[karmasimida]

Facebook Marketplace

To avoid scammers are hard though, so usually people meet in public place for transaction

Imagine you post a picture then exposing your home address that is scary

[al_borland]

The problem with Marketplace and Craigslist is the time they take. I can just send the stuff somewhere and wait for someone to buy it. I need to post it, wait, hope that someone wants it at the same time I’m selling, filter out scammers, negotiate the price, arrange a meeting place, and go meet the person and hope they’re normal.

For one relative high value item that’s ok. When someone had a lot of stuff to unload, or lower value items, it’s too much work or not worth the time.

[karmasimida]

I mean it is a market, the market is THE mechanism to match and allocate.

If it is low value, how do you know someone would want it anyway?

[dzhiurgis]

There's plenty of open databases to look up tons of things about you.

In NZ only reason people don't give out their home address is when they are selling something defective so you wouldn't hassle them over it.