Chapter 11. Buying and Selling within the Marketplace
If you are reading this chapter, chances are you're interested in making money using the Facebook Marketplace. Facebook offers several ways to buy and sell your wares within the Facebook Platform with assorted third-party applications (apps). (See Chapter 12.) More than two million people use the Facebook Marketplace, and as that popularity grows, so do the number of apps that members can add to their profiles.
In this chapter, we introduce you to the most widely used Facebook Marketplace application, and show you how to add it to your Facebook interface. We discuss how to shop using key Marketplace features and how you can shop for your favorite charitable cause. After that, we dive into selling in the Marketplace from posting and managing a listing to complying with the Marketplace guidelines.
Getting to Know the Marketplace
The official Facebook Marketplace application is a fully integrated package that you can add via the Facebook Applications menu. Powered by Oodle, a third-party software manufacturer, the Marketplace offers an easy to use Home page (see the "Viewing the Marketplace Home page" section, later in this chapter). The predecessor to this Marketplace was owned and operated by Facebook itself, but was not ...
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