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[–] ShortYetLongDogs@lemmy.zip 8 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

"Literally no one?" My partner and I just picked up a couch from a couple thru Craiglist, all of us aged around 30 years old. We both love to read the Missed Connections posts on there. I agree that facebook's marketplace has a good hold on ubiquity at the moment, but nobody "literally" needs it.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Nice!

Haha yeah, I mean its used, but veerryyy very little now. People are still scared of being murdered in there.

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 4 points 12 hours ago

I was looking for a turntable recently and checked Craigslist religiously for several weeks trying to find a deal. All I saw was the same few overpriced antique stores using posts as advertisements, refreshing over and over to stay on top. What real posts I could find were priced at the same point as the antique stores, probably thinking that was the going rate.

I was barely aware of Facebook Marketplace, but a friend recommended I check there too, and it had a bunch of actual fair deals. While Craigslist rarely had a vintage turntable for less than $300, I was immediately able to find 2 for less than $50 each on Facebook. I felt unclean while re-installing the Facebook app after nearly a decade, but I can't deny that it's better, at least for what I was looking for.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

literally is one of those words which has really lost it's meaning. yes I hate it.

Regardless, how badly you want to use fb marketplace is highly regional and situational dependent.

My partner and I have twins who are now almost 3 years old. I would estimate that the stuff we have bought and then later sold on fb marketplace for little or no difference in value would have cost about $6k or $7k per child if we had bought it new. Average full time wage here is about $1k per week, for reference.

There just isn't another platform which has any significant userbase for toddlers gear here. There is something else you can use for cars or tools, but not toddlers stuff.

Its true that without facebook marketplace we just wouldn't have bought a lot of the stuff that we did

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah i used it unnessecarily. I agree. So many good deals. And ive met some new friends from it.