Facebook Marketplace

“Marketplace is also pretty good, with less scams than other similar platforms.”

“In the long run the only innovating Facebook is going to do over Craigslist is monetization, and that just sucks for users.”

“It hides what you're searching for, ignores your distance filters, and fills your results with items that are essentially ebay cross-listings.”

“Just posting "Selling 4 chairs at Waynstreet 4" in the local group is more time efficient.”

“they've completely ruined it with shipped products and ads and stuff from too far away”

“I personally do like using marketplace vs the alternative (Craigslist)”

“I dual list everything I'm trying to get rid of on both kijiji/facebook out of principle and get like 20x more interest on facebook.”

“There's literally no functional alternative to fb marketplace for getting used goods re-used at any kind of scale.”

“For some reason I always get insane deals locally on Marketplace.”

“Facebook Marketplace is a strong pull for getting bargains in my local area.”

“It's impossible to search for anything, it gives unrelated results at least half the time.”

“It spits out pages of unrelated or semi related garbage before it may or may not show me what I'm actually looking for”

“Those features are the only I find useful in facebook, fb marketplace and local groups”

“Facebook marketplace driving me crazy lately. A lot of people post photos of antiques and other furniture with obvious AI staging.”

“Marketplace has taken over literally all of the other reselling websites and apps.”

“still unmatched compared to other local platforms for buy and sell”

“I do appreciate Facebook's marketplace, but the search and spam is annoying.”

“Really hate the FBook search interface though, it's total garbage.”

“FB search results are inferior often because FB posters created misleading ads and don't delete ads for events that have already occurred.”

“I only sell on Facebook marketplace because being able to see someone's profile means a lot less time spent selling the item.”

“You can occasionally find great deals on Facebook marketplace”

“the only things I have seen people like about Meta is Facebook Marketplace (which is really just Craig's List or eBay”

“I get an order of magnitude more sales from my Facebook posts”

“I'm willing to give Meta the information that I enjoy old cars, bar trivia, and breakfast sandwich pop-ups.”

“facebook marketplace, messenger connecting people, low cost distribution for small business”

“Facebook Marketplace is allowing people to buy and sell locally for free with systems for managing fraud that are more robust than Craigslist”

“FB Marketplace is full of scammers too. Every time we've tried to sell something, we've had people try to steal our phone number”

“this is why I now use fb marketplace exclusively to sell stuff”

“Facebook Markerplace has issues of its own, but if you agree to meet up at a safe public location to buy/sell the item in person, then it mostly alleviates those two issues”

“It's like the the only reason I open FB anymore....craigslist that isn't a PITA.”

“they haven’t monetized it beyond some very ineffective post boosting and advertising”

“Neat! Thanks for doing the legwork, I'll reimplement this in bash for some personal projects.”

“Facebook Marketplace is usually a gold garden to buy good goods for cheap”

“What has happened is that primary dealers are now flooding marketplace with fake low ball posts to make it unusable”

“Facebook Marketplace is really good at my location because there is nothing else and never have been.”

“until it started to be spammed with scams. It became really unusable IMO.”

“I haven't heard anything especially good about Facebook Marketplace's UI or features, just that "everyone is on Facebook"”

“Facebook is good for their marketplace when I'm looking to buy something or give something away.”

“It's great, you post a picture and someone comes to your house to pick it up cash in hand.”

“Maybe try Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, etc. because drum sets take up space”