[ses1984]

I made an account to sell a cheap guitar. I listed it for $100 and used all my own original pictures.

They said my listing was suspicious and needed to verify my identity, which meant sending them a picture of me holding my drivers license next to my face.

I had a lot of other stuff to sell, so I obliged.

They said that wasn’t enough and they required another photo, this time holding my passport by my head.

I thought this was pretty crazy, but also, I had a lot of stuff to sell, and privacy is pretty much already dead so why not?

They said they could not verify my identity.

The end.

[42772827]

Facebook has entered this weird statistical zone where “if you don’t have a Facebook account by now you’re probably a scammer.” I deleted my facebook account in 2015 and then tried to sign up again also when I had stuff to sell, they couldn’t verify me either.

[LtWorf]

You should have created an obviously fake account called like "Mark Guy" with a photo of an asian woman and you should have posted some nazi stuff. In that case your account would have been completely fine for them.

[FeloniousHam]

I have only briefly had a Facebook, maybe 2 or 3 times, most recently to sell/giveaway a bunch of stuff before a house move.

It was simple, easy, and reliable.

[mysterydip]

"thanks for the training data, goodbye"