The Wild West of Facebook Marketplace
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━CHAPTERS━
00:00 the wild and whacky world of facebook marketplace
02:06 the scams
10:10 awful buyer experience
14:20 the miscellaneous section
19:54 electronics
20:53 food???
22:24 what can we do about it?
today we're looking at the wild and whacky world of facebook marketplace, facebook marketplace is completely unhinged, and facebook/meta/zuckerberg are doing nothing to stop people from getting scammed on the marketplace, and it's time i call it out. the user experience on facebook marketplace is awful, especially for buyers, and scams run rampant on the site on the buyer and seller side of things. no one is safe.
tags: #facebook #facebookmarketplace #meta - Комедії
Cybersecurity guy here. The reason those scam emails are written so bizarrely is to weed out anybody who sees those mistakes and goes, “Oh, this is a scam.” You’re removing yourself from the scam process so they don’t waste time on you. The people who read those emails snd see nothing wrong are the real targets.
If you want a bargain go to a local thrift store or yard sale, or buy from family or friends IRL. With online scammers you can't stop them, so all you can do is ignore them and let natural selection follow it's course.
@@DoctorZisIN the problem with that is if you’re looking for something specific.
thank you :)
Huh cool, I always thought it was intentional but I didn't really think about why. Crazy how something that makes them seem really stupid and half asked is actually the opposite
@@zato-1766 Yeah, they also do it with “wrong number” texts. You ever get a text message on your phone that’s clearly from someone texting the wrong number? That’s usually a scam to see if there’s an actual person at your phone number. If you ever get a wrong number text, don’t reply. Just delete. Even opening it could potentially give you away if you’ve got read receipt on.
I am horrified by the fact that FB lets you edit the DATE on posts. Like who is that serving except scammers?!
I think the feature was added at the same time as the life events feature, so you could have Facebook remember your anniversary without people thinking you just got married today.
@@leahdavis9434 Intentions check out, but I'd say the way it can be abused doesn't make it worth it.
@@leahdavis9434 it can 100% be abused though, so i feel like it has way more downsides than pros.
@@leahdavis9434 still seems weird that they'd add an editable date feature to posts because I remember when they rolled out the life updates you could choose the date it displayed for that... I get what you're saying but it doesn't add up still.
@@leahdavis9434 yeah but it seems like they could just limit that to event posts specifically??
The "unclaimed Amazon packages" thing stuffed with cheap shit is actually a modern take on a very old scam. Malcolm X described it in his autobiography, his little brother got a legit street peddler's license, bought some cheap costume jewellery, and went and sold it out of his trenchcoat at bars and barbershops. He never came out and said that the stuff was stolen, but he deliberately acted sketchy as hell so buyers would think it was "hot" contraband that he was willing to sell for less than full value just to get rid of it. When in actuality, it was bargain basement stuff that he was selling at a big markup.
Repackaging all the dollar store junk sounds like a huge waste of time and money. They probably just buy a ton of cheap junk themselves on Amazon with a Prime account and free shipping and just resell the packages for $20 a piece.
My grandpa recently bought flan from Facebook marketplace from a woman named the flan lady. I think she delivered it to his house herself. I really don’t see why he would order food from Facebook marketplace of all places instead of like Walmart or something, but at least he’s supporting the flan lady instead of a big corporation I guess
Nothing wrong with that. Obviously buy at your own risk but there's a lady in my town that went from selling food on Facebook to starting a food truck and now has a restaurant. Lots of talented people sell their food on Facebook. I've had great Korean food delivered to me from Facebook.
Tamale lladies from Facebook hit different from parking lot tamale ladies and grocery store tamales tho 👌😭
This is so wholesome 🥹
Was the flan good?
@@anonomooosei need to know aswell haha
facebook marketplace is like your weird uncle's garage sale, except it's on blast for the whole world to see
Yeah, and when you get home, you realize the fancy custom pen you bought for $30 was actually just a Bic ballpoint the whole time and somehow you didn’t notice until it was too late. And when you go back to that house to get a refund, it turns out there was never a house there in the first place.
You have as many likes as there are comments and one of them is gabi how cool
@@zwsh89
Lmfao That, right there, is fucking hysterical 🤣
I had to add: Did you type this when you were stoned? 'Cause it's truly something a stoner would say and I love it
@@LaureeAnna Lolol I’m going to plead the 5th on that one 🤣😗😏 and thank you!
I once wanted to sell art on there, so I drew two characters, put them up for 5$ and suddenly got banned from using the marketplace, because I called my original characters "babies", which is a very popular thing to do in art community. I was like what the hell and FB did review my post, they did admit they made a mistake, but I still cannot use the marketplace. I guess now Zucker thinks I'm selling kids for 5 dollars on Facebook of all places.
Edit: spelling
I use Facebook Marketplace all the time and I will never forget the guy who tried to get me to sell him my $30 Drone (already incredibly discounted) for $15. When I said no and offered $20, then he started creating a bunch of fake accounts to message me saying they wanted to buy and then not showing up to the meeting place. After that he cryptically messaged me "You charge so high a price and then people flake, but I'm a serious buyer." I'm like homie, that is so much extra work to save $5 lol
"I made multiple fake accounts after my low asking price got rejected to troll the seller" - a very serious buyer
Wtf? People have way too much time on their hands.
