[ryukoposting]

In Wisconsin and Illinois, I had far better luck both buying and selling on CL. I moved to CA fairly recently but the story seems to be the same here.

As a seller, FB marketplace is just a neverending stream of "Is this still available?" "Yes" and then radio silence.

I also found it far less common for CL sellers to share a different price in DMs than they list in the ad. CL users are also better about taking their ad down when the item is sold.

Going to a separate website and (gasp!) sending an actual email or calling someone, those are strong filters for intent that FB Marketplace lacks.

[everybodyknows]

> Going to a separate website and (gasp!) sending an actual email or calling someone, those are strong filters for intent that FB Marketplace lacks.

Thanks -- that explains why anonymized email as an ad reply option has (silently) disappeared.