Currently disappointed at OLX.

I have been an OLX (previously known as Sulit.com.ph) member since 2012, according to my profile:

and I haven't experienced any problems with them...until now.

I started selling brand new stuff I haven't used as well as preloved items when I realized that they've been taking up too much space in my small room. Most of them I'm too hesitant to actually throw away because I still haven't used them or they're still too pretty to be in the trash bin.

As I've mentioned, I didn't encounter any problems with them for a full 4 years and a few months after. The problem started just last week, when I was reposting a new ad.

An ad's life is around 7 days before OLX notifies you that it will be temporarily taken off their listings. It was fine before 'cause you just update your ad and the site'll do just that. When I updated my ad a few days ago, this happened:

They were asking me to pay for new ad slots for a hundred Pesos a pop which is totally unfair because #1:

This isn't true now, is it?

and #2, PHP100? Seriously? That's way too much, I think. For people who earn as much as I do, it's way too much to ask. Plus, the reason why people like me go to sites like this is to sell our stuff online so we can earn extra income but how can we do that if we sell, say, a top for a hundred Pesos but the money we earn from it goes to OLX a number of posts from now? Balewala lang ang sale.

I've also been looking for venues where I can air my sentiments but couldn't find any e-mail address I can contact so I resorted to posting a tweet on my personal Twitter account, tagging them, but still haven't gotten any response.

Has anybody else experienced this, too, and did a person from the OLX team explain to you what's happening? Please share it in the comment section because I rely on my OLX account for additional income. I really need all the help I can get, fellow stay-at-home moms.

The problem with still living with your my parents...

I am a single mom. I got pregnant by my then-boyfriend - who's 10 years older than me and who I was going out with for a total of 3 months when it happened - but in the end, I decided against marrying him. I broke it off 2 years ago because, for the most part, I just stayed in the relationship because I thought that's what's best for my daughter and only then did I realize that's not the case. Not in that relationship.

Anyway, fastforward to 2015. I'm 26 now and I'm still living with my parents. I have enough money from online rakets (eh?) to move out and support Brianna and I for a few months - I've done, like, countless of budget computations and such - but I've this weird thing about money that I will only spend it if I have extra money. Pag saktuhan lang sa budget, no deal...  Yes, I am a scaredy cat like that.

Going back, I am thankful for the freebies and all. I mean, there are a lot of things that we get to have for free like a roof over our heads and water and stuff but alongside all that is one huge problem - at least for me: I don't get to make a decision without hearing the "Di mo man lang naisip mararamdaman namin" speech.

I am a pretty sensitive gal. A lot of my decisions, actually, are made by taking other people's emotions into consideration. Where I eat, what I do with my hair, everything. From time to time, yes, I decide on something that I feel is good for me - and it's not that often - but whenever I do, that's when I get the extended dance studio remix of the same song. I mean, yes, I understand that they're just looking out for me my daughter and I am thankful for that but I always tell them - because it's the truth - I won't do anything that will harm my daughter physically, emotionally, psychologically, etc. I have a couple of things in my head that they might be thinking of as reasons for me to be on the receiving end of such a sermon but I can assure them now that that is not the case...if only they could actually stop pretending that I'm an up-to-no-good teenager on a rebellion phase.

I am sure I don't have the answers to everything and I am most especially sure that I am going to need a lot of help in the coming years but I am also sure that I am capable of doing great things, if given the chance and that I am old enough to make decisions on my own, for me and my daughter, without ANYONE making me feel about them. I mean, she is MY daughter.

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(I am so sorry for the run-on sentence right there but I want for you to read it that way because that's the way I would say it out loud.)

I don't know why I want to publish this here instead of in my personal blog. I guess I'd like to hear what other people has to say about the situation I am in. I know there aren't any details in here which will make it seem like I am just acting up - and maybe I am - but whatevs. I am just at the point in my life where I want to actually take control of my life, the way that it's meant to be.