Comment by Marsymars
9 days ago
> the immediate fix to this is to stop using facebook.
Sure, but that relegates my old but perfectly functional macbook to the trash. There's literally no functional alternative to fb marketplace for getting used goods re-used at any kind of scale.
Give it away to an acquaintance? Find a physical store that will take it? List it on another platform (yes they exist)? Put up a flyer at your nearest university? So many options besides "trash it".
Craigslist?
Effectively non-existent in Canada. Kijiji nominally exists, but I dual list everything I'm trying to get rid of on both kijiji/facebook out of principle and get like 20x more interest on facebook.
i've been using offerup, same argument here, stop using facebook marketplace use other platforms and others will also stop using facebook marketplace.
I personally would love to see someone create a platform for selling secondhand computer equipment specifically. Poshmark for bitpushers in effect.