How Facebook Marketplace Became SO Popular 

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I used to like fb marketplace. Now it is full of scammers. Also the UI got weird.

The one thing I hate about fb marketplace is the location filter. The website just entirely disregards it. I set the filter to 40 miles and it shows me results from over 200 miles away, like what.

I've literally furnished my entire house through Marketplace, with the exception of a couch, a mattress, and a few area rugs. In a big city, even IKEA furniture is great to buy second-hand because its super easy to find someone selling the exact product you're looking for a fraction of the price. Over the years, I've even sold several items I bought from Marketplace (usually for the same price or higher) when my furniture needs changed. I absolutely love some of the unique vintage pieces I've managed to score over the years. It takes some patience to wade through the scammers and weirdos but 99% of my interactions with people have been just fine.

I used to like FB marketplace, mainly because I could buy and sell items in person within a close distance of where I lived. But then Facebook changed it so that local options are suppressed in favor of shipped items. Now most of the items on the feed are dropshipping products or bootleg stickers.

That is the most grandma-est living room I have ever seen. I just want to chill there and eat freshly baked cookies.

That's actually insane how little options does US and Canada have to sell used things peer to peer. There are ebay, craigslist and fb marketplace, OfferUp + Kijiji and that's it. It worth mentioning that most of them are complete trash with ui/ux from early 2000th and lack of normal search, sorting, filters and etc. In Europe there are much better options like OLX and others Tbh, I find Amazon's user experience outdated and not predictable as well. Everything is built on search which have some complicated algorithms preventing you from seeing what you want, but rather what they want you to see.

People were seriously complaining about the videos being too pessimistic? Wow people love to be coddled. I actually love your content and enjoy the take down videos. Eat the rich!

Buying and flipping is genius. If people buy a item that needs fixing and they restore it and sell it to make a profit then good for them!

Fun fact selling used items on ebay still charges sales tax

I LOVE how you tell us how it is and don't sugar coat things. You all are a breath of fresh air. Keep up the reporting negative and all!

I love your content! I literally stalk both Future Proof and Future Proof Health. Don't feel pressure to change your content style :) I think its super informative and helps me be more aware of what I am buying into. Thanks guys!

As a mom of a baby and a toddler, i don't have time to shop for things in my house in any other way so it has been lifesaving for me. Plus i saved a fortune on baby essentials and i got the exact non toxic high quality stuff i wanted. I'm all in for it

Also, Facebook groups has revitalized website forums and really has gone to a place where all these community groups either local or interest based can convene and discuss

The issue is that people try to make top dollar, prices can be ridiculous

If future proof is looking for more positive topics, y'all should look into buy nothing groups. People in NYC at least use buy nothing heavily and it is a pure gifted economy/ dumpster diving/curb stooping. The rule is things must be free. Buy nothing groups have their flaws, but overall if the neighborhood is active and there is a strong community presence, you can get a lot of cool things for free like furniture, random food ingredients, party supplies, clothing, etc.

The toilet paper definitely should hang as a beard; HOWEVER, as a parent of a toddler I have quickly learned that the mullet keeps the little one from unrolling the entire roll onto the floor 👏🏼 I’ll gladly make that sacrifice for now 😅

Bless this man doing gods work! Protecting and informing the consumers! Can't do patreon rn, but will do my part in liking, sharing, subscribing and commenting for the algo!

I'd love to see a video about Pact. They sell mid range clothing made with organic cotton in a fair trade factory...but I got 3/5 things in my order damaged or just not sewn correctly. What's up with that?

Facebook marketplace is awful. You get people that are replying on a whim because it popped into their feeds and then never show up. Craiglist people found it because they looked. Also on the roommate front I had great success with Craiglist. 😁

FB really wanted me to look at Marketplace. I opened the front page and-right at the top of the push list-saw identical postings for the same phone/accessories from posters in different locations. I immediately understood that Craigslist was over. Because scams (the driver of the market) have much better advantages on FB Marketplace, and no threat of safety policies you'd become accustomed to from the old network of "just some people with email addresses."

