A colleague listed his son’s high school archery equipment. Facebook banned him from marketplace for life for violating weapons policy. He still has social network access.
I helped an elderly widow create her first FB account from an Apple device, registering from her home cable modem IP, giving FB her cellphone number and ISP issued email address — all strong signals of authenticity. But after she added five relatives within half an hour, her account was locked, and Facebook closed it permanently on appeal.
Another acquaintance was brigaded by people reporting his comments. Troll or not, he lost access to Facebook/Marketplace and has to satiate his used electronics habit elsewhere.
You can lose access to FBm suddenly and with no recourse. And when that happens, Craigslist is still there to help you sell stuff you can’t eBay, like your old lawnmower, or find a CRT television for your Super Nintendo.
Then come the low-ballers, they want to offer only $50 or $100 for my set. I click through into their profiles and see that they are resellers of washers and dryers in bulk so they want to buy and flip my set. I decline.
Well, after only 3 messages a “buyer” can rate you as a seller so I have a stack of 1-star reviews from resellers angry that I politely declined to sell to them when I had a queue of asking-price buyers lined up to buy same-day.
Trash system.
Also several times per day Facebook Marketplace tells me there are new listings that match my saved search when there aren’t.
I do most of my 2nd hand buying on OfferUp. Idk where it came from, a friend told me about it and it's pretty active.
airplanes, airplane stuff, airports, airport stuff, little airplanes, big airplanes, fighter jets, airplanes from the dawn times, every budget and skill level. online since day 2, almost exactly unchanged, certain adds cost a few bucks to list, other adds are hand coded into the pages, social side is listings for "fly in's"
mitchbob•4w ago