EBay has announced that from Aug. 16 Kijiji.fr will be shut down and its classifieds hosted on the parent site instead.

“This is a step in the rationalisation of the brand” explains Nathalie Touzain, Director of Communications for EBay France. “It’s a local strategic decision that only concerns France. In Canada, for example, Kijiji will continue to exist while in Germany it was shut down a year ago.”