• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The only thing keeping my meta account alive is Marketplace. Unfortunately, it’s much busier than Craigslist in my area.

    Facebook has become a dirty flea market for me.

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah the world moved from Craigslist to marketplace before I did. I found out the hard way when nothing was selling.

      One thing I like about marketplace is you can view someone’s profile to see if they are an actual human that lives near you.

    • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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      4 hours ago

      Marketplace needs to die, it’s got most of the downsides of craigslist except for making it super easy prospective purchasers to spam “still available?” Ad nauseum

    • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Same. I live on an island and the only way to sell anything is on two fb groups. Craigslist is there but half the time you get people on the big island and have to take a ferry to sell. I’m thinking of starting a small website/app, not sure it will take off though.

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        4 hours ago

        If you cant get people on craigslist, the most well known fixed rock of online classifieds…I don’t know that your app will take off. OfferUp and the other one also tried to knock out marketplace and failed.

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          3 hours ago

          Offerup, letgo, mercari, etsy, there’s a million online 3PMs. (3rd party marketplaces). Refine the idea or scrap it. This guys right.