Honestly gotta respect the commitment
how much you wanna bet it was a kid with EXACTLY $15 allowance lmao
Wow wtf I'm sorry
I’m surprised you didn’t talk about getting dozens of “is this available?” messages, answering them, and then getting totally ghosted.
Honestly I think that's mostly real people then seeing all the scams and deciding nevermind I don't know if this is legit or not.
THat one is so annoying. I don't get it. Even if you respond in real time, they don't reply
The biggest issues is truly this: why the hell does Facebook allow people to back date post like that? What would be the actual valid reason? There is none. Facebook should be ashamed and held accountable.
It's supposed to be so you can make an account and and say "I just got married!" And change the date to when you actually got married or whatever.
It seems weird to me but back in the day when Facebook rolled it out they really pushed it as a amazing feature for "preserving memorys"
@@gyroscope915It still doesn’t make sense. Have the memory date be separate from the post date.
@@asmrtpop2676 perhaps, but that is likely confusing for the target demographic. especially whenever we might consider their (Facebook) design philosophy seems to be to streamline things.. the "average" person is not good with tech, and not the most literate lol
so, i dont think it makes sense tbh... but considering the average internet user in 2024, i get why they would do it too
Scammers hacked my grandmothers Facebook a week after she died and sent out messages to all her contacts, trying to scam us all. It was a gruesome puppet show, there's no low too low for scammers it seems.
That's why when my parents died, I immediately memorialized their account. You don't need a death certificate to do it, just a direct family link and a legit obit. Now their friends can still post memories, but no one can "pretend" to be them.
This is horrible wtf I just like--- who the f**k does that 😳
jesus thats so so low and disrespectful im so sorry
What a traumatic way to relive a hard time. I'm so sorry that's unreal
First off, sorry for your loss. Secondly, nobody "hacked" her account. There's a 99.999999% chance she clicked on a "phishing" link that lead her to what she believed to be a Facebook or other account login page, which she manually entered her login details on, and those details were added to a database. Phishing is _NOT_ hacking, but anyway, it could have happened years before, the timing was pure coincidence. If you haven't done so already, you should either change ALL of her passwords for every site/service she used, or deactivate the accounts. If she used the same password anywhere else there's a good chance the same people will find those accounts eventually, and try to use those as well to scam others.
facebook letting you edit the date of a post is like when tumblr let you edit someone ELSE'S post if you reblogged it
what? they really did that?
the wild west days of tumblr were truly a time
Twitter used to let you do that too
ah the cock monolog....
Holy shit I forgot about that
Honestly, FB marketplace being full of regular-ass stores selling at full price is the same as local thrift shops getting flooded with Shien and Forever 21 (or just straight up going out of business- my area lost like two or three good thrift shops in the time I've lived here), so yeah. The gentrification of second hand selling is a thing, and it blows.
Even Goodwill, and Salvation Army are getting ridiculous now a days. I remember being able to go there, and get junk computers to Frankenstein decent systems for my broke friends. Now you go in, and anything worth it is in those stupid glass cases because they have some college kid googling ebay prices all day.
What's up with Forever 21? I know about Shein, the same thing as Wish or Temu.
I was once on a marketplace app and someone was trying to sell old, used batteries as "vintage batteries"
Then I noticed people just add "vintage" to anything mildly old so it seems more sought after.
You never know when some well-heeled movie prop department needs a 1980s era battery that they're willing to pay for out the nose...
Unfortunately that’s an old eBay thing
i love how people think that saying “cash” after offering you half or less than the asking price is like the chuck norris roundhouse kick of price negotiation.
Right like. No one uses checks anymore. Did you expect me to charge your credit card?
ah yes, cash instead of alternatively paying monthly for the next 6 years, thanks for clarifying
I actually laughed out loud at this comment
That's one thing but does she not know how to tell a scam by looking at pictures alone. At all? As a seasoned marketplace buyer I can tell a scam or not local by the pictures. And because it says the location below the listing. If it's in Chicago it will say in Chicago below the name of the listing. If it's not local it says ships to you. And if the picture is to good then you know it's not used. But she overlooked that in this video.
@@likeablecloud2454 they were using the examples to make a point.
Safiya Nygaard has a video about these liquidation stores (physical locations) and has bought palettes of Amazon returns. It's DEFINITELY a real thing and you CAN get good stuff but it's mostly junk. I'm betting this person is buying palettes, keeping the good stuff for themselves and then just bundling all the junk.
oooo good to know! i take a look at their video, definitely an interesting deep dive
Hello, I swear I'm not a grammar nazi, but I've noticed that people get "definitely" and "defiantly" mixed up like _all_ the time. They are completely different words. Nobody cares, yeah, I understand.
@@screwyourhandle don’t worry, it irks me too
@@CmdrWinters yeah, It’s kinda the same with people using “literally” to describe something not literal..
@@screwyourhandle this is just a autocorrect / swipe mistake. I definitely know they difference, I just don't reread my comments lol
pretty sure I bought barbies from a serial killer once.... dude had a fake cast and neck brace on and he kept trying to get me and my husband to look in his shed. like he was really trying to convince us he had more barbies in there. Also he lived in the middle of nowhere nobody nearby to hear us scream.....
