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Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform
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#42I'm from Austria and until recently I didn't even know that FB Marketplace was a thing. Never used it in my life. We have a great local website ( https://willhaben.at ) that everyone uses. I guess it's the Austrian version of Craigslist.
Same in Switzerland. Happy to have Tutti and similar sites. No need for a walled garden market place.
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#43I thought people use sites like Craigslist for local sales. At least in my country most people use a local website, they use Facebook Marketplace a lot less.
It's extremely region dependent. Some areas have fb marketplace, some custom services.
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#44And yet it is so underdeveloped. I'm in a few second hand board groups where every listing is like 20 different games at different prices. They have to put a price, so some people put 0, some put $30 and some put $999,999. I hate buying stuff on marketplace, it's so feature poor.
That sounds like the seller doing stupid things though. Beyond some text parsing and suggesting splitting the listings, what can marketplace do here? (or allowing to report incorrect listing)
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#45I hate that Facebook has taken so much of craigslist's market. I can't stand Facebook but as a seller or a buyer you have to go where the network is. Marketplace is still in the outcompete stage so it feels friendly and convenient but eventually when they kill craigslist they'll start turning the enshitification knobs back up.
If everybody would think that way we would end up in walled gardens without any alternatives. Wait that's exactly what happened in many countries?
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#46My FB account exists almost solely for marketplace, which has almost total market dominance for local classifieds where I live in Australia. Recently they’ve stopped letting you send messages to sellers via the website on your phone and insist that you use the app instead. It’s probably one of the few hooks they have left to try and get people on to the platform.
100%. I refuse to have an account, which means I need to use my partners to access marketplace, and a few landcruiser groups (which is mostly buying and selling parts, or advice)
It pains me that car forums and classifieds have succumbed to Facebook. I have no other need for Facebook, but on those fronts, Facebook is king.
IH8MUD is really the king for advice. But for 2nd hand parts, or 2nd hand vehicles, in Australia, it’s Facebook groups.
I suspect this is quite popular behaviour, as I recently saw that groups can enable anonymous posts (obviously still need an account). Which I prefer to catfishing people who are genuinely helping out, and who I feel a sense of community with. I just refuse to consent to Facebook being part of that relationship.
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#47My FB account exists almost solely for marketplace, which has almost total market dominance for local classifieds where I live in Australia. Recently they’ve stopped letting you send messages to sellers via the website on your phone and insist that you use the app instead. It’s probably one of the few hooks they have left to try and get people on to the platform.
I think you can work around that messaging restriction by requesting desktop site from the mobile browser. Not saying it is not irritating, though.
Or beeper - its fully replaced messager on my phone with no issues from Facebook marketplace
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#48But I wonder how long it'll stay fee-free. Meta isn't known for leaving money on the table forever
I’ll monetize it right now, any c-level exec can get their promo right here, right now, at Meta: - Sell an AI agent that sells and markets the item for the user on the marketplace, and manages the sale. - Then have people sell their fucking houses on it. - Tell Zuckerberg what you have achieved - Have Zuckerberg express to Rogan on the show who will then express it to Elon on another show - Watch Elon buy Zillow - Li…
On the topic of AI listing generation, eBay added it at some point recently and it is complete and utter garbage.
Listings used to say stuff like "iPhone 15 Pro, good condition, comes with case and cable, no box, one scratch on rear shown in pics"
They now say "Introducing the brand new Apple iPhone 15 Pro 5G in Black Titanium! This device features a Hexa Core processor and Apple A17 Pro chipset model, providing lightning fast performance "
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#49Genuine q, what makes FB marketplace good, and how did it blow up over Ebay / Craigslist? Is it a combination of having the platform with the most people as well as being the most likely platform to have people who are situated near you?
In the UK Craigslist was never really a thing. eBay is too complex for many of the things people sell. My wife sells a lot of our old stuff on marketplace. It's quick and simple to do, and there is a huge market. It's all small stuff that no one will pay shipping for, but if you are local and can pop round it's absolutely fine. Things like kids toys, books, mostly low value stuff. We've got rid of knackered old furni…
I would be shocked if the modal listing price on FBM UK is not £0.00
Re: Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform
#50Genuine q, what makes FB marketplace good, and how did it blow up over Ebay / Craigslist? Is it a combination of having the platform with the most people as well as being the most likely platform to have people who are situated near you?
In some countries, eBay or craigslist was never a thing. In NZ we have our local version of eBay but the success fees have gotten so ridiculously high that FB marketplace is slowly becoming the only option.
In Poland Allegro takes the most dominant role. It started as a simple auctions site 26 years ago and now it's a big e-commerce platform with additional classifieds, price comparison engine and consumer credit, tickets marketplace services. In last years they enter Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary - mostly by acquisition of existing sites and services.
The last attempt of slice out what Allegro managed to grab by the largest IT company have failed. Comarch which exists since '93 and has branches in 32 countries couldn't withstand Allegro dominance at home and their wszystko.pl service closed after only 7 months.
So amazon is not that much popular here - the force of habit for buying on Allegro works against Bezos' company. They enter too late, offered not much at the start and often products descriptions were poorly machine translated. There was even a picture that ran for a while around our part of the Internet where some Nigerian economy book title due to this translation mishap become really offensive.