Hey! I actually built a tool that sends Facebook Marketplace alerts to your phone/computer using Discord. It's much cheaper than other apps, tons of customization, and way more flexible. I'm running a free trial right now so go ahead and check it out :) https://apify.com/futurafree/facebook-marketplace-scraper-discord-alerts

Try out Marketplace Monitor

Look at it all the time and be fast

You can change your search settings by going to Marketplace, press the search button, then the filter button that looks like 2 lines that are just to the left of the Local or All Marketplace tab.

http://FB Marketplace search settings https://imgur.com/a/dRnJuxg

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Also, I try to only browse and message sellers when I’m ready to buy right now. I’m not looking for deals this weekend. I’m only reaching out if I can commit to a pickup now or the very near future.

If you’ve sold anything of FBM recently, you’ll get burned by so many people who say they are going to pickup the next day. A next day promise has lower than 50% close rate. Even a morning promise for a time that afternoon is probably lower than 80%. So if you are a seller and you’ve got two potential buyers: one who will buy in the next 2 hours or one who might show up the next day, which one are you going to sell to?

Me? I’m going to tell the second buyer to reach out in the morning to confirm if the item is still available.

As a seller, I honor the agreements I make, and don’t resort to the “first come, first served” model. I’m not holding things for weeks, but if I make a commitment, I stick to it. As a buyer, I try to tell the seller when I can come (as quickly as possible), and haven’t had anyone sell out from under me. Maybe I’ve been lucky, but don’t give up hope!

You may just be out of practice or haven’t kept up with the learning curve. There was probably less competition a few years ago.

Now, if you really want something because it’s a great deal, there’s an expectation that you communicate clearly and be able to move quickly. If it’s a great deal, there are a dozen offers in their inbox, so you better stand out.

If you are starting out with “is this available?”, you’re going to lose out to the competition who starts out with “if this is still available, I’d like to buy for $55. I can pickup right now or whenever is most convenient for you.” I know which buyer I’m going to respond to first. I also know which messages have a pretty high success rate when I’m buying.

Idk about economy, but I cannot buy anything lately. I’d post “hey, I want to buy your stuff, let’s meet in the area” and they either read and ignore, or reply with some inadequate shit 🤷 

This platform is a waste of time.

Prices don't make sense for someone's used shit anymore and 90% of the time I can't get it to show me something IN MY CITY.

I don't need an algorithm for fucking garage sales. Just show everything in my radius and let me search for specifics. I shouldn't have to constantly check if I'm on the "local" tab. Every time I'm on it I find something perfect that I need for a good price only to realize it's 6 hours away.

Guys, go to marketplace (it will open in a new tab) choose your own town then choose any of the listed items, try to message the seller, once you do that it will pop a window with “your marketplace is not personalized” you will have 2 option, personalize or not, so go ahead and personalize, and after that follow these steps: https://youtu.be/kf4O78JoC5M?feature=shared

I finally got my access back after losing it in early January. I already had a facebook business page because I have my own business but through my business page, I created a commerce shop, went to live support, and was able to chat with a real person from Facebook. It took a little bit of explaining and they seemed somewhat confused at first but within a day or two they had restored my access.

Has anyone had their market place fixed? I'm a new user so I can browse fir cars and it. Just kicked me off.

I made a new account it worked for a bit now I can't access again wtf Facebook fr dude

Mine doesn’t work either (in Canada, on IOS, was selling lots of stuff on there) for some reason it does work on my alt account though, all I was selling at that time was a Xbox

Any update? I just lost mine

Full of scams

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When I was 16 I lost my phone and decided to buy off the market place. I had the thought that, what’s if the other person just took my money and left with the phone. So one of my thoughts were to bring my big black friend. He was 6ft something and ripped. I ended up bringing my mom and the guy selling the phone was disabled. Checked it at the mall at an AT&T for them to see if it’s good.

Anyways sorry about the random story.

Just tell them to meet in an area with cameras or a place you go often. If I was sketched, I would meet at in front of my local grocery store.

Many local PDs have safe sale zones (or something like that) for Craigslist and other online purchases. Google is your friend

Like others said meet somewhere well lit, public, or a meet at a dedicated safe exchange spot provided by you local police department. Have a friend with you, the bigger the better. Have a conterfit money marker with you as well if your selling something for a large amount of money.

I’ve never used marketplace because I’m not on Facebook, but I bought stuff from Craigslist when people still used that. I always met people in gas station or grocery store parking lots near the front where we were visible and lots of people were walking by.

The only time I’ve ever had someone come to my house was when I sold a car.

Dele sin miedo. Yo je vendido y comprado carros por ahí y todo bien. Obvio hay que tener las precauciones básicas de siempre

Yo tengo casi que desde que salió que lo uso. He comprado y vendidos carros un par de veces, he comprado y vendido celulares, relojes, piezas de computadora, computadoras completas, etc

Hay que estar miando fuera del tarro para que le vean la cara a uno. Igual uno siempre tiene que hacer un par de filtros. Revisar el perfil es como lo básico.

Yo siempre que vendo algo, me escribe una persona primero reviso el perfil (si es público, por lo menso veo que la foto de perfil y, si sale, la cantidad de amigos) y el nombre de la persona (si sale como Daniel Rojas Alvarez todo bien, si sale algo como Dani el piojo Rojas o varas ahí medio raras, ni contesto)

Igual para comprar, si el vendedor es un mae que la foto de perfil está sosteniendo una pistola o la foto es una imagen de un carro o una imagen con una frase de “no se aprende en la escuela, se aprende en la calle”, ya se sabe que ni se debe escribir Y si el articulo que busca vale 10 millones y alguien lo publicó en 5 millones en “perfecto estado” ya sabe que hay que sospechar

Algo que parece una estupidez, pero es 100% efectivo es poner la hablada al final de la publicación de “estafadores no pierdan tiempo” y esas varas ya hace que ni le escriban jaja

A mí solo una vez me intentaron hacer la de que me mandan un comprobante falso y que viene el uber en camino a recoger el artículo Imagínese que escribieron mal mi nombre en el comprobante, con eso le digo todo… Hay que tener medio cerebro quemado para caer en esas varas

A mi me ha ido exc.

Solo ser precavido y no exponerse

Its been an ongoing problem just slowly effecting more people. Facebook has not responded if its even unintentional.

Sort by new in this sub-- it seems to be a major glitch that is affecting many, many people.

No guaranteed solutions have emerged yet.

Things that don't work:

1. Following the directions in fbmp's help center.
2. Attempting to contact anyone.
3. Force-stopping the app.
4. Clearing the cache.
5. Restarting your phone.
6. Deleting and reinstalling the app.
7. Installing FB Lite.

Very, very discouraging.

I have the same issue.

There are many ongoing issues with it at the moment. Hopefully they will be solved soon.

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