Gettit vs Gumtree Australia — Which Should You Sell On in 2026?
One has six million users and takes nothing because it never touches your money. The other holds the payment, buys the postage label and still charges no commission — but had 24 live listings when we counted. Here is the honest comparison.
- This is not a close contest on reach, and it is not close on economics either — they just point opposite ways. Gumtree Australia has the buyers. Gettit has the structure.
- Gumtree Australia’s own help centre reports six million users, more than 2.5 million live listings and over 45,000 new listings a day. Gettit’s unfiltered search page rendered 24 listings on 5 September 2026.
- Neither takes a commission by default, but for different reasons. Gumtree Australia is a classifieds board that mostly stays out of the money entirely; when it does handle it, Gumtree Pay costs the seller 0.5%. Gettit handles the money on every protected sale and still charges the seller nothing.
- Listing is free on Gettit in all 17 categories. Gumtree Australia charges a mandatory listing fee in cars, vans and utes, in caravans and campervans, and in every pets and animals category.
- The real difference is what happens after “is this still available?” On Gumtree Australia, usually a meeting and cash. On Gettit, a held payment, a prepaid Australia Post label, and a three-business-day dispatch clock.
- Gettit’s Secured Pickup is the feature with no Gumtree equivalent: the buyer pays in-app, inspects in person, then releases the money with a six-digit code.
- Gumtree Australia is a different company from Gumtree in the United Kingdom. eBay sold the Australian business to Adevinta in 2021 and it passed to The Market Herald in 2022. Separate companies, separate accounts, separate listings.
- For most Australian sellers the answer is both, because neither charges you to be there. 7 days for £1, then from £9/month. There is no free plan.
What this comparison covers
- The short answer
- Two different products wearing the same word
- Reach, measured rather than claimed
- What each one costs you
- What each one costs your buyer
- Who holds the money, and what happens when it goes wrong
- Postage versus the car park
- What you can list, and where each one refuses
- Obligations: Gettit has clocks, Gumtree Australia has none
- Which one suits which seller
- The Gumtree name problem
- Running both without selling the same thing twice
- Sources and verification
- Related guides
The short answer
If you need to sell something this week, list it on Gumtree Australia. Six million users against two dozen listings is not a gap you can argue away, and speed of sale is overwhelmingly a function of how many people see the thing.
If you would rather post an item than meet a stranger, and you want the money secured before you hand anything over, Gettit does something Gumtree Australia does not do by default. It holds the payment, buys the Australia Post label, tracks the parcel and runs a dispute process — and it takes nothing from your sale price for any of it.
Because neither charges you to list in most categories, the sensible answer for the great majority of Australian sellers is not to choose. It is to list on both and make sure the item comes down from one when it sells on the other.
Two different products wearing the same word
Both call themselves marketplaces. They are not the same kind of thing, and almost every practical difference below follows from that.
Gumtree Australia is a classifieds board. Its job is introduction: you post a description, a buyer messages you, and from that point the platform is largely a spectator. There is no checkout in the default flow, no postage, no held funds and no dispute process, because there is no transaction for it to sit inside. Gumtree Pay exists as an opt-in layer for people who want one, but it is a layer, not the model. The upside of this design is enormous flexibility — you can sell a car, a rental property, a job vacancy or a lawn-mowing service — and the cost of it is that you are on your own once someone turns up.
Gettit is a transactional marketplace. Its job is the transaction: the buyer pays in the app, Gettit holds the money, Gettit generates the postage label, and the payment is released to you when the buyer confirms or their window lapses. Everything it offers — protection, tracking, refunds, ratings, dispatch deadlines — is downstream of the fact that the money passes through it. The cost of that design is that it cannot list a job or a rental, and that it has to persuade both sides to trust a payment rail nobody has heard of yet.
Read the rest of this page through that lens. Gumtree Australia is not failing to protect you; protection is not what it is. Gettit is not failing to reach anyone; it has not had time to.
