Buying and selling on Facebook classifieds is bad too. I've tried it before to no avail.

When buying, it can take a long time (or never) for someone to write back, and usually then it's just to say that it is gone. People often even ask for prices higher than eBay or Amazon like $100 for a Wii and some Wii games that "nobody" wants. Buying that way via Facebook doesn't even give you the chance to read their buying and selling feedback, no guarantees about your purchase, and no money-back options you might have with eBay or Amazon.

It makes you want to tell them that nobody wants to pay $100 for a Wii in mediocre condition plus incomplete copies of a Lego game, a shovel-ware compilation of motion-control-based games from the public domain like darts and rummy, and a game based on a cartoon that isn't popular nor on TV anymore. This is especially true as you don't know if they are scammers as they are just random people writing on Facebook with no history you can scan to see if they have a lot of negative feedback.

When "selling," I even listed firewood for free with the caveat that those who took it would be required to chop it up first - some of it had been cut down, some of it was still as branches on the trees, but all of it was for free as long as you'd cut and split it yourself. Most of the questions were, "In which town is the firewood?" when such was clearly indicated in the post. Some wanted to know if I would bring the firewood to them. When they found out they would have to cut it and haul it away themselves, then they all fell silent, and nobody arrived at the indicated time-frame.

It all has made me give up on buying and selling via Facebook. It seems like a moot option when all of this is usually what happens instead of, you know, deals actually being made and items being exchanged.