YerdleReviews 25

It's a kind of cute business model. "the buyer only pays shipping" using their yerdle dollars for the actual price, etc... and as a buyer I've actually had no issues.

However... let's talk about using Yerdle as a seller. Using their "drop off locations" link... I dropped my last week's worth of "gives" into a secure UPS box a few miles from my home. Of course, you don't receive a tracking number doing a drop off (which I know)... but 4 or 5 days later I start receiving email notifications that they're going to cancel my item if I don't "hurry up and ship it". They're the ones who offer a drop off location as an option.
I wish I could say this only happened once. I've had Yerdle for 6 months, and the same thing happened on a regular basis even before they switched from the Postal Service to UPS! I've lost count.
The best part is, there's no link to notify the company or buyer you've actually already shipped... like other companies like eBay offer the "notify buyer you've shipped".
It gets better yet: for all the of the occurrences of this phenomenon, I did the adult thing and went through Yerdle's support (which is also pretty bad, no links at all signifying there's a way they've made an error). And I filled out a form and told them I'd shipped, using their links to UPS drop boxes.

And the crème de la crème is when they never even responded to my emails. They offer a link at the bottom of all their email notifications when you've had an item canceled that says "If you think you've received this in error, click here". But when you click, it just brings you to support. And they basically deny all error by the way they format their "help and support" area. If you can even call it that.

So my advice? Only use Yerdle if you want to give away your crap to complete strangers... and hand-mail it to God-knows-where... for FREE.

I signed up for Yerdle recently, and like everyone says, it is garage sale junk for the most part. I was given the incentive $25 that they offer, and decided I would get my daughter a small gift. I found an item, and decided to purchase it when I was asked for my credit card number.The site says it is for keeping out those that commit fraud, but I have to question thier motives.It is never stated up front(that I noticed) that a credit card was necessary, and there are other ways that this can be ensured. Any shipping payments can easily, and just as securely, be secured thru Pay Pal or other online vendors. How do you honestly know if that number can be trusted through them? They can bill your credit card anytime they wish, and disputing the charges will probably not be easy. This would probably be difficult with Pay Pal, Square, etc. and people using these methods are already checked and verified by these companies.The bottom line is, if they cant trust me, why should I trust them? This stuff is definitely garage sale grade, and no sane person would try to defraud them for this junk. I agree this site will likely fold at some point, and my advice is to not join this site and give them your personal information. It is not worth it.

So my friend sent me a link for Yerdle. At first, you get very little info on the site. Until you dig a little. Then you find that there is no one "giving" you an item. These are all for sale. First the "Yerdle dollars" THEN the "service fee" and possibly a "premium item" fee. And, of course, shipping. I was so excited to see something online that i thought was a bartering site. And then totally let down to find out that the Pez Dispenser i had been eyeing (for 5 yerdle dollars) was actually going to be around $7 (+ 5 yerdle dollars). Not cool.

Yerdle is like an online garage sale. You trade your unwanted items online for "Yerdle Dollars", which you use to purchase other items.

When you "sell" an item, shipping is free, but the seller pays for shipping supplies.
When you purchase an item, you pay "Yerdle Dollars" for it in addition to real money on shipping ($5 flat fee) and a service fee ($2-3 per item). So total cost in real money per item is at least $7 or slightly less if you buy multiple items from the same seller.

Yerdle prints money by giving Yerdle Dollars as a reward to users who have "sold" a certain number of items, and as a result the currency value of Yerdle Dollars has become noticably inflated over USD.

Personally, I list only items on Yerdle that I really want to give away, and I use recycled shipping supplies only so I don't pay out of pocket. I don't often buy on Yerdle. I think $7 per item is steep considering the item quality available (think garage sale). And how much of that money does the seller receive? $0. The value proposition for purchasing items on Yerdle has become dubious after the introduction of service fees. I predict that unless they can decrease service fees, Yerdle will eventually die as the business model just doesn't add up.

Wow, on top of all this, Yerdle will stoop to writing fake reviews on this site.
Prior to 3/9/16, Yerdle's average rating on Sitejabber was 2.0 with 8 reviews.

EIGHT more 5 star reviews were posted on 3/9/2016. ALL of these reviewers have written only 1 review. Clearly these reviews are fake, probably written by Yerdle employees. I also noticed that someone "claimed" Yerdle on Sitejabber.com. Most likely, someone from Yerdle found this page on 3/9/16, claimed it, and wrote a bunch of fake reviews.