Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Facebook releases the "Marketplace" for Purchase Online

Facebook launched a new feature called the Marketplace at its mobile applications. Appropriate the name, this is an online marketplace which contain various trading activities of its users.

Director of Product Management Facebook, Mary Ku, saying that the Marketplace was made because of the trading activity in the social network. It began trading activity in Facebook Groups, and so far recorded more than 450 million people who do per month.

"So that people could benefit more from the connections, today we introduce the Marketplace, a container to sell or buy certain goods from different people in your community," said Mary.

As reported by KompasTekno of Newsroom Facebook, Tuesday (10/03/2016), Facebook put the Marketplace in its mobile applications on iOS and Android. The shape of the store icon located at the bottom of the application.

When opening the Marketplace, users will be greeted with a series of photographs of merchandise are located closest. When you want to buy the item, the user can enter the chat column to talk first with the seller.

But one thing needs to be understood. Facebook only provides the place and did not provide the facility of payment or delivery.

In other words, the user must arrange for payment and delivery as agreed with the seller, without security of an intermediary.

The plan, Marketplace will be launched to the Facebook app on iOS or Android that are older than 18 years. As a first step, users in the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand will enjoy it first.

While Facebook users in other countries still have to wait his turn. The company also promised to release a version of the Facebook Marketplace to desktop in the coming months.

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