• ShortYetLongDogs@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    “Literally no one?” My partner and I just picked up a couch from a couple thru Craiglist, all of us aged around 30 years old. We both love to read the Missed Connections posts on there. I agree that facebook’s marketplace has a good hold on ubiquity at the moment, but nobody “literally” needs it.

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      1 day ago

      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