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Yardly - Find Garage Sales
PlatePal · 503 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 20 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"sales"
13 negative reviews mention this · 65% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Do NOT Waste Your Money. This app makes it sound like it will pull yard sales/estate sales from every site possible...but it does not do that. The first weekend I had it, it seemed like it pulled a bunch to "lure" me in and pay...so I paid the $27 - it didn't have …" - itsjustlindsey
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"free"
7 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Slaps you with an annual membership. I was offered no free trial. I answered the simplistic quest asked, and then I was met with a brick wall that requires a $27 annual fee. No trial option. No way to see any filters offered. All it said was 5 sales available within 100 miles.…" - Penny bunny
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"area"
6 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Needs a lot of work. Paid for this app and regret it. The “sales” in my area are all in the past, and there’s no way to filter out past sales or dates. This is not helpful to use at all. Back to Facebook marketplace and Craigslist." - Hhhhhgvvyvubik
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"money"
5 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Do NOT Waste Your Money. This app makes it sound like it will pull yard sales/estate sales from every site possible...but it does not do that. The first weekend I had it, it seemed like it pulled a bunch to "lure" me in and pay...so I paid the $27 - it didn't have …" - itsjustlindsey
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"facebook"
5 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Needs a lot of work. Paid for this app and regret it. The “sales” in my area are all in the past, and there’s no way to filter out past sales or dates. This is not helpful to use at all. Back to Facebook marketplace and Craigslist." - Hhhhhgvvyvubik
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"find"
5 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cost money to see less than what is even on marketplace. Downloaded the app and of course you have to pay $27 for it per year. It gives you a preview of the yard sales but it didn’t find any within 30 miles of me. A quick FB or Craig list search found about 15." - Steve Mick
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"yard"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Do NOT Waste Your Money. This app makes it sound like it will pull yard sales/estate sales from every site possible...but it does not do that. The first weekend I had it, it seemed like it pulled a bunch to "lure" me in and pay...so I paid the $27 - it didn't have …" - itsjustlindsey
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"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Needs a lot of work. Paid for this app and regret it. The “sales” in my area are all in the past, and there’s no way to filter out past sales or dates. This is not helpful to use at all. Back to Facebook marketplace and Craigslist." - Hhhhhgvvyvubik
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"questions"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t waist your time. Do not waist your time getting this app. They ask you a few questions to “find” sales in your area but then require you to pay and see those sales. Better off sticking to social media and road signs for free, they show the same amount as th…" - Pumpkincheeks01
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"without"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Annoying. Makes you answer a bunch of questions and dosent let you use without paying" - Baconzfordaz
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"paying"
4 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Annoying. Makes you answer a bunch of questions and dosent let you use without paying" - Baconzfordaz
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"makes"
3 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Do NOT Waste Your Money. This app makes it sound like it will pull yard sales/estate sales from every site possible...but it does not do that. The first weekend I had it, it seemed like it pulled a bunch to "lure" me in and pay...so I paid the $27 - it didn't have …" - itsjustlindsey
📋 All 20 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Do NOT Waste Your Money
This app makes it sound like it will pull yard sales/estate sales from every site possible...but it does not do that. The first weekend I had it, it seemed like it pulled a bunch to "lure" me in and pay...so I paid the $27 - it didn't have any other payment options available. Then the next weekend I went to use it, there was nothing new posted and there were MULTIPLE new listings from Craigslist in that zip code. While I think this app could have potential and has a nice design, it's far away from that and misleading.
Inaccurate information
The dates in the description don’t match the dates in the details section, wrong states for address and wrong year for the sales. Those are issues identified in the first five minutes of having the app. If I could get a refund I would. Lots of work needs to be done in this app.
Slaps you with an annual membership
I was offered no free trial. I answered the simplistic quest asked, and then I was met with a brick wall that requires a $27 annual fee. No trial option. No way to see any filters offered. All it said was 5 sales available within 100 miles. My travel radius for sales is NOT 100 miles. More like 10. Waste of space.
Cost money to see less than what is even on marketplace
Downloaded the app and of course you have to pay $27 for it per year. It gives you a preview of the yard sales but it didn’t find any within 30 miles of me. A quick FB or Craig list search found about 15.
Don’t waist your time
Do not waist your time getting this app. They ask you a few questions to “find” sales in your area but then require you to pay and see those sales. Better off sticking to social media and road signs for free, they show the same amount as the app.
Don’t download this app
I’m sorry this app is horrible. Downloaded it to try it has tons of bugs and is gated behind tons of paywalls.
Doesn’t work
Tried to use and it was showing TN when I was in South Carolina.
Annoying
Makes you answer a bunch of questions and dosent let you use without paying
Trial period??
The “sample” showed 2 sales and then an option to buy. So that’s all it found?? I can’t justify paying for this without seeing if it actually works
Spam
Don’t click on the app link. It permanently leaves a banner on your Facebook page.
Cost money not free
It told me it was a free place to find yard sales but it turns out it cost!! Why would I pay to find some free garage sales ! Not worth it I’ll just look on fb and Craigslist
Doesn’t really work.
Great concept. Wished it worked. It only found 5 yard/garage sales in my area and I was able to find 56 through the area on Facebook, Nextdoor and other places that I traditionally use. Bummer. At some pint they’ll figure it out.
Subscription based, seriously??
$9 a month just to see garage sales that you can easily see for free on Facebook?? Yeah that’s an insane price just to even use the app!!
Can’t use without paying
Everything is locked behind paywall, asks you annoying questions at beginning instead of letting you use app. Not even accurate. Matched their projected gs listings to what I know exists in my area this weekend, and they missed plenty.
Free trial terms not clear
It is not clear how the free trial works. You just have to take a chance and purchase. You can’t access anything until you do. I would not sign up for something without knowing if it will even be helpful in my area.
Wow I’m an idiot
Town next to me is actively having a town wide tag sale, thought this would help. It showed none of sales going on within 20 miles of me. Says you go off of permits for the sales, which seems to be a lie. Would like my money back
Needs a lot of work
Paid for this app and regret it. The “sales” in my area are all in the past, and there’s no way to filter out past sales or dates. This is not helpful to use at all. Back to Facebook marketplace and Craigslist.
No data for my area
No pins to show sales at all in 60min radius :(
Didn’t find it accurate
Didn’t have any more info than Facebook marketplace, which is free. This app has no way to filter past sales that are not actually “this weekend.” And it pulled in at least one showing it was local but it was actually in another state.
Cost Money To Use
Once you download the app, it ask you to answer a bunch of questions and then once you get to the end it makes you pay to continue. No option for a sample or free trail. I hate when apps do that. I’m not paying for something if I have no idea how it works.
Sentiment summary
89%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
8%
Negative (1-2★)