[Julia Roobykon]

It’s now been a little over a week since Facebook announced that its Marketplace feature would be expanded to cover 17 European countries – and although it has been described as ‘low-key’, we think it’s probable that the new service will make its presence clearly felt.

Facebook Marketplace was launched to US-based users in October 2016, and prior to this latest expansion had already grown to serve a handful of other territories, including Canada, Australia, and the UK.

Now the service will also be available in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark,...

Read full article here at Roobykon Software Blog. 😎

[OGHash]

Doubtful. Facebook marketplace around me is complete garbage compared to Craigslist or offer up.

[caveofwonders]

Be careful while you're on marketplace -- you may be able to see the profile, but once they leave the conversation group after you found out you've been scammed, there is no trace of their profile anywhere.

Might be a fake profile.

Just saying. Be careful. I'm still upset about it as it happened to someone I know, recently.

[Cød3ing]

I'm surprised how quickly the market adapted to it.

I sold a few things on the new Facebook marketplace and bought at least one thing on there, all transactions went smoothly (they were IRL, not online) - it just feels a little too beta, the review system could be improved for both sellers and buyers; there's lots of room for improvement and new features IMHO.

Facebook has such a large global user base and presence, now combined with the addition of a marketplace system I think it might just become the de-facto for craigslist-like transactions.