Facebook Marketplace was ruined from the moment it started.

I am convinced people who sell on Facebook are not trying to sell anything. Why?

They can not be bothered to put details in about the item for sale in question, apparently 1 fuzzy picture should be enough. If only Google Reverse Image search were *that* good! Even (the rarely offered) several pictures do not provide all the details about an item for sale. Stop being so lazy and key in the condition of the item, the size of the item, and anything other details that is sure to be a question to decide whether to purchase the item or not. (Bonus round - if people ask these questions in PM? Post the answers in the details to eliminate further questions).

The sellers can not be bothered to edit the original sale post - instead they spew new sale post after sale post with edits - none of the previous ones are marked “sold”. And while I’m on that topic - they do not bother to mark items sold - so their things continue to appear in other buyers searches. Please don’t ask me why Facebook is so slow - Facebook can’t keep up with the traffic of useless garbage that flows on their information highway - they are probably busy making money from their advertising to buy up more bandwidth and cloud storage to keep up with the ridiculous demand. Recycle people, recycle, it’s better for the earth (and my blood pressure).

They start the posts with - must sell today - or must pick up today - or some other impossible short notice that can’t possibly attract good buyers - only impulse buyers who are also likely to not show up and purchase the item. Yeah, that’s right - buyers aren’t serious about buying because the seller didn’t take the sale post seriously.

I probably shouldn’t start in on the rampant misspellings - I get an occasional use of incorrect homophones, hitting a numbers key instead of a letter - but surely running a spellcheck is worth the extra 2 seconds it takes so the item is sure to sell - it would just make the seller look so much more well capable of taking care of things?

They get really huffy if you try to offer (they are friendly, I swear!!!) suggestions on how to use the marketplace app - apparently they prefer to look dumb rather than have to admit they might be wrong or uninformed.

I’m sure I have more details to share about sellers on Facebook - but my point is this - why use an app - and not bother to learn how to use it? Claiming you don’t know how to do these things is no excuse for this ridiculous behavior. Imagine if you told the cops that the reason why you were speeding was because you never bothered to take drivers ed and don’t know what the signs mean?

For my friends who read this and think I am talking about them - I swear I am not - but I do want you to know it is my absolute pleasure to help with any snags you have - any problems. It's the only thing I do really well - and I like to make people happy. Honest, no other intentions or hard feelings coat my offers of help. I genuinely get distressed at your distress and only think of how I can help. If I've seem rude in the past - I want to right now tell you that I am very sorry that you felt that way - it was never my intention to be rude - only short and simple - to make sense. After all look how long this blog is - I know of my undesirable trait to write/talk too much. I've been around the earth a few turns - I got this, ok?