It always goes like this desirable item for free
They messaged saying, they wanna pick it up.I let them know that this is the specific time every day and where they can pick it up in the morning
Pbecause I don't want to hear about the person's schedule or exchange a million emails.
Then they do not respond. It is a public location.is it because they are trying to fish for my personal home address...
Hello, I am kinda new to selling on the facebook marketplace and I was wondering, do I need to spend any money or ads, or do I just post my listing and that's it?
For people who don't spend money on ads, can I know how many leads u get on average and what do you sell? Thanks!
I listed my vehicle for sale on the 'Classifieds' page in my local hometown, the 'Classifieds' page in several towns close by, and also on Facebook marketplace. I'm getting a message that Facebook thinks I created a duplicate listing. I went out and took another pic of the vehicle and added it to the listing and I'm still getting the message. What do I do to fix this? I also listed another, totally separate vehicle with completely different pics the same day so I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it? I'm really confused and frustrated. This is the first time I've listed something for sale. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I recently moved and sold all of my tools and toolboxes and a bunch of other stuff before I moved, I have been starting to replace tool and garden items from craigslist and marketplace. I’m pretty familiar with values and pricing and don’t find a need to haggle if the price is reasonable or great. I simply accept their offer to sell the item and offer a quick timeframe to indicate sincerity. This thing I’m talking about is unique to marketplace, I can’t remember it ever happening on craigslist.
This weird “I want to hold it for somebody who said they will be here tomorrow at 3pm, will let you know if they don’t buy it” has happened a couple of times this week. On Monday it was a toolbox ($250 to $175), yesterday it was a Chicago electric (harbor freight) miter saw ($45/$25). These items had been listed for weeks, each had its price slashed fewer than 24 hours of my contacting the person. “ I would like to buy this, please, May I buy it today?” This is the response that I have curated that gets me the fastest most positive responses from potential sellers, I feel it is clear communication that indicates a solid sale is available. As a seller, this is the response that I will always reply to first if I get a pile up of potential buyers.
I live in a decent size city, kind of isolated from other cities, though. These items are each about a 20 minute drive from the city out into the surrounding farmland (different sellers, opposite directions from me)… inconvenient for buyers to go to, pricing seems to be a little lower for that reason… and then the people out there are kind of give up and just cut the price to get anybody out there. At least this is a pattern I’ve seen that I assume is real.
I guess I should say I’m not bitter about this, it’s just kind of a thing I’ve observed recently that seems self-defeating for people trying to actually sell things and get rid of them. We all have our quirks and our preferred ways of doing things… to each his/her own.
Hi everyone, I’m having issues selling two cars due to Facebook not showing them to people. A month ago I posted car A and it didn’t get a lot of views so I reposted it and made my friends message me about it and right after I got a lot of interest in it and sold it same day. Now I have car B and car C, I’ve had them listed for a great price just like car A but I’m still not getting a lot of interactions, I did the same trick where they message me but I’m not getting any traction at all, how can I solve this issue? I bought a few promotions on marketplace and still barely helped.
Note to admins: my posts constantly being removed with no explanation. What’s going on? It’s a legit post about people experiencing struggles with FB marketplace.
FB market finally screwed us up completely. And silently. It’s now impossible to find your listings in search anymore, no clicks, no saves. Zero support and info from Meta of course. I feel it’s all done on purpose to force people promoting their stuff. But even if promoted - listings don’t show up in search and very few views you get. Google keep saying Meta moved to AI driven paid experience… Ok, if you moved to use this sneaky tactic I don’t mind but announce it so people can dump your so called “selling platform“ for good knowing this. But of course it’s not their way. This is so ridiculous, guys. Lots of threads where people discussing it and not getting any help. Hope new market platforms will be created soon. This one is broken on purpose and can’t be trusted. So my question is what’s going on?
Interested buyer contacted me for purchase. Wants to come today. Mentions she lives not too far from me and says a neighborhood name that is real but her profile has different state in it. Wants to pay by Venmo right now. I say you can pay when here and I will send address when you say you are on your way. Never replies. I forgot to mention did not use my listing to contact me but sent message through facebook messenger creating our own group
Hi all. My BF and I are new to Marketplace and he’s selling some of his old perfumes. All authentic but used, as clearly stated in the listing with photos and videos, and all open to price offers. Every other buyer has been happy.
One has been a problem. I’ll keep it as short as I can: she doesn’t live in our city but offered a price to drive a short way and pick up two bottles. BF accepted. Buyer decided on the day that she was going to pay £8 less because she’d sent her mum in a taxi, the car got stuck in traffic, and mum didn’t have enough cash after the taxi fare. Not a question, no apology, no offer to transfer the rest.
BF asked the buyer to PayPal the difference (he would’ve taken the cut if she’d been polite instead of demanding). She got angry, threatened to only buy one bottle for less than half the agreed price “because you’re being like this.” Took both for £8 less in the end, but later accused BF of scamming her with fake perfumes. BF is a perfume collector, they’re 100% real, so he assumed she was throwing a strop and ignored her.
