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by aufhebung 953 days ago
Facebook marketplace has basically supplanted gumtree as the place to buy and sell things in Sydney. Its the only reason i have an account
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Likewise here in Victoria, BC. I don’t look at anything other than what I’m trying to sell. Unfortunately, other means of selling locally are virtually dead.
Yep, if I need to find something I ask my partner to check Facebook Marketplace. I check it once a month too to see if I have missed any events.
This may be the reason I eventually break my hiatus
kijiji is decade+ popular in Ontario and Quebec. It may be there, too.
Facebook marketplace is about on-par popularity-wise with kijiji these days. Not too long ago I had to sell a used car and put it on both and received about the same number of genuine interest responses from both sites. Kijiji is a better site in my opinion; better layout, ux, search options and filtering etc. But facebook has more people already on it so network effects.
Yes, although kijiji is as old as public Facebook, or there abouts.

whois their domain and ip range.