UAE souq: OpenSooq UAE

Souq (سوق) is simply the Arabic word for market, which is why it turns up in so many site names. Souq.com was an online shop founded in Dubai in 2005. Amazon bought it in 2017, and in May 2019 the UAE site became Amazon.ae, the first Souq market to switch.

OpenSooq is a different kind of site. It does not sell goods itself: private sellers and dealers post their own ads, and you contact them to agree on price, payment and handover. If you remember buying from Souq with delivery to your door, that is Amazon.ae today; if you want a second-hand car, a used phone or a sofa from someone in the Emirates, OpenSooq UAE is the classifieds route.

OpenSooq launched across the region in 2013 and now runs sites in 20 countries; the UAE one comes in Arabic and in English at ae.opensooq.com/en. Its main sections include cars, mobiles and tablets, gaming and toys, computers and laptops, electronics and appliances, and property for sale or rent. OpenSooq takes no commission, and its safety advice is to meet the seller in a public place and inspect the item. Dubizzle UAE and Facebook Marketplace carry the same kind of ads, and BuyHub can search all three together.

Type what you are looking for in English, or in any language BuyHub supports, and the titles come back translated, with each dirham price also shown in your currency. Sort by newest or by price, keep only ads with photos or published recently, and save the search as a radar: BuyHub then checks OpenSooq UAE on its own, at any hour, and tells you as soon as a new ad matches.