Carousell SG Makes Life Difficult

3:07pm Thurs 21 Sept

As usual, nothing works well in Singapore.  The selling platforms in Singapore are already practically non-existent.  Even with Carousell, you can see it's already very bad.

Now, it's even worse. Carousell SG gets worse & worse with so-called "improvements".  Investors should stop investing in such a company run by shit.

For every "improvement" they make, other things in the system go nuts. Something like Ezbuy. The saying never goes out of date: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

There is nothing to fix.  Or at least, fix something without messing up another part of the system.

It's already hard enough as it is trying to sell online. Sellers don't need higher levels of difficulty & worse, payments to a shitty system run by dozens of shitty, smiling people.

What's the latest shit Carousell SG has done?

Now for jobs, services & cars,  you gotta pay $10 at least.  That's a lot of money.


What it means is worse:

1) It'll limit the number of job openings because it's no longer free to list.
2) It'll limit the variety of jobs on offer.
3) If it expands to cover even more categories, it'll mean even more restrictions to list for free. And fewer variety listed.

On the surface, they say it's to prevent "spam" listings. But their horridly tiny keywords search noose has already recently thrown out a lot of spam, resulting in the same shortest-to-the-point titles in order to be on first page. Just a word more & the listing will drop to 2nd or lower pages.  It's crazy.

If you list a fan, you can't put any model number of anything else in the title. The longer your title, the lower it will fall. It will turn up only if someone specifically hits words in your long title.

Previously, all the listing titles in your "store" must be unique. Now you can have the same one-word titles for different items. And the Carousell search function will list many items with the same one or two words title.

It's crazy & stupid. Reflects the mind/s behind Carousell. So stupid.  If you've been selling there, you'll know what I mean.

With this latest "improvement", you can now add words to your listing title without it falling down the page. Apparently, the system is now going by latest timing. If it was listed 5 secs ago, it'll stay #1 on first page. Until... I don't know when. Probably fall down the pages until you either pay their Neopet coins or re-list for free.

All these means = More effort. And it's not as if there's a huge load of buyers on Carousell. I don't know how they look at their traffic but it's a desert.  U can list something & they can have all the "improvements" to their system, but nobody is buying.


[Nobody is buying: I listed an item that was supposedly "liked" by plenty of people before I got the stock. When I actually got the stock & listed it at the same price that they liked, suddenly I can't sell it at all even after 1 month of listing! Another item, I have 61 likes & only 1 person actually paid to order it. Another item has 82 likes & still no buyers. Another item 68 likes & again no buyers.]


Why do such "companies" always cause people problems?

Before this, it was problems with their image uploader. It was working fine before. If anything has to be improved, they should increase the number of images to 5.  Currently 4 images are too few.

But instead, they added extra steps to the whole image loader. It has become extra difficult to post listings! And instead of 4 images, I can only post 3. Because they messed up the system, now everytime select 4 images, must delete 1, then I am allowed to select their stupid categories.

And can't even shrink pics anymore!

Previously,  the uploader could even shrink the pics to fit simply by scrolling my mouse. Even the largest size could fit perfectly. Then it's done. 4 pics up fast in just 1 step.

And then: they added a stupid thing called "Bump".  Now you gotta pay to get your listing updated on their search engine pages.  So-called "coins".  They think it's like Neopets. So stupid & childish. Previously, listings automatically get bumped when anyone "likes" your item.

So, instead of improving, Carousell has become worse. And still sellers gotta use it because there're no other workable options selling online.  Gumtree & Ebay SG are shit.

In the US, if you watch Youtube, you can see plenty of "pickers" who make a lot of money getting their "stock & supplies" for free or almost free. They sell on their Ebay & make a thriving living by it.

What's in Singapore? Nothing.  Only educated, ignorant people will say that Singapore is good. Such people are Chinese-educated or foreigners (those shit-heads who wear T-shirts saying "I Love SG".).

Singapore is just a shitty country. If you have money, just get out, find a better place & enjoy there. No wonder so many people left. Those who stay are plenty of uneducated people & foreigners.

My brother & I should have been born in a better country with better opportunities, no NS, no CPF. We don't belong in this shitty Singapore with small-minded, crazy people who keep fucking to get kids.