[rmay635703]

Something you probably already knew but yes Facebook marketplace sucks.

There was a product I could not locate and certainly not locally found it on Facebook Marketplace under one of the ads that only allow you to pay the seller and ship through marketplace.

Paid through marketplace checkout, Facebook of coarse the next day had a “shipping label printed” notification

Here is where it gets interesting, Facebook items paid directly through them have purchase protection
But on my devices I could not click/ view the tracking number and the button to send the seller a message through marketplace was grayed out.

Sent Facebook support a message and was told that I had to send the seller a message then wait 2 days, I ended up sending him a message directly since I couldn’t send a message through marketplace (which apparently isn’t good enough)

Was able on accident to get the marketplace messenger to work using the web interface switching back and forth to desktop view, just got a message sent through marketplace today after seeing that the thing hasn’t been shipped (according to USPS itself it’s still waiting to be picked up at the sellers)

Facebook still hasn’t correctly fixed the fact that “the normal way” to send a message to the seller is broken on my account for unknown reasons and now it’s been a week since the seller printed the shipping label but not sent for delivery

My guess is I will get my money back in 2-3 days but what a hassle because their app doesn’t behave predictably on all devices let alone through their web interface.

And yeah the seller hasn’t responded to either message sent (first was last week) so guessing this was a flip scam or he sold it already and isn’t talking.

/rantoff