Reach, measured rather than claimed
Reach is where any honest comparison has to start, and where a lot of write-ups get vague. Here are the only figures we are prepared to stand behind, with what each one actually is.
| Gettit | Gumtree Australia | |
|---|---|---|
| Registered users | Not published | Six million, per its own help centre |
| Live listings | 24 rendered on the unfiltered search page, 5 September 2026 | More than 2.5 million |
| New listings per day | Not published; most category facets read zero | More than 45,000 |
| Android installs | 500+ band, too few ratings to show a star average | Not compared — a long-established app |
| iOS ratings | 3 ratings, 5.0 average | Not compared |
| Company age | ABN active 24 June 2026 | Operating in Australia since 2007 |
Three ratings is not a rating and 500-plus installs is a Google Play bucket, not a number. We are quoting both precisely so that nobody reads them as evidence of momentum.
A caution about Gumtree figures generally: a lot of numbers circulate for “Gumtree” that describe the wider Gumtree Group, which also includes CarsGuide and Autotrader, or that describe the entirely separate United Kingdom business. We have used only the trio published on Gumtree Australia’s own help centre — six million users, 2.5 million-plus live listings, 45,000-plus new listings a day — and ignored the rest.
What that gap means in practice is simpler than it sounds. On Gumtree Australia your listing competes with two and a half million others for attention. On Gettit almost nothing competes with it, but almost nobody is looking. Neither of those is straightforwardly better; they fail in opposite directions.
What each one costs you
| Seller cost | Gettit | Gumtree Australia |
|---|---|---|
| Listing fee | None, in all 17 categories | Mandatory in cars, vans and utes; caravans and campervans; and all pets and animals. One free ad then paid upgrades in boats and jetskis, real estate, jobs and services. Private car sellers in NSW and the ACT get a free basic tier. |
| Commission on a sale | None — the seller keeps the full asking price | None on a classifieds sale. 0.5% platform fee on a Gumtree Pay transaction, minimum 50c, maximum $7.50 |
| Payment processing | None; met by Gettit out of the buyer’s protection fee | Not applicable outside Gumtree Pay |
| Payout fee | None | Not applicable outside Gumtree Pay |
| Subscription | None published | Paid upgrade tiers in several categories |
| Postage label | Bought by Gettit; the buyer pays the postage | Not part of the model |
| Other | $9.95 return handling, only when a parcel returns through the buyer’s address error | Featured, urgent and bump upgrades, priced at posting time |
The headline reads as a tie — both are free to the seller most of the time — but the ties are not equivalent. Gumtree Australia is free because it is not involved. Gettit is free while doing the work: holding the money, buying the label, running the disputes. That is a genuinely unusual position and the most interesting thing about the platform.
The category exceptions are where Gumtree Australia actually charges, and they are the high-value ones: vehicles, caravans and animals. If you sell cars or pets, Gettit’s zero is a real number rather than a technicality — it lists vehicles, motorcycles, caravans and trailers, and charges nothing to do so. Whether anybody is there to buy them is the other half of that sentence.
Gumtree Australia’s dollar listing-fee amounts are quoted dynamically when you post rather than published as a schedule, so we have not put figures in the table. Check the price on the posting form before you commit to a paid category.
What each one costs your buyer
Seller-side comparisons flatter Gettit. Buyer-side comparisons are the corrective, and they matter to you because a fee your buyer pays is still a fee attached to your listing.
| Buyer cost | Gettit | Gumtree Australia |
|---|---|---|
| Posted order | 7.5% of the item price plus $1.50, plus postage | Not part of the model |
| Secured or protected pickup | 3.5% of the item price, no fixed component | No equivalent |
| Free local handover | Nothing | Nothing — cash in person |
| Gumtree Pay | Not applicable | 1.5% card or PayPal surcharge, plus the 0.5% platform fee, minimum $1, maximum $7.50; waived for a first-time customer |
On a $40 item posted through Gettit, your buyer pays $4.50 in protection on top of the item and the postage. That is not nothing on a cheap thing, and it is close to invisible on an expensive one — the fee scales but the fixed $1.50 does not. Anyone listing a lot of sub-$30 stock should expect the fee to be more conspicuous to buyers than it is to them.