That’s genuinely worth reporting to the cops
On the babymilk thing, Facebook will auto-remove certain things that violate their selling terms if it's in the text. So human baby milk is probably not kosher to sell on there. I learned this when I was trying to sell a guitar amp that had a speaker in it called the cannabis rex, made out of hemp. It took me days to figure out why my listings kept getting removed.
That’s what I figured had to be the case as soon as she brought that one up. I was like this person is selling *what now*??? Sounds sketchy as hell because it is
@@pancake2700 I know someone who bought research chemicals off Facebook marketplace, probably not kosher at all.
The product was tested and confirmed to be pretty clean though, so that's something I guess?
selling livestock on fb is also like this. it's not technically allowed but it is actually the best way to do it
i once wanted to sell a dress and ended up with an old dude sending be good night messages daily, which resulted in me deleting my profil and never returning to facebook
Yeah I don’t understand why I have to have my REAL profile attached to sell or buy I wish I could be more anon on there like any other social media
@@littleguy8714 yeah clearly the account aspect isn’t helping to verify if someone’s real if they can just lie about how old their account is
Shouldve blocked him
there's a block button for a reason
@@UkrainianBazookaop is probably foreign and doesn't understand the internet
Once sold a ceiling fan to a guy for 10$. Told him I didn't have the support for it and he should try and find one and I wouldn't take it back. He then told me he couldn't find a support and he wanted to be reimbursed, I said no since we agreed I wouldn't take it back. He then showed up at my place while I was away, tried to force my GF to open the door, yelled at her, called her a wh**e, tried to force the door open. She called the police and then me, when I showed up the guy was still there, the police didn't do their job, and the police told me to give him his 10$ back or they would tell him to sue me. When I went to the police station to file a complaint they told me the police officers reported that they asked him to get off our property and he did. No mention that he was agressive to my GF and nothing about me and how they bullied me into paying that lunatic back, so I couldn't file a complaint because our interaction wasn't on record, they told me "you can go and have a chat with them". All that for 10$.
Jesus super scary that he had ur address and thinking if ur gf had opened the door or been outside. Also horrible failing of the police I swear they’re worse than useless half the time
@@annalivingtv one of the officers was polite at least, the other one was just awful. The guy didn't speak French, so I'm pretty was just easier for them to bully me into doing whatever than actually make an effort to communicate with him.
This happened in france? I thought they were american cops, since american cops are also pretty useless.
That's insane, another reason to not let people know where you live
@@gunfighterzero that's very true. There's now a designated public area by the police station just for that.
my poor nana got scammed on facebook marketplace when she was looking for a puppy. one lady had her send $500 (my nana hadn’t even seen the puppy in person which i told her not knowing she had already sent the money that she needs to know this dog actually EXISTS before sending any money but she was naive to how evil people are) and the lady said she was gonna bring the dog and that she was on her way then ofc hours later she wasn’t there and she came up with some weird excuse of why she couldn’t come i don’t even remember and then another dude almost tried to sell my nana a puppy but wanted her to come to his house (which was like hours away) and refused to meet in a public place which i told her *ABSOLUTELY NOT* and thankfully she didn’t go and ended up getting a puppy for free from a family friend that she absolutely loves
The fact that the unclaimed Amazon packages are sold as mystery boxes pretty much confirms they're scams. Like why don't they just open what's inside the box and sell that instead?? It could be diamond earrings of a box of rocks
The spelling errors are intentional. These scams aren't for smart people. They intentionally have tons of mistakes, so they don't waste time trying to scam someone who wasn't gonna fall for it.
If anyone continues past the error ridden email and doesn't notice the spelling errors, then they will likely not notice they are being scammed. It's the old adage, "A fool and their money are easily parted".
clever
That explains the question I’ve had for the longest time about stuff like this. Thanks for sharing
i would recommend not disperaging the people scammed. Anyone can fall for these. You don't have to be smart or stupid. Yes paying close attention is important for avoiding being scammed, but you're fooling yourself if you think you cant fall for it bc 'youre too smart.' Obviously I mean the general you and not *you specifically zombified racoon.*
I've gotten scam emails from faculty at universities, using *real* peoples emails. I've been lucky enough to not fall for one myself, though I found myself much in the same position as Gabbi with the first scammer. but really disperaging those who have been scammed by calling them stupid. and giving a false sense of security to almost everyone else since *everyone* thinks they're smart, is just not helpful.
that makes a little sense actually
@@polk-e-dot8177the lack of smarts does not imply the presence of stupidity. perhaps you’re projecting?
i actually sold a huge bundle of non-perishable groceries ($100+ value) to a family for like $20 when i was moving out of california because food assistance can be difficult to access in that state and i wanted it to make a positive impact. the mom seemed so happy and relieved that things would be easier on her that month :')
You're such a good person
aww ily
I thought it was very very easy to get assistance in Cali?
@@christianterrill3503not at all depending where u are at in cali
I see a bunch of people selling groceries for cheap or giving it away. I don't see anything wrong with that. Even see people selling their food. There's a lady in my town who went from. Selling food on Facebook to getting a food truck and now she has a restaurant.
Now I've sold hundreds of items on marketplace when I bought and sold storage lockers. What used to piss me off was people leaving you a terrible review without actually buying from you. All someone has to do is contact you on and item and they can review you if they lowball you and you don't accept their price.
i've heard so many wild stories from facebook marketplace, but somehow my fiancé bought an electric guitar AND an amp from 2 different sellers in 1 day at ridiculously good prices. the guitar was an older model that had almost nothing wrong w it (some dings and scratches) and it only cost like $75-80.