I got a free wine fridge on Facebook marketplace last night

I love Marketplace for baby stuff. You can find so much for free when overwhelmed mamas just want junk gone, and on the flipside, as the overwhelmed mama myself😂 I can list outgrown stuff for free/cheap and have someone come take it off my hands within the day!! It’s been great.

I got my 1960 singer sewing machine on fb marketplace. I restored it myself and its become my main machine. Now, fb keeps showing me more vintage sewing machines and im fighting the urge to buy and restore another. I already have 3 sewing machines, i dont need more!!

I sell old stuff on Marketplace and there are so many lowballers and weirdos 😭💀

4:02 Is the world filled with more bad actors than good ones? I believe the world is filled with way more good actors than bad ones. The main issue is that one bad actor can significantly ruin things for most of us. Also noteworthy that people aren't inherently good or bad. Almost everyone is bad at some point and good at others. Most people are fairly neutral though. It's not really black and white 😅

Hmmm I'm a medium sized Poshmark seller. Maybe I should give Marketplace a try.

That flowery room, though. *IT SCREAMS COOKIES AND TEA*

It's only reason I have facebook too :D I have been basically inactive for many years, I have not posted or watched any posts for many years. But I have used messenger couple times and marketplace more than couple times.

Levi I don't know if you ever did this but as a kid growing up in the 90's. I loved dumpster diving and going to the dump. I can't remember how much treasures I've managed to save and reuse. It actually makes me mad now that they don't let you go through the landfill. Every time I go I see so much stuff like bikes that just need some work and they'd be back to like new. I understand the safety factor of letting people go climbing over mountains of garbage and metal but to me that's unacceptable when there's perfectly fine thing's that might need a little work but still serve their purpose.

Craiglist looks even better after watching this. My personal details arent given away and Im not bombarded with ads. It costs a few bucks to put an ad up on Craigslist but I LIKE that because it cuts down on sellers putting up thier ad 10 times per hour pushing everyone else's ad down the list.

The last couple times I tried using Craigslist I realized it isn’t usable anymore. I found myself having to scroll through 10+ pages of spammed posts for new $30 mattresses to find a legit post from another person. If I tried searching a different category for something else, say a bookshelf, I was bombarded by page after page of the same spammed posts. Seems like the lack of moderation is what killed Craigslist in my area. FB Marketplace is great because it doesn’t have that problem.

Marketplace has made garage sales SO hard to find. I followed several of those signs and they led nowhere with no one. Maybe the garage sale had listed hours on Marketplace, maybe not. I have no idea. Some friends went on a garage sale hop, and I couldn't join because I couldn't figure out where they were; they didn't think to carpool or even share addresses in the group chat because they were "just going down the FB Marketplace listings in order."

Thank you! I hate how flipping has taken over. Makes thrifting pointless. Also we need more dance breaks, you rock 😊

i am one of those people who keeps pressing X on all marketplace on FB. and then, i once made a mistake of listing my old phone to sell...ended up getting fake messages from "buyers" all day long... never bothered with it again

I definitely enjoyed this video a lot more than a lot of recent ones that were a little bit more on the world is evil theme if you wanna call it that, but I will say the end of this video started transitioning back to that especially when you started talking about the gentrification of thrift goods where still somebody is Buying the good that may end up in another landfill refurbishing it, which is renewing that item, getting it out of the hands of becoming trash, which this channel sometimes supports the renewing of items. That is just my opinion though. 😊

If I wasn't already subscribed I would subscribe now as an endorsement of your objectively correct position on toilet paper mounting.

In Europe we have Vinted which I think had a big impact in making buying second hand goods very convenient

I use it occasionally but will always give preference to buying and selling on Craigslist over it- I do first come first served for selling but Craigslist ALWAYS gets priority, and I’ll even make less or spend more just to avoid Facebook. Chronological lists are just so much better for society than individual algorithms pushing engagement.

