that over the last few years people have been allowed to troll the sellers and then give them a negative rating without having done any business together. I can’t tell you how many negative reviews I have had to have removed because of trolls. I have dozens of positive reviews and very satisfied customers, and yet because of trolls lodging slanderous false complaints against me, I have had my account suspended. Their support people don’t even respond to me anymore when I send them screenshots. A useful sales tool has become absolutely worthless, and it’s because it is run by morons.
Unacceptable!

By buysellfanatic

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.
“Fake users”

By NDIBRO

I can’t 100% prove it but I get messages from people who have not been active in multiple days or weeks. I think the app is looking at products that are not selling well and it sends automated messages from inactive accounts. The messages are asking questions like “ Do you have more pictures?” I always have at least 5+ pictures in my listings. When I ask what other pictures they want there is never a response. They ask “Can you give me more information?” I over explain each of my products to make sure that there is no confusion later in the process. But again when I ask what other information they are looking for, no response. I get the question are they being sold as a group or individually and in the listing it says “I am pricing/selling them individually.” Shocker no response from them either. I have yet to sell anything on here because the couple times I have had real interest the people don’t show up or they are expecting me to deliver a $15 product 30 miles from my house for free. Use a different app this one doesn’t seem to have an ethical setup!
Entire system is flawed

By Nunya biz ness

I’ve tried so many times to sell stuff through this app and have been disappointed every time. Seems like the people that are “buyers” on here don’t do anything but waste your time asking lots of questions and basically wanting you to give it away for free only to leave you stranded in the end. They have no means of screening sellers and buyers to verify if they are even who they say they are. Also, I tried to advertise a yard sale and posted pictures of the things I’m selling to encourage people to come and check them out in person. In the end I get flagged by 5 miles and my listings get pulled for “duplicates”. Why? Because I used the same pictures for my individual listings as I had in my yard sale listing. So dumb in so many different ways. Just save your time people! If you want to safely and efficiently sell your stuff take the cut and sell through EBAY. Heck, at this point even offer up has better options for sellers than 5 miles. This app is nothing but overhyped due to their “duplicate” commercials on social media.
2 days into the 24 hour “order pending” process

By geaux4two

I’ve honestly never seen anything like it, other than a commercial that used to be on TV were customer service personnel were only authorized to apologize, repeatedly… Apparently there is some provision somewhere deep within the details of 5 mile, that allows them to suspend your transaction by placing it into pending status, due to a nonspecific issue that no one in customer service can identify or communicate to you, even though your credit card has been billed and the seller has selected a meet up location and scheduled to meet you. I wasted four hours of my time on Friday while waiting for Customer Service to get to the bottom of what specifically the issue was, but they seem completely unable to do anything other than apologize; which to their credit, which they have done repeatedly over and over again for the last 36 hours…. And fine apologizers they are indeed… however, eventually become you’re really aware but they seem to have the ability to do nothing but apologize, as they have no information, can’t get any information, can speak to no one who has any information, and provide no solution whatsoever for your dilemma… An amazing experience, because I have truly never seen anyone be so well-trained and polite while providing no information or solutions whatsoever… Truly remarkable.
Not a good experience overall

By Ryan Stout

I got the LetGo app as well as 5Miles. Photos: One thing I loved on 5Miles was the ability to select several photos during the photo upload process. Whereas LG only allowed one photo selection at a time and I had to wait on each photo to load before I could select the next one. Wrong Category: The other thing about 5Miles, two of my toys were categorized wrong. Why? There was not a toy section, so I put it under Other. When I got notice, I looked around and guess where I found Toys? Under Fashion and Accessories. Really? When is a toy a fashion or an accessory? No, you guys have the category mis-categorized. Plus, you can’t just select a new category, you have have to delete the post and start over. Time consuming and ridiculous. Sales: Even though I only had seven items posted I got no likes, no interest and no sales. On other sites I got likes and questions. Folowers: I got two followers. Both Male. I know anyone can follow who they want, but I thought it was weird being I was selling kids toys, baby blankets, woman’s dresses and house shoes. I felt like this is not a dating site and felt uncomfortable. Especially since I never had that experience on other selling apps. Other than that, I don’t like the auction on the site at all and things kept telling me I need to boost and stuff. Not interested, so I deleted the app.
“SMILES” attracts more MATURE w/MOSTLY SERIOUS BUYERS and SELLER!S

By JodyDebi

“-The 1st Time I opened the APP, I filled directs and registered, then W went to the EXACT-CATEGORY, and literally in 5 minutes found JUST what We desperately needed and the ASKING PRICE SEEMED SO FAIR, and the Gentleman so POLITE, I felt it was a “Fair & Square” Deal!!! I did not ask for the discount (which could not be much...the price was immediately satisfactory (I’ve been shopping-around BECAUSE I AM 60 YEARS OLD, TERMINALLY DISABLED, and on a ‘FIXED INCOME’ that barely allows Me an extra $400 monthly. But, that covers ZERO because mostly it’s for food. Potty paper. Toothpaste and CLOTHING from Goodwill. So, when I immediately FOUND IT... “I bought it!” (THAT IS HOW THESE APPS ARE SUPPOSED TO “WORK”)....! - -Right??! “-ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!” P. S:My Wife and I really feel the need to say “THANK YOU ‘5’-MILES”! You and My ADULT SELLER turned Me from “A BROWSING PERSON” into a “BUYING Person...In just “5 -MINUTES!”. (-that’s gotta be a RECORD!) -a little miracle happened!) lol!
App for Scammers

By Mark@Boston

This app is plagued with scammers, and 5miles does absolutely nothing to protect the customer. On eBay when a buyer makes a purchase you know the sellers real name, email address, physical address, and phone number simply by conducting business with the seller. For some reason 5miles chooses to hide basic contact information from the buyer, so if anything goes wrong with the transaction the buyer is screwed. 5miles response to me was that that would be a good future update for the app to allow buyers to see the sellers contact information. My scammer’s account has yet to be banned, but can you believe the scammer was actually allowed to block me!? What’s even more ridiculous is that 5miles is unwilling to provide me with any of my sellers contact information unless I get a subpoena. Has anyone at 5miles even offered to reach out to the seller in an attempt to retrieve my money. Absolutely, NOT! eBay, why did I ever leave you!
Just a terrible app.

By Johnnyp12759383

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.

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