How my Facebook Marketplace Pick-Up Almost Wound up Being an Episode of Dateline...But Then Very Much Did Not
Facebook Marketplace has been a mixed bag experience for me. I’ve worked with some cool people who have turned my old wooden Coca-Cola crates into creative birdhouses, a guy who claimed he was Darth Vader and that I had his portrait (which he needed returned to him, naturally), and a number of Arkansas fans needing Razorback merch so they can look good while hoping for victory. I’ve also dealt with some real flakes who say that they really, honestly, and truly WANT my item and then ghost me. I always wonder about those people. Should I be filing a missing person’s report for them? Like they REALLY wanted those vintage 1998 movie posters, we went back and forth eight times in a conversation and then they’re GONE? What if they got kidnapped? What if they were driving home from work and their car went off a bridge and they are submerged in a lake and no one ever finds them? What if they don’t have any close friends of family members who notice they’ve been gone for days? Weeks? Months? An...
