A nightmarish week of trying to sell a MacBook and a gaming PC convinced me that Facebook Marketplace isn't worth your time for tech.
I moved to a new house a few weeks ago, and as part of the preparations I decided to sell a few old bits of tech that had been lying around unloved and unused in my old apartment. There was a MacBook Pro from 2015 and a gaming PC I built the year after, and the logical place to cash in on them seemed to be Facebook Marketplace. Big mistake.
Related Having spoken to friends and relatives who regularly use Facebook Marketplace, tech seems to be afflicted in a way that other item categories aren’t. If you’re trying to sell a few balls of yarn or some unneeded baby clothes, you’re unlikely to fall victim to these scams. But attempt to sell high-value gadgets and you’re in for a world of pain.
Unfortunately, from the moment I uploaded the listing I was inundated with suspicious messages trying to get me to part with my PC for nothing in return. Fortunately, it was fairly easy to spot these rip-offs once I knew the scammers’ blueprint. But the fact that the messages continued to flow in day after day showed it was all too easy for fraudsters to thrive on Facebook Marketplace. I knew what to look for, but I’ve no doubt many people will have been taken in and conned.
After agreeing to sell the laptop to what I thought was an actual, normal human being, they told me they had sent the payment. I waited and waited, but nothing arrived. I then checked my email, and quickly my disappointment became immeasurable and my day was ruined. Stay away from Facebook Marketplace In the end, I got two unbelievable strokes of luck: real people wanted to buy my tech. One of them was a college kid in need of a laptop. The other was my mom.
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