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George Him
In keeping with the School for Housewives’ mission statement, these FBMP posts will be short, one tip at a time, rather than all one long entry, so be sure to search “Facebook Marketplace Method” to pull everything up once we’ve gone through it all.
Right now we’re just learning about how to search for items.
Part I was setting your location.
Part II was saving items to train your algorithm.
Use the settings on the sidebar of FBMP to pull up different results.
If you’ve ever tried to scroll all the listings for a search like “kitchen table,” you will have realized it’s not possible to get to the end of them — at least not in my area where there are a lot of listings.
Yet you might see the same ones over and over in your feed.
The two settings I particularly find useful to fiddle with to get a better feed are these:
Location
Generally, you will probably want to pick up, rather than figure out shipping, for a bulky item (we will talk more about that anon). Sometimes you know the item can easily be shipped so you set it on “all.”
However, the algorithm is not reliable, so you should switch to “local pickup.” It doesn’t seem to care about showing you items strictly in geographical order, so you still should look at the ones below, under “results from outside your search,” if you have set it to “local pickup,” as they often include ones that are definitely within your search.
It’s just that it will show you different things from what appears when you click on “all” — and vice versa.
Do try both settings.
Date listed
If I keep getting the same listings or depending on the immediacy of my need, I change the “date listed”:
Sometimes you want to see the very newly listed ones — this is especially true for high-demand items you keep missing out on; sometimes the much older ones, if you are looking for something less popular.
Changing this setting re-shuffles the results in any case.
As with everything here at the SFH, the best thing is for you to take my ideas, which come from my experience of escaping feminism to enjoy the gift of 46 years of marriage, seven children, and more than a score of grandchildren, and apply them to your situation with discernment, prudence, and confidence — and a sense of humor!
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