I once got an N64 with cables, expansion pak, and two controllers, the gold Majora’s Mask, Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Ocarina of Time, and a handful of various games I’d never heard of… and *Conker’s Bad Fur Day* of all things, all for $100 bucks if I picked it up and paid same day.
I had my ass out the door as soon as humanly possible, because on top of wanting most of those titles, legit non-reproduction Bad Fur Day carts go for like, $100 or even $200+ *by themselves* last I checked. Facebook Marketplace is wild; only time I used it, but man was it a good deal.
It's kind of funny how the Internet has come full circle. I'm 35 I remember when I was 17,18,19 ish my mom going on about kidnappers finding me from anything I did online and now I actually do think my mom would fall for some of these and it's just odd thinking about telling her "no mom that's not a real person don't talk to them" haahh😂
Same hahaha its such an unexpected flip in dynamic 😅
Don't be surprised if your mom gets kidnapped
I will spend months every single day looking up guitars and musical products on fb marketplace and it will never suggest them to me. I will click “dislike” or whatever on every other suggested sections but I misclick ONE TIME on a meme Facebook mom mug and it’s all over. My targeted ads for weeks are nothing but hell. It’s truly a disaster lol
Meme Facebook Mom Mug 😂😂 I hate that I know exactly how that mug looks too
Right!? I work so hard to try to force these apps to give me a content feed i actually want, but one wrong move and I'm suddenly being suggested vintage leather suspenders for months.
Targeted ads are always weird.
Like, I'd visit an online shop one time out of curiosity, didn't even buy anything, never bought anything similar, and then I'd see ads for that store for the next three months straight.
This stuff is why I'm so reluctant to sell my extra stuff through any of these sites. I wouldn't use Facebook for anything at all. I find eBay to be great for buying certain things, but other things are hard to find non-scam listings for, like when I was looking for an old Nook HD+ for my wife--bought two different ones, both supposedly the 32GB model, but they were the 16GB model, and without even an SD card to add the missing 16GB, which still wouldn't have made them the correct model.
I miss the days when grocery stores would have a bulletin board at the entrance, where you could post for sale, wanted, etc. notices.
I’ve only ever used Facebook market place to buy 2 items. An Apple Watch from a lady I knew and a laptop from a random lady. The laptop had her nudes in the gallery… I never used Facebook again.
Also people asking dumb questions about items when it clearly states it in the the description infuriated me.
Facebook allows scammers to exist on their platforms, Mark should be put in jail for the negligence that his company stands for. The employee abuse and user abuse, baffling the fbi haven’t done anything about it for nefarious practices.
Sadly, *many* (not all) of the personality‐typed‐people who pursue careers in law enforcement are also often the same the personality‐typed‐people who are easily corrupted & bribed.
No one bothers "taking down" the rich jerks like Zuck, Bezos, & their 1% ilk cos rich jerks can & do throw money at their legal troubles & 💥POOF💥 • No more troubles.
(DISCLAIMER Nothing I'm saying is meant to be presented as "me being grumpy" • rather, I'm being earnest & stating *MY OPINION* • based just on MY own life experiences; a pretty great sociology education; & various things of note which I've carefully observed throughout my life • a chronically depressed one at that. My opinion is 100% subject to change if I'm presented with solid evidence to the contrary, &/or based upon any large‐scale sociological progression that may occur).
i mean the fbi is useless for helping regular people so not really baffling in that aspect lol
At this point fb is so bad it’s going to end up like MySpace and become ded all by itself. No wonder why the Zuck has moved onto other ventures.
Mark should be in jail for a lot more reasons lol
He doesn't care about fakebook anymore. He's all in on the Metaverse that's dead before it was born.
When I tried to buy a couch, I kept seeing postings for couches from businesses, not people. And they would have prices like "23.99" because they were posting the monthly price for financed furniture and not the actual price of the item.
I reported a lot of them, but months later still up.
Same thing with used cars for sale
That's my biggest pet peeve with FBMP, Craigslist, etc. Regular companies please go advertise elsewhere.
Oooo what used to burn me when looking for place to rent was the realtor companies posting a listing at $1 just to advertise their shitty offers on homes costing $300k+. Trying to sort by low to high is a nightmare, you have to go through the first three pages before actually finding a legitimate listing. Facebook is a joke all around.
Yeah I hate that, on next door they'll post in the free section and then in the description list the actual price. I report them too, it's very tacky.
EXACTLY bro I've been looking around sites for used cars because I'll be going to college soon and like companies will post that a car is 1,000-5,000 dollars and then you click the offer and it says that the price is a down payment? Like w t f Facebook marketplace needs to be reworked fr fr
Great video just wanted to add i think the people asking for phone numbers is also a type of scam. They dont want to call you. Just send you some link to verify a number thats sent to "verify your real" or some bs but when you give them that code they basically takeover several different accounts
Your reporting and investigations are valuable public services. Your production values and presentations are top-notch. Congratulations on brilliant shows.
with the breast pump listing: facebook is really weird about people selling them and doesn't usually allow it for whatever reason, so that's why they would have had to just post that picture and ask to be inboxed. Some of the creative ways people list them is quite funny
Concert tickets too
This! FB considers it selling human body parts or some weird, out-of-context shit like that. You see it all the time in mom groups - people have to be very creative with their listings 😅
@@punchdrunkassassin hahaha right?! its so stupid, but hilarious what people come up with lol
They do the same thing for absolutely anything related to firearms. I know a dude just trying to sell his red dot that got removed twice and got him put in FB jail.
