OLX – detach safely and conveniently

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Regardless of the region of Brazil you live in, you've probably already heard about OLX.

It is not just any store but its proposal is to make people detach from what they have at home and sell it simply and easily.

In addition, the company, no matter how young it is, still manages to be the largest in the used car sales segment throughout Brazil.

According to OLX itself in Brazil this registers around 500000 advertisements per day and 2000000 sales per month.

This is equivalent and even greater than many renowned marketplaces that sell online and have physical stores.

Because everything is very simple and you can find whatever you want, OLX has grown and is growing more and more to bring you more practicality when buying.

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What is OLX?

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OLX is a company founded in 2006 in the Netherlands and is currently present in over 100 countries around the world.

In Brazil it was born to compete with another site with the same purpose and quickly gained national proportions.

Not only that, the company made commercials so that the population through television knew about the OLX service and bought the idea.

So nowadays OLX grows a lot by knowing what the public likes and investing mainly in what it knows will work.

The application is downloaded a lot from stores such as the Apple store and Google Play and is known for being the intermediary between the seller and the buyer.

Using the app

When you install OLX on your phone, you'll notice that you don't need any kind of registration right from the start.

The application is very simple and even for people who have some difficulty using purchase applications, it will remain simple.

When you open it for the first time, you will see a screen with national ads in different categories and segments.

In just above you will see 3 options to select the location you are in, the category you want to search for the product and some filters that you can enter to further refine your search.

When you select your city, you will soon see that there are several ads with the most differentiated products possible to buy.

It may be important to understand that OLX acts as an intermediary between you who want to buy and the person who advertised, but you will not necessarily pay for the application.

Security in this sense is even greater because you can arrange to meet the seller or ask him to deliver to your home or somewhere specific.

All this can be arranged between you and the seller through the chat that is in the application itself.

Main app categories

The categories that the OLX application offers are the main ones for all stores, such as: auto parts, electronics, furniture and so on.

All categories have subcategories that you can choose from depending on what you want to find.

In auto and parts for example, you will be redirected to another page where you will see the options cars, motorcycles, trucks and parts and accessories.

If you select one of these subcategories you will only see products advertised in that subcategory.

This means that if you selected that you only want to see televisions, stoves or refrigerators will not appear for you, for example.

One of the most interesting categories is that OLX also offers job offers.

So instead of sellers you will see vacancies for you to send resumes or talk to people for hiring.

OLX pay

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There is also a new option which is OLX pay.

This service was born in 2020 due to the pandemic and is a solution for digital payments within OLX.

It is nothing more than a digital wallet like all the others that we already know and that exist in other applications.

The difference here is that it serves as an alternative for those who do not want to meet the seller and prefer to pay via credit card.

This tool is very simple and easy to use so there isn't much of a secret through this transaction for the seller.

A point to take into account here is that not all products can be sold and bought by OLX pay.

this means that you will need to talk very carefully with the seller if you want to pay like this and he has not put the product up for sale through this feature.

Final considerations

OLX is one of the best and biggest apps for buying and selling used and new products.

The application is very simple and you will be able to find everything to buy in the application.

If you want to sell a product, it's also very simple, just select the advertise now option and follow the instructions to advertise your product.

Every time a buyer contacts you to find out more information or to try to negotiate the purchase, you will be notified by email.

Here it is worth noting that the notification does not always happen within the application, it can end up leaving some buyers waiting for the answer if you do not open the application to check it.

The OLX application also does not undergo many updates and when there is some type of update it is only to correct a system bug.

The application is small and does not demand a lot of memory space on your cell phone to run well, which is a very good point when it comes to simpler installation.

So, don't waste time and look for OLX on Google Play or the Apple store to install the different tools it has to offer.

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