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Facebook Marketplace is the online equivalent of sticking a card up in your local supermarket.
Looking at cards in the newsagent window is pretty much how I 'browsed' before the internet was invented
Save yourself hassle by using buy it nows and immediate payment required, even on collection items, as there is almost no benefit to cash on collection with the new fee model.
Not if you do it their way, but if you take cash on collection and then just cancel the sale once you have the money and they have the thing then no fees are charged
After a few 'did not arrive' early in the ebay career, I moved over to sending everything 1st or 2nd class recorded. Ebay like recorded services, and scammers dont. People can claim something didnt arrive, and to be honest maybe it didnt. or maybe it did but got half inched off the doorstep. But the PO has proof they delivered it and that is good enough for ebay to rule in the sellers favour.
So in my description i always include the Words- Will be sent via Royal Mall Recorded post.
Of the thousand plus parcels ive sent via ebay and bike forums in the last 10 years only a handful went missing, and those came back to me because of the return postal address you need to put on for that service. And on that note just a surname and post code isnt a good idea. Full name,address, town post code etc in clear legible hand, covered over with clear plastic tape so it cannot fall off or run if wet
I keep getting ****s that bid on purpose knowing that they aren't going to pay, or they are in the Egypt or US when it clearly says UK delivery only. Think they are selling similar items.
Had some walloper last year make a really low ball offer on something I was selling (had it as an auction with "best offer"). He then got really upset when I politely declined and told him what the minimum I'd accept was and started sending me all sorts of abusive messages.
He then messaged me a day later with photos of an auction he had won for the same item I was selling for £1 less than what I was asking for my item.
Ended up selling my item on FB marketplace for asking price the following week.
Never listed anything on eBay since, it's like wading through a sea of ****wits. Although the same can be said for FB marketplace too.
Why even bother replying to lowball offers? Just ignore and let them stew.
I had someone offer me slightly more than my buy-it-now price. Only a small amount but still odd. Deal went through ok.
Just remove the 'make.an.offer' tab.....?
I don't bother with it, start the bin or auction at the lowest I'd accept. if I forget to leave it on and I get an offer, I remove it.