facebook marketplace

[WD Forte]

I have finally and somewhat reluctantly joined Facebook primarily for the market place as I was told it was better than Gumtree.

I know it will have dodgy arseholes just like any other site
and buyer/seller beware, but what's the general opinion of it?
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bikers smell of wee

[Nobby the Bastard]

Needing any friend requests?
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Sprint ST 1050

[Ste]

Selling a spares or repair 125 scooter engine on facebook marketplace?

Meh, local groups are better IMO especially as you want someone to come and collect it.

Prepare for plenty of low ball stupid offers.

[Easy-X]

There's about half a dozen locally focused groups I post to. Response from them is near zero but 99.99% of the time any response you do get is genuine.

Posting to the general marketplace (that Facebook will take great pains to persuade you to use) will automatically qualify you for enquiries from no-friend fresh profiles wasting time or trying to scam you.

There's also an annoying feature associated with the Facebook app (on phones) where someone asks "Is this still available?" and then nothing after you reply. It's not personal, just the app is crap.
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[WD Forte]

I've never had much interest in 'Friendface the diseased face of friendship' and ignored it for the most part.
Looking around marketplace I'm not that impressed but will give it a while I spose
Yes I may the put the Forza engine on it and I often have other bits and bobs to dispose of, so may as well give it a go.

TBH nothing about FB has impressed me so far maybe I'm too much of an antisocial mofo for this kind of thing.
I am on Signal, Whatsapp and Discord so not utterly tech averse
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bikers smell of wee

[WD Forte]

[A100man]

[blurredman]

I've got what I consider to be good deals occasionally, from there. It's surprising also what people are bothered to post and not just throw in the bin (that would otherwise be useful or interesting to someone like me), because it's free and easy etc to post such an advertisment. If they had to use e-Bay/gumtree i'm sure they wouldn't bother at all. That said: e-Bay and then gumtree are always places I visit first, and only then FB market place- typically when I am lying in bed but can't sleep.
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[WD Forte]

I just deleted my Facebook account.
Its not for me.
I just didn't like it, nothing impressed me enough to want to use it
and and there was no way I was going to allow that on my phone.

Gumtree with all it's flaws has worked fairly well for me so far
so will stick with that and I have an Ebay account I could use.

I get the wider market reach aspect and have a mate who can
put an ad on FB for me from time to time.
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bikers smell of wee

[Easy-X]

Facebook Marketplace...

https://media.tenor.com/Ls8YoO0fwWcAAAAe/star-wars-you-will-never-find-a-more-wretched-hive-of-scum.png
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Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[Polarbear]

Serious point here -

A mate was quite prolific selling stuff on FB. Someone answered an advert and got his phone numberr. address etc. and somehow hacked his FB account. He then via his FB account got access to various different things he had logged into using his FB account as log in. He had his ebay account hacked and via that other things. Got stung for hundreds of quid on ebay and took ages to sort everything out.

Probably nothing going to happen to you but I won't sell anything on FB market place. Maybe I'm paranoid but he had some real sh1t to contend with.
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Triumph Trophy Launch Edition

[WD Forte]

Its good point, there are always scrotes who as we know will rob you blind given the opportunity.
There have been threads here about folk getting scammed on FB
and probably Gumtree/Ebay too
I didn't give my primary personal email,phone number or address or any accurate info to FB.

Trust no one or at the very least trust but verify
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bikers smell of wee

[A100man]

[tatters]

The best part about Facebook marketplace is you can see the profile of the seller. This is very helpful when buying/selling vehicles so you don't waste time with low lifes.
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[WD Forte]

[Ste]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Feasty]

I find FB is useful for finding some deals locally, but yes the app is shite and the filter/search function just doesn't work. If I sort by distance for example half the items near me just don't get shown, but take away that filter I see them all - mixed with items from all over the country, just such a faff.

I also like browsing generally cars/bikes locally that are going cheap, some cheap, old but decent vehicles around. But I've now started seeing stupid prices for vehicles, £2k for a 5yr old Maserati etc and when you check out the sellers other items they have a long list of cars and other stuff for stupid prices and are clearly scammers. I can't believe people fall for them, but some must or the 'sellers' wouldn't try it in the first place.
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Previous: Aprilia Habana Retro 50cc (beauty), Yamaha SR125 (fell apart), Honda XR125 (nippy little commuter), Honda SLR650 (Geewhizz), Yamaha Diversion 900S (Smoooooth) written off courtesy of a stupid escaped horse.
(7 year gap), BMW F650 (Relaxing ride). Aprilia Caponord ETV1000 (Big and bold). Yamaha FZS600 (got me in trouble too quick!).
Current: Yamaha TDM 900 (Comfy, light but big, power when needed).

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Ayrton]

If you want to sell something quickly then facebook is the right place, The last 2 bikes I sold went within 24 hours. I've gotten rid of a few of furniture and stuff quickly too, just stick it up cheap and every time someone has showed up within a few hours and saved me a trip to the tip.

It's also full of dickheads though that like to waste your time and haggle you down. I've also been scammed buying things on there that never arrived, so now I always use paypal if I'm getting something posted to me.