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forget ebay and craigslist facebook wants to be the place you go to sell your used stuff and to get you hooked the mobile app now has a shopping icon on the navigation bar that will take you into a section called a marketplace it's a place to sell all sorts of things furniture clothes even cars and Facebook does not take a cut of the sale well at least not yet you may be thinking wait this isn't new you could sell your stuff on Facebook before and yes you are correct Facebook originally launched marketplace as an online classified section in 2007 but that fizzled out later on Facebook made it so you had to join a special group for buying and selling and you needed approval from the group to join now with this new marketplace section you do not need approval to start listing things for sale but with the new open marketplace there's no one to protect you from scams so buyer beware if you want to buy something you'll have to arrange the pickup and how you'll pay through private messages with the seller there are some restrictions you cannot sell animals guns or alcohol but not only is Facebook becoming a challenger to ebay and craigslist it's also going against this new surgeon these garage sale type apps that let you post up for sale to others in your neighborhood there's offer up Yertle let go and close five well close five is owned by ebay so even eBay is trying to outdo ebay but of course Facebook is the only one with 1.7 billion users that's it for the seg news update I'm Bridget Carey you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update