Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. Which is best for selling?

[dishdude]

It's generally pretty easy to weed out the time-wasters and scammers on Craigslist. Simply ignoring any emails asking 'Is it still available?' is the best advice I can give. There is no obligation to interact with anyone you don't want to.

In roughly 6-7 years and about 80 sales, I've only had maybe two people pull me into a back-and-forth that tuned into a frustrating waste of time.

Online selling (and buying) is what you make of it. I can be and should be easy.

I always put "if this ad is up, it is still available" in the listing. Have to weed through a few morons that I just hit delete on, but someone will always come along and send a coherent email and be super easy to deal with. Not every message requires a reply, you can tell from the first one if they're worth your time or not.

 

[dishdude]

Small stuff, $20 or less, I leave on a picnic table in my front yard with directions to inspect, and if approved, put money in a mason jar and help oneself.

I've done this too always hoping they'll steal the item so I can have a laugh, but they've always left the money! lol

 

[DemoFly]

marketplace is pretty easy to sell stuff on.

Just ignore the automated responses and only respond to actual humans that type a sentance and have a real facebook profile and are verifiably local.