@@Culvey while personally i see a red dot as completely fine to sell on fb, at least it logically gets auto detected as a "gun part" which they dont want. ive heard of breast pumps getting removed for being body parts, human trafficking, and prostitution
Every workplace should use this video for their "Don't click the damn phishing links" training they do every year instead of the boring videos they usually have
Why? Her content is cringe zillenial trash.
I once went with my dad to pick up one of these palletes full of amazon packages and they were in theae huge tubs of cardboard. I had to spend hours opening them in my dad's truck which had so many things. There were like 23 american flags and a lot of phone cases, we even found a webcam(lost it and now we don't know where it is)
I can explain the "free casket" thing. Often people are at odds about what to to with a dearly departed loved one -burial or cremation, or some have cremation in their wills but their children want to see then once again, have them laid out, etc. so funeral homes often rent caskets for such sitiations. They do get banged up, the funeral home sellsthem or gives them away, and this is a great way for a person without a lot of money that doesn't want to be cremeated to get the job done.
That is the LEGITIMATE way this happens.
I had someone do the didn’t-read-the-posting with a washer/dryer (to be fair it was Craigslist) that the guy got to the point of coming to the house, backing his car up to the garage and then looked at the washer and was like…oh, it’s not a match set? LIKE. SIR. THERE WERE 15 PHOTOS ON THE POST AND THE MODEL NUMBERS AND BRANDS. NO THEY ARENT A MATCH SET. he drove away without buying them and I was so angry lol
Idiots everywhere, ugh
Jeez people are so dumb. Also, I get matching sets supposedly look nicer, but as long as they work I never saw the point in paying extra
Your grammar is atrocious and you're criticizing other peoples' reading comprehension skills.
With the unclaimed amazon packages: People are buying the pallets of amazon packages legally and sorting through the mess for the most likely items to be expensive to keep for themselves. All smaller packages will be included in the "loot boxes". Most pallets are even inventoried so you know the types of products included so you can target a cheaper pallet with cheaper items.
Safiya Nygaard did a really interesting deep dive and even bought a box of amazon returns, and went to a couple of those amazon return stores. basically, yeah - someone may buy the pallet at auction, go through the manifest, figure out what will sell for the most, break down the pallet into the individual items and sell those directly, and then make "loot boxes" out of the rest, so they sell off the pallet piecemeal, making back their money through the big ticket items and loot boxes and investing it back into another pallet that they can break down and sell off.
yeah amazon returns are an interesting thing
We have a whole store in my town of these unclaimed packages
When you add in the extra inventory circulating from the scams where they send out a bunch of cheap stuff en masse for free to boost their seller score, you have to imagine that there's literally pallets of just cheap shit waiting for one of these resellers.
Anytime I go to sell or pick up something in person from FB, etc. I always carry my firearm. I had a bad experience once and i had to actually draw down on someone. Luckily no one was hurt, guy went to jail, but still.
Its five in the morning and I almost screamed when I heard KK bossa (KK sliders greatest song imo) playing in your video. Thank you very much, you have very good taste in music 🫡
I got scammed on Facebook through Facebook pay, but the seller deactivated their account and I contacted Facebook, they said "the payment had to be made through Facebook," and to "contact the seller" even though they deactivated their account... great customer support.
Been there before. Bought an iPhone 13 Pro Max on Facebook Market for less then $1000 and when I paid the seller for the item they blocked me. Not only that they went and sell the item again under a new account and I message them saying they scammed me and they blocked me straight away.
@@MERCHIODOS I'm like a year late but BackMarket is a good website to buy reconditionned stuff. I bought my phone there like 3 years ago and it's good, it's not an IPhone though.
There are so many different types of scams on Facebook it’s unbelievable. My mom once got catfished by a military dude for weeks until he stopped responding one day. Then days later he came back and messaged my mom saying that some villagers gave him gold as thanks for saving their lives then asked her for thousands of dolors so he can ship the gold to her.
Points for originality
😂🤣
Sounds legit. Gold is a good investment.
dolors
As far as the buyer having you call them, it’s a good way to weed out scammers. Scammers never want to call you. Even if they did a couple questions would give them away.
I use to work for Lowes, and what they do with returns is sort them, and most get put into a big box on a pallet, and are sold. It’s mostly people stealing batteries and replacing the new battery with their old one. So if you get a pallet of power tools, chances are the tools are all brand new but the batteries are scraped on site.
After totally bombing at the nearby goodwill and antique flea markets, Facebook marketplace has been a savior. I moved recently and needed a bunch of furniture. I've found people actually _underselling_ a lot of antique large furniture. A guy was selling 2 good condition mid century modern side tables for 30$ 😭
I saw Tiffany lamps for like 80$ it's crazy depending on where you are.
everything's overpriced in my country, some things are understandable, others it's just, no one is gonna buy this modern junk for $500, it's worth $150 max, even then people still probably wont buy it. Even people selling used things from Kmart for like double what it costs to buy brand new.
