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Privacy issue with OfferUp app

2 points by justincorbett ↗ HN
Search for an item, but use someone's full name or just their last name. It will pull items from people with that name, even if they have removed their last name from the app.

Technically speaking, OfferUp has always been a terrible app (no iphone 7+ scaling, auto-correct, etc), but this is a new low.

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boxcardavin
Offerup has always seemed like a half-baked app that barely works. It has always made me wonder if they do enough business to justify their investments and valuation. I will say that selling from mobile on there is much easier than any Craigslist solution, but the market feels very small even though I am 3 miles from their HQ.