[mttddd]

Ya anecdotal for sure but a ton of my friends bought their significant others some new fangled thing they only heard about because they saw it on Instagram. HN loves to bash marketing (and FB/google) but it has never been easier to spin up your own shoe company and easily advertise and get customers (e.g, allbirds).

[Nextgrid]

I've also seen and personally know people who bought crap off Facebook ads and ended up either being scammed or with a product below what the ad promised.

[offtop5]

For me I've been very happy with my Facebook purchases