Gumtree Pay’s structure works the other way: a maximum of $7.50 means the cost stops climbing, which makes it comparatively cheap on high-value goods and comparatively expensive on cheap ones once the $1 minimum bites.
Who holds the money, and what happens when it goes wrong
This is the substantive difference and everything else is decoration.
On Gettit, every posted order and every Secured Pickup has the buyer’s money held by the platform. Gettit Protection covers two failure modes — the item never arrives, and the item is not as described — capped at the order amount. If the item never arrives, the buyer gets the item price, the postage and the protection fee back. If it is not as described, faulty or damaged, they get everything back and return postage is met by Gettit or by you. If the fault is genuinely ambiguous, Gettit says the buyer gets the benefit of the doubt.
Gettit is candid about what this is not. In its own words the guarantee “is NOT insurance… and it’s not a third-party stakeholding arrangement”. It is the company’s own promise, backed by the company, on a company incorporated in June 2026. Weigh that honestly rather than dismissing it: the terms are clear, the refund matrix is published in full, and very few marketplaces state the limits of their own guarantee this plainly.
On Gumtree Australia, in the default flow, nobody holds anything. You meet, you look, money changes hands. There is no dispute process because there is no transaction record to dispute. Gumtree Pay adds a payment rail, but Gumtree Australia’s fees page does not describe a buyer-protection programme alongside it, and we are not going to assume one exists.
The trap worth flagging. Gettit also offers a free local handover, and that option carries no protection at all — Gettit’s own FAQ describes it as being at your own risk. A seller who assumes “Gettit is the safe one” and then arranges a free handover has exactly the Gumtree risk profile with none of the Gumtree audience. If safety is why you are there, use Secured Pickup or post it.
Postage versus the car park
Gettit ships. Gumtree Australia does not, in any meaningful sense.
On Gettit, shipping is Australia Post and only Australia Post — no courier choice, no bring-your-own-label. The platform generates the label, the buyer pays the postage at checkout, and you drop the parcel at a post office or parcel locker having spent nothing. At listing time you pick a small, medium or large satchel, or your own box. Satchels are flat-rate to 5 kg regardless of distance, which is why they are almost always the cheaper option: Gettit’s own worked example is that a 500-gram jumper in a five-centimetre mailer, rather than a genuine Medium satchel, gets priced on size and weight and costs about $4 more.
Cubic weight applies to big light parcels, which catches prams, lampshades and empty cases. Tracking is automatic, and it is the delivered scan that starts the buyer’s 48-hour confirmation window — so lodging promptly is literally how you get paid sooner.
On Gumtree Australia, posting an item is something you arrange yourself, off-platform, with a courier of your choosing and no protection either way. In practice most Gumtree Australia transactions remain local: the buyer drives over, looks at the thing, and pays cash. For a wardrobe, a fridge or a trailer that is not a limitation — it is the correct way to sell those items, and Gettit’s satchel-shaped shipping is no help at all.
Which is the honest framing: Gumtree Australia is better for anything you would not want to post, and Gettit is better for anything you would.
What you can list, and where each one refuses
Gettit runs 17 top-level goods categories: Electronics; Fashion; Bags & Accessories; Home & Garden; Baby & Kids; Prams & Car Seats; Nursery & Furniture; Sports & Leisure; Vehicles & Parts; E-Bikes & E-Scooters; Beauty & Health; Books, Music & Games; Collectables; Tools & DIY; Craft & Hobbies; Pets & Pet Supplies; and Antiques.
Gumtree Australia carries all of that plus the things a classifieds board can carry and a transactional marketplace cannot: real estate, jobs, community services, tutoring, removalists. If what you are listing is not a physical object that can change hands, Gettit is not an option at any price.
