Buy and sell cars on Facebook – We all know Facebook as a social media platform where we get to stay connected with friends and loved ones and stay updated both socially and otherwise. Today, its good to know that a whole lot of people are making money through Facebook.
How is that possible though? A new service rolled out on Facebook in 2016, known as Facebook Marketplace, which is a convenient platform for Facebook users to buy and sell within their area.
There are lots of products you can buy and sell on Facebook today, and the automobiles are not left out. Yes, you can actually put up your used car for sale or even of you are a car dealer, all the better for you, through the Facebook Marketplace.
It will only be a matter of time before you begin to get messages from potential buyers, as long as you follow the simple rules guiding the Facebook marketplace. In this article we shall be discussing about the ways which you could buy and sell cars on Facebook.
How to go about Buying and selling cars on Facebook.
As a seller, the idea is pretty simple.
Locate the Marketplace icon on your device ( top of the page, slightly above the search bar for Android devices, and at the bottom right of the page for iOS devices).
Click on the sell menu, go to categories and select vehicles, now take a set of clean photos of the car or cars you want to sell. Enter the descriptions of the cars including its details such as the model of the car(s), the features and other qualities that match the description of the cars and put your asking price.
Then you can now select the groups and places you want to post your ads and click ‘post ‘. As soon as you do these, anyone who searches for a vehicle, or particularly the name of your vehicle, in their page will appear all the list of related vehicles including yours.
Once you start getting messages, its pretty much up to you and the buyer to sort out how to go further on the deal.
How To Buy Cars on Facebook
As buyer, if you have a choice of car already, enter Marketplace on your device and search the name of the car in the Search bar, for example, if you are looking for Toyota Camry 2009 model, you may enter “ Toyota Camry “ as your keyword to provide a larger search result of all the Toyota Camrys around you.
If you don’t find your desired choice within your location, you can Chang your device location from your account profile and Chang to another city or region to provide higher chances of getting your desired choice.
Once you’ve seen a particular car you want to buy, tap on the image of the car and take time to read its description, send the seller a direct message, get to know each other, at least, on business grounds, agree to meet at a public, but secure place to seal the sale of the car.