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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by snowwrestler on Sunday January 05, 2025 @01:26PM (#42603802)
It’s astounding how bad FB Marketplace search is, though. For very popular things, it’s fine. For browsing and “huh, that’s interesting,” it’s fine.

But if I am looking for something specific, it is an incredible failure. It’s so bad I suspect they intentionally don’t want it to work well. That is, I think they only want to optimize for low-effort social buying, not picky people who know exactly what they want.

For this reason I have bought way more stuff off eBay than FB Marketplace recently.

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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by bpye on Sunday January 05, 2025 @03:31PM (#42604772)
It seems to just ignore filters like “date listed” sometimes too. And people will list items at nominal prices and give the actual price in the description. Generally a poor experience.
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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by cute_boi on Sunday January 05, 2025 @08:25PM (#42606624)
Was looking for car, and found out they mentioned down payment lolz. FB marketplace is very bad.
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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by nkrisc on Monday January 06, 2025 @11:33AM (#42612012)
I know some car listing sites (used to, at least) offer ad products to dealerships that would post their inventory on FB Marketplace as well.
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Re:The funniest thing I ever did – a.k.a. "How To Make $100K... by jrmg on Monday January 06, 2025 @08:43AM (#42610482)
It also doesn’t seem to respect the distance filter.

I’m not one for conspiracy theories usually, but I’m pretty sure the state of Marketplace search is, if not ‘deliberate’, at least a result of metrics-driven development. The search results are _just_ useful enough to keep you scrolling and tapping, so the vagueness increases engagement :-(

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