Craigslist is my go to place to buy cars, bikes , and other random stuff. Fb market place needs Fb so im out of luck.

Just so everyone knows, you can manually change the date your pictures have been updated on your Facebook profile. Like you could see some pic saying « 8 years ago » when in actuality it’s been 5 minutes. Beware ‘cause scammers use this.

12:26 there is 100% nothing wrong with this. they put their labor into it. even if it's a crap renovation, that's up to the buyer to determine. Antique shops and restoration shops literally function on doing this. Not everyone has the time or skills to refurbish old furniture.

Man I just stumbled on this channel and I can’t stop watching. I’m also a marketing major so these videos are giving me great perspectives on future jobs. Keep up the great work

I hadn't used FB Marketplace in quite a while, favouring Kijiji the last few years. But I just sold two old computer part thingies on FB and not only did I get my asking prices, they took less than a day to sell them both. Way better than Kijiji, where stuff sits for months without any bites and then all people want to do is haggle the price down to almost zero.

its interesting that marketplace is there but the groups still have a better experience to buy and sell, wish that they put more effort in this

Is that gray book in the background the large print New World Translation?

Holy F. Levi's such a vibe I literally just paused to subscribe post three sec dance then got subsequently disappointed realising I can't subscribe twice.😭

Fb mp is easily the best thing about fb right now. I’ve made close to 50K reselling items that people throw away it’s insane how many crt TVs I’ve sold that have been tossed amongst hundreds of other items. 🎉

I once had a woman message me on FB marketplace and tell me that she was out of gas and could I come help her. Haven't used the platform since, that was just too weird.

About the toilet paper thing, I just realized it depends on how many hands you're using to cut the paper. For hand solo, mullet is way easier but if you have your two hands available, beard is definitely better.

In Argentina Fb Market is used a lot as a p2p market, many people sell handmaid products, offer services or put their vehicles to sell...

I prefer Craigslist. Honestly have never had a bad experience there, and I loathe Facebooks interface, the algorithm, and the ads. Give me a simple, old-school interface with a basic timeline any day.

Bro who complain about the negativity on your video ? I always smile watching them

I love the saying "Money Can't Buy You Happiness" specially when said by millionaire and billionaire on national TV 😂

Never used F marketplace, left Fbook like 2011 ?

The same thing haopened in the UK but FB Marketplace replaced Gumtree as we've never had Craigslist.

Craigslist is way behind and missing the boat. I still sell peer to peer on CL, but Craig has an opportunity to cashout big time if he could update his site.

I got in trouble for trying to sell M4 magazines cause my gun broke and I was trying to get rid of them lol. At the end I traded my rifle for a sweet guitar.

hahahaha at the expression for your add

Many of your reasons why “facebook marketplace worked” could apply to facebook dating too. Why didn’t facebook dating work then?

Nice light green wall paint

What a cute sitting room!

Is it still available?

The only reason I really use Facebook is for the marketplace. If there was a better option to FB marketplace, I'd probably rarely log onto FB.

The lack of proper category and specification standards (for a given category), a chaotic and bad UX, and the amount of scammers makes it an awful platform to sell/buy. The only positive is the reach on the FB marketplace.

I really loved marketplace but Facebooks UI made it unable for me to list and makes sales. So now it’s just a dead button on my app that used to be great.

Aside from the constant scammers, I was shadow banned on there and have no idea why. I tried to buy a switch game through the market and had to buy it via PayPal invoice.

Loving the new air bnb

I Latinoamérica is the most used cuz mom's have Facebook and my mom sells and buys my brothers clothes there, specially the school uniforms since in my country even the poorest school has uniform

Could you do one on Henson Shaving (HS) razor? It’s made in Canada. I just bought one on ebay as I tried one from zero waste club and after you posted about leaf I bought one from Poshmark which I had a bloody time with….literally. The Henson razor took no time to learn and I haven’t cut myself yet, even putting a blade in it. And such a close shave! You may be able to do an entirely positive future proof! I have no affiliation with this company, I just think it’s wonderful and don’t want them to go out of business as part of their advertising is it’s a razor to pass down through the generations and we need more products built to last. Plus this razor is so lightweight, and balanced and well engineered so that it’s almost idiot proof.

