Left: tutti listings with injected ricardo auctions || right: script removes those listings!

TLDR; just read paragraph "solution"

Off topic:

We all complain how bad Ricardo became! And yes, as a occasional buyer it became worse: earlier, If something was bad with the item you could contact customer support and they contacted the seller to put things right. today, all you get as form to submit your complain and you never hear anything from them! Nothing! And for a 20.- item it's not worth to sue the seller – but 20.- are 20.- and it occurs more and more as the seller do not fear any retiliations!

quite on topic:

That's why I moved to tutti – more local people you meet and hand over the articles! But, as Tutti belongs to Ricardo as well, they have to ruin your tutti experience as well! They really have to! They want you to have a bad experience so you head back to Ricardo again.

on topic:

When ever you search for items on tutti – it doesn't matter what you search for, and it doesn't matter what kind of filter you set (location and price), Tutti website will show as every 5th listing a Ricardo auction – matching your search-words, but not matching your filters! Every 5th listing!

If I search for something

  • up to 30.- I am not interested in items > 30.-
  • within 5km of my town, I am not interested in items 200km away!

but ricardo knows better what you want! the people behind ricardo know better! they want you to buy something off of Ricardo so they get the 12% commission!

solution:

fuck ricardo! I wrote a small GreaseMonkey-Script for the Firefox AddOn "GreaseMonkey" which will hide all injected Ricardo listings for Tutti search results! I am still a beginner programmer, maybe someone will improve it or make it more robust or I don't know what! view script on GIST.

they could do better – if they would want to:

If the ricardo people would care for their users, they would provide a filter option "show only tutti listings" but as they don't provide such a filter option, shows they are mean and greedy people, only interested in the 12% commission!

maybe someone might find this useful, maybe not. I do, because I am not distracted by every 5h search result which clearly doesn't fit my needs/filters!

by SiSRT

3 comments

  1. Thanks so much, will definitely try it! So annoying that the second hand marked is pretty much owned by one monopoly :/

  2. Been trying to reach Ricardo’s customer service due to a scam for days now, no one picks up the phone or responds to the online form. No idea what to do

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