A New York woman has learned about the potential pitfalls of Facebook Marketplace after an unusual encounter with a potential buyer who wanted a little more than just the bookcases she had on offer.
In recent years, Facebook Marketplace has emerged as a popular peer-to-peer shopping platform. Figures published by Capital One in September 2023 suggest that as many as 1.212 billion online shoppers purchase something on Facebook Marketplace every month.
Shoppers on the platform equate to around 40 percent of Facebook's 3.03 billion monthly active users, with an estimated 485 million people logging into with the sole purpose of going on Facebook Marketplace.
But despite evidently being a widely used and popular platform for buying and selling, the occasional bit of miscommunication or downright confusion can still occur between buyer and seller.
That might explain what happened to Grace, a woman from New York City, who recently listed her "relatively new" white IKEA bookshelves on Facebook Marketplace.
"They are nice," she told Newsweek. "We unexpectedly scored really cool MCM bookshelves that will really tie our apartment together and now the IKEA ones are sitting, disassembled, in our 400 square foot apartment, while we wait for someone to take them."
As it turns out, selling the bookcase has proven difficult with Grace admitting there has been "zero interest" so far. "For living in such a populated area that has so many options to transport items, it is absolutely maddening to actually sell things," she said.
However, at one point it looked like Grace may have found a possible buyer. When someone got in touch to ask: "Hi, is this available?" she didn't think much of it at first.
"People rarely follow up past the first interaction, so I really don't pay attention or put much stock in the initial 'Is this still available?'" she explained.
But when they followed up with another message, she thought she had found a buyer. Then she read what they wrote: "Do they come with the books also[?]"
At this point, Grace sought to clarify things, responding: "No lol, just the shelves."
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