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FB marketplace is full of people wasting your time. "Is this still available?" Yes it is - never heard from again. I stopped giving out my address. I will giv
by firesteelrain 2y ago
FB marketplace is full of people wasting your time.
"Is this still available?" Yes it is - never heard from again.
I stopped giving out my address. I will give a general area where we can meet so they can gauge how far it is for them. When they are on their way, I give them the public location to meet. Only serious people will meet me. On some occasions, I still get ghosted. But ghosting has become more and more common. I don't recall it being this bad when Craigslist was huge.
Rather go back to yard sales.
- officeplant 2y agoI miss the olden craigslist days sometimes. Even responses that sounded like scams were somehow real people at times. I once sold a PSP Vita hours after listing it on Craigslist. The response had superbroken english and was insistent they had to buy it in the next two hours at X location. That location happened to be about a mile down the road from my job so I humored them. Turned out it was just a guy from out of country that was only there one more day for oil field training. Paid me in cash and didn't even hassle the price.
- nfriedly 2y agoYeah, FB marketplace is the worst for that. I end up putting up with it, though, because it also has a lot of legitimate buyers and no fees. I usually just give folks my home address and a time I'm going to be home anyways, and ask them to send me a message once they're on their way. Then I generally forget about it until I get a message from them. If they ghost me, oh well. I don't take the ad down, and if anyone else asks, I just tell them to ask me again after the scheduled time.