Dubai, United Arab Emirates - The UAE leading classified platform was born to disrupt consumer exploitation. In order to do that, the co-founders needed to know how to fundamentally change the way the world works. Ten years later, dubizzle has helped millions of users and become a life necessity for almost everyone living in or moving to the UAE.
The iconie flaminghead man made it to the various homepage designs throughout the dubizzle ten year journey - the evolving look reflects how digital technology has grown within the UAE online space. As a result, dubizzle has witnessed fascinating items been sold regularly on the platform, from a three-million-dirham golden frog and a Boeing airplane to even a secondhand tooth brush.
During the past ten years, dubizzle has also played a vital role within the social aspect of the community it serves. Many users have made friends and even met their partners through sale transaction on dubizzle. To celebrate this landmark anniversary, dubizzle is inviting the people of the UAE to sell their best dubizzle-related stories for the chance to win AED 1,000 through its social media channels and radio stations Channel 4 (104.8FM), Al-Rabia (107.8FM), Gold FM (101.3FM) and Radio 4 (89.1FM) until 11th March.
About dubizzle:
dubizzle.com is the leading free classifieds website for users in the United Arab Emirates. Since its launch in 2005, dubizzle.com has become the number one platform for users to buy, sell, or find anything in their community. A community where underused goods are redistributed to fill a new need, and become wanted again, where non-product assets such as space, skills and money are exchanged and traded in new ways that don't always require centralized institutions or 'middlemen'. dubizzle.com is headquartered in the UAE.
dubizzle is an OLX company:
OLX is the world's leading classifieds platform in growth markets and is available in more than 50 countries and over 50 languages. OLX connects local people to buy, sell or exchange used goods and services by making it fast, easy and free for anyone to post an ad through their mobile phone or on the web. Every month, hundreds of millions of people in local markets around the world are already using OLX's online marketplace to find and sell a wide range of products, including furniture, musical instruments, sporting goods, cars, kids and baby items, motorcycles, cameras, mobile phones, property and much more. OLX operates in fast-growing markets around the globe, where OLX helps people improve their lives through smart person-to-person trade. OLX employs more than 1,200 committed employees worldwide located in places like Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Delhi, Jakarta, Lagos, Lisbon, Manila, Nairobi, Poznan, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
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