Yeah I showed my mum fb marketplace to sell her old couch, then I later found out she also went and sold a huge old and very expensive mahogany cabinet plus her 50" led tv for $50 FOR BOTH. People who bought it got a ridiculous bargain and knew it.
Good job buying stolen items for cheap.
@@moquilla1Nobody cares it’s just furniture
I've seen that a lot when people move. Lots of large furniture that they don't want to move, and most people already have the furniture they want, so they go cheap to sell it before they move.
I purchased an 'unclaimed Amazon palet' for $20 and a couple months later I received the tiniest package ever, and inside was a pair of "dollar store" air pods that never worked. I assume that was my "palet"
Are you spelling pallet like that on purpose?
@@moquilla1 just for you
Buying and selling pallets of product that include returns, exchanges, and lost packages is real. I used to work for an appliance shop that ordered said pallets, we'd fix the products or pop them back on the shelves after testing. We had a huge warehouse store front and make 5k+ a week. You typically have to go through a broker to find the truck loads, and they range anywhere from 5-26 pallets.
Stumbled on your channel today, watched one of your videos and then like 10 more of your videos. You are fantastic, what a breath of fresh air on this increasingly annoying platform. Thanks for all the "just right" levels of sarcasm, and all the "I just can't help myself" tangent explorations. You are doing the best work. =-)
This is absolutely the golden age of scammers and what makes it so much easier is EVERYONE thinks “I’m too smart to get scammed”. Word of advice to everyone, you’re not as smart as you think you are and anyone can get scammed. It’s not just old lady’s who fall for this stuff. It happens to everyone!! And I mean everyone. If you think you’re above it, you’re wrong!
My grandma is trying to sell a TV on marketplace and she's had a ton of these scammers. Luckily she has the wherewithal to recognize them as scams and deletes people who aren't in the area of her small town, but it's still scary that they put together such elaborate scams to take advantage of people who may not know any better.
They're buying pallettes, yeah, it's a thing. What's happening, is things in amazon cost to store, so sometimes the storage for a bad item isn't worth it. So you can tell amazon "get rid of it" and amazon will sell them as "pallettes".... smaller sellers then will buy those pallettes and probably repackage them in empty amazon boxes.
Loving the Never Stop shirt! Great fund and really good designs for the merch. Now, back to your video. It was amazing and honestly I (being a very naive person) would 100% fall for maybe about 70% of those scams. I’m not too gullible but I know when something is faked. It’s still a scary thing to me though, wondering if I’ll slip up one day and loose everything. Truly creepy. Facebook letting other people edit the date of posts is really unnerving. Makes my skin crawl knowing someone could fake the time that their account has been active when they’re trying to scam. Great video overall and keep up the amazing work! I’m glad you put so much effort into your videos and I love them. You’re super funny and I’m glad you’re here on UA-cam
People selling food on there stresses me out.. In the UK anyone selling or supplying food has to register with the council so they can be inspected.
People are always popping up on FB selling the dodgiest foods and I dread to think how/where it was prepared 🤢
a uk youtuber i watch did a facebook video recently that featured someone selling takeaway leftovers on fb marketplace........truly the wild west out there
Around my area, there is a very high mexican population. I 100% have bought Tamales off Facebook marketplace... those "government approved and regulated" tamales sellers don't even compare.
@@Culvey Yeah I am from New Mexico and even before Facebook marketplace people going door to door and selling tamales from their truck wasn't unheard of. I never bought those either though.
@@Iudicatio Thats a shame, you missed out on some delicious tamales then lol.
@@Iudicatio Youve made a mistake
I sold a custom bmx through facebook marketplace, and actually had a guy offer me full asking price because he knew what i had. Actually a great experience 🤷♂️ i know im in the minority with that though
Yeah same here. I've sold there and had no issue. There's plenty of people trying to scam but it's fairly easy to weed them out imo
12:50 What does a custard BMX go for these days?
“She clicks on every phishing link like it’s candy on Halloween…” God, that was a great line and delivery 👏😄
Dude thank you for this video. I’ve been saying this. I love selling stuff and decluttering. Fb marketplace used to be so convenient a few years ago. It seems like just in the last 1-2 years it became absolutely awful. I get 1 real message to every 1-2 dozen scams, tons of people just judging my listing for no reason, tons of windows shoppers (clicks only), flakes, etc. it’s so lame now. It’s better to just network in person and sell stuff. You don’t get as much money that way but it’s easier and goes to people you like. Smaller items are always better shipped through eBay, but fees and shipping factor in as well as taxes. I always ATTEMPT to sell expensive or large things on fb, but usually it goes on eBay or to someone I know personally.
Every single fb marketplace encounter I’ve ever had selling something :
Person: hey is this available?
Me: yes, it’s still available!
Person: literally never responds again
Lol for real
Is this still available?
As someone who does this, Im really sorry about it btw, I usually send messages to multiple sellers at once and only really have time to respond to whoever replies first.
The foundation page my family set on up Facebook for my late father ended up getting hacked into, and we didn’t find out until people started messaging my mother about how they never received their products. Scammers are some of the lowest of the lows.
My experience is something getting listed as "Free" and when you ask if it really is free, they say "Well it's actually $500."
How have I not seen you before today??? I’ve been watching your videos like crazy they’re great and your comedy has perfect timing. Subscribed!!!!
