I absolutely hate FaceBook and everything it stands for. Car "forums" on there are terrible and impossible to follow. The only good thing about Facebook is that everybody sells stuff there. Unfortunately they make their search engine for MarketPlace so unbelievably terrible on purpose (in my opinion), that is is wildly annoying to sift through. I am thankful to have been around for the glory days of BBS car forums. I still think it is a far superior format than anything else I have come across.
Congrats to you and your family!!Well, I'm officially an old fuck! My daughter gave birth to an 8lb 11oz baby boy late last night, both baby and mom are doing great. His dad is too!
Joe
I never really understood the exodus from Craigslist to Marketplace. Did people think all of the idiots from Craigslist would just stay there and not migrate over to Marketplace? At least the search function on Craigslist works. I recall numerous times searching the entire country for something specific in maybe 15-20 minutes. On Marketplace it takes me 15-20 minutes just to sift through mounds of crap in one region that has absolutely nothing to do with what I searched for.
I always have one hard drive in my PC and whenever I upgrade it, usually when it gets filled to 66-75% capacity, I relegate the previous drive to my primary backup drive that gets removed from my case and put into a USB SATA dock. The next upgrade after that will move the drive that was in the dock to my eBay queue for sale.
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Right? I often find something on marketplace to sleep on and then when I go to search it out later I end up having to scroll for an hour to find it again, even being very specific in my search terms! It also has a bad habit of giving listings from 1000 miles away even though I set distance to 0-30 miles
Craigslist shot themselves in the foot ending personals, all the weirdos and freaks left and they had all the cool stuff for sale
You can find deals there still, I got my current set of wheels and tires there in 2022 for stupid cheap because they weren’t listed anywhere else.
My personal favorite was “missed connections”
You’d read a story about how someone farted on a train and they were desperately looking to connect with that person.
I used to sell a fair bit of stuff on eBay, and for a long time they have favored buyers over sellers, but the final straw for me was they recently changed their terms of service such that every seller must accept returns for up to 30 days, at the seller’s expense! As an individual person selling oddball stuff, I cannot take the risk of it costing me money to try to sell something, not because I misrepresented it or did anything wrong, but just because some random person changed their mind for any or no reason. I would literally rather throw something away than deal with that BS! So I removed every listing I had on eBay, and sent them a nasty email explaining why, which probably just went into the void, but whatever. I also refuse to use facebook at all, so I don’t know what the answer is, but I will never list another thing for sale on eBay!
I hear you about eBay. I've used Mercari as an alternative to eBay for buying a few times. I haven't seriously looked into selling on there yet, but I have considered it few times in the last couple of years. I think what dissuaded me was that, at the time, their fee schedule was worse for sellers than eBay's. I think they've since changed it to a flat 10% and it's less buyer-friendly now that they only allow a 72-hour return window.
