“Facebook bots take down many ads mistakenly,” one seller wrote. Many of the cons are also similar to selling on Craigslist: security concerns, many questions from would-be buyers, no-shows (buyers not showing up when meeting is scheduled), and no customer service from the venue.įacebook’s spam algorithm can flag legitimate items in error, such as removing a stuffed animal thinking it was a real animal, or for no apparent reason, sellers reported.
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“Very easy to use not enough tools, and selling across multiple groups and marketplace is difficult to navigate would help if there was a single place to update listings in marketplace.” Some sellers said it’s extremely easy to sell on Facebook, others pointed to challenges, such as the reader who wrote, “I do think they need to improve their ad creation/management interface, as it is difficult to manage item photos, extend items that take a while to sell, etc.”Īnother seller wrote, “There are no tools on the SHOP to allow you to arrange your items how you want.” One seller saw the “ability to see customers profile” as a pro, but another didn’t like the commerce aspect tied to people’s profiles.
Not only can Facebook help sellers promote yard sales, but it can also generate traffic to off-Facebook listings: “Facebook helps attract potential customers to our website,” wrote one seller. That is becoming every more important as sellers see the cost of shipping rise. Some of the pros of selling on Facebook are similar to those of selling on Craigslist – posting is free, and it’s good for selling large, hard-to-ship items. Still small but I am selling like crazy to dedicated buyers who are avid buyers in this niche.” “My new niche did not have a group, so I started one. One seller only sells through Facebook Groups and said they would never sell on Facebook Marketplace. However, “I’ve not been very active /successful most of the offers are lowball offers,” they added. Some of the Buying/Selling pages in Niche areas seems okay,” wrote one seller. “Neighborhood Groups/Marketplace not that great. (You can sell things in Facebook Groups that have the buy and sell feature turned on, which only an admin of the group can do.) In addition to Facebook Marketplace, sellers also sell in Facebook Groups, both local groups and by area of interest. Sellers liked the fact that Facebook was free, but there were enough challenges in using the social networking site to sell on that it came last in this year’s Sellers Choice Awards. An introduction to the Sellers Choice survey along with a summary of the overall ratings can be found here, along with links to results for each of the 11 online marketplaces included in the survey.ĭescription: General social networking siteįacebook came in 11th place in the 2019 Sellers Choice Awards. In January 2019, EcommerceBytes surveyed over 13,000 online sellers and asked them to rate the marketplaces on which they had experience selling. Buy-sell groups in niche categories were preferred by many over Marketplace some sellers panned Facebook for its enforcement practices. Facebook came in 11th place in the 2019 Sellers Choice Awards.
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