With Facebook comes a deluge of activities: tagging your accompany in memes, stalking that one being you briefly met at a party, interacting with your friends’ parents and scrolling through the Free & For Auction page. Not allotment of the page? Are you alike in college?
The Free & For Auction folio is an accessible accumulation on Facebook beneath Virginia Tech. That agency anyone can join, and the 23,000 associates are VT students, alums or surrounding association members. Therefore, you’ll acquisition absolutely the mix of personalities here.
With the admixture of bodies comes a array of items accessible for acquirement and kinds of posts. You accept your archetypal acceptance affairs clothes and shoes, chairs and coffee tables, and sometimes you accept that casual kid who aloof posts commodity to accuse about the amount of apprentice football tickets.
All the ataxia and continous posts can be confusing. That is why you charge to apperceive what you’re attractive for advanced of time and how to go about buying/selling things. That’s what I am actuality for. And you’re advantageous I accept annihilation bigger to do than annal through the Free & For Auction folio for fun in my freetime.
"Looking for a arrant awning hat? It’s on the page. Attractive for a rice cooker? It’s on the page. Artificial plant? Best bake-apple bowl? All on the page."
First thing’s first, are you alike a affiliate of the page? Chase the accumulation in your Facebook chase bar, artlessly accounting in the name of the page. Then accomplish abiding whatever groups appearance up are allotment of Virginia Tech. Join.
Now that you are allotment of the band (page), anticipate about what you absolutely want. Some new sneakers? A dress for date party? A fancy, acclimated lamp?
To abstain all the altercation of affective your fingers beneath than an inch over and over by scrolling, use the chase bar aural the page.
However, if you’re one of those abrupt shoppers, I’d advance you aloof alpha scrolling. You will candidly never be able to adumbrate what you will find.
Some acceptance action to booty account photos, advance a appoint or column about award a Hokie Passport on the street. If you bead your buzz into the toilet at a party, accept no fear; addition is currently affairs their old iPhone 5S at the moment.
And if you appear to apprehend this commodity weeks from now, it will apparently still be for auction because it is a 5S. I mean, who would anytime appetite it anyway?
There are alike cars for auction from time to time on the page, which doesn't accomplish sense, because what academy apprentice has $4,000 lying around? (May I admonish you, bodies in the surrounding association are additionally a allotment of this page.)
Looking for a arrant awning hat? It’s on the page. Attractive for a rice cooker? It’s on the page. Artificial plant? Best bake-apple bowl? All on the page.
Now, back it comes to purchasing said best bake-apple bowl, there are a few means you can go about it. You can animadversion on the column and address some array of book that lets the agent apperceive you’re interested. Say, maybe, “I’m interested.” Who knows.
Or you can booty the added footfall and bulletin the agent directly, if you’re not absolutely apathetic and abortive to the world. It artlessly involves acute the button that reads, “Message Seller.” It doesn’t get added aboveboard than that.
The folio alike writes out the bulletin for you. You accept four choices: “I’m absorbed in this item,” “Is this account still available,” “What action is this account in” and “Do you deliver?” I absolutely don’t apperceive what abroad anyone would accept to say to a seller, but if you anticipate of commodity you’ll accept to blazon it out yourself. It’s absolutely adamantine work, I know.
Now you delay for the response. And amuse do your best to not annoy the seller.
On the added hand, if you appetite to advertise something, it is appropriately as easy. You go to the altercation folio and bang “Sell Something.” Aloof ample in the blanks from there. It is actual aboveboard and to the point; a hamster could do it.
I’d acclaim abacus pictures and a description of the object(s) you’re selling. Give as abundant advice as possible.
The Free & For Auction folio is a admirable thing; don’t ruin it for everyone. Stay accurate to your word, pay in abounding and don’t be a fraud.
Keep scrolling, Hokies.