It's very funny watching other people discover the dumpster fire of FB marketplace. It took me a while to learn how to navigate through the sh*t posts. Honestly though, great video, it's incredible important for older people to be aware of the scams since their technological ignorance makes them the perfect victims...
Tried to look for a used car on FB markerplace once. The constant innability of the site to show me cars that matched with the make and model i had specify in the search tool kept me from looking any further...
"Is this still available?" I don't know dude, I posted it 5 minutes ago and wrote "if the listing is up, it's still available" in the description, what do you think?
Palettes are actually pretty normal! They're popular to use for gardening stuff. My mom has gotten a ton of free palettes from FB marketplace lol... people also use them for scrap wood for random projects I've heard.
My favorite listing faux pas are:
1)Selling clothes/shoes and not listing the sizes
2)Selling clothes/shoes as "never worn" when the listing photo has them wearing it
3)Giving useless "dimmensions" like "this item is the height of a closet doorknob," which is a real description that I have come across
Facebook market place is incredible! I once saw someone selling toenails!
no way send a link?
@@maxeatbug this was months ago when I was selling a bunch of stuff when I was moving
What was the price?
@@kalin4419 something like £10 a bag plus shipping
GIRL WHAT THE FUCK
My best friend saw some knee high boots on FB marketplace, the male seller said he wanted her to try them on before he sold them to her. When she said she was happy to buy them without trying them, he kept insisting she tried them on in front of him… needless to say, she didn’t go alone, picked up the boots and got back in the car before that psycho had a chance to see her feet and (specifically) calves. Unfortunately, the boots didn’t actually fit. Was he just a creep, or did he just act like one to quickly sell these boots?! Nah, he was a creep…
ew he probably wanted to see her struggle to try and put them on. that is if they were too small for her
You showed up in my recommendations and have enjoyed watching several. The Beatles album cover caught my eye. I am a BeatleBoomer and bought that Album for a dollar in the midsixties.
Looking forward to watching more videos. Your intelligence is something. It shows in your presentations.
I don''t really know how I got to your channel, but man you are killing it! Love your content, you are amazing, thank you for being you🤗
Here in the uk a delivery company called Hermes was exposed for selling on Amazon packages that weren’t delivered. They held auctions and sold loads of Amazon products.
Wait is that why Hermes doesn’t get used anymore for anything
@@ellaella1992 I can’t say for certain if that’s the reason why. I know a lot of people have had bad experiences using them. But there are documented cases of Hermes holding auctions of failed deliveries.
Hermes were the worst, which is why they rebranded as "evri", and continued to be the worst
I remember once I tried to sell something on FB marketplace and some dude literally sent me a screenshot of him trying to reset my gmail password and told me that I had to send him the code I got from Google to prove that I’M not the scammer
My favorite things to look through on the marketplace is people selling mirrors
Free pallets are actually a legit thing. Many woodworkers recycle them into furniture.
I relate to the phone call thing so much! Like i would sooner send a picture of myself with todays paper before i get stuck in a call with you.
This video was exactly as long as it took to fold my laundry. Thank you 🙏🏻 ❣️
😂😂😂
this is my favourite comment 😂
I’ve had these experiences on Facebook marketplace all the time. The scam messages, there’s constant ones where people say they need you to message them at their personal phone number, so many people schedule times to meet MULTIPLE TIMES IN A ROW and just don’t show up (maybe because I always pick a public place), they give me listings for stuff states away from me, people asking me to ship stuff or deliver furniture to them. It really is the wild Wild West
I LOVE the editing in this video, with the FB style backgrounds on the title cards. it's so cute and clever!
Back when I had Facebook, I remember seeing listing for a ladder for $1200, with a rifle leaning against it. "Ladder for sale." Like guys, it's obvious you're trying to sell the gun. Don't get me started on the "Empty Boxes" of ammo.
“Why do you need to call me” I felt this in my soul
As a fellow introvert, why doesn’t the whole world realize talking on the phone is obsolete! Everything can be texted or emailed!!
Legit like unless it’s a family member or friend I see no reason to talk on the phone with someone. Businesses and such should use text or email.
@@KingOfGaymes lol, family and friends should text too.
Text and email of course can be spoofed for scams but considering everyone gets those car warranty calls just insist the seller use Paypal if they aren't already damn it, I don't wanna talk to anyone.
No that's BS, you need to get over it and learn to talk to human beings. There are legit companies having to give classes on how to talk on the phone to new employees now.
I like talking on the phone, when I was in middle/high-school I would stay up all night talking to my friends. We had a landlines back then so I would get a blanket and pillow and hunker down for the night in the kitchen after my mom went to bed.
Mid pandemic there was a really solid community of people buying/ selling cool fitness gear that was unavailable in traditional retail settings. Gyms were closed and people were turning garages, basements and backyard into full gyms. It was epic! and a really fun community/ hobby. Now when I cruise FB market place It’s just scams or people asking above retail for products that are used and no longer scarce.
Yes!
I got that exact scam, but for PayPal. I was so excited at first thinking someone really wanted to buy 2 hand crocheted Dino plushies from me. 😢 Now every time I post something I get several instant scam messages. It’s so frustrating.