Where Gettit is deliberately deeper is children’s equipment. Three of its seventeen categories — Baby & Kids, Prams & Car Seats, and Nursery & Furniture — carve up what most platforms treat as one, and its site says outright that baby and kids is “where we are deepest, and where nobody else will go”. Its terms carry an explicit clause about Australian mandatory safety standards naming cots, prams, strollers and toys, which is what a platform does when it intends to host a category properly rather than quietly ban it.
That is the one segment where the reach argument genuinely weakens. Used prams and cots are exactly the goods where a buyer wants a return path and a seller wants the money secured, and where a cash-in-a-car-park handover is least comfortable for both. If that is your stock, Gettit’s proposition is aimed squarely at you in a way Gumtree Australia’s is not.
Gettit’s prohibited list is conventional: weapons, drugs and paraphernalia, tobacco and vaping products, prescription medicines and medical devices, live animals, stolen, counterfeit or recalled goods, adult services, hazardous materials and anything infringing intellectual property. Note the live-animals exclusion against Gumtree Australia’s paid pets categories — that is a genuine coverage difference, not a fee difference.
Obligations: Gettit has clocks, Gumtree Australia has none
Selling on a classifieds board commits you to nothing. Selling on Gettit commits you to a published timetable, and it is worth knowing before you list rather than after you sell.
| Window | Whose | Length | If it lapses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dispatch | Seller | 3 business days | Order cancelled, buyer refunded, missed dispatch recorded on your profile |
| Confirmation | Buyer | 48 hours from the delivered scan | Payment released to you |
| Return dispatch | Buyer | 3 business days | Return closed, you are paid |
| Seller inspection | Seller | 48 hours from the returned parcel’s scan | Return accepted, buyer refunded |
| Maximum transit | Gettit | 21 calendar days | Non-delivery review opens, payment stays held |
Business-day windows exclude weekends and public holidays; the 48-hour ones do not, so a confirmation window opening on a Saturday closes on Monday. The missed-dispatch mark is public and sits on your profile — which on a platform with a couple of dozen listings is a far larger share of your visible reputation than the same mark would be on a mature marketplace.
The 21-day transit ceiling runs in your favour. Australia Post to a remote address can genuinely take a fortnight, and Gettit will not open a non-delivery review before three weeks have elapsed, with your money held rather than refunded in the meantime.
Against all of that, Gumtree Australia asks nothing of you at all. Nobody can ding your profile for a slow reply, because there is nothing to ding and no transaction to be slow about. Whether that is freedom or an absence of accountability depends entirely on which side of the exchange you are standing on.
Which one suits which seller
| If you are… | Start with | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Selling a fridge, a wardrobe or anything you would not post | Gumtree Australia | Local buyers, no postage problem, an audience that expects to collect |
| Selling a car, a caravan or an animal | Gumtree Australia, but check the fee | These are the categories it charges to list in — and where its audience is genuinely irreplaceable |
| Listing a rental, a job or a service | Gumtree Australia | Gettit lists physical goods only |
| Selling used prams, cots, car seats or nursery furniture | Both, and lead with Gettit | It is the platform’s stated speciality, with held payment and a return path on goods where both sides are nervous |
| Selling clothing, shoes or bags | Both, plus a fashion channel | Gettit’s fashion tree is deep but its buyer base is not; Vinted or Depop will out-sell either for garments |
| Wary of meeting strangers | Gettit | Secured Pickup and posted orders both hold the money; free handover does not |
| Selling in volume across several channels | Both, automated | Neither charges to list, so the only real cost is the admin — which is the part to hand off |
The Gumtree name problem
Gumtree Australia and Gumtree in the United Kingdom share a name and a logo and essentially nothing else. They are different companies. eBay sold the Australian business to Adevinta in 2021, and it passed to The Market Herald in 2022; the Australian help centre’s copyright sits with Gumtree IP Aus Holding Ltd. There is no shared login, no shared account, no shared listing and no shared support.
