Facebook Marketplace is free and reaches a lot of people. It's also a reliable source of wasted time, lowball offers, and meetups that never happen. If you've sold games there, you've probably experienced at least three of these five mistakes firsthand.
"Or best offer" is an invitation for lowballs. The moment you signal flexibility, you've told every buyer to start below your asking price and see how far you'll come down. On a $43 game, you'll get offers of $25, $30, maybe $35 - and none of them will show up unless you agree to their number.
List at your actual price. If someone makes a lowball offer, decline it. Serious buyers pay fair prices. Time-wasters use OBO listings as sport.
That message is the lowest-friction action Facebook Marketplace offers. It takes one tap and means almost nothing. A huge percentage of people who send it will never respond to your reply, never show up, never buy anything.
When you get one, reply with your price and a specific question: "Yes - are you available to meet this week?" Anyone who doesn't answer that question wasn't a real buyer.
You agreed on a time and place 48 hours ago. You get in the car. You drive across Mequon. You wait. No one shows.
Always send a confirmation message the morning of any meetup. "Hey, still on for 2pm at Starbucks on Port Washington?" A real buyer confirms. A flake ghosts - and you find out before you've wasted 45 minutes.
"Good condition" means different things to different people. To you it means plays perfectly with minor scuffs. To a buyer it might mean mint in box. The gap between those expectations causes friction at meetups - and sometimes falls-through.
Be specific in your listing: does it have the original case? Are there any scratches on the cartridge? Have you tested it recently? The more specific your listing, the fewer surprises at the exchange - and the fewer returns-in-spirit where the buyer grumbles but you've already left.
You agreed on $43. The buyer shows up and says they only have $35. This is a pressure tactic, not a real constraint - and it works surprisingly often because sellers have already made the trip and don't want to leave empty-handed.
The fix is to lock in terms before you ever leave. If the price is agreed in advance - really agreed, not just "yeah that's fine I'll message you" - a buyer showing up short on cash is a clear violation of the agreed terms. You don't have to negotiate. You can simply say "we agreed on $43" and mean it.
This is exactly what CartridgeBond is built for. Price and condition are locked before anyone moves. The meetup is for verification, not negotiation.
Skip the Facebook Marketplace drama. Lock in your price and condition before the meetup.
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