"Despite the rising usage figures and online interest, the quality of the Marketplace, much like the rest of Facebook, seems to have deteriorated in recent years.
Scottish bank TSB reported that 60% of all purchase fraud cases originated on Marketplace last year. They also found that a third of ads on the site appear to be scams. Vehicle parts, phones, shoes and clothing, and game consoles appear to be the most scammed items."
You know the oligarchs are getting annoyed about something when the Wall St Journal writes about it.
buying a jeans via Amazon sucks so much. but buying it in a store that does not have my size or trying to find any in the big outlet would take so much time
Plus you have the problem of fakes, having to pay shipping for returned goods that were sold by #MarketPlace vendors NOT using Amazon Logistics...a real spoiler, if the article came from China!
Why not use a national e-tailer like #Zalando or #Otto, etc.?
"Some of the country's biggest banks posted earnings reports today. Bank profits were up an average of 11% for those that reported despite some 4th quarter losses...
Hab da ein paar Dinge, die eine neue Heimat brauchen die nicht "Mülltonne" heißt. Frei abzugeben gegen Abholen in München oder gegen Porto. Wenn wer was geben will: nehme gerne Cookies ohne Banner, von Privacy-Nerds gebacken :awesome: Oder was immer Ihr für angemessen haltet/habt, gern anbieten.
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je 2x NTBA + DSL-Splitter und 1x Fritz!Box 7140 – am liebsten als Gesamtpaket abzugeben, sonst staubt der Rest hier nur ein. Auch hier nehme ich gern Angebote an, oder gebe es einfach so weg (Abholung in München oder gegen Versandkosten).
Jetzt rennt mir bitte die Bude ein, damit der Krams endlich wegkommt – bevor mein Frauchen sich einen Bart anklebt & mit Ozelotohren zur Steinigung ruft 🙈
I’m trying to sell my tv on #facebook#marketplace and had the same step by step experience as in the article. It’s interesting that last year I sold a pair of speakers and never encountered a single scammer. Now the place is rife with #scammers
If you have the money and want to donate to Marketplace (business & economics radio show and podcast) at American Public Media, today's the day to do it:
"The Investors Challenge Fund has offered to continue matching every gift that comes in for the rest of the day! That means it’s not too late to hop on this wave of generosity and know that today only your gift goes twice as far for our nonprofit newsroom." https://www.marketplace.org/
— #marketplace#APM#MatchMonday
There's an odd social phenomenon tied to the "marketplace of ideas." It always starts with a stated intent to give voice to the marginalized, and it always ends with the establishment and protection of xenophobic hate speech against those same marginalized people.
Halloween is an especially scary holiday for retailers.
"Businesses that sell, say, Halloween costumes, candy or decor have to make decisions 18 months to two years in advance, said Julie Niederhoff, associate professor at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management... 'Best-case scenario, it has to be six to eight months in advance'"
Here's an episode of CBC's Marketplace where they test whether computer repair shops respect customers' privacy or not. Most of the shops did not respect customers' privacy.
Marketplace interview about Clearview AI, with NYT reporter Kashmir Hill who wrote a book about her investigation into them and their efforts to stop her ("Your Face Belongs to Us").
I’ve often complained that when the US “ended welfare as we know it” (in 1996) no one kept track of what happened to the people who were on welfare. How many lost their apartments? Became drug addicts? Went to jail? Died?
There’s no doubt in my mind all of these things happened as a consequence. But we’ll never know the numbers. People with money and power didn’t want to talk about it. They didn’t want to know.