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Facebook Review: Marketplace and Groups Do the Work

Marketplace Charges 5%, or $0.40 Under $8

Selling locally and handing over the item in person costs nothing. The fee appears when you ship: Meta takes 5% per shipment, or a flat $0.40 on any shipment of $8 or less, deducted before the payout reaches you. On a $10 shipment that is $0.50; on a $6 one, $0.40. That is materially cheaper than the general marketplaces, which is why Marketplace has become the reason many people keep the app installed at all. Listings are filtered by distance — the default view shows picks within a set radius of your town.

Groups Carry the Community Half

A group page here looks nothing like the feed: a member count, a join state, and tabs for chats, reels, photos and featured posts, moderated by whoever runs it. Public groups run to thousands of members around narrow subjects, and they have absorbed most of the discussion traffic that used to sit on the timeline. Two practical notes: groups are searchable from inside the app, and joining one changes what the main feed shows you, since group activity feeds the same recommendation system as everything else.

Fourteen Data Categories and the Privacy Checkup

The cost is paid in data. Google Play lists 14 collected categories, with personal information and device identifiers shared with third parties, and the listing carries a Contains ads badge; advertising appears in the feed, between Reels and inside Stories. Privacy Checkup walks through who sees your phone number, birthday and past posts, and which outside apps still log in with the account. Two-factor sign-in accepts a hardware security key, an authenticator app or a 6-digit SMS code, and a passkey can replace the password. The app is also among the heaviest on the phone; Meta's separate Facebook Lite build, past a billion Play installs, keeps Marketplace and runs on 2G. The two stores broadly agree on quality, at 4.6 from 186 million Play reviews and 4.5 from 28 million on Apple's side.