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I thought FB marketplace had peaked already, especially for furniture.

18 months ago you could find stuff on there fairly easily, now it's full of "must go" or "Free" items that are "message me for pricelist" when you click through. It ends up being a real slog to find anything.

Yeah the "free" stuff makes finding some items a bit annoying (e.g. sofas), and if you try to sell any Apple products you get inundated with scammers, but it's still fairly useful.

Craigslist was like this too back when I used it. I never understood why they didn't ban the users who were doing it as it made certain categories too difficult to bother browsing.

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