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Oh Facebook, I can’t help but wonder what new ventures you’ll
have ready for us next month. It’s been an interesting year for you so far
though. I’m sure you’ll keep us surprised.
Facebook have started to roll out a feature that will allow
users to buy and sell through Facebook much akin to how it works on websites
such as eBay and Craigslist.
Can you actually buy things on Craigslist? So far all I’ve
seen from Craigslist is a long line of weird requests
or people
offering the strangest oddities and generally
speaking gibberish. I don’t think I trust it too much.
Either way, Facebook is moving on from their normal way of handling all this
stuff via groups and allowing users to access a more organised way to go
through transactions via Facebook.
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Facebook users can now click on a ‘Sell’ option rather than
a ‘Post’ option when uploading content to their feed and groups. It looks quite
swish, I’d love to take it out for a test run but unfortunately it’s only
available to certain groups at the moment. Individual slots can also be filled
out to specify price and product descriptions, instead of the typical single
body of text you're used to when writing a Facebook post. Sellers can also mark
the listing as either ‘available’ or ‘sold’ after it has been posted.
At the moment, the feature is present on this Rio based instrument
group which is a group for people to buy and sell instruments. But you’ll
have to join the group to take a proper look. It will be rolling out in force
in the coming weeks and Facebook have promised that it’ll be available on the
online client as well as iOS and Android platforms.
If you run a group where you buy or sell things, you can
tell Facebook that you’re interested in getting a hold of this service here. Good
luck!
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