| I've had marketplace on my phone for the past few months. I guess New Zealand was the test market for it. Personally, I don't use it. Facebook provides no protection for either buyer or seller, which is something that Ebay (or Trademe [0] in the case of NZ) offer. I'm constantly seeing people on the local buy/sell/exchange groups complaining about buying stolen phones, or people failing to send items, or various other things. It's not difficult to make a fake account. Although it does say how long the person has been a Facebook member on the listings. I just looked on my phone, and the first thing I see for sale is synthetic marijuana. This doesn't bode well. The user experience is pretty poor too. For a test, I wanted to see if I could find a couch. The closest I could filter to was Furniture. I then searched for Couch, which then removed the filter, so I added the filter back on. Instead of seeing a bunch of couches, half the things for sale were tables and beds. I'm not a fan of the image-only listings either. I'd prefer to see a title with an image when searching. A price would be useful too. Instead I get a bunch of crappy cellphone pictures of peoples old shit. Then there's the issue for me that you aren't allowed to buy and sell firearms through Facebook, despite the fact that it's perfectly legal in New Zealand, and Trademe allows you to do it. I can say that I will stick to using Trademe. [0]: http://www.trademe.co.nz/ |