Guardian
•Dipping my toe into the murky waters of Facebook Marketplace, I find it filled with bots, time-wasters and inane questions | Eleanor Limprecht
60% Informative
For sellers, Facebook Marketplace is crawling with bots, time-wasters and (presumably) 12-year-olds who are pranking in the same way Bart Simpson did calling Moe’s Tavern on a landline.
The site is so cheap that I am irked by the people who want to know if I can take it apart for them.
There are the bots who inundate you with questions about postage and dodgy links.
Or they come and talk at you for 30 minutes and then decide not to buy.
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