You already know about Facebook and Craigslist. This is because technology has changed so much in the past few years. You may already know that Craigslist came out a few years before Facebook. People used to list their cars and services on Craigslist all the time. That’s a no-brainer. But now that there are more scammers on Craigslist, people are slowly losing faith in the site. And the fact that Facebook made a market a few years ago doesn’t help Craigslist, especially when it comes to selling used cars.
We mean, have you recently looked at the Facebook Marketplace and compared it to Craigslist? From the landing page to how easy it is to use, you can see why people like Facebook better than Craigslist. How many times have you tried to sell something on Craigslist or buy something there? How did you feel about it? Don’t you think? When Facebook added a marketplace, people jumped on it right away. At first, they did it to see how it worked, but now people say it was one of the best things they did.
Over time, Facebook has been able to win customers over because of how open it is. The cherry on top is that this marketplace is free, and you can choose from many different sellers. So, prices should be fair in this case. Why spend $2,080 on a used car when you can get the same one from another seller for $2,030? Vendors are automatically forced to make their prices the same, which makes it less likely that customers will be taken advantage of.
Craigslist is slowly going away on its own. But do you think they would be able to stay in business if they changed with the technology? We’ll let you think about that for now. We could all learn from this that we shouldn’t be out of place when things change.