Blocket Reviews 2,769

Beware that if you sell more than one item on Blocket you are liable to be classified as a legal entity by Blocket. This means you have to sell your items as a legal entity/company and oblige to consumer laws that are applicable to legal entities/companies/businesses. There is no objective criteria to determine if you are a legal entity it is up to the support desk employee to determine that. If you refuse to disguise yourself as a legal entity (because you are not a legal entity/company/business) you will be banned from the site. Blocket tries to force you to advertise as a legal entity even though you cannot oblige to consumer laws. It is a breach of their own policy:

"Blocket "Private Ads" is for use by individuals authorized to enter into contracts as set forth above in these Terms of
Use.
Blocket "Company Ads" is for businesses. Blocket reserves the right to determine when an ad is business-like. The
following are categorized as companies:
Legal entities
Advertiser with goods sold with deductible VAT
Business advertisers undertake to comply with consumer protection laws (including the Consumer Purchase Act, the
Consumer Services Act and the Price Information Act) and the General Complaints Board's recommendations."

If you try to reason with the support desk these are the answers you will get:

Hello,
Thank you for your e-mail.

Your ads has been denied in the review as they is company-like.

We have made the assessment that you should advertise as a company on the site.
This does not necessarily mean that you have a business, but only that we want you to advertise as a company.

Change to "Company" (Företag) in your ad, and it will be approved and published. You do this by changing the ad and clicking in "Company" (Företag) instead of "Private" (Privat) at the top of the ad form.

Note that this can only be done via a computer, as the mobile platform does not support the insertion of business ads.

Kind regards,

Martin
Blocket Customer Service

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

Even if you post ads as a private individual, they should be added as a company if the sale is perceived to be to an extent that exceeds what is considered a hobby activity.They're not about what the ad looks like or that your ad looks like a company ad.

The Blocket’s rule document states, among other things: "Declaration of sales:
The income from single sales for example sales of goods and services are you not required to declare, you do not need to include in the income tax return if the total profit is less than 50 000 SEK. However, if you sell goods regularly, you should include the income in your tax return regardless of whether you have earned a lot or some money.You report your income as a hobby or as an economic activity, depending on the purpose of the business and its extent.Read more at the Swedish Tax Agency."

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The Swedish Tax Agency states, among other things: "If the business is independent and durable but not profit-making, it is considered as a hobby.Taxation takes place on its own within the income category service and you pay your own social security contributions in the form of self-contributions."
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Kind regards,

Hanna
Blocket Customer Service

Hi,

Thank you for your email and hope everything is good with you.

My name is Merve and i am going to help you in this case.

We can see that you have a lot of ads in the same category, we at the customer service have the right to stop someone if the ads gets a bit too much.

On our website you can also read this ''The "Business ads" block is for businesses. Block reserves the right to determine when an ad is business-like.''

Here is the link to it, but it is in swedish:

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I can also see that my colleagues have explained this to you so if you want to have your ads up on the site you have to follow the rules🌻

Sincerely,

Merve
Blocket Customer Service

Hello!

In plain and simple, your ads have been rejected because of the amount of Bicycle accessories ads you have published.

To answer your question, we do not have a fixed amount limit of how many ads you can create before you are considered 'business like' our review departement do individual assessments in every case.

As my colleagues have mentioned, we will not accept any private ads for bicycle accessories, if you want to publish them, you will have to create a 'company ad'

Best regards

Romeo

Got scammed from some user who sends fake links through blocket messenger , poor protection service for the costumber, i told blocket about it and they reply
"It is an attempt at fraud where they contact our customers either via SMS or through the messaging function, we of course block the user/advertiser immediately!
We are working with our IT department to take down these fake links.
I recommend that you ignore any further conversation with this sender." one day after the user or blocket took down the ad... many people got scammed in the meantime

They have horrible customer service who knows nothing. Don't try blocket shipping with them. I got cheated with blocket shipping and customer service didn't help me at all.

Now they demand strong identity verification - with bank-id, but I do not trust them enough, not even close, to let them know for sure - and potentially share this knowledge with others - that the account's personal data is indeed mine.

only problems if you want to sell something! Support is a disaster!

Blocket kundcenter only work for their own personal interests.
There is no confidentiality for customer information.
They do not abide by the terms of GPDR.
Verybad
I hope there will be another shopping website with a bit of credibility

This site led me to an unhonest firm selling cars.
Brinell service Fagersta.

Also buggs in the app.

Rejecting advertisments randomly and refuses to let you fix it yourself. Customerservice is non existing.
Never gonna advert here again.

its full of lags it will bot your anwsers and you will lose its sooo bad

the site is littered with scammers, i paid for a telephone from someone who had an ad on the site.
took the money and never heard from them again.
the customer service is worst than anything you can ever imagine. no one communicates with you if there is a problem. i wish i could give this company no star. its just a complete disgrace that they are allowed to operate. the government does nothing about them since they are only intrested in collecting taxes. and the police dont give a crap. do not do business on this site!!!!!!!!!!!!

This game is so bad like really bad. if i had the option i would blow the game up. OK!

I have been using Blocket for many years and its quality control has gone to the absolute wrong place. You encounter quite many scammers especially on Blocket Bostad and yet I see no effort on Blocket’s end to prohibit the attempts or protect users. My partner is Swedish, so we have an eye of not only expat but also Swedish and our experience with Blocket leaves a vast room for improvement.

Good site but massive lack of administration.
There should be some moderator filtering out the ads and placing them into correct categories instead of some idiot posting an ad in the wrong category. Makes the site unuseable.

For me personally blocket.se has always been great, for both buying, selling, renting etc. Sadly there is a lot of scams and even I know it´s hard to get rid of all this it sure would be great if blocket could make it even more safe and reliable.

The people who sells are totally unresponsive. I had a deal with one of the seller then after I gave my address she doesn't answer me and cut total contact with me. Very bad attitude of people who sell here.

Both me and my friends doesn't really like the new blocket interface for rental apartments. Before you could easliy find apartments and also get easier responses.

This site only works for swedish people no proper replies for non swedish people. Even if we reply asking for the product the very next second after it was posted it will not be available for non swedish people. Total crap.

Those people posting adds are irresponsive. This should be taken care by the blocket. Those adds are still active and people are not even giving replys.
Some sellers are not genuine either.

Their Website is clumsy and it does not function effectively. I had to change my advertisement and then pay for it again because it was more than 48 hours before I put it up. I think that is bad customer service. I also think they are expensive and that their website is dysfunctional.