A few days later, another woman asks about BF’s perfumes. Pushes for proof that they’re real, which BF is suspicious of, but he bought them for himself years ago so obviously doesn’t have boxes or receipts. As expected, the woman is the original buyer’s friend, starts making the same accusations and getting heated.
I think it’s two entitled, immature women trying to bully him, so I’ve told him to block and leave it there, which he has. But we wondered if this sort of thing happens often on Marketplace, and did we do the right thing? He thinks it looks dodgy because neither account has many posts/photos and the women look similar. I think they’re real profiles but the buyer planned poorly (maybe on purpose?) and is trying to claw back money.
TIA
A few years ago I bought a coffee table at an estate sale, but it’s sat in my garage since. I decided to finally try to get rid of it, so I listed it on marketplace.
I did a quick google image search on it to see if I could find any info to include in the listing and to my suprise, i saw where it was actually going for between $800 and $1100 online.
I paid nowhere near that, so I posted it at $400. Someone actually messaged me today if I would take $100?? Would it be completely inappropriate if I responded “lol no”?? I get trying to negotiate a good price on something, but offering such a low number from someone’s asking price is actually insane to me?
So I just sold my Nintendo switch games to this guy a few hours ago and he asked me if he wanted to be friends on Facebook, then he starts basically flirting with me and asking if I need rides and places to go and be. When I asked him what his age was he said 30 then said he lied and that he is actually 24 and wanted to see what I thought because I'm 18 I said no I have a 3 year limit on who I a trying to date sorry and he basically just went on about him visiting 5 countries and owning a pokemon business and making 5 grand a month in income. I asked him why would he be trying to hit me up since I'm so young and he said he dated a 19 year old before and did not mind because in Spain where he is from it is different. I blocked the guy after basically saying no to him and I move in a month anyway but yeah IDK why any person in their 20s would want to date me when I don't have time for that right now. If you guys know of anything else I can do ty, he had bought the games at my address so I'm hoping he keeps to himself and does not try to visit me.
If you are an active seller on FB then you probably have encountered an issue where your listings stopped getting any activity. This is all done on purpose. As you can see now you have a *PROMOTE NOW* button that displayed right next to your listing, I figured they in Meta made an update where they scanned for all the high activity sellers with decent amount of reviews, conversations and listings. What is the exact formula is not sure but they want you now to use that promote feature if you want to get any activity back. I personally have 3 listings and they used to show up in search on top of it and now they basically not showing up at all and I have 0 views.
UPDATE: Just to verify that im correct. I used my wifes account and created exactly same listing. She is not selling neither buying on FB and as I thought her ad is on top of the search and she is getting views and messages.
The object is listed for $75 (but I'm relatively motivated to get rid of it).
Her: Hi, I know it’s a lower offer but I could do $50 if you are willing.
Me: Done. Good for today only. What time is good for you? Located in Mytown, near the corner of Blah and Blech
Her: Venmo okay? We can pick up today
Me: Cash only. There is a credit union on Blah. They have a bank machine. There is also a bank machine at 7-11 on Blech.
Her: Okay, I’m not able to do that as I am a sahm. Thanks.
Can anyone explain what being a SAHM has to do with bringing cash? I'm scratching my head here bc I was a SAHM for a decade+ and it never affected my ability to use a bank machine.
As most of us are experiencing the recent suppression of our listings I wonder if anyone has been able to bounce back?
I’ve tried Deleting a listing and posting a new one the next day with fresh Pictures and description. I’d still get like 5 clicks after 24hrs then after another day magnet I’m at 40 clicks, but never receive a message….
Another thing is I used to have 30+ Listings
Avg. 12-15 messages a week
Average 800-1200 clicks a week
Listings showed at the top of search
Then it went to 0 messages for week(s)
300 clicks
No listings show up in search for me or anyone
So this is going to be long to get the full scope of the story and why I think this way. So I was looking into getting my rims painted and found this guy on MP. His reviews are high and consistent with no real issues that I could see. So I gave him the rims with no deposit as it was never disclosed he wanted one and off to wait until they were done. After a week I was told there would be delays, so another 3-5 days, then gave more delays. Once he got the last layer of paint on he ended up pulling off ALL the paint he put on as the old paint was already peeling and he did know this was happening. It took 2 weeks to get to that point and it turns out he didn't sand the rims and doesn't usually do that, I assumed he would as I already told him the paint was peeling. So in the end he added more to the final price for him sanding the rims. Now I've waited another 3 weeks with a week delay for various reasons of why it's getting delays, it's starting to get on my nerves how my rims are now a backburner project.
Given the time and the less than stellar performance as he's stated working on other people's cars whilst mine isn't finished and lack of communication do you think it's worth trying to force a discount or just take the loss on my end and take this as a lesson?
Thankfully there is going to be a few years warranty if needed but not sure how much I would even want to go back to him
Never seen this before in 20 years of second hand shopping....
Sellers listing items for free, then saying "Make an offer" with zero description. Then they get offended by your offer and absolutely refuse to describe the item or tell you what their price expectations.
This has now happened with 3 separate people this month.
Buyer said my product was damaged, probably liquid damaged, and would suddenly turn off and I didn't mention it in my listing.
