[eknight15]

Marketplace has been around since 2007, I'm surprised it's taken this long to "introduce": http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2008/12/facebook-chooses-oodle-t...

[vlucas]

The old marketplace sucked. The real buying/selling was happening on individual Facebook groups.

Search Groups in the "Buy & Sell" category and you will see what I mean: https://www.facebook.com/groups/?discover_category_id=477274...

[toyg]

Yeah that's what I thought? I'm sure I checked it out before and found it pretty useless.

[ThomPete]

The old marketplace wasn't structured probably. Private groups centered around cities rather than through friends is the biggest change.

The social proof that FB allow for, make it possible to sell to people you don't know much more securely.

It was one of those things that the community itself developed and FB just turned it into a service.

I was considering getting into this space a few years back but realized that FB would eventually catch up.

Still is room for non-fb competitors but their social proof card is hard to beat IMO.

[neaden]

Yeah, I was confused when I saw this headline.