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Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community
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#12I don't know if its just me, judging by the ad's that facebook shows me 70% of them are not legit. Fake clothes, fake watches, scam companies etc. How can I trust a service that will be not regulated at all, I mean its a nice idea, although I'd be very careful on what am looking in there. (At least ebay is a bit more regulated I'd say)
I'm part of a local Facebook community for trading and selling board games. You basically meet in a parking lot during the day and make the trade/purchase, and it's pretty hard to fake the components/packaging of a board game. Possible missing components is the biggest worry, since they're not likely to wait around as you count each component.
Also a lot of these people can be vouched for since someone tends to have dealt with each other at some point.
I've only made a couple of trades through it so far, but it seems to work well.
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#13Another case of "showing every shit available in an closed walled app" copying the Chinese social apps formula.
I can understand why Chinese apps did what they did, because of the isolation from the international services and being more accessible via mobile devices to the majority. But Facebook is an attack on the Internet.
#fuckfacebook
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#14I don't know if its just me, judging by the ad's that facebook shows me 70% of them are not legit. Fake clothes, fake watches, scam companies etc. How can I trust a service that will be not regulated at all, I mean its a nice idea, although I'd be very careful on what am looking in there. (At least ebay is a bit more regulated I'd say)
Given the local aspect of this I think it's more a craigslist killer than an ebay killer. And Craigslist is successful in part because it's not very regulated.
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#15Neztdoor is just starting to try to monetize their network now. Would not be hugely surprised if Facebook ended up buying it.
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#16this is kind of like "letgo". but if they don't commit to it, it will go know where.
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#17Erm... Gumtree?
It sounds a lot like that, only tied to facebook, which makes it worse.
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#18I don't know if its just me, judging by the ad's that facebook shows me 70% of them are not legit. Fake clothes, fake watches, scam companies etc. How can I trust a service that will be not regulated at all, I mean its a nice idea, although I'd be very careful on what am looking in there. (At least ebay is a bit more regulated I'd say)
I'm part of a local Facebook community for trading and selling board games. You basically meet in a parking lot during the day and make the trade/purchase, and it's pretty hard to fake the components/packaging of a board game. Possible missing components is the biggest worry, since they're not likely to wait around as you count each component. Also a lot of these people can be vouched for since someone tends to have…
I think they would do better by allowing groups to convert their group into a marketplace and add marketplace features to groups.
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#19More services means more data for them to exploit. Weak on privacy guarantees = whatever services they offer are heavily mined for your data. When it comes to sales, craigslist is useful because it allows you to remain anonymous. With FB, I seem to be exposing exactly who I am, where I live, what I have for sale. In places with high crime rates, this opens me up to becoming a victim, as perps can search this informat…
>Do we really prioritize having people send likes on FB from their shantytowns[1] instead of helping them improve their own villages -- food, sanity[2], customs, etc.?
Who is "we"? There are many paths to "doing good". Of course FB will pick something that is mutually beneficial to the people and the company.
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