Video idea: toilet paper vs bidet

Marketplace sucks. No customer service. No accountability. It's a scammer's paradise and full of deadbeat buyers - those who say they want to buy something, then never show up or cancel last second, never to be heard from again. It's worse than Craigslist.

Maybe do like a month out of the year with only good new positive vibes type vids?

carousel app is kinda cool place for 2nd hand stuff

I like the positive balance

The main problem with facebook marketplace is the lack of moderation; all the posts where i am are listed with the wrong price lol

Nextdoor is pretty good, especially for furniture! Trash site otherwise, but minimal scams.

I hate the $100 scams

I collect antique ivory carvings and taxidermy from endangered species like sea turtles, but neither of these things are allowed to be sold on Facebook Marketplace as stated specifically in their TOS. That doesn't stop the algorithm from showing me numerous postings of exactly what I'm looking for along with other prohibited items I didn't know I wanted, almost like the algorithm knows exactly what is being posted and doesn't remove it on purpose.🤔😁

my dad found the house me and my parents rent still to this day we found it on Facebook marketplace

Isn't there a difference between buying something cheaply and selling it on as for 4x as much as getting paid for your time when you restore something?

I got my wedding dress on UsedVictoria!

Craigslist is still around? had no idea...

Re: "negative tone", I've found Future Proof's takes really balanced. I mean... Things like coffee pods and Coca-Cola do suck, so what else can you say in the video.

I personally don't have a problem with your past videos taking a somewhat negative bent. Even on products or services that I like.

Surprised there's not more mention of eBay in these comments

I got scammed out of 4k on Facebook market place last August lol. Or well, I also got a car but I ended up paying more to fix the damn thing since they lied about what I was getting. Oh well haha

Im on marketplace while watching this. lol

Is so useful but also it frustrating how people lie here, in my country some people puts "free" and then when you contact them they tell you a price, (here the cash functions in $1000 is like a bit more than a USD, so people out on the price tag 1234 or 1111 so their announcements apear by the filter of lower price since $1000 Chilean pesos is cheap, and the worst kind is the people who put believabe cheap prices and then in the chat they tell you that the true cost is like 10.000 more than the price listed, it makes search so hard and wasting time, and is being dishonest

I sold 3 items on FB marketplace :)

Much prefer negative videos, this just felt wrong. Also wouldn't use FB Marketplace if you paid me 😂😂😂. (Love your content though)

I'll buy the ram lamp. Sorry airbnb owners.

I hate FB marketplace because it requires an FB account. The last thing anyone who cares about their digital footprint should want is an FB account. I prefer Craigslist because I don't need an account.

I quit FB years ago

1:36 well, if you'd be spreading false information about all kinds of brands then most companies would also not want to sponsor you. I don't know exactly which logical fallacy applies to the argument you made, but I know for sure that it's not logically sound. From what I can tell it definitely doesn't seem like you're spreading false information, so the fact that less companies want to sponsor you is indeed a good sign. The logic in the argument was the wrong way around. It doesn't show that what you're saying is true, but when the things you're saying is true then it shows that those companies are afraid of valid critique. That is definitely a good sign 😊 Ps, after I learned about logical fallacies I've been seeing them all over the place. Avoiding them helps us all make better arguments. So while the argument I mentioned is very insignificant, I still think it's a good opportunity to learn ❤ Ps2, When I get an income I'll become a patron again!

That 3 second dance break turned into pelvic thrusting real quick

No taxes, thats why

Marketplace is literally the only reason I still have Facebook

What it FB Marketplace carries over into the Metaverse instead of Facebook proper?

I've heard there is a lot of ripoffs and scams on FB Marketplace!