Buyer came this week, checked it out and at some point it got a BSOD which I didn't expect and about a minute later he declines and leaves. And under 1 hour later I got notified he left a rating. I left one and discover he left a 1*. My first 1* of the year. I think it lowered my 4.4 to a 4.3 even.
I listed this PC as is and listed the specs and some known problems with it, and had pictures of multiple angles of it
Maybe I didn't do enough?
I am a plant collector and have some rare/uncommon plants. They grow extremely well under my care and I always have surplus. In the past I have frequently posted them on marketplace about 50-75% below what others normally do for the same plants in my area. Almost all are snapped up within a few days. I'm not a shop looking to make profits, just to supplement my hobby and talk to folks in the plant community.
Now I am heavily downsizing my collection due to time and space constraints. I have these large "mother plants" that are worth several hundreds each, even at a large discount. I'm not comfortable dealing with that amount of cash with strangers.
So my plan is to chop them down into cuttings and bundle them, I plan to sell the cuttings 90% below what others list them as.
My question is a moral one, if I post the ad and have too many people want them, can I adjust the price or is that heavily frowned upon?
In the past this has happened when I'm selling a few cuttings or baby plants at a time, I always kept my price and committed to the first buyers. I only increased my prices for the same cuttings weeks/months later for new ads when I had more to sell.
This time I need to sell most of my plants over the next week or two not months. Hence the extreme discount, but I also don't want to discount so much that I miss out on what I could be getting. What would you do?
Please note I don't want to look into the hassle of shipping plants.
I've had this older boombox with a bad tape player for sale on marketplace for a long time, I had it up for $50 a guy said all he had was $40 for it. I didn't really wanna sell it for $40 since I bought stuff to convert these to bluetooth, but I just told him I would do $40 if he could come today. We agreed to meet at 7 earlier, I messaged him at 6:55 that I'm headed down to the police station and I would see him there in a few minutes. "Oh I did not realize you are 1 hour, you wait for me I'm on my way." I ask where he's coming from and he's only coming from a town like slightly over a half hour away from me, direct shot down the interstate and not at all an hour away.
At this point I'm already annoyed, I was gonna go out to eat with my family and instead we opted to stay home so I could sell this boombox to him. An hour comes and goes, I eat dinner, I take a quick catnap for like a half hour, I shoot him a message and ask if he is still coming since I woke up and didn't see a message, it is 8:30 now mind you, nice and almost dark out, I hate selling stuff when it's dark out since the buyers cannot properly inspect their items.
"Oh I'm on my way lots of traffic GPS says 27 minutes." I tell him to message me when he is 10 minutes away and I'll be there. Now it is 9:10, supposedly 10 minutes away, he doesn't pull into the parking lot until 9:30. I get out of my car to greet him, he says "so is everything working good?" "Everything except the tape drive." I replied. "I want to test this before I buy it." "Unless you have an outlet in your truck that's not gonna be possible, you're gonna just have to trust me on this one my man."
"Oh ok." He opens his wallet at this point, "I only have $38 is ok I will buy it." Beyond annoyed I went told him, "Come on man, you already got a $10 discount, I put my night on hold and wasted 2 and a half hours waiting for you, there is a Wawa (pointing) 2 minutes down the street from here with a free ATM. If you do not have $40 and cannot get $40 I will put this back in my car and go home, we agreed on $40 already and you said all you had was $40." Might I add this guy pulled up in a High Country pickup truck with big wheels on it, he wasn't broke.
I shit you not he literally went into the other compartment of his wallet and magically found a $2 bill to make $40, "oh I really don't want to spend this." "Then you should have brought 2 more dollars, you made an offer and agreed to bring me a certain amount of money that was lower than I was asking, wasted my time, and then acted like you came up short, that's so disrespectful towards me." Never blocked a buyer so fast in my life after leaving, the nerve of some people is insane. Idk why I even attempt to deal with these people making offers like this, I don't think $40 was an unfair offer at all, but the nerve to make an offer, dilly dally all evening till it's pitch black and spitting rain, then act like you don't have as much as we agreed upon is nutso. I can't believe people like this actually exist, like you read all the posts here about people being rude inconsiderate dickheads and showing up with less than what's agreed upon, I've sold hundreds of items and never had it happen until tonight. Like yeah it's only $2, but it's about the principal
What should I sell something like Dungeon Crawl Carl, Opporation Bounce House, Will of the Many, The Last Contract of Isako, Empire of the Vampire? Etc? All of these came out in the past 5 years some of them this year.
They are all hardcovers. Most people on eBay sell them for more than $20. Is $20-$25 a good price?
this is more of a rant post, would like to hear you guys' thoughts and experiences
so i usually give buyers a close intersection and ask when they'd like to meet... then i give the exact address once they text me they'll be on the way soon, is this a normal procedure?
because sometimes buyers get mad for not receiving the exact address when they don't even tell me when they plan to come?
i don't feel comfortable giving strangers my address and having them show up when i'm not home, do they not understand this?
and sometimes they say they don't know when they can come because i haven't given them the exact address, but that's why i gave you the closest intersection?
am i making the process too complicated by not giving them the address right away? what do you guys do?