Have you ever wondered how to use Facebook Marketplace?! This step-by-step tutorial will show you exactly how!
Go to facebook.com/marketplace to get started.
Lets go over the interface:
- Live shopping: buying products during a Facebook live
- Notifications: activity about items you are buying/selling
- Cart: your shopping cart
- Your account: view the items you are interested in buying/selling
- Your listings: items you have posted for sale
- Saved: reference items for later that you may want to buy
- Purchased orders
- Following
- Commerce profile: your profile
You can also look at items by category. These are the same categories that you will put your for-sale items in.
How to buy an item:
- Search for the item
- Filter if you want things shipped to you or local pickup only, item condition, price range, etc
- Message the seller. I almost always ask – is this item still available?
There’s no commitment with this!
How to sell an item:
- Click ‘create a new listing’
- Choose listing type
- Add photos
- Add title, item category, condition, brand, and tags
- Set price
- Add a little description
- Add location
- Choose delivery method
- List to smaller groups on Facebook – these really help if you are planning to sell frequently. Look for words like, BST, swip swap, garage sales, or just enter in your city.
- Publish!
If you want to edit the price after posting, it’ll show the markdown. You can also edit the posts, delete them, or mark as sold.
I have a whole series of Facebook tips on my YouTube channel – click here!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBjwayNn15FZTOHgh7mKKPcPpdPn8-DuL