This matters practically, not pedantically. An Australian seller who reads a British guide, or who tries to connect a British account, ends up in a flow that cannot succeed — and every user figure quoted for one of them describes the other’s business not at all. If you sell in Australia, the six-million-user figure above is yours; anything you read about Gumtree’s United Kingdom audience is about a different marketplace entirely. FLUF Connect treats them as the two separate channels they are.
Running both without selling the same thing twice
Since neither charges you to list, the interesting question is not which to pick but how to run both without the failure mode that makes people stop: selling an item on one platform and leaving it live on the other.
That failure is worse on Gettit than it sounds. Gumtree Australia will simply produce an awkward message. Gettit will produce an order, with the buyer’s money already taken and a three-business-day clock running — and missing that clock refunds the buyer, cancels the order and puts a permanent missed-dispatch mark on a profile that has very little else on it.
FLUF Connect holds one master record per item and writes it out to each channel you connect, so the same photographs, title, description, price and condition go to both without being typed twice. When the item sells anywhere, sold-out protection pulls the other listings down.
| Capability through FLUF Connect | Gettit | Gumtree Australia |
|---|---|---|
| Create and update listings | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory sync | Yes | Yes |
| Mark as sold when it sells elsewhere | Yes | Yes |
| Order sync back into FLUF | No | No |
| Automated relisting | No | No |
| Offer management | No | No |
Neither channel reports orders back into FLUF today, and neither supports automated relisting or offer management through it. A Gettit sale still needs watching in Gettit; what FLUF removes is the risk of the other listing outliving it.
Crosslisting and inventory sync are on every FLUF plan; relisting, offer management and smart pricing are included from Growth (£19 a month) upwards. See the plans — 7 days for £1, then from £9/month, then plans from £9 a month.
Sources and verification
Every fee, window and figure below was read from a primary source on 5 September 2026. Gettit’s live catalogue was counted rather than estimated.
- Gettit’s fees schedule — no seller commission, the 7.5% + $1.50 and 3.5% buyer protection fees, the processing-cost statement, the $9.95 return handling fee, the refund matrix and the 14-day notice commitment.
- Gettit’s FAQ — free local handover being at your own risk, Secured Pickup and the six-digit code, what protection covers and excludes, Australia Post exclusivity, the satchel sizes and the non-genuine-satchel example, listing requirements and prohibited items.
- Gettit’s timings schedule — all five windows, the business-day rule and the missed-dispatch record.
- Gettit’s terms of service — the seller-is-supplier position and the mandatory-safety-standards clause naming cots, prams, strollers and toys.
- Gettit’s search page and its home page — the 17-category tree, the live listing count and the baby-and-kids positioning, as rendered on 5 September 2026.
- Gettit’s iOS app listing and its Google Play listing for the release date, rating count and install band; the Australian Business Register entry for ABN 55 699 431 886, active from 24 June 2026.
- Gumtree Australia’s own help centre — six million users, more than 2.5 million live listings and over 45,000 new listings a day.
- Gumtree Australia’s service fees page — the 0.5% Gumtree Pay platform fee with its 50c minimum and $7.50 maximum, and the buyer-side surcharges.
- Gumtree Australia’s listing-fee categories page — which categories carry a mandatory fee and the NSW/ACT private-car exception.
- the ownership history of the Australian business — the 2021 Adevinta sale and the 2022 transfer to The Market Herald.
