How To Sell On Facebook Marketplace Safely

Marketplace has a scam problem that's well documented, fake buyers, fake payment screenshots, last-minute price renegotiation. None of it means you should avoid selling there, it means you should sell smarter.

Never Trust A Screenshot As Proof Of Payment

Confirm money has actually landed in your account before handing anything over. Screenshots are trivial to fake.

Avoid Long Negotiation Threads In Chat

The longer a back-and-forth goes, the more room there is for someone to manipulate the deal. A fixed price, fixed page cuts that risk down to almost nothing.

Move Buyers To A Real Checkout When You Can

Instead of negotiating price and payment method across ten messages, send a single product link with the price already set and payment built in. Payge builds that kind of page from one photo in about 30 seconds, flat 5% per order. It removes most of the chat-based scam surface entirely because there's nothing left to negotiate.