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Introducing Marketplace: Buy and Sell with Your Local Community

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

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Post by vlucas »

eknight15 wrote: post #2

Marketplace has been around since 2007, I'm surprised it's taken this long to "introduce": http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2008/12/facebook-chooses-oodle-t...

The old marketplace sucked. The real buying/selling was happening on individual Facebook groups.

Search Groups in the "Buy & Sell" category and you will see what I mean: https://www.facebook.com/groups/?discover_category_id=477274...

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #27
softawre wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are a seller of something, there is some upside to knowing who the buyer is. Seems less likely you'll just get held up at gunpoint if you have a link to their FB profile you could hand the police.

> link to their FB profile you could hand the police Is this useful to police, when profiles can be forged? Personally, when I sell something I don't want people to learn who I am. I'd rather just sell it and remain anonymous. There is more concern about the legality of a good from the buyer's perspective, not the seller.

They could (theoretically) request the IP addresses of the scam user. A small-scale local thief may well be using their computer without something like Tor.

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

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Post by bjacobel »

Facebook's come under a lot of heat for refusing to moderate the buying and selling of firearms in Groups, often in violation of local laws[1]. Hopefully their moderation standards will be higher on Marketplace.

[1]: https://medium.com/@monteiro/this-article-first-appeared-in-...

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

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Post by runeb »

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #27
softawre wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are a seller of something, there is some upside to knowing who the buyer is. Seems less likely you'll just get held up at gunpoint if you have a link to their FB profile you could hand the police.

> link to their FB profile you could hand the police Is this useful to police, when profiles can be forged? Personally, when I sell something I don't want people to learn who I am. I'd rather just sell it and remain anonymous. There is more concern about the legality of a good from the buyer's perspective, not the seller.

Then you'll simply use Craigslist or a different platform for those items. There are tons more selling scenarios in my view where the non-anonymity is a comfort, not a hinderance.

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

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Post by honkhonkpants »

pbnjay wrote: post #8

I sold my old motorcycle in 2009 using FB Marketplace. Half the inquiries I got were from scammers, even then... Have they improved anything in that regard? I especially don't want people spamming my Facebook messages now that they're more intrusive.

Almost all of the inquiries on Craigslist are scams no matter what you are selling. I sold a motorcycle recently and the scams were plenty. I usually just ignore every call, text, and email in the first half hour because they are all from robots.
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