Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by mshannon » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 9:13 PM UTC

ideonexus wrote: post #38

I was debating with a friend recently whether offerup.com or letgo.com would win this snap-and-post marketplace battle. I guess fb just rendered that discussion obsolete.

we recently released Townsourced.com as an alternative option to Craigslist and FB garage sales. In addition to buying and selling locally, users can post events, jobs, volunteer opportunities ect. Users create and moderate the communities. Users can also post to multiple communities simultaneously.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by cryptarch » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 9:59 PM UTC

frenchfried wrote: post #101

bluedino wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But dismissing yourself from someone else's attention isn't.

Very true, but couldn't you say that about any p2p marketplace/selling website (like Craigslist)? If someone's the harass-y type, I doubt they'd be bound by platform

They sure are bound by the amount of information you give them.

On Facebook they tend to have your picture, full legal name, social circles, place of work and where you live from the start.

I know plenty of people who use online markets pseudonomously (and also break fb policy on that), and meet in public places for the money/item exchange. It's normal here to only share first names in a trade.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by santiagogo » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 10:20 PM UTC

toomanybeersies wrote: post #107

I've had marketplace on my phone for the past few months. I guess New Zealand was the test market for it. Personally, I don't use it. Facebook provides no protection for either buyer or seller, which is something that Ebay (or Trademe [0] in the case of NZ) offer. I'm constantly seeing people on the local buy/sell/exchange groups complaining about buying stolen phones, or people failing to send items, or various othe…

I also had it in Chile since a couple of months back and it worked very well for me. Had an Android phone which I won at a raffle and managed to sell it in 2 days after I listed it at discounted price.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by M_Grey » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 10:30 PM UTC

M_Grey wrote: post #9

I can't Imagine a platform I'd trust less than anything related to facebook.

I've counted at least a dozen votes on this comment, from serious negative numbers, to positive, to zero and back to negative. I'm not bothered by that. What puzzles me though... is that for all of that sentiment apparently no one had anything to actually say in reply.

Bizarre.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by alpb » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 10:34 PM UTC

Off-topic: Am I the only one to notice newsroom.fb.com uses WordPress?

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by PostOnce » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 11:26 PM UTC

I wonder how long until they start charging a commission, or a listing fee, or whatever.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by 3pt14159 » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 11:57 PM UTC

hcrisp wrote: post #49

How does it compare to Varage Sale? https://www.varagesale.com/

I don't know why you're downvoted - this is a direct competitor to Varagesale, and it will probably half their odds of success.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by 1474295912 » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 7:09 AM UTC

I am co-moderator of a Donate your unused stuff group on FB. The amount of spam users get is unbelievable, and we've to weed out responses like every few hours. But the most disturbing fact is the harassment the women get on the group. As soon as some woman posts something, she's almost guaranteed to get nasty messages with disturbing content. And these are from verified users who've active FB profiles.

Unless FB weeds out the spammers and the harassing, this is just another way to make quick bucks for FB.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by Kiro » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 8:09 AM UTC

ddorian43 wrote: post #45

Kiro wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this public information?

By "~public" I mean stuff that isn't hidden selectively (like you need to be friends to read the feed). So they're just hidden behind a simple-login so facebook has all the data and you can't use a search-engine to search all sites. And everything on facebook is behind a login.

If I post something on FB Marketplace I don't want it to be searchable outside of FB.

Re: Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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Post by sunshiney » Wed, Oct 05, 2016, 10:55 AM UTC

tomschlick wrote: post #86

maxerickson wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a waste of time. The activity will just move elsewhere. Working towards requiring registration/background checks of private sales would actually accomplish what they want. Lobbying Facebook to disassociate themselves from the sales will accomplish little more than moving the sales off of Facebook. And of course, given that there are tens of millions of unregistered firearms in the US, all a registration law woul…

If you want universal background checks then let private sellers use the same system gun shops do. Paying $25-$50 per gun at a gun shop to do a transfer is cost prohibitive. There is no reason a buyer shouldn't be able to go to the ATF website submit themselves for a BC and get an approval code for a seller to verify. That respects privacy and gets you closer to 100% background checks. No responsible gun owner wants…

Thank you for saying this. I wrote something similar to my state reps when the law for private sales passed here. It is onerous on those of us live rural where guns are needed but are considerably far from a licensed dealer.