Does Facebook market place need shutting down?

Have done many sales on facebook in the last week and has been pleasant majority of the time.Had a few bargain hunters but most were genuine.

Sphock i had little interest and low offers

Gumtree won't even let me list

Ebay has the potential for buyer to scam seller

So facebook is the winner for me and hope to use it more.Scams on the site of course need to be taken down and i expect facebook team would do a better job than the other sites imo.
 
The selling (and giving away) of crap on Facebook is great. I don't sell because I constantly have time wasters.

Worst was someone who came and expected to pick up a freezer. It was clearly described as a fridge. Apparently he got confused about which was which!

But the scams are getting bad. Every day I see at least a couple posting they've been had. And a load of scams ready for punters.

But no matter how much they are reported they don't get taken down
 
What pees me off most is that I was on a businesses for sale page and advertised my business for sale on there, and just because it was a bar, it wasn't approved and was deleted almost instantly, and that was a genuine business, yet, i see thousands of obvious scams on there daily! It's a complete joke!
 
wez130 said:
What pees me off most is that I was on a businesses for sale page and advertised my business for sale on there, and just because it was a bar, it wasn't approved and was deleted almost instantly, and that was a genuine business, yet, i see thousands of obvious scams on there daily! It's a complete joke!
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Wrong moderation and no moderation. Back to how it was 20+ years ago.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Can't agree in Twitter. I find it a very useful tool. It really does depend on who you follow though. If FB disappeared tomorrow I'd only miss it for the easy way to keep in touch with friends. These days its just full of ********.
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I deleted my Facebook account a few hrs ago and I have not missed it one single bit. I don’t need it to keep in touch with any of my friends, that’s easily solved by picking up the phone and either calling or texting them.
 
413x said:
The selling (and giving away) of crap on Facebook is great. I don't sell because I constantly have time wasters.
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I remember when we first bought our house and wanted to get rid of the previous owners built in wardrobes - had three to shift.

After posting up on FB, i had hundreds of people enquire about them, i found they typically break down into the following:
- about 65% never respond back after asking if they're still available
- about 20% never read the post properly (mixture of not realising how big the wardrobes are, what colour they might be, and whether i was delivering them - despite having details on all 3 in the advert.
- about 10-12% are just general timewasters - they'll agree to purchase it off you and then be uncontactable on the day they've agreed to pick it up, or they just make stupid offers - "yeah i'll give you a fiver for it mate!" - yeah no, i'd rather set fire to it than give it to you for a fiver. A lot of these types must scour FB marketplace daily just offering lowball offers in the event they actually get an acceptance.

The remaining ~3% are genuine buyers.

The whole process was absolutely horrendous. What made it worse for me is that having what i feel is a good level of morales, meant that when someone had offered me the price of them and to pick them up at the weekend, i'd accepted, which meant turning down other potentially genuine offers, to then find out at the weekend the guy was a no-show. It used to **** me right off. I even had one guy that did that who even contacted me a few days later to say that he still wanted them, and to please not sell them. Yet when i told him i'd happily hold them for him if he did a bank transfer to pay for them, he suddenly changed his mind. As i say, absolute timewasters.

Bit of a rant there, but as you can see, it was just one problem after another. There's no regulation on FB marketplace, there's no method for marking people as timewasters etc, so that other people don't get bogged down by fake offers etc.
 
Semple said:
I remember when we first bought our house and wanted to get rid of the previous owners built in wardrobes - had three to shift.

After posting up on FB, i had hundreds of people enquire about them, i found they typically break down into the following:
- about 65% never respond back after asking if they're still available
- about 20% never read the post properly (mixture of not realising how big the wardrobes are, what colour they might be, and whether i was delivering them - despite having details on all 3 in the advert.
- about 10-12% are just general timewasters - they'll agree to purchase it off you and then be uncontactable on the day they've agreed to pick it up, or they just make stupid offers - "yeah i'll give you a fiver for it mate!" - yeah no, i'd rather set fire to it than give it to you for a fiver. A lot of these types must scour FB marketplace daily just offering lowball offers in the event they actually get an acceptance.

The remaining ~3% are genuine buyers.

The whole process was absolutely horrendous. What made it worse for me is that having what i feel is a good level of morales, meant that when someone had offered me the price of them and to pick them up at the weekend, i'd accepted, which meant turning down other potentially genuine offers, to then find out at the weekend the guy was a no-show. It used to **** me right off. I even had one guy that did that who even contacted me a few days later to say that he still wanted them, and to please not sell them. Yet when i told him i'd happily hold them for him if he did a bank transfer to pay for them, he suddenly changed his mind. As i say, absolute timewasters.

Bit of a rant there, but as you can see, it was just one problem after another. There's no regulation on FB marketplace, there's no method for marking people as timewasters etc, so that other people don't get bogged down by fake offers etc.
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Yeah I was waiting to leave my old flat and head to new flat in Wales. We had arranged to meet to get rid of my washing machine at 12 and I said I was leaving at 1.

Got a message at 12 saying 'got a flat tyre be there soon'
Half our later I say 'not heard back are you on your way? I have to leave at 1'
1pm and still no message.
I message saying 'I've left'

Never heard a peep back. Why can't people just say 'sorry changed my mind'

Just like Internet dating people just don't tell you. Just vanish it's so weird. Are they scared? No idea

Had held it for the person as its nice thing to do. But you just can't as there are too many wasters
 
mrbell1984 said:
Spock is a waste of time. I advertise many things on there with no interest at all.
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Depends on area. Back when I lived in the Black Country (Midlands), plenty of success. Sold a lot of things, its a low wage area and full of poverty. So plenty of people looking for cheap stuff which only their benefits can go so far.

Now I live in Zurich, sold nothing on there.
 
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