What we could not verify, and therefore left out. Any Gettit user, listing, transaction or revenue figure beyond what its public search page renders. Gettit’s funding, investors or founders — none is published and no outlet has covered the company. The price of a boosted Gettit listing, and the dollar cost of each satchel size, which is only shown at checkout. Gettit’s photo count limits, title and description character limits, and whether any structured brand or size taxonomy exists. Gettit’s payout time in days, which it explicitly declines to state. Gumtree Australia’s actual dollar listing-fee amounts, which are quoted dynamically at posting time rather than published. Whether Gumtree Australia offers a buyer-protection programme alongside Gumtree Pay — its fees page is silent, so we have not claimed either way. And seller sentiment for Gettit of any kind: there is no Trustpilot profile, no ProductReview page and no forum discussion of it that we could find, which is what you would expect of a marketplace this new.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Gumtree Australia is better if you need a sale soon: its own help centre reports six million users, more than 2.5 million live listings and over 45,000 new listings a day, against Gettit's two dozen live listings on 5 September 2026. Gettit is better if you would rather post an item than meet a stranger, because it holds the buyer's payment, generates an Australia Post label and runs a dispute process — and still takes no commission. Since neither charges you to list in most categories, most Australian sellers should use both rather than choose.
Neither takes a cut by default, but for different reasons. Gettit charges the seller no commission, no listing fee and no processing fee in any of its 17 categories; the buyer pays the protection fee instead, at 7.5% plus $1.50 on a posted order or 3.5% on a Secured Pickup. Gumtree Australia takes nothing from a straightforward classifieds sale because it never touches the money, but charges 0.5% with a 50c minimum and $7.50 maximum on a Gumtree Pay transaction, and charges a mandatory listing fee in cars, vans and utes, caravans and campervans, and all pets categories.
Not in the default flow. Gumtree Australia is a classifieds board: it introduces buyer to seller and generally stays out of the transaction, which usually ends with cash in person. Gumtree Pay exists as an opt-in payment layer, but its fees page does not describe a buyer-protection programme alongside it. Gettit holds the payment on every posted order and every Secured Pickup, covers non-arrival and not-as-described up to the order amount, and publishes its refund matrix in full — while being explicit that its guarantee is not insurance and not a third-party escrow.
Secured Pickup is Gettit's in-person handover with the money already secured: the buyer pays in the app before travelling, inspects the item in person, then releases the payment with a six-digit code. The buyer pays 3.5% for it and the seller pays nothing. Gumtree Australia has no equivalent. It is the single feature that most distinguishes the two platforms, and it is the sensible choice for anything bulky, fragile or valuable enough that you would rather not put it in a satchel.
Yes, and this is the trap worth knowing. Gettit offers a free local handover alongside its protected options, and it carries no protection at all — Gettit's own FAQ describes it as being at your own risk. No payment is held and no dispute process applies. A seller who chooses Gettit for safety and then arranges a free handover has the same risk profile as a Gumtree meet-up with a far smaller audience. If security is the reason you are on Gettit, use Secured Pickup or post the item.
A vehicle yes, a rental no. Gettit runs a Vehicles and Parts category and an E-Bikes and E-Scooters category, and lists cars, motorcycles, caravans and trailers at no charge — which is notable, because those are among the categories Gumtree Australia charges a mandatory listing fee for. But Gettit handles physical goods only. Real estate, jobs, services and community listings exist on Gumtree Australia and have no home on Gettit at any price. Gettit also prohibits live animals, which Gumtree Australia hosts as a paid category.
No. They share a name and a logo and nothing operationally. eBay sold the Australian business to Adevinta in 2021 and it passed to The Market Herald in 2022; the Australian help centre's copyright sits with Gumtree IP Aus Holding Ltd. There is no shared login, no shared account and no shared listing between them, and audience figures published for one describe nothing about the other. FLUF Connect treats them as two separate channels, because that is what they are.
Yes, and since neither charges you to list in most categories it is usually the right answer. The thing to manage is the double-sale: if an item sells on one and stays live on the other, Gumtree Australia produces an awkward message but Gettit produces a real order with the buyer's money taken and a three-business-day dispatch clock running — and missing that clock refunds the buyer and marks your profile. FLUF Connect keeps one master record per item, publishes it to both, and removes the other listing automatically when it sells. Crosslisting and inventory sync are on every plan; relisting, offer management and smart pricing are included from Growth upwards.