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Facebook had a multimillion dollar business (yes, million, not trillion, but this was solid) in the form of FB marketplace. That was the one part of FB that was
by IgorPartola 5y ago
Facebook had a multimillion dollar business (yes, million, not trillion, but this was solid) in the form of FB marketplace. That was the one part of FB that was super useful and if they hooked it up with a secure payment system that worked with these kinds of transactions it could have been amazing. Instead they squandered it on ads, as they always do. The platform is now unusable.
- behnamoh 5y agoIs there any good alternative to FB MarketPlace these days? Craigslist is just too old fashioned and most people I know don't use it anymore.
- 6sp 5y agoOfferup is probably the only other alternative but the network effects of Craigslist and FB are hard to beat.
- stevekemp 5y agoI suspect a lot of the alternatives are pretty regional, for example tori.fi in Finland.
- tentacleuno 5y agoFreecycle[0]? [0]: https://freecycle.org https://freecycle.org
- tentacleuno 5y agoThere's Gumtree[0], which is owned by eBay. Pretty popular over here in the UK. [0]: https://www.gumtree.com https://www.gumtree.com
- 4rb1t 5y agoFB marketplace is pretty much the goto place for most people. For the most parts its valid users.
- qualudeheart 5y agoI`m a big fan.
- IgorPartola 5y agoUsers are. Listings aren’t. Most of my feed is ads for online stores masquerading as local listings. Like legit 10 out of 12 are this. You can search but you can’t just see “what has been listed lately” and their AB testing keeps changing the UI slightly so you can’t always find the right filters anyways.