Facebook Marketplace price rises

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Has anyone else noticed this or am I just being tight? Feel like I’m seeing more and more overpriced second hand stuff on marketplace, and fewer and fewer bargains.

Currently looking for a second hand cot which I can buy a new mattress for but people seem to want £50 for really battered, chipped, cracked old cots (which I’d be hesitant to give away free), or upwards of £200 for anything branded regardless of knocks ans scrapes etc.

See it with toys too, people selling Sylvanians etc for about 20% less than you can buy them for new.

makes me miss the days of bargain hunting on there!

Yes, that and the endless posts that are not second hand stuff at all, but (presumably) a shop falsely advertising their stuff as free but actually expecting you to enquire within. That was 90% of what I found yesterday looking for a bed frame.

It's annoying because it used to be such a good service.

I guess prices are going up generally and people are a bit desperate for money so might try their luck selling something for more than you want to pay. I also find that people often want to make an offer so if you list something slightly higher than you want, someone might offer what you're looking for.

I agree with PP, what I find more annoying is pages which are advertising things new for full price, or delivery only. Also Facebook showing things which I've searched for by which are further away - so I see it and think I've finally got a bargain but I have to go and get it from Aberdeen.

My local groups are full of "ordered the wrong size, just want what I paid for it" which is bonkers, whats the chance of someone wanting an orange tracksuit, size 16, willing to collect, and pay top whack?
Someone was selling an unused coffin last week 🤔

Yeah it's been going on for a while. I wanted a couple of bits for dc3 when I was pregnant last year and people were selling used stuff for more than getting it brand new! One woman didn't believe me and when I sent a screenshot of it on Amazon for £6 cheaper she just said "well I think it's worth more!". I ended up getting new stuff, delivered to my door the next day. Didn't seem worth it at all with the secondhand things.

I think cots have always been that expensive on there, certainly when I was looking 2-3 years ago that’s what they were asking. “Sets” of nursery furniture with wardrobe and change table were £400-500

i agree tho I do think 2nd hand prices have gone up as well. Laughing at the unused coffin!

I used to buy loads of clothes for the kids on market place but everyone seems to have moved over to Vinted. Annoying as the postage costs add up.

I'm considering looking for local car boots instead . . .

It's the same on eBay - before I had DD I bought lots of bundles of clothes that were absolute bargains. Now it's a lot harder to get a bargain - yesterday I was bidding on a bundle of leggings and was winning at a reasonable price up until the last 30 mins when suddenly it went mad and combined with postage/packing costs they were suddenly more expensive than just buying a multi pack from the supermarket new.

I do know that more and more people are buying secondhand for the environment and due to the cost of living crisis so there is probably more competition and the market is exploding accordingly.

A good time for me to sell DDs old clothes then I reckon!

If you don't like the price, don't buy.

It's probably a combination of shortages pushing up demand - if you can't buy new and need the item people do pay more for second hand - during the first lockdown when everyone had gone crazy for home baking, I sold a stand mixer that had sat unused in a cupboard for nearly a decade for more than I paid for it on eBay (so the buyer set the price, not me).

Plus more people wanting to buy second hand for environmental reasons, although it's very much a case of buyer beware and only an option if you have the time and energy to spend looking for what you need at a price you're happy to pay.

If you don't, don't feel any guilt about buying new. You can get brand new cots from Ikea from £65 so just get one of those and then sell it yourself afterwards. There's always going to be a demand for second hand baby goods and if no-one ever bought new, there wouldn't be the second hand items available to those who wanted or needed them.

Yep wanted a double buggy for when baby arrives but the ones I've seen on Facebook are only about 20% cheaper then new and look tatty. I got DS buggy in really good nick for about a third of retail price a couple of years ago. I'm quite disappointed and leaning towards holding out till the black Friday sales. That's around due date which sucks as wanted it sorted before.

God yes. I have seen people put furniture on for a lot of money. Then seeing it gone down in price a week later.

also seem to have spike of people not even answering if u ask if it is available.

kind of done with Facebook to be honest. One women took two days to answer me. In her post on the advert she said that it was still available as someone messed her around.
after trying another two days to get some more info out of her I just gave up.
sometimes some things are just too hard