30 Times People Spotted Shady Ads On Facebook Marketplace And Shared Them On This Online Group
There’s nothing wrong with making a dollar or two by selling things you don’t need. After all, we are all trying to live more sustainably by making conscious choices to consume less and reuse more. But some people have surely taken the logic to the very end of extreme.
Welcome to the Facebook group that brings you the best of the worst of the internet in the comfort of your home. Titled “Sad Sales, Stolen Goods, and Sketchy Services,” it serves as a grim collection for “screen caps and photos of depressing or questionable sales, products, auctions, classified ads, or services.”
Anything from questionable mystery boxes and an object titled “nail art” that will make you cringe at the sight of it, to Edward Cullen’s cutout and a cake from a baby shower that the ad swears has never been touched, ends up on there.
Thanks to the group’s 287.6K members, we now have one hell of a list of very cursed Facebook marketplace ads. It makes you wonder if there's anything people wouldn’t sell for a dollar, and the answer is obvious.
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Well, at least they're honest. And they spelled 'separate' correctly, which is another point in their favor!
If you've ever had to sell or buy a miscellaneous item in your life, you probably went straight to Facebook Marketplace. The holy grail of (re)sold goods that come straight from the hands of sellers is also known as a host to a range of scams, including fake products, catfishing and even hacking.
If you compare eBay, Amazon, and Facebook Marketplace, the latter is like the Wild West of online selling. Brogan Woodburn from Red Points reports that “One scammer even stole $800,000 from victims through the platform.”
Some of the more popular scams on Facebook marketplace include a MacBook Air made of air. “It’s when the seller then made up excuses as to why they couldn’t meet (remember, Facebook Marketplace is for local dealings, so this is a red flag). The seller offered to ship it with tracking, and the buyer then sent the money.”
“Can you guess what happened next? Nothing was shipped. The seller went missing, and the buyer never got the item,” Brogan explains.
Counterfakes is another big problem on the marketplace. “Since creating or even forging a profile is so easy on Facebook, scammers can sell counterfeit goods with almost no restriction.” According to Brogan, “Tiffany alone reported taking down 2000 fake Marketplace ads in 2017. And in the first six months of 2017, Facebook removed more than 200,000 posts that were flagged as counterfeit.”
Sometimes it’s not the scams themselves that enrage the buyers, but rather the items delusional sellers are trying to make money off of. This collection of ads is a good example of the bad side that happens on this widely popular reselling platform.
This is like in those maths problems "If you have 125 Shrek DVDs at home and there is a sale at Wallmart, 10 Shrek DVDs for 15$ and you have 35$, and your mom buys you 24 more shrek DVDs, how many Shrek DVDs do you still need in order to have 200?"
Just because it's been doused in mouthwash doesn't make it mint.
"Went to a place in small town Texas to pick up a gift for a friend. I spotted these toward the back of the store. Priced at $85.00.
At first I thought it was a well worn fart spot until I saw "electric".
Why not just give a three year old a couple tubes of paint? Much cheaper (they'll work for Cheerios).
Well, it is real. It doesn't look like a figment of somebody's imagination.
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somebody needs to start a museum of tackiness & include all these items as display
There used to be a fantastic site called "regretsy" that was a play on Etsy. They were sued and the site was taken down but there are still a few books around of the atrocities. I'd highly recommend you look it up.
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Facebook really needs to crack down on all the scams and bullshit sites.
somebody needs to start a museum of tackiness & include all these items as display
There used to be a fantastic site called "regretsy" that was a play on Etsy. They were sued and the site was taken down but there are still a few books around of the atrocities. I'd highly recommend you look it up.
Load More Replies... Facebook really needs to crack down on all the scams and bullshit sites.