I’m always so caught off guard my the random Maplestory music in Gabi’s videos
It’s hilarious that they went through the effort of faking dates on their posts but bad grammar was something they refused to concede on
People here said the bad grammar is intentional-people who are internet savvy will see it as a scam, but many older people will fall for the scams. It’s unfortunately a very smart tactic I didn’t think about til now
most of the time the scam emails have typos on purpose cuz it'll save them time. If someone doesn't notice the typos that person is more likely to fall for the whole thing, if not, it saves time that would have been wasted on someone who would have anyway cought on.
I see what you did there 😂
The amazon package thing is something we have where I live. Unclaimed or returned packages are sold at a store for cheap and if they arent sold within a week theyre tossed.
Must confess, years ago very dumb about scams so learned the hard way. Now cam spot farely quickly. Love ur content, love the Rubber Soul album in background even more.
I had to sell some stuff a month ago when moving house and it was such an unnecessarily stressful experience on Marketplace cause no one wants to commit to making a purchase before I give them my home address… Also almost fell for a weird scam where they said they were going to send me cash. They stopped replying as soon as I asked for a bank deposit.
I recently moved from a large city where Craigslist is popular to a more rural area we’re Facebook marketplace is used almost exclusively. Marketplace is an absolute hellscape. All these issues are so constantly present that I just won’t use it, and it really sucks that their aren’t any other options locally for me. And the worst part is that Facebook doesn’t care because their bottom line isn’t affected.
Hi from another Chicago native 😊
I lived in elk grove village and there was a marketplace add for a full pallet of Amazon stuff. I was told that they were returns but the shipping costs are too high to return them so everything gets sent to a warehouse and sold off as wholesale. I have about a dozen items for sale, it's my daughter's items because she doesn't want to deal with the creeps and weirdos buying her items.
All these marketplace sites seem to skew at some point more to tailoring their searches to corporations and companies willing to pay for advertising. Almost every marketplace i have in my country started out as some nice spot to sell some old attic stuff to some other people, but now every company or store selling on there shows up at your specific location because "if they ship it to your front door, it is basically close to your location." This makes shopping for anything on those platforms almost impossible.
- Is this still available?
- Yes
- * Aight, Imma head out *
A few weeks ago I was looking at houses on FB market place, just kinda fucking around because my friend had sent me a link and I was browsing in my area out of curiosity because I've never actually used it, and I saw what appeared to be a house under new construction being sold for $100.
Scam or serial killer. I am still shocked at this lol.
Oh it might honestly be the seller trying to get the house to show up on low price searches instead of posting the actual price
@@Ghostierawr9 It can be both. It's why realty companies will sometimes advise people that any listings they see on another site is a scam while for actual homeowners who wanna be landlords they're just trying to bait and switch you in a market where they already win by default.
the scam story is crazy!! This happened exactly to my mom! We were selling our couch on FB Marketplace and we had a 30 year old woman named Stacy and her husband wanting to buy our couch and they would take exact amount we asked for for it they did the whole PayPal email thing with my mom and at that point asked me if the email sounded right and I was like HELL NO. Stacy was very much not Stacy. To make fun of them and curse them out I had them call my mom and an Indian man picked up and I said "Hello, where is Stacy???" and he said "I am Stacy's husband" I said "Well my deal is with Stacy may I talk to her please" and he replied with "Stacy can't talk right now" I of course said "Well, Where is Stacy?" he then said "She is in the kitchen cooking" Then to make him sweat more I replied with "So Stacy is unable to cook and talk on the phone???" and he said "No she cannot" So that is where I said "LISTEN UP MF......" lmao my mom almost sent Stacy's husband the $500. I can't imagine how many other people hear this same script then fall for it. It is absolutely shameful!
10:20 I'm not driving across town unless someone picks up the phone. SMH.
There’s something about Facebook Marketplace that gives me the creeps. Little do you know that you might uncover something that shouldn’t have been visible in the first place. Maybe I watch too much true crime, but anything extremely grotesque can and will pop up whether you like it or not.
"Selling stuff to a serial killer on Craigslist" -- There was an actual serial killer who bought some of the tools of his trade -- knives, padlocks, gun accessories, shovels, etc. on Amazon and then wrote funny reviews. He suggested what he was really going to do with the items!
Which serial killer was it?
who was it
Oh yeah that's really funny
Super funny!
"Gonna pierce your jugular! Haha!"
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@@Loctorakits not really FUNNY, its just so absurd its like "hah- thats crazy someones that dumb.."
I assume they want to call you because it would be easier to pressure you into accepting their price.
On the free pallets, construction workers or factories throw those away after a couple uses but they can be dissasembled for wood! My dad got a ton of pallets from Facebook market place, cut them to size and we got a free fence on our home we only had to buy the screws and paint for :)
Frequent Facebook Marketplace seller here.
Scams are everywhere if it sounds to good to be true it probably is. A lot of people also have the mentality of "I know what I got" they usually don't. And always meet in public places pd parking lots, other busy areas with people and cameras, or bring a friend (this helps weed out the creepy or those with bad intentions).
They want to call you to verify that you're a real person, and also scammers generally do not want to get on a call, they want to go after someone easier than that. Same reason why folks post the image of "its this item, call me for more", because bots can't gather data from that to start messaging you. Its annoying, but both are a product of the nature of selling online on platforms that don't really act as a middle man like selling on ebay/etsy/poshmart/depot etc etc.
There is also a local only button, which turns off the majority of shipping posts outside of ads.