OLX is a Free, local, horizontal classifieds site and it’s fast becoming the best way to buy and sell locally for individuals as well as business sellers. OLX is unique as:
• It’s free to search, list and transact for all users. And sellers can post as many ads as they want.
• It’s a local site, as the site is broken up into different cities and as the buying and selling normally takes place within cities
• It’s a horizontal classifieds site, which means a user can find all relevant categories at one place. Jobs, Real Estate, Vehicles, For Sale, Services and Matrimonial etc. are all available on OLX and the user can find whatever they need at one place.
On OLX people can search the Entire Country, like all of India or drill down to the state they belong to, for e.g. http://maharashtra.olx.in . Or they can go to the city that they reside in, for e.g. http://mumbai.olx.in or http://chandigarh.olx.in
While searching they can either do a search on a keyword or just browse all the ads in one category. Unlike print classifieds, there are a lot of ways in which the searcher can narrow down his search
• Firstly, you can see the ads in one ‘List’ or a ‘Picture Gallery’. For example: http://www.olx.in/vehicles-cat-362-ig
• You can sort the list by Newly Listed, Highest or Lowest Price first, Lowest Mileage first and highest or Lowest Model year first
• You can search for ads ‘Only with Pictures’
• You can search All ads or see only ‘Offering’ or ‘Wanted’
• You can choose a price band in which you want the car. It will select those listings where price has been mentioned
• You can choose the ‘year of manufacture’
• You can choose ‘All’ Sellers or ‘Individuals’ or ‘Business’ sellers
• You can choose ‘Used’ cars or ‘New’
So OLX Free classifieds gives all the benefits of the print classifieds plus gives the control to the searcher to maneuver his search to find the items that he is looking for; easily and efficiently.
In addition to this there are some cool features that are unthinkable in print classifieds. For example: there is a feature called Alerts http://www.olx.in/nf/alerts.php through which you can find ads that haven’t been listed yet. Isn’t that amazing? All you have to do is to create an Alert for the car or bike that you are looking for and then forget about it. Every week or every two weeks or every month, depending on the alert you have set, you will get the list of all ads that have been posted with your keyword. So if you are looking for a Hero Honda Karizma and you couldn’t find the one of your choice, go create and alert for the keyword ‘Hero Honda karizma’ and you will start getting email alerts whenever somebody lists a karizma for sale. Now try achieving this with your print classifieds and you will realise how easy life has become with Online Classifieds.