Mad respect to them for not enshittifying.

I was looking for a turntable recently and checked Craigslist religiously for several weeks trying to find a deal. All I saw was the same few overpriced antique stores using posts as advertisements, refreshing over and over to stay on top. What real posts I could find were priced at the same point as the antique stores, probably thinking that was the going rate.

I was barely aware of Facebook Marketplace, but a friend recommended I check there too, and it had a bunch of actual fair deals. While Craigslist rarely had a vintage turntable for less than $300, I was immediately able to find 2 for less than $50 each on Facebook. I felt unclean while re-installing the Facebook app after nearly a decade, but I can't deny that it's better, at least for what I was looking for.

Nice!

Haha yeah, I mean its used, but veerryyy very little now. People are still scared of being murdered in there.

literally is one of those words which has really lost it's meaning. yes I hate it.

Regardless, how badly you want to use fb marketplace is highly regional and situational dependent.

My partner and I have twins who are now almost 3 years old. I would estimate that the stuff we have bought and then later sold on fb marketplace for little or no difference in value would have cost about $6k or $7k per child if we had bought it new. Average full time wage here is about $1k per week, for reference.

There just isn't another platform which has any significant userbase for toddlers gear here. There is something else you can use for cars or tools, but not toddlers stuff.

Its true that without facebook marketplace we just wouldn't have bought a lot of the stuff that we did

Meeting someone via Missed Connections is the stuff of my Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan dreams.

IME craigslist is better for auto but everything else seems to be on marketplace

Eh, not true. Ive bought and sold hundreds of things and had 0 scam. People around here are pretty honest

Amazing isnt it. The corporations have won. Us old fogies are deemed crazy and will be gone soon and the younguns will have no idea what they took from us.

Its up to parents to teach their children to rage and be angered at what they've lost. And to get it back.

Not here. Marketplace is insanely useful and saves me a lot of money.

Thrift shops?? Garage sales?? They're shit now and WAY overcharge. Pawn shops are horrible. They want $300 for a VCR.

However , I do not use Walmart or amazon, and I do not buy new cars. So I'm helping there at least.

I can't leave anyway since all my friends are stuck in it and will never move. (Tech illiterate and scared of the dark web, as they call it)

As one of those adopters 15 years ago, it was a no-brainer. I could either message my wife "free" or send SMSs at 20c each.

Facebook in Philippines is literally free to use even for those without mobile data. However, people there don't realise they are the product. Or worse, they don't realise they are guinea pigs for social engineering by techno-industrial complex.